Mohave County miner., 1896-02-01
The WhUore of the Why.


 the stars and that the men who hold the off @ should be good hnsineIs men is an acknowledged fact. Another tact must be sckno xledsed and that is that ui board of supervisors, as at present con stiruted, lack all of the qualifications of business men. .... ..f. Now, to begin with. In our last issue we clearly showed that there was nice fat commissions for the clerk of the board in stationery and other orders and that those small "oets" were not over looked. The law in regsd to the matter reads something like this:
 Paragraph '9S (sec. ls) The super visors must contract for
 Frs, All county printing.
 Second. All books and stationery.
 Third. All supplies for county insii unions and all contracts must be let to the lowest bidder.
 Such contract was let last year. but the contractor didn't get a smell at the 
 fat rake eff, because there wasn't enough to 20 around we suppose.
 This is ihe reason no contract was le' this year for these supplies.
 An election will be held this year and great deal of stationery will have to be purchased and enough commission can be on,sined to pay the greater part Of the campaign expenses should the clerk se, fr to sacrifice himself on his coun' trs's alter for another term.
 Does the clerk make the reports re. qrired of him by law? Not much he don't. He may know how, bnt he does not propose to air his knowledge before N vulgar public. One of the laws that las been persistenily ignored reads as fol. lows:
 Paragraph 45l. tSsc. ID The clerk of the board of supervisors shall on the lasf husiness day of each year file with the chairman of the hoard a statement showing in detail each allowance made by tbe board of supervisors during tha, year Snch statement must show in a segregated form the particular kind oi service rendered or material furnished the account thereof and amount thereof audited and allowed together with the character and amount of all other sc counts for whatever purpose sndited and allowed nv the board. and a detailed sc' count of each item of elp'Ds' audited and allowed by the hoard Such statement shsll oe published in a newspaper o general circulation in the county and shall also he entered on the minutes o the board st their annual January meeting
 OIr readers can now zee fully why the board and clerk refused to carry ont tho provisions of this act. The taxpayer might find ont soma Of the extravaganza, of the board and ihe peculations, if any that had been msde. How plain il Is Look at ihe iens, as published las wrek, and see the bills of the super visors N)te the pscui ttions therein Would such state of affairs he placer before the public eye did we not publisl the itemized accounts? Oi course VI are accused of seIf-h motives in the pub lication of matters pertaining to th board, but, we caDdidly ask, does tn motive remove one iots of truth; does mitigate the crime? For our part W disclaim any motive of sel6,hness. Fo the past eighteen months people wh have had dealings with the board of sr perVisors have been grum bling over th loose manner of doing business and tn ineffi;iency of the clerk. Last O;tobei when the bill of l. O Cowan, for th Birns'd Company. put in his bill ever business man in kIngmsn, and man who were not business men, proteste 10 us against allowing such 6 thing to 2 unnoticed. Owing to the fact that V were not in position at the tune commence the publication of our six pas edition we let the matter go for son time.
 Nv, we would ask: What becomes the 50s allowed the clerk quarterly? Wh does The board allow him the 50s? Wi do they allow hI... 50S for making d. plicaie assess Dent roll when he draws salary covering it? Why don't they a low the treasurer 50s for making deli quent assessment roll, if they wish to consistent. There is no jewel, exec MT. Cowsn, in this consistency.
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