The St. Johns herald., 1886-06-17

of the command by the evangelist, "neither cast ye your pearls before
 swine" ;"
 We are also of the opinion that
 not another dollar should go into the County Treasurer's safe at St. Johns, but "so 1t Is written," and until the law IS changed what is the Critic going to do about 1t. An other paragraph in this editorial criticism is as follows, "all that talk about commercial paper amounts to nothing, except an exhibition of an apparent unwillingness to have something in the treasury that it would not pay to steal" Now friend Critic you must remember that times have changed and men have been changed. It was dangerous in by-gone days to deposit valua- 
 bles in the county safe, when we take into consideration in what in innate proximity they would be thrown with some whose duties called them to the safe, and who were being nourished at that time by public pap, but at the present time we thank God these pregnant sources of danger have been re- moved, and whatever may be in the safe, We are satisfied the most nec- essarv safeguard has been taken. The Treasurer has taken Hubbell's checks and given the county credit for the amount due, and if he is not bound by the entries upon his books, we do not know by what data the county can ascertain his standing. The account is long passed and closed, the Board of Supervisors have acted with refer ence to the accuracy and bona fide character of that showing. MT. Hubbell is an unknown party to the county in this transaction, the Treasurer alone must settle with  the county by his vouchers and re- ports. It is a maxim of the law that no man shall take advantage of his own wrong, and the Treas urer has acted in violation of law by taking the checks. Mir. Hubbell has been given receipts in dupli- cate, one of which is on file with the records of the Supervisors, county indebtedness has been paid and remedies lost upon the assumption that the report was correct and the collection made, and now will our legal solon in the Critics office, tell Us what law or equities remain to the Treasurer. The county can only look to the Treasurer for the amounts he has reported on hand, because 1t is only between him and the county any privity of contract lies, and if he has been guilty of laches, he must suffer the conse- quences. What ruay be MT. Hub bells liability 10 the Treasurer, is matter foreign to this discussion. Can the Critic now begin to under stand the situation and the bearing commercial paper has upon it. We will not discuss the binding char acter of that receipt as between Hubbell and Dionicio Baca, but as between the county and the Treas urer, the attendant circumstances make 1t binding for the production of the money, and Mir. Hubbell is released from obligation to the county, and the Treasurer has the bag to hold.
 In the succeeding paragraph the key note of the Critics plaint is found in the vicious attack upon the Supervisors. We quote the first charge, and see whether or not the clouds do not vanish in the sun light of facts
 "The Supervisors have known for months that the Sheriff was heavily | indebted to the county, both for his 1 taxes and on other accounts, and in the face of these facts they issue to him warrants against the county to l the amount of thousands of dol lars-a defiant violation of the law"
 Now the facts are as follows, at the meeting of the Board of Super