Milford chronicle., 1888-01-27
Paying Bins.

Causey and New Castles clerk of the peac
Z. R. Cochran, Mr.. Causey was present
response to the summons from the commi
tee, but Mr. Cochran was represented b
Deputy Clerk A. Z. Osborne Secretary {
State Salisbury presented the state book a
avoucher that Mr.. causey had expressed tn
licenses in dispute to Clerk Cochran o
November II. November IS, December 4 an
December II, 1886. There were i
: all $50 blanks, the value of whic
when issued would amount to about s., ooc
Mr. Causey produced express receipts show
ing that the varieus packages were shippe'
on the days named and this, of course, was
full presentation Of his side of the con
troversy.
Mr. Osborne stated that there was no trace
Of these licenses having reached the office il
Wilmington. But a significant fact in thii
connection is that the auditor Of accounts
stated that he had been accounted to for on,
Of the packages-marriage licenses shipped
on December IS, 1886 Mr. Osborne
acknowledged that package came to hand
l
have reached the Office and been mislaid.
Nfr Allaband moved that Mr.. Cochran be
directed to inquire at the express Office in
Wilmington and procure certificate from
the company as to whether they had or had
not delivered the packages in question to his
office, the certificate to be returned to the
committee tomorrow. He felt that the
committee should go to the bottom of this
matter as certain responsibility rested
upon them in this case, and he for one wan
ted the affair settled on square basis.
DR.. Lewis wanted to know, in case the re-
ceipts were found, how much nearer they
would be to clearing up the matter.
Mr. Allaband -"we will be that much
nearer, at any rate"
The resolution was then adopted and BIr.
Osborne was directed TO procure the GER
tihcate from the express company. This
he guaranteed to do aud expects to have it
before tie committee the next morning
The subject was then held over until the
next day. The committee adjourned at
I2I5 for dinner
Upon reassembling the state treasurer's
report was taken up. Mr.. Herbert made a
statement at the outset that S3,748.S5 of
he total lie had received from tile outgoing
reasurer was not credited to any fund, so
hat he had placed it in the general fund. |
William II. Boyce, a son of the state audi |
Or explained this by showing that the retir- |
ng state officers were settled with sometime
'efore their SUCCESSORS had been selected
nd in the interim, of course, moneys were
objected which were never audited, and
here was naturally always a sum gathered
p III this way from sources not given. He
that the law whould be so
mended that the accounts Of retiring
hcers should be audited when their sue
essors received those accounts.
State Treasurer Herbert presented his
ouchers for moneys paid out.
The examination of the vouchers, all of
hich were found correct to a cent, occupied
YER an hour before the school fund was
ached.
There had been great deal Of talk on
is subject, in respect TO the distributing of
e school fund, especially among anti-ad- I
and it was openly said that
e Biggs administration would get d setback
hen the State treasurer came to explain. q,
Dr. Lewis started the ball by asking for :
formation. He said that there were u
any who could not understand the falling Il
in the amounts given to certain dis 4
cts as compared with last year. -
Mr. Herbert took the floor and held it -,
til lie had explained his position, He =
read great deal about mistakes in :,
tribution. He had seen a good deal Of :.
onymous correspondence in reference to y
too for which he cared very little. If 8,
had made a mistake in any particular n
trict, why were those interested not r,
My enough to come up and point it out?
had distributed the fund as close to the =.
al directions as he could interpret those =,
,ctions coupled with all tile information =,
could CLEAN from the school superintend :.
S He had been called upon by school =.
riots for their allowance, when his books =.
his schedule contained no such districts :,
he had no means Of knowing that they -
r existed Mr. HerbeIt's son explained =,
districts were consolidated and dissolved
he last session ofthe Legislature, ofwhich
= had not been officially notified, and
takes occurred in this way. He himself
clerical error, had made mistake of
90 in the distribution, as that amount =,
e should have been distributed than =,
last year, but it would be remedied this 90
ie examination of the State Treasurer's vi
IT was continued Thursday morning ~
The prosecution Of a number bills by Mr..
bert interrupted the regular order. las
sc bills were for books purchased by the
uperintendeuts of Free Schools and left
nd by them when they retired from Al
= Though urged to pay them by the DUO
iperintendents, Mr.. Herbert doubted o"e
ropriety Of his doing so without I.egis- Pie'
authority. As there had been re- nleI
made, however, he submitted them TO rem
committee for their inspection and oec'
on. The bills, some ofwhich date back as e
lrch, 1886, were as follows, with the II
annexed Befo
, Potts & Co., Philadelphia. bought tors
January / to March 81 1887, in. poin
I've. IS $50 "a equi
Butler Co.. Philadephia.......... So 81 The
irthwaite & Co., Phiia., Bought uor,.
Sept 1, 1886, to Feb s,lss7 $40 81 len,
iarnes s Co., Phila., bought from o.
%, 1886, to March ,, 1887. sss 4 a, =
o s. Co., N, T., Sept. IS, 1856. -. us % % -
q Coates, Phia., March 1, 1856, war
arch 2 1887. 87........................f f.oJ7 60
Bros. New York, Jan. 81 to Tot,
'''''''''''' '-'''''-..'''..-.l,l4 Is Schi
=, -- 5.JOO
I'...'','''','' ''.. .......-...S6.7SO IS $50
there has been considerable talk ON $50
hool book subject and the people are $50
ted we should like to have all the ia 81
connected with it remarked one of per
mmittee, and from state Treasurer o. sn.
uditor combined the following was s,4 :
$50 J
Treasurer Herbert has received from school