The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1884-02-09
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named in the pi6rata ordinance had been
over paid. except the court house fund.
A most astounding proposition indeedl
Oh, no, Mr.. Goodwin, you are most too
fond OF suggestions" already to allow
you further license. 1t is really too silly
to play ct mans own tricks. / prefer
to be excused from your Suggestions"
but invite an investigation.
The facts are that these funds each and
all received the per centage designated
by the jury, from the total fund that was
distributed. (Of course ! know right here
the CHRoNICLR man will have to arise tor
an explanation and then the week after to
correct the explanation. Well grant it,
Now the parish treasurer is not auditor
of accounts nor Is he consulted rs to the
amount due claimants or what amounts
the president should warrant for in favor
OF claimants, "better il such was the case,)
but the amounts in the various funds are
reported, and these amounts are warrant
ed TOR, and the treasurer Is not supposed
to know whether the claimant is entitled
to the whole, or more or less; but II the
amount OF the warrant is in the fund he
pays il, even il he knows the claimant is
not entitled to the amount Of the war;
rant, DIETER IL he was authorized TO with
hold overdraWn wRrrants)
You say that In 1852 the. parish tax
lacked about $500 Of paying the different
funds, the largest deficit being in the
court house fund, land yet you viii show
by Suggestion" that each and every
fund named were over paid (Oh you
"skeeters;) that in order to rid the parish
of this debt the police jury determined
to apply the license tax Of 1883, and pass
ed an ordinance to that effect, that at the
April term Of the jury the sheriff had
paid over e472 s., and that instead Of this
amount being paid over In bulk to Mr..
Mcknight, as he and everybody else ex-
pected, the treasurer pro rated it and his
act was endorsed by the police jury. Oh
horrible! horrble!I wonderful blunder
and terrible crimelll
In my letter OF April g, 1885,, Il asked
you to please look at the fles Of your pa
per and reproduce that ordinance. Why
did you not do SO? had you have done
this. or at Least have looked ct it yourself
perhaps you would not have committed
the same error q second time. Ignorance
is no crime, but being in possession Of all
the facts, it is almost objectionable to
make such mistakes Now, In the name
of good conscience and common sense let
your oIasses and throw fhe cameis, and
the cnats ss wen from your strsiner. and
do keIl ua how Mr.. McRn;0hk or anv one
eIse could have exnected that he wae IL
have received This en- a - bnlk. a.
couched n This ordinance. or in anv
manner to be infered tberefrom.
r. Tr opnATrrn That the .bar;N he
;nstvncfed ~ colleck fhe Ecenses for tha
voar 1aqQ ana v,ov tl,e,n' ;r.+~, tho troamrv
"a fast ~ ooilected. and that the nres;-
dent of the noI;ca iurv r hereby a,ithor-
ized to draw in aaid Eoense for fbe amount
~ com - favor ~ n McKn;phf. fine
treasmrr 70 charge the. came e oourf
house fnnds. adorfed Ian a 1884
This ord;nance e IS violation ~ the Al
section Of an unreDeaIed ordinance adopt-
ed Julv & 1855. which reads al follows:
BIZ IT FuprHrR cRpnrNrn That The
parisb treasurer shall annronriefe to the
fo!lovinS nro rata funds Al. -amounta re-
ceiyed by him not heretofore apDortioned
nv the noHce inrv' and each ana evevv
payment made into the treasury by the
fav 1,olIorf<,, FOR fI,o vaor o,,,3;ro A v,r;l I
1904 sI,eIi -. Sa,st ..,,arsta a1s5 a,.e,t :,
the following manner, etc." and then fol-
lowr the names az The pro rata f,1nda and
The n ~ cent s e ea - p'o '' -'''' 80
Now Let me- eay = Won once more. and
,,le..a ,s,t n n v},,,v ,,;,,o ana emota "A
II ~ - "a - ~ 49, ,P~to 49, Hss 80 s - =.
tnat our u9ceA year enos ON the 1et uay OF
April. or 31ee day of March. and that the
Iov reo,;,on kbc sbnr;6 e, collect All IL
Jaw ~ ull tn9 sneli5 . collec. al ~ =,
cenees py tnet oay' ana 70 tarn over an
tbat nnrnose vb;ch "ur tas r cpiIector d;d
siaos Psi 1l.o1 w roo 30 "a W -
Tor the nrss blme IN 1oo0s Hence ~
plain that the license tar collected In the
enr;ro ~ 1884 - f,efnra fIo IL dav ~
P.:,e =. 49,, IL. ~ ~ s.o ~ 49, Wy -
ApEls was properly the tunQb Of the year
1882 which only ended March 81. 1883.
o,,d ve,, ,,,v,st oiso hoxo ..eo,, tIot ;,,ston5
anu you .ueSe AM lay 5e1 LIZ s5ae 80 ,''s's ~
OF there being denclt Of $OUU, That the
deficit il any at all was very small and
snat oona9 VI tno c'oLln"nss "a slo plo l"se
1unQs were over pdtu, ana one among
these was the parish printer Hence
amount is known 10 the treasurer and