Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-07-06
CITY COUNCIL VOTES THAT
AMOUNT AS PROPER CHARGE
TO BE MADE LOCAL
BREWERIES
FORMER TREASURER
= HAS COMMUNICATION
Requests Permission to Remove Books
From Office of City Treasurer
for Examination

At a meeting of the city council on
Thursday evening it was voted to
grant a license to the two local brew
cries on the payment of $500 each.
The contention has been made that
5000 is the amount required for a
wholesale liquor license and there has
been some confusion regarding the
proper construction of the statutes re-
Jating to this question.
The license committee presented a
report to the council in which they ex-
pressed the belief that the opinion of
TIE attorney general should be followed
in the matter and recommended the
granting of wholesale liquor licenses
to each of the brewers upon the pay
ment of $500 each.
The auditor employed by the city
to go over the books in the city treas
urer's Office has not completed his
work and the complete report was
not made as expected.
The following communication was
read to the city council:
To the Common Council of the
City of Baraboo;
To the Finance Committee;
To the City Treasurer;
Gentlemen:
You have caused to be taken,
an audit of my books as treasurer
of your city. Such auditor claims
a shortage in my accounts.
| deny that | am guilty of any
such shortage, and | request the
right and privilege Of having the
books from which such audit was
taken, placed in the hands of an
auditor whom | will select, for the
purpose of a further examination
and auditing thereof, at the earli-
est time possible.
| further request that such audi
tor may be allowed to take the
books into an adjoining room or
other room in the city hall where
| may give him such assistance as
is possible, in the examination
thereof, unhampered by any inter
ference except that | will arrange
the auditing thereof so that the
city will not be inconvenienced by
the use Of the same. These books
TO be returned to the office of the
city treasurer at noon and at
night.
| understand that your auditor
has not fully completed the audit.
l desire to be informed as to when
this audit is completed and when
| may have my request granted.
| further desire and request that
the report of the auditor may be
filed with the proper officers OF the
city, so that | may have access
thereto, to determine in what man
ner such shortage is claimed or
that | be allowed to take a copy OF
such report.
| have no desire to evade any
obligation which may be placed
upon me, by my acts as such treas
urer, but | desire to be given
full opportunity of a thorough ex-
animation and audit that l may
satisfy myself completely in re-
spect thereto.
Respectfully,
w. B. HAZELTINE.
In response to the above communi
cation the city adopted a resolution
which reads as follows:
That the request of w. B. Haz-
eltine as stated in his communi-
cation to the Common Council, fl
nance committee and city treaSur-
er for leave and permission to re-
move from the Office of the city
treasurer the books and records
therein for the purpose Of having
the same examined outside and
away from the proper custodian Of
such books and records, be, and
the same is hereby denied, said
w. B. Hazeltine having already
had full, complete and uninter-
rupted access aud use of such
book and records, and having had
counsel as we'll as expert assist
ance in the examination of the
same, since the expiration of his
term as city treasurer, and having
been allowed the use of the city's
equipment, adding machine, and
offered the assistance and cooper
alton of the expert employed by