The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1891-12-10
REPORTS.
The Commissioners Report.
Tae Report Of The Examining
Committee.

paper the Report OF the Commls-
sioners This report interests the
Tax payers.
The intelligent reading public
will find an original puzzle in the
report of the Examining Commit
F., tee. Law, lack of information,
false syntax, wrong spelling and
nonsense are fred upon the reader
with a scatter1nent like shot from
Col. Weldy's Remington on the
side of barn.
We shall not attempt to follow
! the lawyers in double tracking the
law, but confine our s'efforts" to
unraveling the paradoxes of nom
sense, false syntaN, bad spelling
and unauthorized words.
In the second paragraph eve
find vouchers as required by Law
! for all money paid out &c"
Now in paragraph we are told,
referring to Infrmary affairs, that
money has been paid out without the
proper voucher. This is nonsense.
If AL money paid out was upon a
proper voucher why say the Infirm-
airy vouchers were notaccording to
Law? or say the Law has been
violated.
In the srd paragraph the positive
declaration is made s'The Report is
extravagantly long" In the clos
ing paragraph we find this, awe
commend the Auditor for his pion-
eer effort to curtail its eXtravagant
details The intention is evident
ly to compliment the Auditor. We
construct" this meaning of the
words, and we most heartily concur
with the public in approving the
services of AIR. Armstrong. But to
tell him the Report he writes is
''extravagantly long"and then COM
mends him for his ''effort''- an
effort and not for an accomplish
ment, That is more nonsense.
The Committee show quite q f.
nancial acquaintance with Hamilton
county but exhibit no knowledge
of the statutes governing cities of
the first class.
The question is asked why the
difference in cost of publication,
and then we have the learned an
swer. s'The answer must be in the
construction of the meaning Of the
words ''detailed reports" ''The CON
st7uctiom of the meaning of words"
is a new one on us. We refer it to
the pupils in primary departments.
1t is also to be inferred from the
reference to the publication of
Hamilton and Hooking counties
but one and the ''same" Report,
and not different Reports are pub
lished.
The Committee investigate
Tabular % There is not a mem.
Der of the commit ittee who knows
the meaning of the word, as used
in printing. Neither do they know
that the law requires file of all
papers published in the county to
be kept in the Commissioners Office
and made part of the official rec
ord of the county. 1t would be a
joke, and the only funny part of
the report, to aflix to printers bill
a copy Of the newspaper. But we
must make a s'pioneer effort to
control farther extravagant details,
adding only that the Committee
should, when writing great paper,
observe the accepted rules of gram
mar and spelling.
The Committee use with old
time familiarity, "Itemised" "Item-
ized," a word not found in any
English dictionary. Of course,
being "pioneer" word its spelling
has not been definitely agreed upon
by it's authors. This, only of many
sentences we could point out, we
submit to the parsing class in Ath-
ems Asylum. ''The Report has
marks of curtailing and scrutiny
and an economical curtailing of the
expenses and improvements within
the needs and progressive ideas of
our people. "Parse nouns, verbs, ad-
verbs, partlciples.
The construction of the mean
ing" of the sentence is notrequestd,
not even by the examining commit
tee. Wewill state for the informa-
ton of the Investigators that the
sour engagements in ex-
aiming this report is misleading.
The Committee had no Engage
not even an e,, gagement.
From Our European Edition.
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