The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-03
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ALLEGED SHORTAGE
OF OLD POOR BOARD

will Be an Interesting Topic at the
Next Meeting :. Solicitor Butler
Will Advise What Course to Fol
low-New Bill Fixing Compensa-
tion Of Directors and Auditors.
The Carbondale poor board, the de-
liberations of which have furnished
so much interesting reading. promises
decidedly interesting developments at
its next meeting on Friday evening,
May 10.
At the meeting of the board. held on
Friday. April &c. the question of conf
mencing criminal proceedings against
the members of the old board for the
allie ged shortages in their accounts as
found by the auditors, was given over
to Attorney II, c. Butler the boards
solicitor, for advice as to what action
would be justified to recover this wide
ly discussed Indebtedness of the old
members of this body. The matter
was brought up by Mr.. McCabe, who
expressed himself as being in favor Of
prosecuting the old board. even If it
was necessary to spend as much
money as the alleged shortages
amounted u III oIutT u bllIS tbouL
the purpose aimed at
Mr.. McCabe has warm supporters in
Secretary Williams and Mr.. Mcmillan.
and while Chairman Thomas took no
part in the debate, II Is shrewdly sus-
pected that he will assent and will
lend his aid to whatever proposition
these three members will lay before
the board. This will give a majority
and If ho bplI
these four. the prosecution of the old
members may be expected. provided
they refuse to settle up the amounts
for which they have been found de-
linquent by the auditors.
The course. however. which the
hoard will pursue will hinge on the
recommendations of Solicitor Butler
to whom the matter was referred. and
to whom the bonds of tthe old MEM
bers and all of the other papers which
are part of the transaction We're re-
ferred for examination and advice
What Mr.. Butler will advise can only
be conjectured as his judgment will
not be learned until he submits his
report to the board at it's next meeting.
The board however, will be guided by
his tions, as the motion at
the last meeting Indicated such ac-
ton.
Another matter of interest in con-
nection with the poor board is the
bill which was introduced into the
senate few weeks ago by Senator
Vaughan. of Scranton, which fixes the
fees Of office at three dollars per dav.
not to exceed thirty-five days each
year. Whether or not the meetings
of the board are to be considered as
day, the bill does not state, and this
question would possibly be raised by
the auditors who are to decide what a
days work constitutes. However. the
maximum sum which the directors can
receive is one hundred and five dollars
the compensation for thirty-five days
The fees of the auditors, which were
heretofore left in the discretion Of the
court are also regulated by the bill
They are three dollars per day, the
work of auditing the accounts not to
exceed twelve days. 1t was to pro-
vide for the auditors that the bill was
especially introduced.
The bill is as follows:
AN ACT to regulate the compensation of the
directors and auditors of the poor district of the
city OF Carbondale, being a supplement to an act
entitled AN act to regulate the affairs of the
body corporate known as the directors OF the poor
OF the city OF Carbondale. changing the name
and extending the jurisdiction thereof, fixing the
number OF directors. their terms OF office the
times and manner Of their election, the filling
Of vacancies, the keeping of their accounts and
providing for the appointment of auditors to audit
the same, being supplement to sn ac. entll!td
An act to authorize the erection of a Door
house of the city Of Carbondae, in the county
OF Luzcrnc,' approved the ninth day of March
in The year Of our Lord one thousand eight hun.
dred and sixty; approved the fifth lay Of May,
Ammo Domini one thousand eight hundred aud
nnety-nine.
Section BE it enacted by the sealto AMI the
house OF representatives of the commonwealth OF
Pennsylvania in general assembly met and it is
hereby enacted by authority OF the same that
each OF the directors of the poor district of the
city of Carbondae shall be entitled to the sum
Of three (sS) dollars per day for each and every
day necessarily and actually engaged in the duties
OF his office not exceeding thirty-ive days each,
the same to be decided and allowed by the aud.
itors.
Sec. Each OF the auditors OF the said dis.
trict shall be etited to the sum OF three dollars
per day for each and every day necessarily and
actually engaged in auditing AMI settling
the accounts of the said directors not exceeding
twelve days each.
Sec. Sin case Of an appeal by either of the
said directors from the audit and settlement of
his accounts to the court OF common pleas of
Lackawanna county, each of the said auditors
shall be entitled for each and every day which
he is necessarily and actually in attendance upon
the trial OF such appeal in court.
See. 4.-The compensation OF the directors and
auditors aforesaid shall be paid out of the funds
OF the district by warrants duly drawn upon the
treasurer in the manner provided by the act to
which this is a supplement.