The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-03-28

estate drafts, sundry papers, dated Va-
rious months, 1S70:"
$1,000. JAN. l9, 1870.
Pay to the order of G. P. Leslie FIVE
thousand dollars, value received, and
charge same to account of
NILES G. PARKER,
Treasurer State s. G.
To II. II. KIMPIoN, ESQ, Financial
Agt St. s. c., Noe Nassau ST., N. Y.
Endorsement of above
N. q. Parker, IT,, draft 5000, Janu-
arg Z: p R.zss.ln. e;
Pay to the order of Henry Clews & Co.
CHAs. II. TAYLOR.
b. CLsws & Co.
$4,000.
COLUMBIA, s. c., Jan. 10, 1870.
Pay to the order of Reuben Tomlin-
son, four thousand dollars, value received,
and charge the same to account of
NILES G. PARKER,
Treasurer State of is. G.
To 81. 81. KIMPToN, ESQ.,, New York.
Endorsement of above
N. G. Parker, Tr., draft $4,000, Janu-
aryi19, 20.
REUBEN ToMIINsoN.
Pay to the order of Henry Clews & Co.
CHAs. II. TAYLOR.
I'D. CLEws & Co.
How the real appropriation of SO much
money was to be covered up is explained
BY Parker. SIT was understood by
Kimpton and the Financial Board, that
the amount of these expenditures and
many others, should be realized from
State bonds, and covered by the differ
ence between the actual amounts for
which the bonds we're sold by Kimpton,
and the amount which he should report
that he had sold for" And the evidence
of Parker is sustained to this extent by
.Kimpton's report of what he sold the
bonds for-that there is no itemization
of the sales, through which this, or any
other fraud might be detected; but the
sales of over S., ,0o0, 900 of bonds are dis.
patched in four particulars, and for nine
tenths of this enormous amount there is
no mention even of the rates of sales.
81, ,S43, 900 bonds reported as all sold on
enc day, and $4,214,500 on another.
The Financial Board brought the au-
thority of settling with the Financial
Agent, and obtained it by bribing tho
General Assembly with the States money
and they settled with him on the basis
of this report, as they themselves confess,
without making an examination of it.
JOINT INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE,
COLUMBIA, s. O., Oct. Is, 1877.
Hon. J. L. Neagle, being further e1-
amined, deposes an oath as follows: The
first Blue Ridge bill passed at the extra
session of 1868, and John j. Patterson,
Alexander Mcclure and - Cresswell
came down here in 1869, and procured
the contract for Thomas Steers for the
construction of the road. The Greenville
and Columbia Railroad copartnership
was formed in the following January.
It was copartnership of $240, 600, in
twelve shares Of $4,000 each. / was
told about the matter, and I was offered
by Patterson one and one-half III
shares, for which / paid $4,000, by
drafts on H. 81. Kimpton, to Charles H.
Taylor $4,000, and Reuben Tomlinson
0,000, the treasurcrs of the copartner-
ship, a>party unknown to me, but in the
confidence of Patterson and others of the
partners.
When we organized we had the whole
twelve shares taken. This was about the
time of the purchase of the State stock,
in February or March, 1870. Originally
the shares stood shout as follows, as near
as I can recollect: Patterson one, Parker
one, Leslie one, J. Crews one, Hurley
one, Tomlinson one and a half, Water
man two, Kimpton two, Neagle one and
half, Chamberlain one and half, Car
dozo one and a half. Total shares
twelve.
The sinking fund bill was passed in
consequence of PatterBon's organization
of this Gresnville and Columbia Railroad
copartnership. The bill was prepared
under the direction Of Mr.. Chamberlain,
as I!was informed, and afterwards con-
'ferred with him personally and he con.
irmed the information. There was some
thing paid to members of the Legisla-
ture for their votes on the passage of the
act, which money was furnished by
Kimpton. l was er ofcio member Of
the Sinking Fund Commission, being
Comptroller General, and in my connec-
ton with the commission, as in other Off
cial matters, I acted under the advice
and direction of Mr.. Chamberlain, who
was Attorney General of the State and
also er o6fcio 8 member of the commits
sion. The first meeting of the commits
sion was held on March /, 1870, the day
that the sinking fund act was approved,
and the sale of the Greenville and Co.
lumbia Railroad stock was nominally
agreed to that day; but We had deter
mined not to act on bid on the same
day it was received, and so We held a
meeting the next day with full board
aud concluded the transaction, and I
think that the receipt of II. II. Kimpton,
Financial Agent, to John 81. Moore was
given the same day for $59, ,659.50, and
that Rainey was the custodian of the
moneys and papers until Gulick vas ap-
pointed Treasurer, including that receipt.
Scott was present on both these days,
and agreed to the sale of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad stock. Kimpton
was in Columbia at the time, and left
pretty soon afterwards.
Reuben Tomlinson, as early as Feb
ruary IA, 1870, had become the Treasurer
of the Greenville & Columbia Railroad
copartnership, and I am satisfied that
the State stock was assigned BY Rainey,
as Secretary of the Sinking Fund Com
mission, to Tomlinson, as Treasurer as
above, on the I'd of March, 1870. !paid
for my interest one and one-half shares
in the Greenville and Columbia Railroad
copartnership; first, by loan Of H. B..
Kimpton, which was an individual trans
action, which had nothing to do with the
State funds, and afterwards he gave me
receipt for balance amount due him,
amounting to s87, ,s20, in payment to me