The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-11-12

dtpor. This is false, absolutely, and
the only excuse for such false state
ment Is, ] suppose, from the fact that
Mr.. u. was not in this county at the
time. This matter is we'll understood
by the commissioners then in power.
Messrs. Winterburg, Gnagey and
Boucner. To the best of my recollec-
tiou, two or more of our citizens were
prevailed upon to take these bonds
at par, In order to induce others to
bid Tor them, but this project failed.
The county commissioners then APP
Piled to me to negotiate the sale.
They placed their margin on the
bonds, at SO cts, and authorized me
to go to Cumberland, and raise the
money, l did so, and Col. Schley
came to myassistance. We finally
sold the bonds to John Humbird and
Fred Mertens, at the price .fred By
the commissioners. So your readers
will see that | was acting under the
direction of the board and have no
apology to make for my action, be-
cause Col. Schley and myself were
paid for our service.
| We next come to the receipt pub
lished concerning some delinquent
tax bills for S2,247.98, which l gave
4 to Ne clerk at the time. Now the
greater part of this amount is covered
| by the tax which was due from "the
Franklin Coal Company" about the
sum of Sl2V0, the remainder were
generally small tax bills and most of
them against non-residents, which
were in my judgement worthless,
and would not justify the trouble to
collect them at per cent, or even 10.
1 did collect the Mattingly tax.
which was paid me by John O'Brien,
Esq.,, and which Immediately paid
TO L. HI. johnson, Deputy Collector,
as per receipt:
OAKLAND, Md, July Is, 1876.
Received of G.. S. Hamill. $67 .27
in full for taxes and costs of Francis
Mattingly, due for the year 1875, and
paid by John O'Brien.
l.. HI. JOHNSON,
Deputy Collector.
Mr.. Veitch and myself, then COM
menced proceedings against "the
Franklin Coal Company" and after
a long and tedious litigation and TAX
ing the case to the Court of Appeals,
&C., and fighting for the interests of
Garrett county, we recovered judy
ment for 81 1913, or at least forced them
to pay that amount, all the tax due
to date, and now will see about this
as per receipt:
Received of g. S. Hamill, Esq,
S145.94 in full of balance due the
county commissioners, on account of
money collected from the Franklin
Coal Company, april Is. 1880.
PEDDI0uRD & COMES,
Attorneys for 20. CONS"
The other part of this judgment
was paid by me at different times
upon orders issued by the board, at
the time of which Mr.. TiIson was
president, and which the record IN
! the Office will show. Notwithstanding
the attorneys statement that the rec
ords did not show any settlement,
for the following order and receipt
will show that he has stated what
was not true
OAKLAND, Md, April 9th, 1879.
"Ordered by the county commissions
ers of Garrett county, this 9th day of
April, 1879, that G.. s. Hamill pay
Jasper Guard, Collector, $500 in his
hands from Franklin Coal Company.
+. G. TIIsoN, President.
Test w. HI. HAGANs, Clerk"
Received the above named $500
this 9th day of April, 1879.
JASPER GUARD"
Now if he had locked little furth-
err he would have found an order for
81 ,408.81, and then an order in favor
of Allegany county, for $2O5, which
was retained by them and &C.
cepted by the board. These facts are
we'll known to Mr.. w. HI. Hagans,
who was then the clerk.
Mr.. attorney next finds charge of
$50 made by me for collecting the tax
against the Pendleton property. He
appears to have seen all the allew-
ances made me, but did not see the
credits due me. This shows how un-
fair he has been towards brother
lawyer, when he should have stated
the plain facts, as he must have
known them at the time. Now to
the charge of $50 this is correct and 1
received the money, $25 of which L
paid to Thos. j. McKaig, Jr., from
the fact that he had at that time some
money due the Pendleton's, and
came to my Office and stated to me,
if the court would allow him fee he
would pay The tax, otherwise, he
would send the money to the party.
went at once to the commissioners,
stated the case to them and they i'm