Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-10-25
AGAIN. MIR, BRADY.

take this excerpt:
 Section l5, paragraph 1171, page 19O of the compiled laws of 1877, provides that prison commissioners shall receive S5 per day for attendance at meetings of the board, and further reads: Provided that if any of said commissioner or commissioners shall receive a salary of $500 per annum and mileage as allowed by Jaw ito sheriffs in civil cases, in lieu of such per diem. *"
 Section g, paragraph 1872, ch apter title 2S-fees and salaries-page 347, re- vised statutes of Arizona, 1887, reads as follows, under the head of "Shsriffs" For travelling in the service of any civil process sheriffs and constables shall re- ceive 30ssss or each mile actually and necessarily travelled, to be charged but one way only.
 This law took effect January l, 1890.
 On the first day of April, 1889, George H. Stevens, Peter R. Brady and Thomas Halleck met as a Board of Prison Con- missioners in Yuma Voucher No. Is, in favor of George H. Stevens. was issued for S2Sl, composed as follows: Salary as commissioner, S125; mileage, s1J6. Voucher No. 19, to Peter R. Brady, for s2l5, composed of sl25 for salary and S90 for mileage. Voucher No. 20, to Thomas Halleck, for S241OS, composed of Sl3.SS for salary aud S227.2O mileage.
 according to the amounts allowed by these men to themselves for mileage Mir. Brady had to travel 300 miles te reach Yuma; Stevens 520 miles, and Hal leck 75715 miles. As matter of fact Mir. Brady's home is at Florence and from that city to Casa Grande, by the regularly. travelled stage road, twenty eight miles. From Casa Grade to Yuma, by the Southern Pecifc Rail road, is lS2 miles, so that the gentleman actually travelled 210 miles and the con- pensatien which he had a right to col lect was 663. Instead of that he voted with his conferess to allow himself S9O, nearly one-third of which he had no right to.
 George H. Stevens lived at Solomon vile, from which point to Bowie Station, the nearest practical railroad station. is thirty-two miles. From Bowie Station to Yuma is 35S miles, making a total distance travelled of 390 miles, yet MT. Stevens is allowed compensation for 52O miles, thus robbing the territory of S39 for him at every meeting of the board.
 Thomas Halleck, from hIs home at Kingman by the shortest practical iouOO; "hiCi lS GHS Oue GHe laW pre- scribes the mileage shall be based upon. would travel 475 miles, while even if he went around by way of San Bernardino and Colton, California, he would travel but 504 miles, yet he was allowed com pensation for 757l5 miles. direct steal from the territory of 15315 miles, or s46. AS matter Of fact Mir. Halleck was in Phenix attending the legislature just proceeding thIs meeting of the board and only travelled from this city a dis tance of 193 miles.
 At the time these unlawful and fraud ulent claims were allowed c. Meyer Zu- lick was Governor of Arizona and he ap- proved the warrants drawn on the ter ritorial treasury. He did not examine them to see if they were correct, but knowing that the board was of his own creation ''stoodIin" on everything it did"
 The Arizona Enterprise, MT. Brady's home paper, published at Florence, sought to excuse the above action by stating that new law had been passed, covering the amount for mileage, which MT. Brady did not know of" that the commissioners fingered" the distance by more circuitous route; that only a DOT tion of the sum charged as over paid was really in excess; and that Mir. Brady stood reads to cover the surplus back into the treasury. ITO this latter suggestion we don't suppose there will be any vigorous objection.l
 Appropo this question the CITIZEN desires to submit a few figures not vet made public with the hope that MT. Bradysmay be persuaded to cover some other discrepancies back into the public vault
 Amongst the amounts disbursed by United States Marshal w. K. Meade
 For the support of the United States plsoners confined in the Territorial prison at Yuma from June 22nd, t1Ss8 to Sept. 30th inclusive are the following:
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