Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-04-25


The sum total from the total receipts, thus as
ceriaining how much each Office paid net, and
how much of excess in the large counties was
due the State. Three Clerks report no ex-
penses, because, no doubt, ii WAS considered
unnecessary TO report them, when as Mr..
Davis suggests, the total receipts were not as
much rs the Clerks salary, and therefore there
could be no excess to be paid TO the State
One county made no report. II would have
been, perhaps, better had Mr. Davis quoted
my report too, aud allowed it to speak for it,
self. The practice OF the ten Clerks is just as
good as Of the nine, and they both amount TO
The same thing exactly, and assert thst in sUery
county where the Clerk has not received his
full salary, the Couaiy Commissioners were
obliged TO levy and did levy for record books,
stationery, &c
Then Mr.. Davis makes an extraordinary
statement about the Clerk in Carroll county.
tie saws ''In Carroll county sohere the Clerk
hnds MS oUn stationery Inc cost Of printing
and stationery is only $50 90" The insinua-
ton is clear that II | paid for my own sta
iionery, record hooks &C., | would see TO il
that II did not cost S2o7 .05 and that ! have
been extravagant ct the expense of the county
Now, Mr.. Davis. had in his hands the Comp
troler's report for 1873 and il shows in plain
figures that the Clerk in Carroll county re-
NS''Nu O'NI huu hpUtC NIL cApcHocS ho stidIy
| OF Clerk Of Court So, 900. the utmost limit the
Constitution allows, and then paid over to the
State Treasury S8Of.09 as excess OF receipts
due the State. The query is again suggested
| why did not Mr.. Days publish the Report of
the Clerk OF Carroll comfy and let it speak
for itself, instead Of making bis own asser-
tons ahoui II Is il ir'ie that said Clerk finds
his own Stationery, as Mr. Davis SAYS he
does' ( 40 noi krvF sao.y that excellent gen.
tlemen, d.. Shaw nakes separate item of
| ''priniing stat'otery," &c, Of only $500.
am sure his rerort is correct from his known
character. But some Offices purchase more
bound blank-hooks than others, and these
may not he considered stationery. But | do
know that in tnat admirably kept Office the
annual cost of record books. dockeis. minute
books, indexes, paper, pens. ink and fuel, Ito
say nothing Of rent and furniture, must be
several hundred dollars and not altogether, as
| Mr.. ID. would have us believe, only $50. 30.
| The Comptrol er report itself shows that said
Clerk does no find anything himself as he re-
ports bis owt full salary and an excess as be-
fore stated pad to the State Treasury.
Mr. Davis last paragraph, short MS It is,
| makes another improper insinuation, that the
County Commissioners and myself have con-
spired to conceal whatimy annual levy is for,
| in the statement that it is not '''revealed -
The reply is,that an itemized account is filed
with the County Commissioners and II il and
all other iemized accounts were published in
full it would be a large and unnecessary ex-
pense.
find il has taken so much space 10 answer
all of Mr. Davis points. &c, that it ould be
an unreasonable iDfietion upon Won and yOur
readers TO stat" the whole case as to the conflict
suggested by Mr.. Davis between The Constitu.
ton and the law Of 1865. propose To do so