The Mena weekly star., 1921-03-10
BIGGEST CLAIM DISALLOWED IS $l5.000 PAID FOR GRAVEL NOT
 YET DELIVERED.
EXPENSE STATEMENTS
 MUST BE ITEMIzED
Credits Asked by Members of Com mission Held Up for Vouchers Engineers 0yerpaid in Sum of
 S2,1546S-No Power to Remove.

County Judge H. W. Finger Tues day morning made and filed for record his formal court order in the matter of the report of the commissioner of Road Improvement District Noa l of Polk county, better known as the Jefferson Highway,
 This order rejects various claims of the commissioners totaling $18,149.94. The largest single item disallowed is that of $15,000, the sum paid by the commissioners to the Independent Rock Company of DeQueen, which item is an advance payment for gravel to be used on the highway, none of which as yet has been supplied or de- livered
 The next item in point of size is that of $2,l5468, which, it is claimed, is the amount by which the South western Engineering Company has been oyerpaid.
 The expense claims of two of the commissioners were disallowed pend ing the rendering of itemized state ments covering the expenditures, while the claim first presented by the third commissioner was reduced to meet the itemized statement since filed
 The question of the purchase of the Ford car, the maintenance of same, etc, was not taken up by the court order, this being, the judge believed, matter that could best be handled in another manner.
 The order as of record is as follows: "In the Matter of Road Improvement
 District No. l, of Polk County,
 Afkansas.--Order.
 "On this 7th day of March, 1921. being an adjourned day of the regular January, 1921, term of this court, and the Commissioners of Road Improve ment District No. 1, of Polk County, Arkansas, having filed in the office of the County Clerk of said County on the first day of January, 1921, their annual settlement, and on the 4th day of February, 1921, a supplementary settlement of their receipts and dls- bursements for said Road Improve ment District No. l for period be- ginning on the 18th day of March, 1919, and ending February 1, 1921, and more than thirty days having elapsed since filing of said annual and supplementary settlements, the court after full examination of said set dement's and after due consideration thereof, doth find:
 That said Commissioners ask cred it for the sum of S15,0e0.00 upon a contract for gravel paid to the Inde- pendent Rock Company, of DeQueen, Arkansas, but that said gravel has not been delivered, and the court fur ther finds that such charge is unjust and improper at this time and that no credit thereon should be allowed to said Commissioners at this time and that the same should be, and is hereby rejected with leave to said Commis- sioners to include said charge in any settlement they may make with this court after said gravel shall have been delivered to them, in the event it is so delivered and is used by them upon the improvement being made by them in said district.
 .sThat said Commissioners have paid to the engineers employed by them the sum of $2154.68 in excess of the amount due said engineer which said excess should be, and the same is hereby disallowed and said credit re- jected with leave to said Commission CTS to include the same in any future settlement they may make with this. court after said engineers shall have performed sufficient work under their contract with said Commissioners to entitle then to said sum in the event they perform said work in accordance with their said contract.
 "That said Commissioners ask cred it for the sum of $556.35 paid to John Hood, one of said Commissioners for services, but no itemized statement or proper voucher therefor has been filed with said settlement, and said credits is therefore by this court re- iected with leave to said Commission CTS to file a properly itemized state ment or voucher therefor. and to in clude said amount in any future set clement when such voucher is SC pro- duced.
 aThat said settlement contains an item for S344.65 paid to Ira Q. smith, one of the Commissioners, alleged to be for expenses, phone calls and postage" which the court finds is not sufficiently itemized and the same is therefore rejected with leave to file statement with proper itemization and upon so doing to include the same in any future settlement.
 "That credit is asked in said settle ment for the total sum of S756.20 paid to Alex Coyle, one of said Com .missioners. for services and expenses, but that an itemized statement since filed by the said Alex Coyle, showing the full amount of his claims. shows that the same amounts to only S66l.74 and that ho has therefore been over paid in the sum ol S84.46 and that said credit should be and Is hereby rejected and disaIIowed to the extent of s94.36.
 That by their said settlement the fGontfnupd on Page rlye.i HE