The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-10
NEWS GATHERED
FROM s0UTHS|D.E
Special Committee Says Care
lessness' Existed In Col
lector's Office.
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Street Committee Meet and
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Personals.
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Manchester Bureau, Times Dispatch,
No. tl02 Hull Street.

The special Investigating committee,
composed of three members from the city
Assembly and two from the Board of Al
dermon, appointed to inquire into the
bookkeeping system in the office of City
collector III. X Reid, met last night, aud
after hearing from Mr.. Reid. going over
the books and looking Mt the garnshoes
that had been enormously issued against
certain persons In the city and further
herring from Expert Accountant j. j.
sutton as to the system In vogue IN the
Office, returned a report that Mr.. REID
had been very careless in issuing the
g,lrnisnees against persons wuo owed
the city or Suite nothing. bur that in their
opinion the errors were not Intentional.
The committee, composed OF Messrs. c.
c. Jones tcnairluanl, d. l.. Toney and G..
L. Petit, from the ASSEMBLY; ana Messrs.
A. H. HOOKER and Ionn w Moore, from
the Board, was in session for ABOUT two
hours and went into tine matter lnorous n
w. The session was neiu III Inc once oil
inc clty coiector ana AIR. REID Was given
an opportunity To eXpitln III oetall al OF
Inc errors ma, nuu been MADE ana those
mat had been charged that he made
MIR. Richardson. Representing the > Il.
Johnson fOunIrN, tuG Va nlhNhs
protesting against the system of book
keeping whereby their employees We're
g.irllIsuecd Tor taxes for when they mad
receipts. brought about the appointment
al the special committee, Was present ana
laid before the members what information
he had.
After the session in the collectors office
the members adjourned TO the Council
chamber. where. in executive session, the
following resolution was passed and VIII
Il kgGn mo-
day night:
Resolved, That the committee on
investigation of the action OF city COL
lector II. Is. Reid in garnisheeing GER
tain persons who had previously PAID
their taxes find that clerical errors
nave been made by said collector on
account of his not being carefui
enough in making out bills; and we
recommend that in the future he be
required to be more careful. The com
mittee believes that the collector, Mt.
Reid, has not been guilty oil lnten-
tional wrong in the matter.
''tSigned) b. l.. Toney, j. w Moore, y.
r. Hooker. c. l.. Petit, G. c. Jones
tChairmanl, Committee.
There were three names presented by
| Mr. richardson. Each OF these stated
that parnfshees had been issued against
them improperly j. II. Stovall a negro
| employe of the johnson foundry, was one
! of these. Mr. Reid admitted that ne han
| maze Z mistake III iSSu'1iS WIS
| There were two names. one directly unaei
| the other, and the names being very sim sim
! liar. he had gotten the wrong lone: me
other negro TO protest was John Cheatn-
| am. He had been Garnisheed Tor taxes
| i'm 1904 when he held tax receipt for this
| year When brought TO court he was
| dismissed on the original garnishee, but
| made to pay the costs of garnislhse for
1903 taxes. The taxes for 1903 were less
| than those for which the negro was orig
| inally garnisheed for in 1901. The diner
ence was taken off. This mistake was q
| clerical one.
| Jessie Seaburn had been giirnisheed and
| the garnishee was later dismissed. rms
| was a clerical error and was explained
Special Accountant Sutton said thai
! the system of bookkeeping in the office
| of the collector was a good one. and tina,
/ there was no way in the world to proven
/ n few clerical errors creeping into any
| office. But IL there did an error. croT
| out, Mr.. Reid would be the loser by 1t