Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1880-07-03

Agricultural Report of eighteen hundred and
seventy-eight, that Sprague. Owen { Nash
had been printing in the early part OF last
year. and that Is always printed to complete
the Report They stopped doing it.
Q.-Was that embraced in your contract!
Alt was.
| Q.-How was that embraced in your con-
| tract if they were to do it:
A.-The binding and stitching of it only
is embraced in my contract.
| Q-Is that covered by your contract
| Ayes. either by my own or the one l
bought of Smith Co.
! Q-Was not that matter that should have
been appropriated by the Legislature as a de-
| ficiency, if you were doing old work for the
year previous.
Al presume, properly; am not in po-
si,ion to give decided answer, but presume
il ought TO have been.
Q-But instead Of that you got the Cover
nor and Councillor they did Afterwards
pay to you money fout of the Free High
School Fund to do work of that kind?
| Ayes.
! Q-Had you ever before for doing work got
anything out Of the Free High School Fund:
+ A-No.
Q-Had You anything'to do with the Free
High School Fund before?
| A-No-
Odd YOU suggest, or did the suggestion
come from some member of the Council. that
it should be taken from the Free High School
Fund:
Al did not suggest-I do not know
what conversation they had l took a back
seat.
Q-So you had nothing to do with this
drawing upon the Free High School Fund
yourself, excepting you took the warrant as
delivered to you?
Al saw the warrant and it was changed !;
looked to see what had been DONE and saw
that the words Binding and Stitching had
been erased, and 'sFree High Schools writ
ten in.
Q-You had not anything to do with the
change. and did not suggest it?
A-No.
OFF it had not been done you would not
have got the two thousand dollars?
Al presume if the account on which the
warrant was drawn had not been changed
am not prepared to say what would have been
done.
Q-After the assignment of the contract by
Smith & Company were the dealings with the
Governor and Council by you or them?
Al dealt directly with the Governor and
Council.
Q-What part, if any, of this work had
been done at the time you received this two
thousand dollars?
A-More or less of it was in an incomplete
condition. If have book of one hundred
pages, and / receive ninety-nine l cannot
make book till l receive the hundredth; 1
must wait till get that page, if have ten
thousand copies, before can make single
book.
Q-What part of the work was actually
done?
AIT that period, cannot very we'll say.
| Q-What was it?
Al had the Bank Commissioners Report
folded so far as the printers had given it to
me: the Fish Commissioners Report was al
most completed, within few pages think of
being out of the printers hands l had done
all could till l got the rest
ON general terms, what proportion of
the whole?
A-There would be about one -fourth of
| Q-Why did you ask for money in ad-
vance?
Alt would be an accommodation to me
if got it.
Q-Was that usual course with you?
A-No, not with me. The last time
asked them for money in presenting bills and
vouchers it was on account of current &C
count.
1-Yes. '"' "N' 'e'" ''"''
Q-Why in this particular case did you
want this advance?
Al had no special object except in get
ting accommodation
> Odd you use this money?
A-More or less of it.
Q-Have you returned any portion of it !?
A-No.
Q-flave you accounted for it?
Al have not rendered any bill SINCE
Q-What is your bill now?
Al have not that in detail; some vouch-
ers have not got.
Q-Why was it you wanted this advance
at that particular time?
Al cannot give any particular answer
1t was to be an accommodation to me. One
reason was, | was working all the year, and
borrowed capital and had to meet my en-
gagements at the end of the year land nv
business would be more or less unsettled: l
could not wind it up thplete at the end of
the year; If could get that knew it would
help me out to square my indebtedness and
still leave me enough to complete the work ::
otherwise should have had to have tried to
get funds elsewhere.
Q-.You had not done the work for this
money?
A.No.
ALEXANDER J. CAMERON, recalled March s.
1880 7. w.
BY Mr.. HALE:
Q-On the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and eighty, of the item furnished
by you to the Governor and Council as work
unfinished, to wit: 5000 Abstract of
County agricultural Societies, $1,000"
what proportion had you then done?
A-Little or nothing.
Q-Had you, in fact, done any stitching or
binding upon that at that time?
A-No stitching or binding, nothing more
than what little folding there was.
Given at the present time have you done
any stitching or binding?
A-Not of any account; nothing but the
folding
| Q-Up to the present time you have done
nothing of the stitching or binding?
| A-No, sir.
ON fact, the work has not come into
your hands from the printers?
| A-No, sir.
Q-Isn't the folding comparatively small
item?
Alt is.
Q-So, really. there was nothing on the