The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-11
MONROE COUNTY
 DUE S1O,0OO By County Officials, Ac- cording To Report
STATE DUE SMALL SUM
Alleged County Commissioners Au- thorized Payment of Almost S950O . Unlawfully-Appropriations for
 Paupers Not Prescribed

Montgomery, November 10.-tSpeciaD.- Officials of Monroe county ere due their county in the neighborhood of $10,ooG ac- cording to a report of Assistant Examiner of Public Accounts Frank V. Evans, which has been rendered to Governor O'Neal The amount alleged to be due is almost entirely charged against the county commissioners, who, it is alleged, authorized the payment of almost s95oo unlawfully.
 The officials of the' county at the same time, MT. Evans states, are due the state in the neighborhood of S76.
 The report of MT, Evans follows the trend of otlierA similar reports which have been submitted from time to time dur
 ing the past three or four months, all of which are pointing to the county com missioners and to the county treasurers tine imperativeness of authorizing the pay ments only of those monies that are pro- Vided by law. As a consequence, these reports have not hestated to go at length into the alleged discrepancies charging up to the county officials all amounts illegally paid out.
 On this score, amounts are charged against the county commissioners for all appropriations made for paupers, which are UOi dulHOllZtd DN ldN. III ShS %eiSS of Monroe county officials the commis- sioners of that county are charged with s642441, an amount which is said to have been paid out to paupers without a war rant of the statutes. In addition to this item, however. the commissioners are charged with the following individual amounts which were paid to themselves for services rendered the county which were not authorized by law: ". E. Jones, s5,233; J. E. Fore $55L25; c. J. Jackson, S4+g61; w. L. Bowden. $40: w. R. Blackwell, $1209.52; William B. Green, $14750 The aggregate of the individual items is sSO22.12.
 In addition to the commissioners fault in the authorization of warrant, the folS lowing amounts are said to be due the county: Bondsmen of F. J. Stallworth, eX probate judge, $100 for alleged unlawful payment of that amount for indexing a mortgage tax record Dr. T. J. Daley, T; Dr. S. B. McMillan, $1O:50; pr. J. M. Ruth erford, S7; all for amounts paid out to them as witnesses in cases of insanity; T. B. Slaughter, judge of probate, s10O. f5 for hearing cases of insanity an amount which should have been chargeable to the patients and not to the county: B. II. Stallworth, sheriff. $3939 for overcharge in favor of himself in attending court having allowed himself s3 per diem rather than g per diem.; M. McFountain, eX-sheriff s224 for the same item, and likewise $64.50 for the purchase of hand cuffs
 The amounts said to be due to the state are as follows; Ex-Sheriff McFoln- tain, s4.55 I. B. Slaughter, judge of pro- bate, 90 cents, and J. A. Barnes, present superintendent of education $7240 Other county officials in so far as their &C., counts with the state. were found to nave their books correctly kept, the offices being: Ex-Sheriff B: H. Stallworth, Cir cult Clerk John NJ. Coxwell. ex-Tax As sessor B. B. F'inkle. Tax Collector J. l.. Marshall, ex-Tax Assessor J. D. Rahls, ex-Superintendent of Education J. D. Forte. The report of Examiner Evans ranges from the period between January and October, 1911. It includes numerous opinions rendered the examiner by At tcrney General Robert C. Brickell A gen. eral feature connected with the report, as with similar reports previously sub mitted, is that county treasurers should be careful not to pay out any amounts that are not authorized by law, no matter how much they might appear to bear the stamp of legal expenditures