The San Francisco call., 1898-12-23

dreds of dollars, no indictments have been round nor even censure given.
 The report takes up the inheritance tax at length, and the injustice that is done the County Clerks office under the pres ent system of it's collection. The tax un- der the present law is paid directly into the treasury and no credit for 1t is all lowed the County Clerk. The jury recom- mends that the law be so amended that al! inheritance taxes shall be paid first there recorded and passed on finally to the Treasurer. In this way the Clerk will be given full credit and the operation Of the law greatly expedited
 Touching on the Hall of Justice and the lntermlnab!e delays that have character lzed its construction the report says:
 Our attention was called by your Honor to the unwarranted and unnecessary delays in the completion of the Hall of Justice. We beg matter and found all the complaints for unt warranted and unnecessary delay perfectly justified but we were poweriess to act Tor tbe power to grant extension of time rests entirely with the Board of Supervisors who notwith- standing the protests of this Grand Jury,
 The peculations of Peter McGlade and oIl CTS of his ilk the jury attributes to the laxity of the financial plans of the differ ert heads of departments and to the long raclig selson. It suggests that the de- partments arrange a plan between them selves that will make impossible the sue ccSsful working ot such forgeries as those perpetrated Ey McGlade, and that .he Board of SuperN isors abolish all horse racing where betting is done.
 Referring to the inefficiency of the code IT. relation to Grand Jury Investigations the sport says
 The Grand Jury respectfully recommends that the coming Legislature, or the Code Com mission now in session, take up this matter against the municipality by municipal officers es can be be re reached and made punishable through tenn, for as it Is now the Grand Jury Is con demned by the public for failing to do that yTTht tnh iC Yarla tn 1a anxious or how willing. and Is held in mock cry and contempt by those who should fear it such individual cases can be reached just as well by a properly conducted Police Court
 Over its failure to unearth the things that have been done by the Board of Ed ucation the report glides gracefully, avoiding specific statement and dealing only in glittering generalities. In this connection it says:
 Your Honor will note the absence of any specific report from the Committee on the Board of Education and Public Schools. That department, through the untiring energy and fidelity of its chairman, Samuel c Irving. has been so thoroughly investigated and inspected and the results so publicly and generally com, municated to the public, that special report is deemed unnecessary, particularly as 1t would be very lengthy and more guarded than the Grand Jury would like to make it and yet be anywhere near correct or as drastic as it should be.
 The jury's report was read to Judge Belcher by Chairman Hecht, and upon finishing 1t he asked the courts permits sion to adjourn the body and make room for it's successor.
 Judge Belcher gave his permission Tn a gracious speech in which he highly com plimented the individual members of the jury for their faithfulness and hard work He regretted that practically nothing had come out of it's session, but said that he fully appreciated the disadvantages and limitations they had had to combat. How ever, they had done all that they could, and it was his privilege to declare them adjourned.