The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1908-04-23
COUNTY MATTERS.

The Board of Audit and Finance
Fails to Meet With the Board
Of Commissioners Tuesday.
Members of the Audit and F.
nance BOardSubpOenaed to APP
pear Before the Commissioners
at Their Meeting on the First
Monday IRMsy-At a Late Hour
the Board of Audit and Finance
Send a COmmunic alton.
AS stated in Mondays Rot e.
sonian, the board of county COM
missioners, in special session
last Thursday, requested the
county board of audit and fin.
nance to meet with it Tuesday to
assist in making final settlement
with ex-Sheriff Mcleod of all his
accounts for 1906. The mem
bers of the board of commission
ers met here Tuesday but the
board of audit and finance failed
to meet with them.
The board of audit and finance
failing to appear, as they were
requested to do, an order was
passed by the board of commiss-
toner's directing chairman, J. w.
Carter, to issue a subpoena for
the members of the board of aud,
it and finance to appear before
them on the firstMonday in May
to give evidence concerning al
such matters and things as they
shall know of and concerning the
correct and proper amount o.
taxes due to the county of Robe
son by ex- Sheriff Mcleod on &C
count of taxes collected by him
for the years 1906-1907.
From about 10 O'Clock
a. m. until about 3 o'clocl
in the afternoon, barring
a reasonable intermission fol-
dinner, the beard of com mission
ers remained in session without
receiving any word from thu
board of audit and finance, anC
just as the commissioners wer,
preparing to depart Messrs. J
M. Butler and Graham McKin
non, members of the board o
audit and finance, appeared Oh
the scene with the following com
munication:
TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSION
Frs OF robson COUNTY:
We have received from you
certified copy of the comnuuics
ton addressed to you by ex-Sher
in Geo. B. Mcleod, of date Apr
10th, 1908, together with the re
quest that we meet you at tn
court house in Lum berton, N. G
on Tuesday, April 21st, to assis
in making final settlement wit
ex-Sheriff Geo. B. Mcleod of a
his accounts for 1906"
If the purpose of this meetin
is to take into consideration SCI
eral of the matters referred to i
Sheriff McLeod's commun
cation, We do not see that a join
meeting with you would ava
anything, or be Of any service t
the public interest, as they ar
matters with which we cow hav
no official connection.
We refer, first, to the state
ment as to state taxes of She
if Mcleod for the year 1906 an
1907. We do not conceive thatw
have anything to do with the set
Element of the State taxes of e.
Sheriff Mcleod, except as to tn
failure to settle those take
might in some way affect tn
county revenue.
By act of the General Assem-
bly, of 1905, the sheriff was r,
CURED on or before the secon
Monday OF January in each yea
to settle the State taxes of til
county with the commissioners
his county, and pay the amour
for which said sheriff was lab
to the treasurer of the State,
such manner, or at sucn a plaC
as the State Treasurer shoul
direct. Acts of 1905, chaptt
$50, Sec 81. From this, it vi
be seen that it was the duty
Sheriff Mcleod to settle this az
count with you long before W
ever came into existence as a |,
Called body, for the act appoin
ing US did not become a law uni
March 1st, 1907.
BY an examination of section
of the Act providing for a boal
of audit and finance of Robest
county, you will see that our du
is, to inquire into, investiga
and file detailed and itemiz,
account of the condition of I'll
county finances.
We cannot see, therefore, al
obligation, legal or other wis
now resting on US to do tn
which the law says you shou
havedone in January. 1907.
AS to the settlement of Il
road taxes for 1903 and 1904, Y,
may find by an examination
An Act for the relief of Geor
B. Mcleod, ex-Sheriff of Rot
son county," chapter 4S, Pub
Laws, Extra Session, 1908, tn
neither you nor we have anythil
to do with the adjustment
these road taxes, but by sect