The Phoenix herald., 1880-09-03

! Grand Jury report will "c0ok the l goose" of the reverend gentleman
 at the next election, as base libel.
 Below we publish that portion of
 the report of the last Grand Jury
 Of Maricopa County, that relates
 to tLc sainily candidate, and it
 passes our judgment how that body
 could have adjourned after such q
 report without an indictment.
 The following is the main report:
 "The Grand Jury further report that they have examined the books aad accounts of the Board of Super yisors and find everything in the
 most criminal state of neglect ind confusion; vouchers not properly filed and not sufficient to cover
 the amount of claims audited aud
 ordered paid; leaves pasted together
 i1 the records, and others torn out
 of tue record beck as stated by the
 present Clerk of the Board 10 hide
 his own blunders T. II. Cox was
 clerk and Rlutilations so far as cut
 ting cat Of the leaves Of the record
 book of his predecessor in office.
 We find that tie Board of Super yisors, whose Chairman's duty 1t was under the law to see that the warrants on the County Treasurel were correct and to sign the same, had never taken any supervision of the drawing of said warrants. the last two or three chairmen of the said Board simply signing the war rants in blank and leaving them in the hands of the Clerk to fill up at his discretion, and who has often found many claims that had been audited and allowed and drawn one warrant for the same, so that is impossible to trace wi,h absolute eertaiaiy he claims allowed to the warrants and know that no error4 or frauds have been committed from the evidence that the records exhibit"
 Now fellows the special report, the majority of the committee being Democrats:
 We find that the Clerk Of the Board of Supervisors has, i'll nu- merous instances, duplicated the ! of warrants One ease we will mention, to-wit: Road warrant, l No. II, May 9th. 1879, in favor of . I. II. Cox. for $50. and No. II. | June 3, 1879. iu favor of Mr. Bell yea.
 "We find that mutila,ion of the stubs and records occur frequently, Stubs have been torn out of difer- ent warrant books without leaving lny trace of the cause for SO doing.
 That he has cut out Of the ledger pages No. TT, ITS, l79 and l80. He has pasted together pages 176 and 16I. thus concealing fhe This practice of mutt ating the records of the county ,annot be too strongly condemned md should not be countenanced. The mutilations seem to be without ,xcnse and criminal.
 That ona Arthur Rogers pre- enied bill for sIO. which was iisaliowed, yet ihe Clerk minutes f the Board show that the same ( ras allowed and that a warrant ras issued which is now held by D innocent purchaser.
 That itis the practice of the [: Jerk to co.er two or more vouchers ' -ith one warrant. This economy c [ labor We condemn. N'e believe nd recommend that every warrant f lould represent one voucher and g o more, and t!iat every voucher [ lould be as explicit as possible. |
 ''Thaton May 10th, 1879, ". i McNuIty presented a bill for ! ooks, amounting to Ss3 II. The . :ccrds show that lie was allowed I : 50 more than he claimed and | lat $ warrant was issued to the E mount, loss to the county of ) 2s.
 ".Thlt warrant was drawn pril 7. 1870, in favor of William Q olland. for S436. for board of C i:encrs up to March 3lst, 1879, c. r which there is no voucher U As we remarked before we re- -, at again. "Tite last Grand Jury a. port of his office when he was d. srk of the Board of Supervisors al Il cook the goose of the Rev II y II. Cox. ln e-
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