Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07

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The quarterly County Court fol
Knox county met yesterday morning
Chairman T. w. Kearns presiding.
Aftsr roll call the following reports
were read by Clerk Lewis:
CHAIRMAN KEARN's REPORT.
To The WorshipfM County Court o.
Rn0T COtGRty: u
GENTLEREN: As Chairman OF the
court and financial agent of the
county for the year 1878, just closed, I
beg To submit the following report:
Warrants on the treasury to the num-
Der of q ,l00) eleven hundred havebeen
Issued by me on appropriations made
by the court calling, in the aggregate,
for the sum of $29,622. 90. T0is sum
constitutes the expenditures for the
past year, so far as the Chalrman's
warrants on appropriations are con-
cerned. Bv virtue of the statute the
Clerk OF this court isaues warrants on
approved accounts for boarding jail
prisoners, and for board OF work house
prisoners, which will account for the
difference between the expenses Ie-
ported by him and by the Chairman.
have collected and paid into the
treasury, chiefly from sale of old
bridge iron and lumber, and pay
ments, what is called the TarWater
notes, the sum Of 81, 639.77.
Reports have been made to me Of
revenue collected by the Clerks of the
several courts as follows:
M. I. Patterson, Clerk and
Master OF the Chsncery Court, $l6S. 10
z. w. Adkins, Clerk Circuit
Court.."....... .................. 40 III
G. L. Maloney, Clerk Criminal
COurt......".......... .................. 443 90
]. +. J.. Lewis. Clerk Of the County
Court, reports monthly and for the
year just ended the sum of S., 407 II.
His report will give more specific de-
tails.
/ have settled with w. A. Ander-
son, late Trustee and Tax Collector,
with the following result:
On the taxes OF 1875, q rem
nant, and for 1877, my pre-
decessor reported u balance
on the tax of 1875 against
Mr.. Anderson of.....:.........$lO, O7s 80
He has since collected and
paid over into the Treasury, IO.O79.ss
Which balances his account
for that year.
On the tax OFF, he Is charged
bic with the sum of. sc, AIS. IS
He is credited with amounts
paid out on vouchers, insOI-
vencies, errors, etc............. 58.s75 90
Leaving balance Unsettled of 760073
This balance is in the hands of Con-
stables of the various districts, and
Will be accounted for when paid to
Mr.. Anderson.
Judgments have been taken against
Juo. NJ. Harris, as Tax Collector, In
his defalcaLion, to the amount of
S39, 998.l7.
He Is entitled to large credits on
hesej pigments for insolVencies, errors,
&C., which will be made, / presume,
"a due time.
But recently the Clerk Of the Circuit
Court reports that he has discovered q
lumber Of school warrants taken up
Iy Capt. Harris as Collector, but for
which he has had no credit.
The Commissioners of the Poor
House show that they have expended
n maintaining that establishment the
'um of 81 ,e6a.5S, and that the cost Of
the wards, old and young
Is $45 IS to each one.
Expenditures for the Jail, work
house aud other purposes are specifi-
ally set out in the report of the Clerk,
which will be submitted by him for
,Our consideration.
The bonded indebtedness OF the
county, as stated by Judge Moses In
lis report of January, 1876, is as fol-
OWs:
bond, bearing 6 per
cent. rest..".............,..$l5 Isl 100000
Sridge bonds, bearing per
cent. ntereet.........,.......... 1905 90
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