Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-14
poARp OF srPEKvIsoEs.

TU.sos, May 27th 1881. To the io- --u aUd members of tEG
 special gan! jury.
 Gentlemen:-Your committee on the supervisors office have the honor Co report US follows:
 We found the books and recor,ls Of the office fEirly well kept.
 We noted a lack of systematic ar- raugemsnt ot the records, and recognize ihe fact that no master mind has ever organized this office.
 In this connection We do not refer Co the clerical work, which Is quite saiis. factory.
 The segregation of disbursements tO funds only, does not seem Go Us to bs a sufficiently elaborate one.
 The titles Os the funds" general and contingent cnnyey no concise Idea ot their application and further subdIy!- sion Is necessary to enable m ordinary taxpayer to secure an intelligent ap- preciatiOn of the county expenditure.
 We fully real % that this compreAen- sive segregation properly belongs, not to the clerk Of the board, but to some other official who has Lot been provided for by the statutes.
 The general fund, Gs gu instance. comprises disbursements on account Oi some ten orr twelve different branches. and its title is foo ambiguous Tor public purposes.
 For our own CccomCd .t:on we roughly segregated this account a- follows:
 Department of justice, board of super yiscrs. court house and grounds, survey ing, Quijotoa road, grand jury, recorder. clerk of election, no particulars, hospit- al. county indicent.
 We find much to condemn in the dir ectjon and manipulation of affairs by the Board Of Supervisors of Pima county.
 II we could safely trust ourselves to circumstantial or internal evidence, We should feel warranted in demanding or desiring a more thorough investigation than we, as grand jurors, have been able to give.
 Whatever of abuse or corruption exists in the county offices. exclusive of schOO! business, takes its inIative or IS fOsterCd here, and here the call for intelligence and honesty is more imperative than elsewhere.
 That only minimum amount of either or honesty las been msnlf- e-ted IS seemingly evident to Us.
 We here Use the word honesty In its most general sense. leaving any special application for your decision.
 We desire to avoid inuendCes. and general accusations, but We feel conn dent that We can show by the records of this office themselves, that We have some solid foundation for our conclusions.
 We fiud that the supervisors are n the habit of drawing on certain parties for cash Gs this is required, or deemed for expenditures. 4tesc or ders. drawn by individual members of the board. are turned in as vouchers from time to time. It is claimed that n some wsy this method saves the county
 We are of the opinion that the county would be better served by following the normal and legal routine. that K Co sly, by paying ID warrants and allowing the holders thereof tO dispose Cf them Gs they please. on the principle that when a county government begins to ''cOddle" its finances a muddle Of the most dan -erous kind surely follows.
 By throwing the warrants into the hands of one or two preferred parties, who possibly have the inslde track, all is destroyed.
 It Is evident that the monopoly of this business brings some profit to the off rIally constituted mOnOPolist and the destruction of the monopoly cannot work any serious injury and may possi- bly, become a benefit.
 In one instance a voucher" of the kind referred tO has no particulars as 10 what the disbursement was for. IL sim ply directs a certain person to pay 6 cCr- tain amount for account of Pima cOun- ty" and there the record ends.
 In the matter of the court house fence