The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29
AGHT IN HIS OWN OFFICE
NEARBY STANDS FOR vIoJA
TION OF THE CHARTER
DAILY
FEES SHOULD BE REPORTED
But There Is Revenue which
Never Finds It's Way Into
the City Treas
ury.

The regard which Comptroller McCardy
has for the charter requirements Is per-
haps as we'll shown in the following in
stance as many of the others to which
the attention Of the public has boen call
ed:
During the course of a year a largo
number of deeds are issued from the city
comptroller's Office on assessment GER
tificates. The fee charged by the comp
troller for the preparing Of such deeds ls
81, which is always paid before the deed
is delivered.
Section I, Of chapter 20, of the charter
of the city, provides that the city clerk,
city treasurer and city comptroller be
and are each required to keep a proper
record bood. entitled salary and fee rec
ord, which must show at all times the
daily money receipts from all fees"
Section 3 provides that the city officers
shall each make monthly reports to the
mayor and common council, which re-
port shall be a transcript Of the records
and must show the money receipts from
salaries and fees and all sources what
ever. All reports as are required by this
act to be made by city officers shall be
filed in the Office of the city clerk quar-
terly."
Section provides that each of the Off
GERS named In section shall keep full
and regular books of account subject at
all times to the examination of the city
council or any committees thereof, Of all
sums collected by him on account of OIL
cial fees, rewards, or percentage penal
ties, allowances and all other perquisitez
of whatever kind and said books OF ac-
counts shall be a part of the records OF
their respective Offices and belong to tbs
city OF st. Paul and be delivered to their
successors in Office"
Section provides leach of said officers
named in section Of this act shall at
the end of each and every quarter Of his
official term account for to said city of
St. Paul and pay to the treasurer there
of, for the use of said city Of St. Paul,
all the fees, COSTS rewards, percentages,
allowances and perquisites of every sort
collected or received by him during said
quarter"
Section provides that '1n case any Of
ficer named In sections 1 and Of this
act shall fail to pay into the treasury of
said city of ST. Paul, to the treasurer
thereof, any money due or owing from
him to the city of St. Paul, under this
act, for the period of thirty days, he
shall upon conviction thereof, upon In
dictrnent or information in the district
court, be adjudged guilty of misconduct
in office and shall be Immediately re-
moved therefrom and shall be sentenced
to pay fine of not less than $500 nor
more than 2.000 for each offense."
Although the law provides that all fees
collected shall be paid into the city
treasury the record of receipts as report
ed by the city treasurer for the past
eight years do not show that the comp
troller has paid into the treasury sin
gle dollar of the money collected by him
from persons who have received deeds
from the city This is another case Of
where the charter is held by the comp
troller to apply to each of the several
departments and city officials, but not
to himself or his Office staff.