The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-24
REPORT OF COUNTY JUDGE

To the Worzslipful County Court Of
Upton County, July, 1919, Term
As judge Of your court and finan-
cial agent Of the county, l submit
the following as my quarterly re-
port:
| have drawn receivable warrants
on all county officials and justices
Of the peace, for amounts collected
by them, as per their reports made
to me, and placed said warrants in
the hands Of your county trustee for
collection.
| have given the said trustee cred
lit, by the cancellation of warrants
on the various accounts kept against
him as your trustee, for the sum of
| (Sl20,503,77), and executed him re-
ceipts therefor.
After the above credits to the said
Trustee ], A. Peeler, the balances
remaining against him are shown bv
Exhibit "a" to this report, but he
will be entitled to credits on his. cur
rent accounts, for errors and insol-
vencies, delinquent lands and uncol-
leeted polls, together with his COM
missions, which will reduce said bal
ances against him several thousand
dollars.
From the statement of the First
State Bank formerly First National
Bank find the county account has
cash to the amount of (S4,847.49)
and outstanding warrants against
same amounting to ($10,98772),
showing an overdraft of S6,140.23:
and find the general school account
has outstanding warrants amounting
to S25,287.53, with cash to its credit
OF S1,5OO.38, showing an oyerdraft
of $23, 78715.
The statement of said First State
Bank also shows a general account
charged against said county trustee
of $15,688.34-supposed to be undis-
tributed funds, which, if properly
distributed amongst the several
funds, as required by law, will make
some changes in the balances against
some of said funds.
The special school bond account
has to it's credit S112.90.
The county trustee, ]. A. Peeler,
reported on the 9th day of June, his
collections from ali sources, includ-
ing the Communication money collected
from all persons subject to work the
public highways.
The amount of said communication
money reported by said trustee is,
shown in Exhibit "B" to this report.
From said banks statement shows
that the highway commissioners
have authorized the issuance of war
rants against said special road fund,
derived from Communication money,
amounting to $4,71801.
| have opened no account with
Trustee Peeler, for the present, TO
show the collections and disburse-
ments of the special road fund, but
am awaiting advice from the district
attorney general.
A statement of the financial condi-
ton of the Covington high school,
and also of the Brighton high school,
are attached hereto, and designated
as Exhibit "C".
Gentlemen of the court, / beg to
admonish you of the fact that the
people have sent us here to represent
the financial interests of the whole
county. All the rights and authority
we have we get from them through
the law. We should closely scrutinN
lie every claim filed for appropria.
tion of the taxpayers money. We
should not let clamoring, noisy
few cajole or intimidate us to vlo-
late the laws as written on our stat
Ute books.
Every Individual member has the
right to ask for any information and
to offer any objection that his judy
ment may dictate. Every claim
should have fair and just consid-
Grafton. and every man, woman and
child should have square deal at