The St. Johns herald., 1886-04-22
That Bond.

' so at Holbrook, that the Board of Supervisors at their late session demanded of Dionicio Baca, the County Treasurer, an additional bond and security in the sum of $100,OO0, and that said exorbitant demand was the outcropping and prompting of petty tyranny, seek ing to accomplish personal and selfish ends. This unsubstantiated f gossip is both ungenerous and un- just to the Board, who after an un- usually long and laborious session have given full report of their proceedings to the press, so that having rendered an account of their stewardship to the people, they might and should be judged by their works.
 We propose to give the unvar- nished facts to the people and allow them, as the supreme tribunal to decide the issue. Under existing complications, and in view of the fact that suit has been instituted upon the bond of the present in- cumbent of the Treasurer's office, the District Attorney deemed it ad- visable in the Interest of the coun- ty to demand a new and additional bond in the sum of $50,000, and the Board of Supervisors thinking the amount excessive and dispro- portionate to the amount of money to be lodged in the hands of the Treasurer, before next collection of taxes, suggested that the obliga- tions of the bond be reduced to $35, ,000. A compromise was final ly effected at the suggestion of Dionicio Baca, and a bond ac- cepted and approved in the sum of $32, 200, and an order entered upon the minutes that Dionicio Baca, Treasurer of Apache county, give and execute an additional bond in the sum of $10,000, on or before the third Monday in August, 1886, at which time the tax roll of the present year will be delivered to the Treasurer for collection.
 There will not be in the treasury, at any one time before the third Monday in August next, sum ex- ceeding $3,000, and there is only about $1 800 to the credit of the county at the present time, there fore the bond given is abundantly ample to cover any liability which the treasurer can possibly incur. The action of the Board was con- servative throughout, and governed entirely by the advice of the Dis trict Attorney-its legally consti- tuted adviser.
 We are loath to believe there is a citizen in Apache county who does not sympathize with MT. Baca in the unavoidable misfortune which has befallen him, and we cannot think he has a neighbor who would hesitate to extend a helping hand, or a kindly word, wherever it could be done consis- tent with sense of duty.
 The Board showed a disposition to meet every exigency in a spirit of conservatism, and only exacted a compliance with the counsel of their duly authorized legal adviser, and the plain terms of the lex scripta.
 We believe the citizens of Apache county know the members of the Board of Supervisors too we'll to lend a willing ear to the prattling tattle of irresponsible newsmon- gers, who either belong to a class of reckless mischief makers, or have a personal purpose to subserve. It would profit these fault finders to learn in a sgirit of Christian phi losophy, that there are some men, who may not have the gift of ex- alting mortals to the skies, yet are wanting in that meaner quality which would drag the angels down.