Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-02-13

hS W tub DAnOtuubuNd VI tuu OAuCb
of county treasurer. The figures
given are for the year 1902;
Treas. com. on Co statement s s95 81
Treas. com on state statement 10 81
Cert. & seal on receipts 39i G aUc SS 20
Licenses z at $3.50 sl,050 90
Licenses 22 at $75. 1850 90 $500
4-5 to municipalities g, 100 q Sc 10S 90
License receipts 90 a. 25c .... z %
Deeds 1O3 a S4 IL. ....... 49,. 1924 30
Less acknow'm't siOs 90
Less advermt 81 80 Sl5l 80 269 SO
Bonds 20 a. sl.........-..... S26 90
Less recording 500 ......... 10 90 18 90
Total from above sources, 81, ,457 10
That amount of revenue from an
Office requiring so little work or
attention ought to be considered
very liberal, but there are many
other perfectly proper and legitimate
perquisities of the the Office tnat
increase the above figures by a con.
siderable amount, and it is safe to
say that the Office for some years
past has been worth to the treasurer
on an average 81, 500 to 81, 800.
The above figures are taken from
the public books and documents,
most of which were examined by the
county auditors and all available to
them during settlement. Still in
face of these facts they refused to
approve the action of the commits
sioners in fixing the commissions
the same as for the several years
past, but persisted in the increase
from four to five per cent. Il is a
matter Of easy calculation to see that
where the late treasurer received
S895.54 on county funds, his sue
oessor--the present incumbent-on
the same amount of funds will
receive one quarter more or $1,-
1892 The added one per cent, if
same had been allowed to Rowland,
would have swelled his official in
come, from the sources above cited,
from 81, ,457.16 to 81, ,682 o..
The auditors appointed for their
clerk Josiah F. Terwilliger whose
term of Office as auditor had just
expired At least one of the auditors
compliments him as "the smartest
young man in Pike county," and
with his experience as auditor, and
general familiarity with the various
county offices, surely he had oppor-
tunities to acquire an approximate
knowledge of the emoluments Of
the treasurer's Office. One of the
auditors publicly announced at var
ious times that the FIVE or six hun
dred dollars received by the treas
urer was insufficient, and that his
commissions should be one quarter
more, in other words two and one
half per cent each way instead of
two per cent which had prevailed for
several years past. Did 'the smart.
est young man In Pike county"
wilfully misinform the auditors as
to the treasurer 8 income from the
Office, or did he blandly sit quiet
and permit those officers to make
themselves ridiculous by uttering
statements that all their hearers
knew to be false? He knew they
were using the argument to effect
the increase Of the per centage, and
he had every facility for knowing
that their contention was without a
foundation Of truth. Maybe this
was part Of the scheme OF his ap
pointment. Frequently the com
missioners and treasurers are more
interested in the personnel of the
board of auditors thOn the auditors
themselves,
1.-THE smartest young man in Pike
county" had received from his
uncle. a county commissioner, and
other friendly county commission
ers many checks for printing ant
stationery furnished by him without
the formality Of advertising foi
bids" and had secured late il
December from the old board
through its retiring clerk, Mr.. Geo
| A. Swepeniser, an order for suf
fioient stationery to supply the in
coming board for their full tern
without any comparative formality
and It was quite natural that 9Th
smartest young man in Pike county
was anxious to take a hand in pass
ing his OWE bills and those Of hi
benefaetors and that the officer
that had 80 feathered his most woul
feel safer with a friendly represent
ative always with and steering Ia
board Of auditors.
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