The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-01-09

Prosecuting Attorney, who acts er 06tciO, and
James A. Aleshire and Irvine DUNCAN, duly ap-
pointed by the Court of Common Pleas, for the
purpose of examining the report of the County
Commissioners of said County, the said James
A. Aleshire and Irvine DUNCAN, being first duly
sworn, says that it has examined said report,
and Investigated the accounts of receipts and
expenditures therein, and that the money rep;
the expenditures shown by said report have
been l made; and we report further: @
was not made to the Court of Common Pleas,
on or before the third Monday of September A.
D., 1878, at which time the law required it to be
made.
Second. While in the main the Report is suf-
ficiently in detail, yet in many instances it is
not such detailed Report as the law requires, as
for example, s9l6 is reported in two items thus:
Davis Mackley, for Blanks and Printing, $597 81
Gould & Townsley, for Printing..........,. 3lS 81
without giving any of the items which make up
either amount. And again:
]. p fees in criminal $246 %
without giving the style of the cases the
names of the Justices and the amounts allowed
Third That the School Examiners have rent
ed room at $50 year, which has been paid for
liners, and the orders issued by the Auditor,
without authority of law, unless that is an i'm
piled power of the Examiners.
Fourth. That the payment of $50 to John l..
Jones and $40 to G. A. Atkinson for professional
being no suit then pending for or against said
County Commissioners in their official capacity.
fore been paid without objection. there is no
law authorizing it.
Fifth. That the payment OF Sl00 to John Il.
Moore for preparing written legal opinion in
the matter of salary and compensation allowed
by the Commissioners to the Auditor in the year
ending Aug 3lSt, 1877, and which expenses had
been reported upon by the Committee of that
year, was without authority OF law or the sane
ton of custom.
Sixth. That the payment of 81 each to the
proprietorS of the Jackson Herald and Jackson
Standard, for publishing said opinion of John T.
Moore, and of S4 each paid to the same parties
for publishing an extract from the Commission
Journal in regard to the same transaction,
being in all SD. Illegal.
Seventh. That when the Auditor come into
Office in Nov, 1875, and for part of which term
he drew his salary in the year ending Aug 81,
1878, (he having drawn his salary in that time
for his services for the year commencing June
s, 1877, and ending June g. 1878, his first term
having expired Nov. llth, 1877, the law of March
April 8, 1876, without enacting substitute, and
that a new law was passed April 24th, 1877, fix
ing the salary and compensation of County
Auditors, which expressly says: THAT the
ceive compensation for their services from and
after April g. 1876 at the rates prescribed in this
act" SO that the only law under which the
Auditor could have drawn salary until Nov. II
1877, was that of 1875 or thatof 1877; that if he
was entitled to salary up to Nov. IL, 1877, (the
date of the expiration of his first term) under
the law of 1875,
That his salary alone would be for the 5
And for the remaining months and q
days, under the law of lS77-....... 200 81
Iotal g. IL o
ending Aug. =, $50 "
Under School law for previous year.. 5
AS R. r. appraiser and mileage. 81 Al
Tax omissions Othing.
Filing list of taxable property. 3
s1,997 A