The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-02-06

Estimates by late Board as to dis
bursements for Teachers Salaries-s24, 354 90
Interest, attorneys fees and survey
ing 80 w
Printing, ................. 100 90
Total. .s248 2s 90
Disbursements taken from the Books
of Mr.. Ludwig, for Teachers Salaries S2S, 907 q
interest, Zt0Io oV
Printing ...................... 2S5 OO
Total........ $40 II
1t will be seen at a glance how I'M
just to the late Treasurer is the credit
given him for interest $4,000, when
on the amount of due-bilis and notes
paid by the County Commissioners
the interest amounts to 81 .222.80.
Again no credit is given the Treas
urer for discounts paid in Bank on
notes given by the Board and renew
ed from time to time. An order on
the County Commissioners for 81, 240.-
90 is charged in full to the Treasurer,
and we find it was discounted in End
National Bank, Feb. 9th, 1884, upon
which the discount was $1,000. No
credit does Mr.. Ludwig receive for
this amount. The statement we are
examining carries balance from 1884
to 1885 of $4,000. and yet we find
the Board of which Mr.. William P.
Totten was President, negotiating a
loan of 100000 in Bank early in 1885,
which loan remains as yet unpaid.
Many instances of equal injustice and
Inconsistency could be cited, but we
deem sufficient has been given TO a
candid public to disproye the claims
of the late Board.
1t is charged that the present Board
could have continued the schools and
at the end of the fiscal year had
balance on hand of 1851 .O6, after pay
ing all Indebtedness. This very ex-
act amount, even to the six cents, is
predicated of course upon the balances
given by the late Board, and which
balances we are free to say exist alone
in the fertile imagination of the gen.
tleman who made the estimates upon
which was based the report.
The present Board is promised in
the enumeration of assets the follow
ing item, "Act of Legislature" S30S2.
No such an amount could be claimed
by the Board from the Legislature.
This alludes, no doubt. to the April
instalments for 1885 and 1886. The
amount given the late Board for the
years 1881 and 1883 was $22O7, 10 and
not $30S2,00, as charged in the report.
We know of no reason why the pres
ent Board should receive more for
1885 and 1886 than did the former one
for 1881 and 1888. nor can this install
ment of S22O7,19 be calculated upon
as a certainty. Should the Legisla-
ture decline paying the bill, the pres.
ent Board would be minus Just
S2207,19 The present Board mag
get this amount, the late Board did
receive it.
Another injustice is done Mr.. Lud-
wig in the statement that his report
to the State Board for the year 1884
does not balance by $780," A typo
graphical error wherein 5000 should
be $4,000 will correct this shortage of
$500.
The late Board claims to have
"paid teachers, and, in fact, all debts
contracted by US in cash." We find
in Bank number of notes, all now
due, besides a claim for books
amounting to upwards of 5000. If
payments were made in cash why
these notes, and why should firm in
Baltimore still hold claim for books
to the amount above stated? A school
house at Sang Run Is but partially
paid for. One or two other claimants
are before the present Board for
amounts due on school houses they
were instructed to build, with prom
ises that the same would be taken off
their hands. We do not desire to
press this matter. We feel confident
that no one has been a defaulter.
That the money received has been
disbursed or accounted for; but we
must add, disbursed in many in.
stances and by order of the Board,
uery inVudiciousIy.
Should careful and thorough in
vestigation take place IL acouId reveal
facts not at all credita6ie to the late
administration.
G. M, MILLER, Pres.
E. III. BARTLETT, Sect'y.
OAKLAND, Feb. I'd, 1886.