Evening journal., 1899-02-08
ROSSELL' SUGGESTION
In Relation to the Auditing Of
the County Accounts.
REGULATING SALE OF PoIsoNs

BOTKlN CASE--LEvI c. BIRDS
APPEAL FOR THE B. & o.-NilAlr-
rERs BENoRE THE GENERlAl.
ASSEMBLY YESTERDAY.
stan Correspondence Evening Journal
Dover. Feb. 3. - Representative
Burns has received from John $. Ros-
sell letter in which he Gays;
III il will not interfere with your
routine duties. won't you. at your con-
yonience, look over the two bills re-
Gently passed relating to the auditing
Of the county accounts ana advise me
in brief as TO their provisions? You
are so familiar with the work done
by Mr.. Dandy and myself last year
that / am sure you will appreciate our
interest in these bills. You viii re-
member that we were OF one mind as
to the annual period 70 which the au-
dit should be made. ana that we all
agreed 1t should be in jury and not
January in each year IL gne oils do
not provide for the change. and It Is
act too late TO introduce further legis-
ation on the subject, ] would suggest
than an amendatory ACT be passed con-
taining the following provisions: U)
The audit now in progress TO be com
pleted TO the date OF settlement OF ar
counts by the county treasurer and
county comptroller in January, 1899.
l2) I'm June next and in June earh
year thereafter the associate judge OF
the Superior Court to appoint two au-
ditou, as heretofore, the auditors APP
pointed in June, 1899 to carry the audit
down from January TO June 30. 1899 CD
rhe auditors TO prepare under the di-
rection OF the associate Judge sum
maries Of their respective reports and
such summaries 70 be published cncC
each week for three consecutive week.
IN at least two newspapers IN Will
mington and two in rural New Castle;
but the cost OF publication IN each pa,
per not to exceed an amount 20 b.
named in the bill. t4) In each year
beginning with the year 1900, the audi
made to include all fiscal transaction
for the year ending June 30. ] ofle
the above merely as suggestions AM
! only because, from my experienc
with the county accounts, I believe IN
changes proposed would enable the OF
= fcials and taxpayers to more readil.
|. understand the true financial condition
, Of the county each year"
POISON SALE REGULATIONS.
Representative Shal3croes will intro
duce the following bin TO guar
against the sale Of poison 20 person
q with criminal intent, and was draw
5. as an outgrowth OF the Bctkln case:
Section 1. That section o
B chapter SO, volume is, laws OF Della
Z, ware, be and the same is hereb
d amended by inserting in said section
between the words corrosive sub
Innate and the words said record Il
; line two OF eaid section the words o
; other deadly poison also ny insertin
1 In said section between the word
legal inspection and the words AN
" person the Following:
d Every person purchasing any Of tn
e aforesaid deadly poisons shall enter
i his or her own proper handwriting 9
s his or her mark, properly witnesses
upon the record OF any dispenser (
p drugs from whom he or she shall par
Is chase any Of the aforesaid deadly 20
n sons, his or her name, the date OF sut
n purchase, the amount OF poison !
purchased, for what purpose It is pu
It chased, and his or her residence
le FISHER CASE RECALLED.
ig Senator Blakely will introduce
bin to amend section Z Of chapter 70
le Revised Code. II is to cover sueh cas-
ne as that of the colored man Fisher, WI
was convicted OF breaking tnto
4 house in Wilmington with intent
he commit rape and recommended 10 Z
mercy of the court, which mad no O
ty ton but to sentence him TO death.
ar was afterwards saved from the GALLO
IS by the Beard of Pardons. This bill
r. amends the law that the penalty
I'm breaking into house IN the mig
yer time, with intent TO commit murd
is rape or arson, shall not be capital
lst fense, but that the maximum pena
IN Shall be forty lashes and twe1
on years Imprisonment.
lar ST. GEORGES ROAD TAX.
use Representative Shallcross introdu'
the his bill authorizing, directing and
the Qu.ring the county treasurer Of \
on Castle county to pay 10 the town &C
,tal missioners CT Afiddletown, instead OF
art- the road commissioners or 81. Geor
'ers hundred, the money required by
)tal to be expended in repairing and ma
BIZ tanning in proper order the ro'
sex streets and bridges within the lin
4 the town. He a,su introduced
act in relation to the examinaf