Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-13
Attorney General Butts in
 and Treasurer Gaines Takes Occasion to Make a Few Brief and Pertin5at Remarks
As a Result Terr' toriaI Exam iner Foster Wi! Be Request ed to Amend lis Report on Public Officials in CochiSe,
Special to 3eview.)

TOMBS1ONE, Jul 1Z.-N NeuneSuay while Attorney Gen ral Clark was in the city he went into the Board of Supervisors office d informally had a lengthy confer nee with the Board on matters Cf interest to the county, among whir were placing of non-patented minin, claims on the as sesment rolls, the foster report, the, right of the Count to issue warrants and pay interest O the same, and the Copper Queen 6aC tax case.
 The discussion times became quite lively and the was large num- Der present Be les the members of the Board of .peryisors and the clerks, among th, se present were Clerk of Court " COX, Under-sheriff Wallace, Treasure Gaines, Assessor B. J, O'Reilly, Dis Eict Attorney Elan nigan, Attorney ( Connell of Bisbee and a representa- 5e of the Review. The first matter discussed was that of placing the nc l-patented mining claims on the rolls. Mir. Clark stated that he realized tL : it would be next to impossible to place all of the non
 pateuted mining claims on the rolls
 but thought that it would be possible to place on the rolls this year ali LII tLldl CAol dSICi uhsNaA 1eAf~ N
 known value or that are being worked
 at the present time. That with these
 placed on the rolls this year a few
 more could be added next year and in
 a few years most of them would be on the rolls. He held that no mining claim should be put on the rolls for
 less than s100 as they were worth that or nothing.
 The report of Public Examiner Eos ter was then discussed and the atten- ton was brought to the Attorney Gen
 eral where in a number of instances wrong has been done to the various county officials by the report that
 Foster had made by jumping at con cIusions and not Investigating as he
 should have done. Treasurer Gaines
 gave a number of instances from his office where Foster had misstated l things among them was the report | on the security of the Miners and Mer- chants Bank which security Foster reported was not legal when he was informed at the time that the personal bond was not being held as security | but that County Bonds were held to cover more than the amount that was on deposit at the Bank. The matter of the Norton Stewart assessment was called to his attention and he was shown that there was no disposition to lower the original assessment by the l County Treasurer or to collect any taxes upon the original amount. The l Collins widow exemption case was also called to his notice and it was shown that MT. Foster had gained mistaken
 idea on the matter.
 MT. Clark stated to the Board that
 he believed that they had no right whatever to issue any warrants on any | fund if the funds were not in the Coun- | ty Treasury with which to pay them and that if such were issued they | could not bear interest at all and if
 any citizen or tax payer wanted to step in and stop payment of the same | he could do so and the warrant would be declared void and could not be | collected. He maintained this view
 on the idea that Cochise County came withing the provisions of the Harrison act which limits any county or munich pal corporation to an indebtedness not in excess of per cent of the as sessed valuation. He held that in reckoning the indebtedness that the indebtedness of the bonded school dis tricts in the county was county liabil ity and that it should be counted with
 the outstanding indebtedness of the
 county This latter contention of the
 gentleman from Phoenix is not con
 cured in by leading members of tho
 bar of Cochise County, but even al
 that, the gentleman is wrong in regard
 to the issuance of warrants as Cochist County does not at the present time come within the limits of the Harrison act.
 The indebtedness of the county in lcluding the outstanding bonded indebt : edness including county bonds ant
 those of the various bonded schoo [ districts amounts to s225,000 while tn l floating indebtedness amounts at tn present time in round figures to abou , s50,0 making a total of $275.00
 while the assessed valuation of tn , county this year iR round figures s10,000,0o0 so that the 4 per cen ! would allow the indebtedness to g up to s400.oO0 before it could be pu . under the ban of the Harrison aet The question of paying interest on tn
 warrants was touched and it was dc , icided that the county had to pay in } tteFest on them after they were issue 5 as provided by the statutes.
 | MT. Clark stated before leaving tha [ he would have MT. Foster file al
 amended report strengthening out tn errors that he had made in his pre- vious report.