The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-19
one Exar1pIe of shortage.

OHo Example OF Shortage.
The plaintiff further AYERS that on
the 31St day of March, 1903, the said
school fund commissioners purchased
from one D. z. Dunno & Co. IA bonds
of Lincoln township in Ellsworth coun-
ty, each one for the sum Of g. 600, dated
March %, 1903, due January l. 1923, bear
ing per cent interest per annum, pay
able semiannually, January 1 and July
1, in each year; that on March 81 due
and proper notice from the secretary of
the school fund commissioners was Civ
en- in writing to the state auditor adj
Vising him Of the purchase of the said
bonds, and on the same day the said
bonds were by the said auditor register
ed as the property of the permanent
school fund; that the said bonds when
purchased had each attached thereto 40
coupons, So thereof being for the sum
of SIS each, and one for a sum represent
ing the interest upon the said bond
from March o. 1908 to July / 1903 and
all Of the aggregate amount upon the
said IA bonds of 1925, the aggregate
of said coupons number 1. being $175.
The said bonds after registration as
aforesaid, together with all the cou-
pons attached thereto, were duly deIiv-
cred to the said defendant, T. T. Kelly,
as state treasurer, as an investment of
the state permanent school fund.
THE plaintiff alleges that afterwards,
and on or about July I, 1903, the said
coupons numbered l. being Il coupons
of the aggregate amount of $175, were
paid; and that on or about January 1,
1904, the said coupons numbered 2 be
ing "A coupons of the aggregate amount
of $3.50, were paid by the proper officers
Of the said township, and that neither
said coupons number 1, nor said cou-
pons number 2 have beer. by the said
defendant. Kelly, credited or accounted
for in the annual school fund, nor in
any other fund, nor upon any of the
books of his said office: and that on July
l. 1904, coupons number 8 on bonds,
numbered to IA. inclusive of the said
bonds. being seven coupons of the ag-
by the proper officers of the said town
ship, but that the amount thereof has
not been accounted for by the said de-
PENDANT Kelly, in the permanent school
fund. nor in any other fund, nor in any
way upon the books of his said Office;
the total amount of the said coupons so
paid and unaccounted for being the sum
Of $70e."
The other bond purchases on which
there are shortages are:
List of the Charges.
Augusta township, twenty-one $500
bonds, purchased from Citizens State
Savings bank, Kansas City, Kan,
March 10, 1903. Shortage on interest
coupons, S427.5O
Leroy township. thirty-one $500
bonds. purchased from J. A. Kennedy
August p. 1903. Books in treasurer
/ office show payment of S247.15 on first
1 interest coupon, leaving a shortage OF
/ $500
City Of Leroy, ten $500 bonds. pur-
chased from J. A kennedy August 27
1903. Shortage, s26.57
/ Douglas county. twenty-five $1,000
bonds. purchased from d. z. Dunno &
Co March 81. 1903. Shortage. sTO0.
Eagle township. thirty-two $500
bonds, purchased from F. W. Casnel
August 27. 1903. Shortage, 1920.
Silver Creek township. three $1,000
/ bonds. purchased from F. ". Casnel
/ August 81, 1903. Shortage. $50
Lane county, thirty I'VE $500 bonds
purchased from G. z. Lobden July :
1903. and August p, 1903 Shortage
city Of Larned. five $4,000 bonds
/ purchased from f w Casner May 81
1904. Shortage, $3.50.
Banner township. twenty-seven $500
bonds, purchased from D. e. Dunno &
Co. July Il, 1904. Shortage. S337-50.
Rfchland township, sixteen $1,000
bonds, purchased from C. E. Foote s
Co. January 10. 1903. Shortage
SS1S.6O.
In each instance the shortage arise
from the fact that certain interes