Year: 1864

slonerS tof ne sum Ot SoOo is IN addition to the
amount issued BY the former Board, all Of which
compounded in accordance with the contract origin
ally made by the frst Board Of Commissioners At
this time the holders OF the warrants on the general


nnd made general outcry against the action of the
County Commissioners In setting apart one-third OF
the revenues to pay contingent warrants, and
threatened the Board with suit which. upon taking
counsel, we deemed II inludicious to defend. We
therefore passed an order aboshing the contingent
fund and drew warrants upon the general fund to
the amount OF Sl ,ltS ST. which we sold for cash at
the rate Of sxtyeight cents on the dollar, and re
deemed all outstanding contingent warrants with
the money. After that fund was abolished we were
stu obliged TO have cash 70 provide for the numerous
and increasing wants OF this new county. and we
continued TO sell warrants, believing that we were
authorized so 10 do and pay the most OF our bills In
cash, excepting what was provided for by statute,
such as officers salaries etc. believing that by so
doing we saved the county large amount OF money
In the aggregate for no one would sell the county
necesSaries less than coin price. and II we paid In
scrip we Invariably found that the price charged was
ourselves and pay the bills in coin In other words
the scrip price asked the county for everything pur
chased was at about the rate Of two for one. As
long as we acted upon this plan Of selling warrants
than seventy cents on the dollar, and averaging
about seventy-four cents. and even In May last,
during the session OF the last Grand Jury we sold to
capitalist who was then equally as well informed


In regard to the financial condition Of the county as
when the report Of the Grand Jury was published,
cash al seventy cents on the dollar, but since the
action of the Grand Jury condemning our plan OF
doing business for the county, scrip has fallen 10
face of decision Of the Supreme Court that all taxes
must be paid In gold or silver coin, thus showing
that the fear Of our scrip being redeemed IN green
backs was unfaunded. Under this state OF facts we
leave Il 10 the sound sense Of this community TO de-
eide whether the conrse pursued by heretofore, In
selling warrants for the highest price, and paying our
bills in cash. was not better for the Interests Of the
county than the plan recommended by the last
Grand Jury, and now followed by the County COM
misSioners In pursuance Of their Recommendation.


Accompanying this report will be found q null and
accurate statement Of all cash received by the Com
misSloners for the sale Of warrants, and nom all
sources from January, A D., 1858 up 30 the present
time; and also f9ll statement oI the dscursements
Of the money by them, as copied from the vouch-
ers during the same time, a period OF about nine


The largest item Of cash expended has been for
the County Hospital One of the present Hospital
buildings had been commenced before our term OF
office; that building has been completed and fur
nished. Some time after its completion, under the
pressing demands for enlarged accommodations for
the INDECENT sick, and at the urgent request OF the
Grand Jury, the County Commissioners erected an
other building furnished i eomiSrtanlS, i0r tns re-
PEELED them TO apply 10 the county Tor relief. In
the erection and furnishing OF the Hospital build
ings, and in procuring supplies and assistants for
sioners found 1t necessary 70 pay cash, as many
things could not be procured for scrip unless IL was
issued at ruinouS rates 20 the county.


There has been admitted into our County Hospi-
tal from the founding thereof to the pre- present
time $50 patients; of this number $50 have been
received during The present year. A large proper
tion OF those admitted are properly Terri
tOrial patients, Us they had recently arrived
here from California and other places; some
OF them eelonged to other counties that tar are
ty In the Territory has had patients In our hos
pital, and we would recommend to our delegation
law I for % the Protection of Storey county, and BY
which other counties. and the Territory, shall be
compelled to pay whatever may be just and eQuit-
able for the support Of their INDECENT sick In our


Another large item OF our cash expenditure, has
been the lifting up and furnishing OF our Court
Count Rooms the S JUDGES S CHAMBERS, the the pistrict
and County Clerks Offices. also the Sheris, Asses
sor's, Tax Collectors and Recorders Offices respec
lively; and furnishing fuel for the same.


One Of the largest items which appears under the
head OF Expenditures for the past year, drawn on
the General Fund is that OF Jurors Eees, amount-
ing In the aggregate 10 the sum Of S32 939 o. This
sum has been issued during the past year, yet a
larger portion Of the Indebtedness was incurred pre-
the warrants for which were issued on the
certificates OF service given by the Clerk OF the Dis
trict Court, who alone Is authorized to issue such
certificates to Jurors In said Court and whose Ger
tincate is by law prima facia evidence Of the Coun-
tvs Indebtedness to Jurors.


The present total Indebtedness Of the County
amounts TO the sum Of SlIf ,lS9 %.


From this report IL viii be seen that the expenses
of the County have been heavy for the past two
years, but it should be borne in mind that ours is
new County. We started without dollar In our
treasury; we bad to provide for an the wants Of a
new and growing county. AZ q time when every
thing was high, and money commanding high rates
of interest


Our county being the centre Of the population In
the Territory, has sweed our criminal expenses to
q large amount. Hundreds Of patients have been
admitted and cared for IN our Hospital, who other
wise must have suffered or perished for want Of &C,
commodations and attention, all OF which has helped
to create our present Indebtedness, and although II
amounts TO q large sum, yet we have never allowed
a claim against the county until we were satisfied
that 1t was Just. For the future our expenses will
not be as heavy as they have been heretofore, for
the reasons that our Court House and County
Ofaces are now all finished: our jail and the lot
on which II stands Is paid for; and the road TO
our Hospital Is complete. our Hospital Grounds are
substantially enclosed; our large and commodious
Hospital Buildings are finished. furnished and
supplied with all things necessary for the comfort OF
patients ht...L-


Although our wants as a county are many and
large, yet our resources are great, and We are IN
hopes our revenue for ths present year viii nearly
liQuidate our indebtedness


An Of which Is respectfully submitted to the people
ofS Storey county