Mohave County miner., 1896-01-25

says that in counties of the 4th, 9th and 6,h class the salaries shall be in iuil for all services.
 A man with "pull" is a dangerous thing and our county recorder seems to have a lead pipe cinch. Carefully ex. anime the bill of George D. Bernard X Co.,, rendered Mir. Cowso, and observe the. possibilities of a big, fat, juicy "rakeoff" Take the hook of deeds, mortgages and milcellaneous record and we will certify that this same publisher furnished them to us at l8s per volume, with 20 per cent off, making the price 10 us IA 40$. You will observe that these duplicates are put in at 23 35s. What nice fat commission 8.85$ is on 23 35$ book! Follow us on through the bll. The cstalog price of tteel, isory handled office knives, such as was furnished to Cowan, is 19 eos per dozen, with 50 per cent off. This would leave the net price to the purchaser of one half
 
 made for this # dozen is l3. .iO$. Again the catslog price of the knife blade eras. CT, as furnished, is from 9s to l5$, with the usual 50 per cent off. This eraser is charged for at IS 75s per dozen. Given the benefit of the highest list price of 15s, with the discount off and the neat sun of II 25s net profits results So on down through the whole list. Pens that cost 76 cents net are charged for at 55S That little bill of George D. Bernard & Go. of l8i 8Jb represents net conmis sion of 92 4oS. Did Mr Cowan get thi. com mission? If hs didn't, who did ? Was it lost bet ween the B .rn4rd Com. piOy and the county? Or did it steal away and lose itself in the trackless waste of Arizona? Dsr reader you can draw your own conclusion as easily as our recorder draws his salary.
 Again, there is another little mater to which the attention of the public should be drawn, and that is the little m alter of 5O$ that the supervisors draw from the treaslry's depth, at e4ch quarterly meeting and hind over to it's clerk for "contingent" expenses. Wht become, of these numerous 50, and where the board obtains it's auslority br ths de pIetins act are questions in the solution of which We confess we are up a stump
 Paragraph 427 of Arizona's revised statutes makes it the duty of the re- corder to file with the board of super. visors at each quarterly meeting a cer. tlicste of ali fees collected by him dur. ing the quarter and upon failure to do 90 the hoard shall immediately remove him from offics. No such report has euer been filed.
 As the recorder and clerk of the board of supervisors is presided over by the same gentleman we might just as we'll dissect this off 8 righ. now. The record of the board, as kept, is one of the lam. est excuses for record of the proceed. ings of a body corporate it has ever been our lot to gaze upon. The chirography is excellent, but there the excellence stops ss suddenly as John Kolar's horse. Instead of the carefully prepared record no part of the work done by the board at their meetings, except the formal al. lowance of bills and few minor details, goes in. A citizen goes before the board to urge proposition and no mention is made of It i; communications are received but are cast into eternal oblivion by the clerk. Many ot the important records of the board gre tastefully arranged in a miscellaneous heap in an old beer ,rrel in the vault, while others nestle Tn dusty boxes and unkept pigeon holes. Every. thing bespeaks lack ot order, knowledge and system. We are not the only one that has observed the loose and careless way m which the record of the board is | kept; even mem bers of the board have used their choicest language m describ Ing 1t to their friends on the street, but they lacked the back o,ne to m .ke their | clerk do his work properly. With the above exposition of the recorder and | clerk of the board we leave him to the | tender mercies of the taxpayers and the public generally.
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 Editorial courtesy prevents us from dipping deep into the bills presented by Kesn St Charles to the board of super visors, and allowed by them without a