Arizona republican., 1898-11-27


 has reached about $25, ,000 What the relation Of the expenditures to the re- ceipts will be by the end Of the year is a matter Of conjecture The report says it behcoves grand iuries to take action in this matter that the county may never again be plunged into the necessity Of discoantjng the future. No plan Of relief Is suggested. but thu obvious one is for ihe board to be compelled to keep the county within it's income.
 Attention is again called to the Hberality with which the board has audited claims from various offices. No fault is found with the clerical work of the beard except in one in- stance, the employment Of Robert Wright 10 do some indexing al $75 Q month. It is mentioned in the report that Wright is T brOther-in-laW Of one of the supervisors and school teacher; that the need of his service in the office was happily timed with reference t0 his 5hree months vaca- -ion. The jury inquiries If his ser vice was really required and if the work he performed was not 8 part of the duty Of the board Of supervisors.
 l. was ascertained that the expense of conducting the assessors office fer the year was S1,895 beside the salary of the assessor. 1nese claims had been allowed by the supervisors upon the written opinion cf the district attor- -ney just as the extra claims from his own office had been allowed. The jury recognized difference of conditions between the two offices, since it was manifest that the assessor required as sis,ance. Still inquiry is made if such claims have been provided for by law. v
 The county treasurer's offices comes i1 for praise. It had not only been carefully and excellently managed, but the treasurer had kept the expense of managing it within the salary of g, 200 allowed him by law.
 ROWING REGISTRARS.
 No fault is found with the conduct Of the recorders office. The records so far as the jury had been able to learn were in good condition and the work had been well kept up. There was one thing indirectly connected with the office cut Of joint, but that was the fault of a system and not of registration expenses and the manner os making the registration by the employment of "roTing dep uties" who Icck upon voting from a commercial point of view, reg iStering voters right and left without regard 5o their qualification. A change is recommended: ---at registration Cfh- cers be selected from the precincts in which they are to work and in which they will be supposed to personally know the qualified voters. Such an ar engagement seems to the jury all the ! mere necessary since the law does no5 restrict a voter to any particular pre- cinct He should be brought into con tact with at least one man who knows him to be qualified voter.
 THE CARE OF THE POOR.
 A great GaaI Of space is given to the i county hospital. The jury eulogizes Dr. Hughes the superintendent, and -agards the action Of the board in pur- l chasing and improving the poor farm { IS business like and advantageous to s taxpayers. As to the care of indigents l the hospital, the report finds ( hat there was expended in 1896, 9 53. .942.76; in 1897. $6,180.65, and for s ne first nine months Of 1893, $47089 90 s The jury recommends that the system |. )f pensioning paupers be as nearly as i possible abolished and that whenever c t is practicable they be removed to the t ,ospitaI, where if i~hey cannot be made ,artially self supporting, they may at f east be keEi, at less expense. D
  nd ovcrsoers,'' the jury suggests that ? n arrangement be made by which be- s CT roads may be secured for less s money It recognizes the disadvan- age under which tie county labors in S he lack of funds for good roads, which il varybody favors. On this subject the I natter Of the sPrinliling by the county V f the south end of Central avenue IS o eferred to and on account Of the q hoItage O. money it is recommended u hat the work be discontinued. U
 STRAW BONDS. q, & Ref2rrirg to the inability Of the ounCy 70 colIect from the bondsmen u f F. B. Kirkland, who, acting in the u mcial capacity of clerk Ce the board d f supervisors left he treasury in the Irch, the jury recommends that the pt cliaDihty of official bondsmen be Ia 5oked into carefully in the future tf nd that hey ba put under oath touch n g their qualifications, in such 6 man W CT that they may be proceeded " gainst criminally if they fail of Attention is directed to the practice "