Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1885-05-14

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rcre purchased that were not bid fol
and that such supplies were purchased
of members Of the Board and that carte
blanche had been given Mr.. Fleming il.
the matter regardless of the prohibi =
tons Of the law.
Mr.. .Fleming's card acknowledges all
charged in Mr. Albaugh's card, so fal
as the main fact of the violation Of law
in the matter Of purchases from mem.
bers of the Board and it would indeed
be an illogical public, which would fail
to hold the Board responsible for the
acts of its appointee.
In the card signed by the five mem
bers of the Board Of G. Il g. we find
them simply spying that they have
complied with the law. This is assun-
ing that they have been exp 'c'el to
say, only. that they have, or have not,
complied with the law; if that were all,
7 we venture to say that there is not one
person in the county who was expect
ing then2 to say that they had not com
piled with the Law. They, however,
refer the pnblic to "the books" and
while the public is doabtless very much
interested in the matter, it may lie
reckoned with safety that the Board
has suggested u decidedly impractical
BILE loethod for the publics enlighten-
ment.
1t may be pertinent to state in this
connection that had the method first
employed in the matter Of the settle
mcnt by the Beard of County Commits
sioners Of the bills presented by the
Board Of 9. & G prevailed, the books
to which ia, public has been referred,
woul, HOT have thrown much light
upon the subject.
1t is not generally known, but it is
none the less a fact, that on the day
that the Board of G. q G. appeared be-
fore the county board, they presented
for payment, their entire account in
one gross sum and that our lynx-eyed.
economical and judicial, reform Bo nd
of Commissioners accepted, passed and
ordered to be paid the singIe-item ac-
count and adjourned for the day with
out further action thereon. During
the afternoon and after adjournment,
one of the members informed level
headed citizen of Frederick city of their
action in the matter, when this citizen
made it umcommonly and uncomtort-
ably plain to him that the Board Of
Commissioners had acted unadyiselly
to put it mildly; the result Of which
was that upon the convening of the
Board the next morning its action was
rccosa1eyed and the Board of G. g. G
notified that an iicm1.ed statement of
their account must be forthcom ng
Now the manifest pride and uncon-
Germ with which the public is referred
to "the books in the above card, will
be discounted somewhat when the pub
lie learns that the Board of c. & G,
kicked like the laost vehement bay
steer, when the demand for in itcm.zld
S statement WAS made in other words,
they assume an air Of independence bv
referring the pubic to the BOOK"
when they could not if they would keep
them from them, but the books, as
they would have appeared had their
reliance upon the stupidity or --else,
of the Board Of Commissioners not
failed them, would have shown abso-
lutcly nothing but gross sum appro-
priated to their use.
This act Of endeavoring to smugyle Il
settlement through in one gross item,
taken into consideration along with
another fact given by us in another ar
licle in this issue, would make it APP
pear TO any impartial observer, a cir.
cumstance warranting less uncon-
cerned and more definite defense than
is youchSafed in the "Whereas' and
'.Rcsoiyed' If the Board of G. & G. .