Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1888-01-14
GRAND JURY REPORT.

frict Judge Of the State Of Nevada, IN
"ad for The County of Elko:
We your Grand Jury, assembled on
the 3.u my oI January, 1885, have
comrl ted our letors and beg leave to
report as follows:
There nave Ueen presented for our
consideration, four az cnses for As.
,,ault with iut.nt to XII. Two OF them
wa have ignored and presented You
with true Bills for each of the others.
We have presented you with Seven
~ Bills for Killing, Ste"l ng, Remark
ing, and Ke-braudIng cattle, resisting
an Officer and conspiracy to defruud
LIT c",tenen i'll the vicinity Of the par
ties Named in the Indictments.
We have examined the books and
lmpers Of the different County Officers
and have discovered NO errors, with the
exceptions named bel Nv.
The books of the County Clerk we
find in IN unsatisfactory condition.
Will it Is clear to us that there was no
tut ntion on the part OF the incumbent
10 do nny wrong net, se fear there are
more errors made that might not only
cause the County much expense, but
cauIe loss to the Bonllsmen of that
officer. We have spent some time on
the books, but we do not feel compe-
I mt to detect all the errors, even if W.
had the time AMI think it the dnty of
the proper officers to ORDER AN I'M
MEDIATE examination of them and to
make them correct. These errors were
many of them caused Tin our Judge
inent) by the lack of knowledge us to
the duties of the Office ard negligence
in attending to the duties thereof.
There have been three complaints
made in regard to the office of County
Supt. of Public Instru" ton, and had
they not been righteI, woull have been
deemed sufficient to have wnrrnnte On
Indictment against the present incum-
o,nt. We woull suggest to the incum-
hent, that it would not be we'll for the
or :ors to occur again.
We found in the Auditors office, two
lis which had been allowed by the
commissioners and paid by the Trea,-
r.. for fees for bounty on srnlps
these were clearly pnid contrary to
Inv, but we think they occurred
through Misrepresentation Us to the *
act wording Of the Act of the Legisa-
ture. We refer to the bills of l.. L.
Morgan and jus P. Murphy.
Our attention had been ca lei to the
fact that the different Ju site y of the
Pence throughout the county with per
hnps two exceptions) have fnilrd to
make the proper report of fees collected
in their respective Offices, to the b nrd
"f county missioners. This ia
clearly contrary to he Statutes and if
I'ot promptly complied with. shonll re.
ceive serious attention. Thi, Act re-
ferring to the report of fees Of different
Offices seems to he cnrried out very
cHrrlesSly in some instances, the in.
cumbents seem t" think so long as they
report, or receive the amounts, they
have done / that is required, but the
Law is very plain that it shall bc sent
to tho b ,Nrd Of Co nmissioners FULLY
1T EMIZED.
We nave as a whole body, visited t. @
II '.ptnl, Jnil aud Conrt House md
'.ud every h ,g IN Moe AMI orderly N it
could be. We desire particul ulr, to
q I'M .liment those in charge of the los
pitnl. and We think it shonll always be
kept i'll the neat and orderly condition
that IL now IL. The outside needs
Ia nting and the found ,tiol come TT
pairing.
Respectfully Submitted,
w. T. SMITH,
NJ a.