Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-10-24
WHERE ARE Their BONDS 2

Law Says the City Treasurer Should Hold
the oihcial Bonds OF Street and Sewer
Commissioners, Hut He Has Them Not.
Where are the bonds of the Street
ana sewer Directors, namely Of A. IS.
Webster, James y. Garter and Patrick
FaheyY
The law says they should be in the
possession of the city treasurer.
The oity treasurer says he has not
got them.
The law on the subject is as follows /:
Each OF the directors of said Street
and Sewer Department shall, i'm.
mediately after organization, enter into
q bond with suieties to the Mayor and
Council of Wilmington the sum of
$50, 600. said sureties to be approved of
by the City Judge, the condition of
which bond shall be as follows, viz, !;
The condition OF this obligation ia suoh
that VI the above bounden ------ one
of the directors of the Street and Sewer
Department, shall in all things comply
with the provisions of this act, and
shall faithfully execute the trust con
fded In him, then the above obligation
to be void, otherwise to remain 10 full
force and virtue. To the said bond
there shall be subioined warrant Of
attorney tc confess Judgment thereon,
and the said bond and warrant shall ne
filed In the Office OF the city treasurer,
there to remain until 10 the judgment
OF the City Judge the interest OF the
city demands that it be entered in the
Superior Court OF the State of Della
ware in and for New Castle county,
This law is found on page l4S of
Charter, Laws and Ordinances Of Will
mingtoD.
When Messrs Fahey and Carter were
asked about ths subject, they expressed
the opinion that they were 10 the city
treasurer's possession. But City Treas
urer Seth II. Feaster says that he never
saw them. Director Webster thought
they were on tils with the Street and
Sewer Department., but Secretary
Harvey j., Wiley did not Think they
were.
The failure to locate the bonds at
this time 10 subject OF interest TO
persons concerned with the increment
for reform.
The official bonds OF the Street and
Sewer Directors had not been located no
TO last night, SO far as City Treasurer
Seth II. Feaster, the legal custodian,
had been abe TO learn. He had ex.
AHMED the box at the Union National
Bank, where the city bonds are kept,
but did not find them there, or any
traces OF them. He found the bonds of
some Of the rredece' sors of the present
directors, including that Of ex-Dirsctor
William Simmons, 1t has been Inti-
mated that If the bonds are not located
soon. or. accounted for. the Citizens
A Association may take legal steps to
have them placed where they belong,
10 the custody OF the city treasurer.
The aggregate amount Is $40, 600. being
$50, 000 each.
1t oould not be asoertained yesterday
who is responsible for the bonds not
being in their proper place, neither
could anybody who was seen In regard
to the matter tell where auy Of them
were. Former City Treasurer Hamann
says he never saw them, neither does he
know anything about them as city
clerk which position he now holds
City Judge Philip @. Churohmnii, who
approve Director Fahey's bond, said
yesterday that when the bond was
first presented to him IL was not in
proper legal shape and he returned It to
Mr.. Fahey for correction. The bond
was thsn correctly drawn up by Horace
@. Knowles, Mr., Fahey 's attorney, and
the Judge says that after no approved it
&c was geturned to Mr.. Knowles with
instruotione 10 deposit it with the city
treasurer.
Former Judge J. Frank Ball who was
Judge when the bonds Ut Directors
Webster and {Carter were approved
saia remember approving the
bonds. My way was, when they were
presented was to 60 over them, and If |
they were satisfactory mark them az
proved and return them to the men |
who presented them. feel confident |
that after approved of the bonds OF |
Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Carter handed |
hem hack 10 them with the remark |
that they should give them to the city
treasurer as custodian. | know that I |
have not got them and feel sure that if
the directions | gave after approving
The bonds were followed they would
now be in the Office OF the city
treasurer. -
1t is understood that Mr.. Carter's
bond was placed by Mayor McLesr in
he possession of Clerk of Council Nor
'isson, and that it was in the Councils
'afs when Mr.. Morrison retired from
,tiice.
Should the bonds not be found, IL is
ned that 1t ould still be possible to
'to under them, by proving that they
lad been in existence and for what
period they covered.