The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-04-18

IT the Grand Jurors had sought or de-
sired information from the proper
source, they might have saved them
selves great mental agony, time and
expense, and printers ink, by being in
formed that these were private marks,
showing that the bills had received the
careful scrutiny of each officer whose
duty it was to examine them.
AS to the contracts not being adver-
tised, here again, if the jurors had
sought information from the Commits
sioners, they would have found that the
Board, in it's Judgment, concluded it to
to have certain iron vaults and safe.
The vault and safe selected by the Com
missioners were, in their opinions, the
best patents obtainable, after having
examined all within their reach, and as
these vaults and safes could only be
procured from one house in all Christen-
dom, the Commissioners concluded that
it was their duty not to put the county
to the useless expense of advertising in
order to fulfil the letter of the law in
violation Of its spirit. 1t was undoubt-
edly the duty Of the Commissioners to
select the patent and not leave this to
be done by outside parties, and then,
parrot-like, adopt the selection as their
own. If the Grand Jury had acted
upon the same principle of plain duty
and done their own thinking, regardless
of the advice of inscriptions outside
parties, they would have perhaps avoid
ed becoming the laughing-stock of the
AS to the canyassing of the votes of
the last election, it was the duty of the
Judge to be present on the. day appoint
ed by law, and 1t was no part of the
duty of the Commissioners to hunt him
up, or await his coming on some future
day
The insinuation that the Commission
ers have MAIDS illegal contracts and TAX
en- commissions, are gross falsehoods.
As to the inequality of the assess
ment for taxes, there may be something
in this, owing to the false swearing of
some taxpayers; but the Grand Jurors
are assured that for the present year at
least, our individual and collective SER
vices will be given in behalf of the
county in seeing that parties who claim
dnring three hundred and sixty-four
days of the year that they are worth
$25, 900 to $50, 900, hut on the other
day take an oath before the Assessor
that they are worth $1,000 to "a, 900,
shall disclose their surplus. property.
We will also, see that certain parties
who give in their property under oath
at from $400to $500, also give in their
county warrants and solvent securities
to the amount Of from $4,000 to So, 600
more.
From the following extract from the
report one might suppose that the Sher >
ifs Office contained a, cart.load of OFF,
cial records, and that our late. Sheriff
had stolen all but one, to wit:
"We fnd that our late Sheriff has
not delivesed to his successor the books
to his Office, with the excep-
ton of the License Book"
The truth is the License book and
the Fee Book are the only books per-
tanning to his Office. AS to the Fee
Book. he is entitled to its possession and
the law requires him to KEEP itin his
possession until his official relations
cease. But two days ago he was Gale d
upon to execute SheriEss deed, for
which he is entitled to fee Of FIVE dol
lars, and the lsw requires him to enter
this in his fee book. Other deeds are
to be executedby him as Sheriff. at the
proper time. He and he alone, can ex-
ecute these deeds; he and he alone is
entitled to the Fee Book until he is
fully discharged from official duty: and
all this twaddle about his Fee Book is