The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-07-10
COUNTY ATTORNEY
RES|STS CLAIMS
MEN WHO HAVE FURNISHED
THE COUNTY MAY NOT BE RE
MUfERATED.

Taking the position that the county
is not liable for debts contracted
above the amount of the levy for the
fiscal year ending June So County
Attorney Bleakmore will resist the
payment of all claims issued against
the county. The claims have been
audited by the county commissioners
and have been approved for pay
ment, but were not allowed for
the want of funds. The State National
Bank, which has been made the
county depository, has accepted many
of the claims thus audited as collat~
eral for loans. The notes secured
: by these claims become due in
August and it develops now that It
viii be impossible for the bank to
collect the claims and the borrow
ers of course will be expected 20
take up their notes and withdraw
| the collateral. However, the salary
accounts Mr.. Bleakmore accepts as
statutory Indebtedness, and he will
not resist a suit to obtain Judgment
against the county for salaries.
| Claims allowed for many of the
labor bills and for the publishing and
printing bills will be resisted and
suits to test out the matter will be
taken to the state supreme court
The taxes levied for the past years
expenses of the county were not
sufficient to pay the legitimate ex-
penses of the county and those who
have furnished the county will run
| some risk in getting their money.
one OF the large supply orders was
the printing of the assessment
sheets. Without them the property of
the county could not have been as
sessed for taxes this year. The
Ardmoreite entered into competition
with klahoma City, Kansas City and
st. Louis on this paper and was
awarded the contract because il was
the lowest bidder. The payment Of
this claim against the county Mr..
Bleakmore will resist. Suits will be
brought in this county and whatever
the results are here the cases will
be taken to the supreme court OF
the state.
A decision which has a direct |
bearing upon the cases is found in !
the 33rd Oklahoma Reports on page
292 in the case of Shannon VS.. the
State of Oklahoma. The court held
in this case that bill allowed by the
board of commissioners of Creek
county for rent upon a Jail for the
of county prisoners did not
make the county liable for the debt.
because the tax levy was not sufficient
10 take care of it. The man who does
business with the county is pre-
jumed to know whether the commits
sioners are s.ly;ng within the law
1r not and does business with them
1t his own risk. The commissioners
If this county are keeping the ex-
)enses of the county as low as thew
eel that they can and still maintain
he county government. They have
'educed expenses everywhere they
could and they are not in sympathy
With the county attorney in his eff
forts to defeat the claims. Mr..
3leakmore stated that he did not
iesire to see anyone lose money, that
he commissioners were not a law
INTO themselves, that they must stay
within the statutes of the state and
evies must be made heavy enough
o care for the county. The county
of public instruction
S one of the offices badly crippled
" the action of the county attor-
ley. His claims have been held
p and the expenses of the county
ormai has fallen upon his office.
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