The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-02

missioner would ever dream of such
He prefers waiting till day whe1
the board is not in session that he
may reduce his seventy days, and, al
so, an important item, may make
come additional mileage by the in
spection. Men view the same thing
through different eyes. But we are
firmly convinced in our own minds
that Commissioner who, when there
is additional work to be done, thai
| could be done tho same day. yet vii
stop al a two or three hours work
J and then the next or some subse
quent DAY do this work that coulc
have easily been done in former
days work, is unfit to hold so impor.
tant position.
TREASURER AND AUDITOR.
We found the Auditors Office
without copies Of Abstracts and
Settlement Sheets prior to fiscal year
1855, and We had to obtain certi-
fed copies of same from the Comp,
troller-General's Office. The certified
copies we have fled in the Auditors
Office where we hope they will be pre-.
served as records of that Office. The
Abstract and Settlement Sheet fol-
1928 do not agree, differing by
$126,675 in property, and s152o.10 in
taxes After long and patient research
we believe this to have been the Rail
road tax for that year. No record OF
this Railroad tax was made on the
Abstract, or Additional Abstract, or
the Duplicates.
The books of the Treasurer are
neatly and carefully kept, and in a
business-like way. We examined and
compared, very carefully, for the five
years DR.. Il. H. Huggins has been
Treasurer, all the settlement sheets,
abstracts, Treasurer's books and
vouchers, and found but two errors,
one of which was in favor of the
Treasurer, a voucher for $3.0S, for
which he had taken no credit; aud
one, charge against the school fund
for 1854, for which the Treasurer
had no voucher. The error of 1854
was found in the settlement sheet
made May II, 1885, for the fiscal
year lS79-S0. The Treasurer readily
acknowledged the error when his at
tention was called to the fact, and
upon our order paid it in the recent
settlement made with Auditor D. j.
Bradham. Had ex-Auditor Scott
given proper attention to counting the
vouchers, this error could not have
occurred.
We found, as stated in the Grand
Jury presentment of October, 1887,
that the Treasurer had collected $9.SS
as additional taxes in Dec, 1886, for
fiscal year 1885 IS, from O. F. Good
win, and had not accounted for same.
Upon our order he accounted for
same in his last settlement. Mr.. F.
P. Cooper also paid an additional the
same year Oec. 1885, for one Nelson
Prince, which was not duly and prop
erly accounted for. It was subsequent
IL accounted for. Had Auditor Scott
given proper attention to his duty,
by Immediately entering these addi-
tionals on his duplicate, these errors
could not have crept in.
These were the only monetary er-
rors We found against Treasurer Hug
gins. The Grand Jury of 1887 was
mistaken in reference to the A. G.
Butler matter. That tax was all en-
tered properly on the duplicates.
Owing to failure to find any re-
cord of additionals, orr work was, of
course, unsatisfactory, So we could on
ly take it for granted that the Treas
urers have accounted in full for the
"additionals" collected. For this res-
son it is impossible for US to arzive at
any conclusion with reference to the
thirty-eight names ($62.O8) brought to
the attention OF the public by the
preseptment of the Grand Jury of
1887. The Treasurer and ex-Auditor
J. E. Scott both swear that they be-
lieve this list was included in the list
of additionals regularly accounted for
in the settlement made September,
1886. There are no records prior to
fiscal year 1855 Of any additionals,
other than the aggregate as given in
the abstracts and settlement sheets.
With no record Of course there can
be no satisfactory report.
The following table will show the
amount of additional taxes for the
eleven fiscal years beginning Nov. l,
1876:
FISCAL PsoPERTr POLL TOTAL AD.
YEAR TAX. TAX. co. TAX.
1876 s16.18 5 l4O0 5 30.1S
1877 266.S3 $500 955. .83
1878 314.48 2O100 515.48
1879 1926 26400 5S6.96
1880 229e 35l.OO 1886
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