Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1928-10-25

file in that office including personal
matters or otherwise.
Relative to certain checks issued
to Miss Crone and Rodney Salisbury
regarding which / was on cross ex-
animation, l stated that in my report
to the Clerk and Recorder and Com
missioners there was no provision for
it OF place to show this transaction.
There is a county record Of the trans
actions. 1t is still a record of the
county as far as the transaction is
concerned, and it is part of the rec
ords of Sheridan county, the trans
action that took place. Miss Crone
was superintendent of schools and
Rodney Salisbury was the sheriff.
These checks were issued to them up
on their turning over currency to me
as County treasurer. The way 1
would keep track of a transaction like
the Miss Crone transaction was. the
cash would be taken in and put in a
till, if it was silver with the other
silver, and if it was currency with
the other currency and that would
show up in the next daily balance as
so much currency. If the currency
had not been there it would have
shown in the next daily statement as
shortage. The check book shows a
notation that the check was issued
for currency. County Treasurers do
not keep a detailed statement of the
exact bills and money received from
anyone. 1t is all in one amount and
we take in money and pay out money
during the day and our records have
got to show at the end of the day,
after the business is conducted, that
we have the amount of cash for re-
ceipts, duplicate tax receipts, were
issued during the day, less the amount
of payments made for warrants,
coupons, bonds and other remittances.
The Ackelstad matter was handled in
the same manner
| was asked concerning a Charles
Ross check. The circumstances con-
cecrning the issuance of that check
were these. Mr.. Ross had purchased
had undertaken to purchase some
bonds from the Wells-Dickey Comp
any and he had-he brought some
grain checks and he didn't have the
exact amount, and he wasn't checking
on any bank, and he asked if | would
not give him a treasurer's check for
the amount which he had to remit
and if l would take the grain checks,
and that is what | did as an accomo-
dalton, and there was a record kept
of it.
William Haas did not have a private
pouch in the vault for a long time.
He never had any there during the
fall of 1926.
Reading from defendants exhibit
81, it shows the amount of money |
had on hand each day upon which |
balanced my books from August %
to November 29th, 1926. That is as
follows: August 28th, 1926, SIS in
currency and approximately 1925 in
silver in a tray; August 31st, in the
round safe we had $500 in gold, $500
in silver and $923,46 of those cash
items; then in the till in the suuare
safe we had $500 in currency, that
is on account of cashing a thousand
dollar check the day before, and ap.
proximately $210 or $215 in silver
that is in dollars, halves, quarters
nickels and dimes and pennies in the
tray. On September 2, the same a
mount of gold and silver and cash
items were in the round safe as wa
had the time before, and in the square
safe in the till we had 1910 in cur
rency and approximately 5000 in the
tray, change. OnSeptember 4th We
had the same amount of gold and sill.
yer and cash items in the round safe
as on September End; we had $773 in
currency in the square safe and about
$3.50 or 240 in silver in change in
the tray. On September 9Th we had
the same amount of gold, silver and
cash items in the round safe as on
previous date, and 1854 of currency
in the square safe, and slightly over
5000 of silver in the tray for change,
On September 18th we had 1920 in
gold, a thousand dollars in silver in
the round safe, and the same amount
of cash items, warrants. / had no
currency at all on that date, but
about $3.50 in silver in the tray.
The records show exactly but
would have to compute. Have to
add them up in my mind but the rec.
ords show exactly, so many dollars
half dollars, quarters, dimes and SC
forth. The item Of August the 28th
is on page SO OF exhibit 81 and the
records of Nov. Goth is on page 1903
Relative to the amount Of collat.