The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-10
Errors Made in Fayette and Geneva. Tn Former County Tax Assessments Havs Not Been Increased in
 Ten Years-aood Reports
 From Jackson.

Tn reports made to Governor Jelks by Assistant Examiner of Public Accounts. IJ. T. Rutledge. some of the officials of Fayette and Geneva counties come in for rather sharp criticism.
 Mir. Rusledxe calls ofiicial attention to the fact that the Court of County Com- missioners of Fayette county have made no increase of tax assessments within the past ton years, although the assessments. Mir. Rutleige nays, are lower than of any county he has yet visited. The Fayette county assessments, he says, are merely nominal, a fact which must be known to
 the members of the Court of County Com missioners. William R. Enis.. sheriff of Fayette county. Mir. Rukledge reports, Is due the
 State $l27.so. The sheriff 1t was reported had entirely failed to keep a record of the State prisoners fed by him as requircd by law. No such book was kept by him and the Assistant Examiner declared that the feed bills paid by the State should not be paid in the absence of such a record. He had therefore charged the sheriff with
 $127.50.
 Circuit Clerk D. O. Mcconnell, the ex- aminer found kept his books correctly in all but two instances. He failed to enter on the fee docket the ices in the cases of hlLSOf0 anu hiHIpdI diHOuHtiIe tO SlS.OV
 and this amount was charged against the clerk.
 Mir. Rutledge reported that Probate Judge T. E. Goodin was indebted to the State in the sum of $50. The license book stubs MT. Rutledge said showed that the $50 increase on liquor dealers had been paid by four firms but that only $50 had teen reported to the Auditor from that source.
 In his report on the books of Tax As sessor George W. Coggan the Examiner
 called attention to the low tax valuations,
 but complimented the assessor upon his
 books.
 Tax Collector R. P. Caine was reported
 to be due the State $SSs.6S. The Examiner
 found that the Collector had collected all general and supplemental taxes. The
 amount charged against the collector was
 embodied in his report of errors and in- solvenciee, which were made to the Court
 of County Commissioners but for which
 no credit was given on the minutes. Officials of Geneva.
 Mir. Rutledge found that the officials of Geneva county had also been careless. In
 his report he charged Tax Collector T. ].
 Wood with $137.S. Of this amount $4o
 was due because of errors in the poll tax. The remainder of the amount was due to errors and insolNencies.
 Circuit Clerk R. J. Purvis was charged with $10.50 because he failed to enter in his docket fee bill of that amount.
 The Examiner found some clerical er-
 TOTS in the books of Ed Johnson, County Superintendent of Education. but neither the State nor the teachers lost anything by the errors,
 There was nothing radically wrong about the books Of Probate Judge Ed. Roach, the Examiner found, but he had
 been careless in his bookkeeping. Sheriff c. W. Block was given a clean sheet, no errors having been found in his books.
 The books of Tax Assessor J. O. Me-
 Eachern were reported correct, but the
 Examiner said that valuable property in