The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-06-15
Observation-Disclosures

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have appeared If record IN
your Office (Wbnt should
have appeared Of record7 tie
amount, or the private mems
orandun7 Ifihe amount, how,
where, and in what connection
should 1t have appeared? Do
YOU know what You are talk.
ing about If you do, you ev'
identity intend to mislead, as
all the records connected with
the forfeiture aud purchase Of
land, tLat should appear in
the Office, did so appear, and
Mr.. Matthews Iaboriously
consulted the same, until AIR.
Cook kindly placed the mem.
Orandum at our service, and
from which you SO violently
wrenched that charge; and ii
Mr.. Matthews had scrutiniz-
cd the record closely,he void
have found entries cvidencing
that Matthews receipt Was
shown clerk, entered in mum
bers of places opposite lands
that ho had cold for taxes in
1915, and also of tll"se turns
cd over by him 80 Mr.. Couk
as delinquent, aud sold 18th
of March 1876, but l reckon
he was not looking for records
of that kind.) But, to tho
question: (Which you do not
touch.) why did you not, as
the custodian of the record,
and auditor Of the county,fnI.
nish us with the cash book of
Cook (The cash book is a
public record in tho oflice,and
though ] am custodian, &c,
1 am not tho private servant
to anticipate and CRAFTY, un>
! solicited, the wishes Of even
those self appointed inqnisi>
torsfot the people 'Ac's'75.
section l and ., page 80 lido
not provide Tor Il cash book.
but sec. 56-7, page 90 & 81,
same acts 10, tho same to be
kept by the I'ax-Cullector,
and when :ho taxes are co.'s
lectcd, and settlement made
for the year, to be flied in the
Chancery clerks office. They
have been so filed, and are
now in The office, public rec.
ords to be inspected by llwho
wish to do SOY See also acts
1876, page 5, section SO, and
same acts, page 147, section
$3.50, and then TELL THE
PEOPLE, if the REGARD in your
office is in accordance with
the above requirnients. TELL
TIE PEOPLE, does the cash
book show what is required
by said actS?' Il am simply
custodian OF the records to
which You refer to-wit: the
collectors cash books. That
they l,aye been kept IN strict
accordancc-teclinically with
the acts referred to, l TELL
THE PEOPLE no, because of it's
impracticobility. The Legis
lators who made the law new.
OF collected taxes in y county
like this during the latter
part of November, and carli
err days of December, / imag'
inc; but l TELL THE PEOPLE,
that in those cash books arc
entered every tax receipt that
should be entered there, mum.
bering from one up, consccu
lively, to the last given IN the
respective yeats, with the
name Of tho Taxpayer and
amount paid, aud l challenge
the gentlemen to produce one
nl the 10000 receipts that
should appear in ono of those
books, that Is not entered
therein. Whether Mr.. Cook
made those entries iG strict
accordance with law or not,
they are THERE and show
what the people are interests
ed in, to>wit: the amounts
collected; and these entries
arc so Systematically made
and numbered, that any one
of tho 10000 receipts can be
found at once, and any ut
YOUR ADOPTED wards THE
PEOPLE, can make the expe-
riment at any time they wish,
and I guarantee eminent sat-