Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-26

of said board, its officers or agents
shall be daemed a 1nisdemea1or
and On conviction the offender
shall be fined in any sum not less
than two hundred dollars 100000
nor more than five thousand dol
lars $4,000. 0O) in the discretion
of the court, or imprisoned in the
county all not exceeding one year,
or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.'
Specification No. S.
The Board of Control has misapplied
$780, CO 90 in the building of a farm
building upon the State Hospital for
the Insane Grounds, contrary to law
and has paid Or partially paid there
for from funds specifically apprCpri-
ated by the Legislature for a hospital
for the tubercular sick insane patients.
Contrary to Sec. 252 of III 1913
Code, and contrary to chapter "a, page
80, Laws of 1913. w., Z.
Specification No. 6. .
The Board of Control misapplied the
sum of $22,000.00 appropriated by the
1918 Session of the Legislature for the
building of a hospital for the sick IN
sane patients, for the repair of the old
Administration Hall. :.. o.,
Contrary to Chapter "a, page 80,
Laws 1918, and contrary to Sec. 252
Revised Codes 1913 heretofore quot
ed. ' .
Specification No. 2.
The Legislature provided for, and
there was then built a nav four story
hospital building, all modern and fire
proof, for the bed ridden sick insane
patients at the State Hospital grounds
at jamestown, which building was par
ticulary and specially prepared for the
accommodation Of one hundred and sew
enty five sick bed ridden insane pat
tents, from which hospital building the
F'oard of Control, at the beginning OF
the present winter, drove the sick in
sane patients, to the hen house, ar un'
sanitary building, in no manner moo
ern, and in the % year old amusement
hall, and appropriated the new hospi.
tai to the use of the Superintendent
and his official family of eleven, and
this contrary to humane law, and
contrary to the legislative enactmen.
which provided the building for the
sick insane patients of North Dakota
,fta Specification No. 8. -
The laws of North Dakota provide
for a state architect at a salary OF
$1,5O0.O0 per annum, yet the Board OF
control in the biennial period jus:
passed, have expended on such archit-
tect the sum Of $10,500.00, contrary to
the law. r. t -. 81. l".ri. r. y
I'll! Specification No. 9. "
The Board of Control has fraudulent
~ compelled the Counties of Grand
Forks and Ward, and other Counties
to pay a pro-rata per capita allowance
tc the Treasurer of the State Hospital
or, the State Treasurer for the main
tenance of patients, in such hospital
long after such patients have been
cured and while they have actually
been. in the employment Of the State
of North Dakota on salaries ranging
from SIS 90 per month up to $500 per
month. W e..
AS a few instances of such acts we
call attention to the following pa
tients, viz: Mr.. Winger, Miss Shana-
han, Mr.. Olson, Mr.. Cav, Miss l,und
and Miss Hanson, all of which acts
are contrary to law and contrary to
good morals and efficient management
of the state affairs of the great char.
table institution. "
. Specification No. 10.
The misapplication of funds and
buildings and PROPERTY at one of such
institutions is an indication as to what
might be the case at the other institu'
tons in North Dakota. ~ ="
Specification No. II. L
The Board Of Control, and the Sup
erintendent of the State Hospital have
%conspired together to misapply the old
administration hall to the use Of tn.
b%ercular patients and the new sick in
sane hospital building for the use OF
the Superintendent and his official
family SO as to compel the present
session of the Legislature to appro'
nriate a fund for a new Administration
hall.
Wherefore. the undersigned respect
fully pray that the Governor of North
Dakota, the 1915 Legislative Invest.
igatirg Committee, and the State At
fairs committee make an investigation
of and upon the foregoing specifica'
lions and charges and if found true,
that every person responsible for the
condition Of affairs, discrepancies, mis-
applications, and improper use of pub
lie funds, be brought before the bar
of Justice and that they be removed
from office. and that the hospital be
refilled with it's sick insane patients
and that the present and future office
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