Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-09-20

grand total of SS9.5O2.35, While this
amount is being collected we shall be
paying out to redeem bonds $4,000
and $4,000. Interest on bonds this
year $4,000, next year $4,000. These
will be the county expenses of this
year and next. If same as last year
will amount to S47, S91.S2."
In this calculation Mr.. Barnaby has
made some omissions which change
the final result. The taxes due this
fall he foots at 1,575.17 instead of
which it should it be so ,463.74, diff
ferance of SSSS.57, he also leaves out
the p, X. & p. r. r. swindle balance
$1022.SS, these together added to $780,
50225 increase the revenue to sol Alb,
and there should be added to this
the collections from the delinquent
duplicate OF about 81, 900. about one
third of this is county sinking, and
bridge fund revenue; two thirds at
least Of this delinquent can and ought
to be collected, which would increase
the revenue to $I01.413. 1t is be-
lieved that the large delinquents is
more attributable to the Treasurer
being a candidate for reelection in
1876 than the resumption act. Elec-
ton years many favors must be done
to secure votes. But the off year,
when the officer has no favors to ask
he can make good thing in collect
ing delinquent tax,-for you know
they get an extra per cent for.collect-
ing delinquent taxes.
SO with the collections from the
delinquent OF 1876 we will have rev.
enue SOL ,413. Mr.. Barnaby says there
are bonds to pay $4,000 lin 1ssOl and
$4,000 fin 1881 and interest $1,000,
amounting to $4,000, of two years
county expenses s47, 665, in all $780,
665, deducted from revenue leaves
$1S.748 fair balance. Now take an
other view OF it. Take from the rev.
enue s101. 413 the last levy for paying
bonds 81, 762, and we have left 500, 651.
Deduct from this the county expens-
es and bonds and there is left SIC, 1856,
still good balance.
Again, IL nothing had been levied
for bonds and ten cents instead of
twenty, levied for county revenue,
after paying the bonds and interest
before due, and two years county ex-
penses 1924 of a balance remains,
enough these hard times OF the peo-
pies money in the hands OF others to
speculate on. Aside from all this the
&c. 900 bond and 81 900 interest due
in October, 1880, has been collected
and laying in the treasury for years,
which IL not paid until due October,
1880, would swell the balance S11 GOO
more.
Hence IL there had been no money
in the treasury for the last five years
to pay this 81, 900 il should not have
been levied before 1879, neither
should the s19.336 balance of a sink
ing fund levied and collected on dup
licate OF 1876 have been collected be-
fore 1878. II Is this way OF swelling
balances to which ~Tax Payer" OBJ
jects.
Now, citizen tax payers OF Marshall
county, when I shall have closed this
epistle to Barnaby, am through on
this subject, and I trust that your
has been sufficiently awak-
ened that you will hereafter look to
your interests in this behalf. And TO
prevent being misunderstood I wish
to epitomize my objections to the
collection and management OF the
county revenue.
First, 1 object to collecting more
taxes than are needed.
Second, / object to collecting them
before they are needed
Third, / object to large balances
in the treasury OF the
tax payers money.
And / also charge that am In
formed, and L believe it true, that for
years there has been large balances
in the treasury from $4,000 to &c.,
600, but have no recollection OF any
county official ever reporting any
interest received for the use Of the
county funds.
/ also insist that the balance of the
building OF the p, X. g. p. II. r.
swindle funds amounting to $4,756
which have lain In the treasury for
so many years, should be turned over
to the sinking or county fund and
the taxes correspondingly diminished.
I also charge that $4,000 OF the
sinking fund has been collected two
years before needed, also that the
levy of ten cents-for payment OF
bonds--last June was a great wrong.
because not needed for any purpose.
That the twenty cents levy at same
time for county purposes was an
equal wrong, when ten cents was
more than what was needed.
also insist that county expenses
should be reduced and In one item 1
think there should be great reduc-
ton, and that is the item OF station
cry. How sl,135 for stationary can
be allowed by the commissioners is
beyond our understanding, when the
commissioners are prohibited from
allowing any such claim, except for
the use OF the county. In 1875 when
the new law passed, think an in
ventory would have shown enough
stationery in each Office to last four
years.
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