Mohave County miner., 1884-05-11

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 Now, MT. Hardy, how is it with your own virtuous, truGlful and honest old self. Have you over read in the sacred book about first
 taking out the mote from your own eye be- fore devoting your services to others. You have for a long time held the office of Su- pervisor (illeQally). You are now and have been for some time chairman of the Board (illegally). You make loud pretence of virtue, but you have not yet, during your more than twenty years residence in this county, earned the standing of "Old Hon esty."
 When you took your oath of office as Su- pervisor you swore that you would support the laws of this Territory, and faithfully discharge the duties of Supervisor, so help you God. How we'll you have observed your oath let the record answer.
 Section 3525, Compiled Laws of Arizona, enacts that the owner of any toll road shall keep or caused to be Fept an accurate ac count of the gross receipts and expenditures of such road, and make a quarterly report thereof, under oath, to the Territorial Aud itor. accompanied by the receipt of the county Treasurer of such county i'll which such road is located, for two per cent of the gross proceeds of such road. Tue statute places ferries under the same conditions.
 Section PIG of the same statute imposes on the Board of Supervisors the duties of managing public roads, turnpikes and ferries, 1 d5o. On the Board of Supervisors, as its 1 name implies, is placed the general duty of supervising or seeing that the public monies | within their respective counties are collect | cd.
 The statute regarding the payment of tue two per cent of the gross proceeds has been | she law of the land for more than 14 years, during which time you, MT. Hardy, have been keeping and maintaining a toll road | or ferry and most of the time both, collect | ing tolls from the public all the time. Have | yLu ever made any return of the proceeds 1 of road or ferry, as required by law? Have | you ever paid to the county Treasurer one dollar of the revenue due from you under | the law? | say yOss have not. Do you consider 1t honest as public official, whose duty it is to watch and guard the public | monies within your counties to sit in the l Board year after year and receive the peo pies money therefor and never make de nand for or take any action to collect the | TWO per cent due from the gross receipts of ] your toll roads and rries. And will not i the blush of shame crimson even your hard ened cheek when called before the tribunal l of public opinion to answer for your viola tions of your official duties to compel the Hon. CD W. H. Hardy, the toll gatherer, to pay over to the County Treasurer the money he owes up5n the gross amount of the thousands of dollars he has gleaned. from the public during the past 14 years. Again, it is your duty to see that toll roads are kept in decent repair. You are collect ing toll now and have been for a long time over road that is now almost impossible and disgrace to any county. Common decencv suggests that when your private conflict with your public duty that you either give the public the pref erence or resign your office.
 presume you will answer this by boast ing how much you have done for public roads, when it will be in order to show to the public how you got that monstrous claim of S2O0,000 against the Government allowed, based on the building of the road from Hardyville to Prescott.
 Come to the front now, MT. Hardy, or forever after hold your peace.
 WM NJ. KBIDER,