Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-06-14
A WARM DAY.

A WARM DAY. The Special Grand Jury after Five
 Weeks Labor make Report. They Provide the Public with Interesting
 Sunday Reading.
 At three o'clock this afternoon the special grand jury, which has been in session for five weeks, went into court and made their final report, after which they were discharged. The general re- port and a portion of the reports Of committees are given as follows:
 GENERAL REPORT:
 To the Hon. W. Fitzgerald, Judge of the District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona Sir: The special grand jury impaneled for the March term of the District Court have the honor to submit the following report:
 We have examined into numerous charges and have found l9 true bills.
 We find that the board of supervisors are in the habit of drawing on certain parties for cash as this is deemed neces- sary for current expenses. These or ders, drawn by individual members of the board, are turned in as vouchers from time to time.
 We are of the opinion that the county would be better served by following the normal and legal routine, that Is to say, by paying in warrants and allowing the holders thereof to dispose of them as they please. By throwing the warrants into the hands of one or two preferred parties, who possibly have the inside track, all competition is destroyed:
 We find that th lQuiiotoa road, one and a half miles long, has cost the county, from its inceptian to the pres ent, as follows:
 Construction or Silver Lake rosd------s 7e6 70 Liquor for QuijOtoa trIp---------------- l9 @ Construction and examination cf QuI- Construction of Santa Cruz bridge- 1,093 74 Allowances for cash boO IS Examination and location of road----- lls 70 Cleim fo4 error in one of the accounts l00 co Total .155 8
 We are not directly responsible for this segregation.
 We recommend that some official be deputed to perform the duties Cf prop erty clerk for the county and keep the run of purloinable assets at least
 We find that the poll tax collected ID 1883 did not net the county more than S600. It seems ridiculous that out of a population of some 1S000 souls only this amount is collected. When the old law was in force which denied citizens the privilege of voting until they settled with the county the collections were larger, and We not know but what the resurrection of this law would be beneficial.
 We find that the clerk of the board of supervisors, by order. Is in the habit of deducting poll tax from certificates against the county.
 Although this action ostensibly inures to the county's benefit, 1t leaves too much freedom to the operation of con- scientiousness to commend itself to us. It Is also an injustice to those that pay, and an assumption of the duties of an official who is directed to attend to this matter. Moreover, the payment of poll tax to the clerk of the board of super- visors does not entail a receipt, mani fest injustice even to an involuntary taxpayer.
 We find that there are warrants outstanding against the county to the amount of S107,52S 7S, interest being calculated 10 May l, 1881, war rants being paid up as follows: General fund to october ', 1883; contingent fund, to December 26, 1883; road fund to March 3, 1884.
 The total indebtedness of the county is as follows:
 Court house bonds at 10 per cent, in
 terest paid to January i, l--4-------- 75.00O co School District No. l, baildIug fund
 bends, at 10 per rcent----------------- S1.J0o co Totsl-.------------------------------s290o3 s290o3s 78
 PREsUMPrIvE INDEBTEDNESS. County improvement bonds issued to
 Port LObOs R. R. Co.,. interest at :
 per cert paid to June 1. Iss4-------. Sjo.000 co N. G. R. R. Co. bonds issued, interest al
 per 5OoD VI Besides I5O bonds of Sl,0O0 each n hands of treasurer.
 We find that the property valuation for the county was:
 In AsolZ-o ou Showing sn increase of -S2OsO.OI6 %
  And the estimated valuation of prop erty for 1884 IS S6,000,GO0.
 The rates of taxation have been for the same years:
 In addition to the rate of S2 90 for general, county and Territorial pur- poses for 1883 an additional tax of 9 cents was levied in Tucson school dis trict, making total county tax paid ID said district 8 15 per SlOO
 TREASURER. A safe deposit for funds in the Trea- surer's hands can be cheaply made by changing the treasurer's office from its present location to the rear room of the recorders office and arrange that room by opening a door way into the rear and main hall of the courthouse, close up the door opening into front recorders office; place steel gratings over the win dow on the east side of the room and | cut an opening Xxi feet square in the | north wall of the room and place therein |