The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-09-21
! Advertisement
4 Card.

,oh U! j: T. BreaZcalc. ESQ si,''Is i,S
nnti..s, 8, ne ior The purpose intended nm
! in ar,. w me, as it did not concern ma
had ,,,, 10y, out ior the fact that some ono
So put INTO circulation on the nuI,I;c
streets of Anderson, carly MonIn,, puniic p
30, 5, PAPER containing an ite,nized s,a,.
S'. VI expenditures for the Poor IJ',,so
,,.I ,"I iaoo, by the Board then in nmthnri,, ,.
MINI statement was different from ,haa
thI,sned that , ny tile Clerk Of the Board for
nira,, n' al. ihasmuch as | am not All as
| do vii, ,v' any oiiice, ard had nothing TO
in., rn u .iie making up OF the report. hav-
,iS iesiShed the clcrkship in August n,,.
,o'S lheiclo, was at a loss To know III,
s naRio should have been ,.n,,mo",n.,
in I'm III" report and the official acts of tha
i "''u nevertheless. il was tho r,sn
st.,,o, WAS called upon to explain tho
| frn,, "hici, II was said, was taken
n"iii tnc AUDITORS books Tho srruiio
man VINO had the statement ,yns ia, ~,
mru |" The Auditors Office AMI Mr
nn very politely furnished us tho hnnt
roi'IitlhS @ tue settlement of the rrrasm.
, ior that year. After cxa,ui, inc II
,ie ..e i.tniiHed statement corrcsponJrI Viii
we ,etlleihent for the Poor IIuus. account
eynr I,o, 'ii 'ic book. Tho Board, how
ever, mad nothing to do with thnt sto,o
,.c''', ana asked for the original youch.
rrn nln or warrants issued bv tho Ronrl
u'sc were produced and compnrcd viii
NV, ,iie s'ntcihcnt, and il was then asccrtaineJ
; ."' me statement circulated contained
I,t'hs t;h ol considerable amounts. entirely
.n.o'',letcd $50. with the Poor House. The
IL, .',."uS inc paper expressed him.
sell as satisfied that tho matter hal h.n,
ni!NrcnfcScntcd 10 him, that lie wou,d rc.
~ 'hc paper aud correct, AS far as wus
III ms power, tho statements made Tho
plplished report for 1850, shows that
".,'iH ;n,. on ~ account ofPoor House, amount.
S =" :i''oH."" Is correct from tho min
u.cs oi inc Board, with an execution. nor.
hiaps, OF Stefan oversight made in r..i
unS up the report. The paper in circ,Ila
lloh made the amount S2,736 81. a difirr.
chce OIL 81 l,oIS.6l, and thus it will be seen
,i ,iiat great Injustice was being done to
INC old Board and clerks. Aftor this ex
.'nl'lniation .nnl Mr.. Breazeale, the present
~. N .. ine Board, said he would give
AZ. NJ. l. Z. Llgon, the clerk who made nm
me report, q certificate as to the correct
u:sss Oh the Report as published, and Mr..
i-lHon informed me had done so And
Just mere would stop, but for the fact I
nave oecn asked how there happcned TO
nc $1,000 Of past Indebtedness, US Mr..
brcazeale published, when the new Beard
came into Office. In reply to that in
august, 1850, when turned the Office
over 10 Mr.. ligon, there were few claims
auuitei anu approved by former boards
ana checks filled out, but these wero small
eei:liihs, and do not think, now, exceeded
f-tn or $500. ] lave examined the war
rants pald by tho Treasurer for the last
year, ana ind on file checks stated TO
nave ac"T;ied iii 1879, Sii5.is. Up TO the
MrltinS OF Mr.. Breazeale's card last week,
ne Board for this year have audited
claims Tor past Indebtedness amounting
10 s3ol 80. This, submit falls far short
AS to the Pickcns County claim for that
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Board, as will appear from the utlidavits
ol It's members, which were filed about
september 20, 1850. with the present
BOARD, ana as will also appear from the
iollowing newspaper controversy be-
tween the PickcnS Sentinel, and the An
utfsoh lNrELLlHENcER. December, 1850.
THE P1cKESS-ASDERSON COMPACT"
We find the following article in the
last issue Of the pickens !Scn,iaci, under
Tie caption quoted above, a few words
concerning which we presume will not
6e objectionable to our esteemed contem.
porary, inasmuth as both it and the
commissioners Of that County seem 10
De at loss to understand why the Com
missloners of this County have not paid
what the commissioners OF Pickens have
been pleased to designate as their part
OF this agreement
The question is now, What has be-
come OF the Anderson part of this agree
ment = The Air Line Company has COM
pied with its part Of the contract. The
Plckens portion Of the fence money has
been paid into the treasury, but nothing
has been heard from the County Com.
mlSsioncrs of Anderson. Our County
Clerk has sent them full statement of
the affair, which they have treated with
silent contempt. II they wish more leg
lSlati0n on the subject wo would like To
| hear from them at once
The statement was received by the
Commissioners of this County, but az it
was considered not only cyorbitunt but
unclually apportioned, it was rejected.
The statement shows that the whole
amount of fence built is 81 miles, at IA
cost Of Si,:Ir'.29, on - miles Of which the
Air Line Railroad paid so per mile, ma,
kIhg $3.50, from which tho County
lreasurer's commission was deducted.
AnderSons $ proportion is one half Of the
| remainder on the - miles together with
one-hali on q miles i'll addition. nggrcga-
| ting 81 ,4Sl.gS. The proportion for Pick
| ems is the same rs that for Anderson with
| tho cost Of ono mile additional, aggrega-
ting Sl,5tSSl.
The Act authorizing this building of
| the fence reads: "The County of Ander-
| son shall only be required TO pay the pro-
| portion provided for that County for the
numhcr of miles for which the said
| County would be required to pay if the
Air Line Railroad run the line of such
tepce," from which it is plainly seen that
the Commissioners of Pickens have in
creased ourpropOrtion considerably from
what it should be by rights. The Air
| Line Railroad does not "run tie line Of such
fence for Il distance of 81 miles by a good
deal and even if it did we cannot exact
~ SO. how the picken" Commissioners
could expect Anderson to pay any por-
| ton of the expense of building this fence
| al, huI nnfl,inn xyhofnynr fn In
with contracting for tile work. Our Com
missioners were not consulted about the
matter, although the Pickens Commits
siOners considered that we had as much
interest in the matter IA they did. More
over the prices at which the building was
done was eXorDitant, anu Goes not reflect
much credit upon the business capacity
out the contracts. The whole conduct OF
the Pickens Commissioners is, to say the
least Of it, as about as cool q piece of
business as we have ever heard Of"
1t is submitted, therefore, that if any
liability ever existed TO pay to Pick ems
County, $l,4Sl. .0s, for the fence, it was a
liability created by the present Board, in
stead Of the old Board, as Mr.. Breazeale
would make it appear.
| have said This much, not i'll spirit OF
fault finding with any person, and with
no intention of creating any personal re-
fections on any PERSONS official acts, but
that all parties may have justice. There
ought to be moro fair play in this scram-
ble for Office, and, If I may be pardoned
ways to run for office on their own merits.
and not on tho demerits Of others, and in
the language of Georgia's great common
or, Mr.. Stephens, "lIet every man tote
his own skillet" j. l.. TRIBBLE.