The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-14
JUDGE WAS SHORT
J. W. SHEPHERD or WALKER
 OWED STATE ea,fc2.25.
Examiner sedberry Drew His Atten- lion To Errors and Amount Was Pnid--Accounts of other Onl-
 ~etals Correct.

l of s1I52.25, in the accounts or J w. shepherd, Probate Judge or WaIker
 county. Is shown in the report of As sistant Examiner of Public Accounts George F. Sedberry. on the finances of that county, which was Tiled with l Governor Jelks yesterday. l In his report the Assistant Examiner ] makes the statement that when his at | teLtion was called to the fact. Judge | Shepherd remitted to the State Treas urer an amount to cover the shortage | discovered in his books. | For good and sufficient reasons" | states the report, it was found neces- | sary for the Assistant Examiner to go back as far as January. 1904. in inak- | ing his examination of the books of the | Probate Judge"
 | Upon receiving the report of Exam | .ner Sedberry, the Governor sent full 1 copy of the paper to Solicitor Shertn Lacey of Walker county, supplying him
 with all the data at the command of | the Examiner. in the event that prose cution should be decided upon. Since I the shortage has been made good. the | matter will not he taken up by the | State, but will be left entirely with | the local authorities. | Governor Jelks. when asked for state nent of the matter. refused to dis. cuss 1t further than to say that he had l forwarded copy of the report to the l Walker county solicitor. Following Is copy of the report made by Assistant Examiner Sedberry: | Montgomery. Ala, July 12 1906.
 Hon. William D. Jelks. Governor Of Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama Dear sir--In obedience to instruct | ions received from the Chief Executive ofice. have examined the books of l Hon. J. ". Shepherd, yucge of Probate I for the County of Walker. and beg to
 submit the following report covering the time from September l. 1904, to May s1. 1908. For good and sufficient
 reasons I found t necessary to go back as far as January. 1904, in order 1 10 arrive at the exact amount due the State by Judge Shepherd on account of license and charter fees collected by aim.
 .T find that Judge shepherd owes the State $1.152.s5 as more fully ap- pears in detailed statement below. giv- | ing amounts and dates when the sever si sums should have been collected. 'srhe attention of Judge Shepherd
 was called to the matter and he has remitted the State Treasurer 10 cover "xsespectfully submitted. "G F. Sedberry, Assistant Examiner" The statement referred to by the Fix. aminer is as follows: To balance due on license Jasper Dis- | | To balance due on license Jasper Dis pensary, 1905, -. 250.00
 To balance due on license Jasper Dis l pensary, 1908, =. ... .. s50.0D The above amounts should have been collected dur Ing each year, but in
 fact were not collected until July of this year: Amount of License issued to Company "M." Military company in connection I with Street Fair, tnot re- portedl =. U. ..... :... l5.oo January, 1906. Amount of It. cense issued to C. 3. Hyde, horse dealer for last haif year 1905 (not reported).. 1000 | 1904. For corporation charter fees received on the foi- lowing dates and not here tofore reported.
 February ii. 1904. Keystone Coal Company .-..... e. f5.0o
 July |. 1904. Gayosa Coal corn
 January na9s :. 1905. Dora Coal Com 1o,O'
 pany =, <. ...., ....... 2s.OO August 8, iso5s Goaveiin Lint Coal Company 25.0o
 January s, 1908. Queen Canning
 rebruary .pA IS. isos. Black War @ rior Fuel Company .... 25.oo
 Company ... :. -. ...... 25.oO
 May g, 1906. Lost Creek Lum- ber and Coal Company .... 2s.0o
 May 1T. 1908. Alabama Central Railroad Company ..a,. 5000
 May 30. 1906. Jagger Coal com- pany, ... ..n.t. .g.... xb.OV
 June 2, 1908, Tee Utilities and Manufacturing Company 25.00
 June 1908. Home Telephone Company ..... ... 25.o0
 June IS, 1905. Land Redemption
 of land of T. J. Estes by g. Morris ... ..... ...T... 2.25 Grand total Sl,15z.25
 In addition to the report on the
 books of the Walker Probate Judge,
 Examiner Sedberry submitted reports to the Governor on the books of other
 county oficials in Walker. all of which
 were reported as being in splendid con-
 dition.
 Foilowing are the officials whose ace
 counts were thus examined: E. W.
 Long. Clerk of the Circuit Court; T. J.
 Lamar. County Superintendent of Edu-
 ca ton; R. D. Argo, ex-County Superin-
 tendent; C. W. Stubblefield, Tax As-
 sessor for 1904: J. g. Moore. sheriff and
 W. R. Richardson. Tax Collector for
 1904.