The Copiah signal. (Hazlehurst, Miss.) 1882-1883, 1883-06-08

EDrroR yIoyAL Sir. In the re-
port O! ] p Matthews and A B Lowe.
upon The investigation OF tho books
and accounts. of W. W. Cook late
Sheriff and Tax Collector. u will be
seen that Mr. Cook is charged with
the following items, to.wit;
For land redemption. money re-
ceivsd from c,ttpn.weighsi, delin-
quent polls aud 6nes durirg year
1876. and 1877. $zozi 4!
Now / desire To say that. [ find
that during those years. he received
for r.demptions alcne, tho sum
- s!G55 Ii
I contend. however, that it VAS
wholly unnecessary for the commit
lee, to have charged it up to him. or
il it was right to charge him, then It
was proper that they thoa!d have
given him credit for The amount charg.
ed, when convinced that lie bad paid
same over to the officers. whose duty
It was TO receive the same. In order
to fully explain my position in this
respec', would say that, under the
law, tho lands then held by the State
for take, wore liable for redemption
or purchase and person desiring to
do either had first to go to Cbancsry
clerk for,a certificate, this certificate
set ior.h tue fac, that be had applied
to redeem or purchase, aud contain
ed q statement CT all costs, taxes and
damages due The Stale, as we'll c.
costs, taxes and damages. due the
CO un'y. This certificate was thu n
pres tntt d 10 the Sheriff, WHO made
out Two receipts. each OF which con.
tain, d ths amounts due The State and
county. as certified to him by tue
clerk, One Of these receipts wa
given to The applicant, upon his pay.
ing to tho Sheriff the amount OF mon.
ey certified as aforesaid; the other
Was presented to tho County Treas
urer, who wrote his receip! on the
bark thereof, for the money dac the
county; this receip! was then forwar.
ded 10 the Auditor Of Public Ac.
counts, who upon receiving the mon.
ey duo the State, and being satisfied,
from Treasurer's receipt given as
aforesaid, that the none, due the
County Treasury had been paid to
Treasurer, made deed md forwar-
ded it to the Sheriff, which he. tue
Sheriff, delivered to tho applicant,
upon his cancelling md delivering 10,
Sheriff, the receipts given him. (the
applicaut.) when he frat paid the
money to him, (the SberiiI.) M dc'd
could. OF. would be made by the An.
di!or uplets the County Treasures
receipt for the money due the county
was exhibited Il. him; therefore, the
making and send.sg Of deed by An.
ditor is official evidences that the
money due the county has been into
County Treasury and the Sheriff
should have credit for all deeds made
ny Auditor. II th. same are charged
up to him. Me- Cook has complied
strictly with the above, and notw'th.
standing the fact that the book, from
which they get these items to charge
against him, shows that thoy were
pail, still they, Matthews and Lowe.
refuse 10 give hin credit. These
items alone, when credited properly
will bring Mr. Cook out far ahead.
It might be we'll olso. to remind
the public Of the, fact. that tho, book
from which they got the items refer.
red to, and which they claim brings
him out in debt to the county. ia
private memorandum book. belong
ing to Mr. Cjok, on which Is entered
tho numbers Of the applications 10
purchase, the amounts paid to State
aud county, together with The fact
that d,:ls have been received,
delivered, or ready to be delivered to
applicants. Now II they are author
lied to make charges from this pri-
vate memorandum, ore they not
equally authorized to give him GREG.
it, for what be shows 80 conelusively
10 have been paid' ar Cook has
sued tho county. for the balau &c due
him. as stated in the minority report,
and up'p trial OF the cause, 1t will
be shown that gro.s injustice has
been done him 10y the minority 70.
port. J. NJ. NORMAN.
Nay slst. 1883
From tho above It appears That
this L md Redemption accom-: bal
ances itself. As tbs deed is an evil
Deuce that the Sheriff received the
so it is also ON evidence that
The same has been paid in the Treas