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1 HE GAFFNEY ^ T' A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES. AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ILISHED FEB. 16, 18£4. 'ESTIGATING COM MITTEE'S BEPORT. Statle of South Carolina, C<punty of Cherofcee. To mli Ehccellency: Mlartln F. Ansel, Governor, Colombia, South Carolina. 8 Ir:—We, the undersigned, who amount of over charges In the tax ation of costa. Practically the costs in every one have been para. Wie found, in a few Instances, several years bacb, where the clerk failed to tax part of the costs which were in his favor, but the amounts were small. PROBATE JUDGE. This office is the court where the affairs of widows, minors, orpnans and idiots are looked after, cared for, protected and settled. The law allows the probate judge total school to charge $3.00 per day for hearing GAFFNEY, 8. C., FrIdAY, DECEMBER 20, 1907- ' ; school purposes before the formation | were no trustees to manage the elect or Cherokee county, $3,171.22. The?Ion because there was no district. $1.00 A YFAfL amount belonging to the Tork sec tion and the amount of Indebtedness of the other sections were adjusted by our superintendent and the super intendent of each of the old counties. During the first scholastic year of this county’s existence, July 1, 1897, to June 30, 1898, there was spent, exclusive of the $3,171.22 past In debtedness, the sum of $8,855.41 for hence the election is Illegal, there fore the supposed proceedings set ting -off and voting extra levies in districts numbered 25, 26. 27 and 28 are hull and void. We were furnish ed with petitions asking for an elect ion in the proposed districts number ed 14 and 22. The result of these are the same as those above and the extra levies on all the districts are purposes. There werej uol only contrary to law, but are 4.267 scholars In school this year.' illegal. We could find no record as For the first six years, during the ad- to when all these transactions occur- minlstratlon of W. F. McArthur, the country schools averaged from four to four red. We found where the superintendent and one-half months per year, h a d approved and ordered paid a nura- ■rom thirty to thirty-five schooler 0 f claims with only the signature wei "e appointed and commissioned by every litigated case, that Is, where you j, pursuant to a joint resolution of j there Is a controversy, an issue to the i general assembly, approved Feb- be decided by the probate court. The rua ry 7, 1907, to Investigate the flnan- probate judge has taxed this item of dal condition of anv and every de- $3.00 in everv case before him ex-land fro ra „ - , , . . par tment of the county government cept in a few Instances. He is al- houses were built or paid for. There 'of one trustee. The law says that at of Cherokee county and each and lowed a fee for issuing a warrant of was spent during the scholastic year, ’east a majority must sign and in dis- e»*erv office therein, and to report to appraisement and oath to the apprais-, 1906-1907, $24,162.69, nearly three-Urict number 10, where there are ' you JLhe result of our investigation, era, but he charges for the oath in 1 times as much as was spent the first seven trustees only two have ever beg idgve to report as follows: addition to the fee allowed him by year, and the country schools aver- signed the claims. Section 1216 of / WeM-ealized from the outset that law. In cases where land is willed age now about five and one-half the Code provides that every claim to m»e any thing less than a rigid he must record the names of the par-’ months per year, the enrollment _ against any school district must be and iBorouEh examination might re- ties in a book for this purpose, to- during this year was 5143, an in-’ s worn to and signed by a majority suit B^our report not being correct, gethe r with a brief description of the crease of about thirty per cent, in the of the trustees before the superinten decided to extend the invest!- land and is allowed a fee of $1.00 for length of schools and nearly three dent can approve it. In a great many- back to the establishment of thi? work, that is, the name of each hundred per cent. In expenses, and • instances claims are approved and ,nty and as this would entail pe-son to whom land is willed to an Increase in attendance of about-ordered paid in which they are not ormous amount of work, and should be indexed and a brief de- twenty pe r cent. , s to ’ ^ owing what the investigation scription of the land following the When the present incumbent went . The records in the office show reveal, it was with reluctance name of each person, and for this into office, January, 1903, the law in where the superintendent has been paid we accepted the appointment, work is entitled to $1.00 for each per-' 1 force then required the county board within the last two years various sums ng what our conscience and son, but he bunches all the names to- of education on the first Tuesday in from the different districts amounting oathl required. gether and makes one description of July, 1898. and every two years there- to $793.37 for desks, furniture and Yje met April 5. 1907, and organiz- the land answer for all. Under his after, to appoint three trustees for freight. This does not Include the i ed the election of G. W. Speer as practice he is entitled to $1.00, where- each school district, who shall serve item of $145.20 he paid himself out chairman, N. W. Hardin, attorney, as if he made the index properly he for two years, unless removed for{of the unapportioned fund on May 3. i and W G. Austell, clerk. would be entitled to $1.00 for each cause by the board of education. The'1907, and used in buying desks. Part The joint resolution required us to person, though he charges $1.00 for term of office of the trustees then in of the desks have been sold, but no i lelect an accountant who was not a each one. The book he has for this office expired on the first Tuesday in | part of the money had been refunded ' resident of the county to assist in the purpose does not meet the require- July. 1904. but most of them were,’to the unapportioned account when '.'investigation and General J. P- De;^ inents of the office, for instance, if removed, without cause, and new (the superintendent’s attention was r* ham formerly comptroller general, you wish to see the name of any per- ones appointed. This law has beenfcalled to this matter. He had no au- was selected. son to whom land has been willed to. ignored by the county board of educa-1 thority to adopt such practice and we We have examined the offices of there is no way to find the name un- tion ever since the present mcum- condemn such procedure. He says ! Coroner. Sheriff. Clerk of Court. Pro- less It Is the same as the party will- bent has been In office, and trustees.he gets a commission of from 3 per bate Judge. County Superintendent of in<r the land without examining the are appointed with terms expiring at cent, to & per cent., to cover actual ' Education, Auditor, Supervisor ' and name of every person in the book. different date s and during all times cost of handling desk*. We found cor- County ^Commissioners and Treasurer. The probate judge Is allowed ten of the year. The law has always respondence In his office showing 1 We found a great deal of gross care- cents pe r one hundred words for re- provided for three trustees for each where Charles J. Parker, of Raleigh, lessness and disregard of the law in cording those papers which the law district, yet there are five trustees-N. C., who sells school desks, allow- the administration of the county’s af- says he Is entitled to pay for record- in each of the districts numbered 22., tog him 10 per cent commission, ami fairs bv which the people have suffer tog and he has made charges for re- 25 and 26. The legislature of 1904. that business transactions will be ®d. We discovered error after errof cording papers where the law makes provided for the establishment J rea *® < |„* n t business confidence. There in the taxation and collection of cost,no provision for payment. He is al- libraries in the schools and the super- ' ‘ In the offices of clerk of court and lowed ten cents per one hundred intendent reports that thirteen have probate judge. words for recording wills, but he has been established with some twelve We made a rigid investigation Into not confined himself to this amount, hundred volumes since the law went this matter and to the taxation of often charging more than twice as into effect, cost were guided by the opinion of much as the law allows. He makes Section 1193 of the 1902 Code iw-4, 1907. the trustees of this district Chief Justice Mclver to Crocket t a charge of $1.00 for a “petition for quires the county superintendent of gave the superintendent an order on against Collins, 44 S. C-. page 500, final settlement,” the the allows noth- education on or before the fifteenth .their district for$70.00 and on same where he held that, “It Is too well tog for this. It has been charged for day of July In each year to report to % day the ffttOfitfB&ndeSt-eeat parker settled to need citation of authority, “petitions for partial settlement.” the county treasurer, by school dis-* a checker $63.00 in full for the desks that one who claims costs must be . In the estate of Benjamin Purser trlcts. all school claims approved by: shipped to A. S. Smith, and the let- able to point to the statute allowing^he not only made exhorbitant and un- him for the last school year. The ater of Pariter^ dated October. 3. 1907. the costs claimed, as the right to reasonable charges, but charges superintendent has neglected to <fo acknowledges check in full payment costs Is of purely statutory origin.”! which were not valid charges against this. f for this account. We found another j We were also mindful of the decis- the estate. It seems that he famish- Section 1191 requires the county i hill of shipment of blackboards to A. Ion of Justice Pope in the recent case ed certified copies of all the proceed- superintendent of education to make W. Love, King’s Creek, a trustee of of Whittle against Saluda county, 56 lags In the case to parties In Ireland, an annual report of all claims audit- district number 4. on August 14, for - 8. C., page 505, where he held that who were interested In the estate, pj and allowed and ordered naid byi$8.20. August 28, 1907, trustees of - *Tt has been repeatedly held by this and taxed it as part of the coat. It him during each flcal year to the number 4 gave the superintendent an court that coats and fees are the crept* la the duty of the probate Judge to judge at the fall term of court which > order on their district for $8.20 and tores of statutory law, and therefore, approve every claim against the es- said report shall be submitted by .the next day he sont Parker a check where any one claims an allowance tate as being Just and reasonable, him to the grand Jury for examination Tor $7.35 In fall payment of this ac- of either or both, he must be prepar- in this estate he approved two such and Inspection and then filed 1° the oqnnt. These two items are not til ed to lay his finger upon some sta- claims fc>r something over eighty dol- clerk’s office, subject to tlje inspect- cmded In the $793.37 mentioned above, tote as authority for such claim.” lars as attorneys fees payable to him- ion of any one. This law has been. We merely mention these two Items gal services rendered district num ber 26. The. : aim was slgnefl only by one trustee, 1 and that of num ber 13, and ordered, by the superin tendent, paid out of the unapportlon- ed fund. Every district In the county had to contribute its share to the payment of this claim which ^as for the sole benefit of. number 26. The superintendent bad' no right to ap prove the claim ^md this amount is charged up against him. On MUy 15, 1905, he approved a claim in favor of W. W. Crockdr, a North Carolina teacher, for teaching school in North Carolina, for $18.00 and charged to district number 11 in is a bill jp his office from this party to the superintendent dated Septem- *ber 10, 1907, for twenty desks, ship- *ped to A- 3. Smith, at Cowpens. a trustee of district 23. On October $24.00 exclusive of mileage, $IJM more than he was entitled to. In cluding the $202.30 paid direct to DM members of the board since the pre sent incumbent went Into office and the $45.00 paid In one claim to tha county board of education and charg ed as Incidentals, etc., makes $247.30 paid out by order and direction of the superintendent which he had bo right to do; the claims were not valid claims against the school fund and the superintendent la responsible for approving and ordering paid *l*<«w which he knew were Illegal or should ave known. Section 1200 of the ode provides for the payment of the this county. On March' 15. 1907\ he ^county board of education by tha did the sEime thing in favor of Jofcje' county commissioners out of the or^ Spake for $15.75 and charged to nuitoidinary county funds, her 11. This occurred again on COUNTY AUDITOR. March '16. 1907, in favor of E. C. 'nri^lg the office where the asses* Green for $13.50 and paid by num-lment of property is levied. The tax be r 11. The law only provides for^ returns have been properly entered on the payment of teachers teaching InSthe auditor’s duplicates and correct- the county and not out of the State.^lv charged to the county treasurer. He approved claims which were • Every Item of taxation must be en- chargeable to more than one,district,tered" in this office and Is charged an f i only one trustee from each dis- against the treasurer and in the an- trict signed. There should have been nual settlement between the auditor a claim against each district and a -^nd treasurer, the treasurer must majority of the trustees of each dis-; account for every cent of taxes he la trict signing the claim. On July 29, charged with. We found several 1905. a claim was approved in favor school claims where the county snpe* of w. h. Gooding for $2.50 and r intendent had approved and ordered charged as “salary in Draytonville.”' paid which were not legally signed. This was explained by the superin- The superintendent and treasurer tondont that the trustees of number had no right to order them paid up- 17 would not approve a teacher’s on such signatures, the treasurer cii im in favor of Sherman Quinn for liad no right to pay them as they were the amount !i»* thought ho was entl- not in the correct form and the ootm* tied to. and what some of the trustees tty auditor should have rejected them thought, and lie approved the claim ‘in the annual settlement. The trea* and ordered it paid out of the unap-! urer has paid warrants Issued by the portioned fund in order that Quinn ^supervisor, or supposed to have beeB might get what he thought lie was ^Issued by the supervisor, which were entitled to. The trustees wouldn’t .illegal, which he knew was Illegal, qr pay it. but the superintendent paid it should have known. He has paid out of the unapportioned fund and all warrants which never had the sign* the districts had to contribute again ture of the supervisor authorizing the to a claim which was illegal. If the ?>ayment, he has paid claims which amount was owing at al] it was by he knew had not been ordered paid district number 17. This amount by the county commissioners. Various should be charged to the superinten-; claims of this nature, though tnef f tont. , < may have been valid claims agamat The most flagrant violation of the’ the county, were illegal in the man- law was discovered to a claim ap- ner in which they were presented proved June 21. 1906. in favor of J., and ordered paid and should have L. Walker for $75.00 and charged as been disallowed by the auditor in the “advance in salary in September^ annual settlement. 1905,’ and charged to the unappor- What property is returned for tax* tinned fund. This claim was not ation is properly entered on the d** signed by any member of the county? plicates. but we found very few mort- board of education, who alone coaid gages, notes, etc., returned for tax- authorize the payment. This - ctaimr ation. disbursement, was* never explain farther than to say that he heed some money. The euj owee the unapportioned fond amount and if the treasurer woi pay a claim for this amount wltho the proper officers authorising SUPERVISOR AND-COUNTY COM MISSIONERS. The board of county commission ers ere the corporate agents of the county who have control over taxes, ■out fixing the amount of levy and dia- the burstog same in every department th payment, then the superintendent could touching the county’s government ex- approve similar claims against the cept the public schools, unapportioned fund and order then) The board has control of the money paid and If the treasurer would pay to be expended for county purposes, illegal claims, as he did in this tnj> and If done extravagantly or~ econo- stance, then the superintendent can mically, the whole matter rests with draw any amount of the unapportlon^ them. They are intrusted with this CORONER. self. He also approved a minister’s ignored. In this office there Is very little to claim tor $5.00 tor preaching the we were unable to find any record investigate. We found the book of funeral of the deceased. o- minutes of the county board of Inquisitions properly kept, but the In- The law allows $1.00 tor the ap- education, when asked tor, the super quisltlpps are not recorded as prompt- pointment of guardians ad litem, to intendent said they kept no regular represent minors til final settlements, minute book, hut probably would af- If there is one minor he charges $1.0 f 0 te r October 24, 1907. He said the [work of the sheriff in his of- for the appointment and $100 tor the board never met except on examine- complete and up-to-date. His recording. If there are different sets tion days and when disputes arose/ iey should be. SHERIFF. to show how this department of his office has been conducted. Section 418 of the Criminal Code makes this practice a misdemeanor and punishable by fine and Imprison ment. The superintendent does not keep a Cash Book showing the amount t of racney to the credit of each school well kept and a statement of minors, that la, minors who had We couM find no minutes of any de-|district. There is nothing In the of- etc appended, marked exhibit, different parents, but have some In- scription, yet section 1204 iiequlres i flee to show what the receipts of each ilch shows the amount of mon-'terest In the estate, he has a petition that the superintendent keep a fair I district are, except the monthly re- 3 r in I his hands on November 21st. filed tor each set of minors and ap- record of all their proceedings. Sec- port of the treasurer. Section 429 e does not make his return of the points the same person to represent tion 1189 requires that within ten i of the Criminal Code makes this a tax executlonns within the time re- all of them and charges $1.00 tor each days after the treasurer makes his. misdemeanor, punishable by fine or auired by law, but the expense of minor and as many dollars as there monthly report that he apportion imprisonment. collecting tax executions is greater are minors tor recording the same, amongst the various school districts', Section 1198 says that the superin- ftmn the r amount he received from if there is one minor in the petition any and all funds reported In said tendent shall receive not over $100.00 them ,add then it requires a great-he charges $1.00, If there are ten he report which is to be apportioned per year for traveling expenses, deal If time, however, this le no le- charges $10.00. AH the minors could among the several districts. We ; which is to be paid only upon an gal Acuse, though he made his re- be put In one petition and $1.00 would oonld find no record where any funds (itemised account duly sworn to, that turn promptly this year and his books - be all he could legally charge for had ever been apportioned, we did, the services therein mentioned were are mlanceq up to date. . this work, whereas, he charges $2.00 however, find some loose sheets which actually rendered, that It is Just CLERK OF COURT. " for each minor. We can not con- purported to the apportionments, butt-correct and unpaid, then approved by The affairs of this office are con- demn this procedure, this practice, when made or whether correct, there the county board of education and ducted to a business-like way, all psyjo'jjere minors and little orphans are wa s nothing to show. paid by the treasurer out of each solved in language too severe. In when the present superintendent school district in proportion to the ed fund and there be no check n: him nor the treasurer. The cl bore the stamp of illegality and If treasurer is allowed to pay claims, then the superintendent order any amount to be paid on his approval. On Auguat 8. 1903, he approved claim in his favor tor $17.83 tor penses; on July 6, 1904, transpo tion on hooka and expenses of nation. $6.90; on July 39, 1904, er claim tor $7.60; on October m 1903, again he approved a claim tot $16.77 for expenses. Section U92 of the Code requires the county boari of commissioners to fimlsh the com ty board of education with anltabl furniture, satlonery, etc, and other necessary incidentals a necessary for the proper of the legitimate business of the flee, and these Items of $47.62, whi office by the people and no claim Should be paid till it has been passed on by the board, approved by them, and the supervisor directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer tor the amount allowed by the board, as ptf* Tided by law. There was paid out through this o9 flee from June 1, 1897, to wsanary L 1907, the sum of $314,31495 In the following years; 1897. $9.69193; [Sfliflltlon to this, the guardian ad litem assumed charge of the office there enrollment. The superintendent di rects that It be paid out of the unap- portloned fund. There Is an order in the superintendent’s office, signed by the board, allowing him, under the law, $8 33 1-3 pe? mouth tor traveling pen, records, etc., are properly Al and bept to to© rtebt place. We i , r _ _ And where he sells land as clerk th^ffi yer appears to represent the ml- were twenty-four school districts in In some cases he does not make j-s in the final settlement, no the county, four new ones have been report to the court of the sale lS5jAswer is ever filed for them, established since—all contrary to law. promptly as he should, In some^The minor’s interest is protected Section 1205 provides for the estab- cases none are made, though he taxes the same as if there was no guardian Mshment of -school districts. Ooun- sad collects the fee for making them.* appointed and the only benefit de- ties shall be divided into school dis-f expenses, whether it amounts to this The law allows him a commission 1 rived from the appointment is extra trlcts by the county board of eduea-jor not. This order, which is contrary on all money received and paid out, compensation for the probate Judge, tion a« compact in form as pract1-|to law, as the board is required to •ad several times, where he sold. Exhibit “D’’ hereto attached shows cable, having regard to natural boun-* approve each item of expense and real estate on the installment plan, the amount of funds in the hands of daries. No new school district shall | sign each order drawn on the treas- he deducted his commission out of the probate court and to what estate he created except upon the petition j urer for this purpose, seems to have the first payment when he is only en- it belongs, and exhibit '“E” shows 0 f at least one-third of the qualified J led the superintendent to disregard titled to his commission as be re- the title of the case and the amount electors in the proposed districts, the law which allows traveling ex- eelves and pays out the money. This of overcharges in each case. , When such « petition Is filed with the; penses. He has collected $25.00 on deduction of commissions before it is in the estate of C. B. Byers, which county board of education they shall this amount for every quarter since dne, ranges in different amounts as was settled last January, the probate act upon the matter and if the pro-1 he has been to office from the unap- blgh *» one hundred dollars. Judge, through an oversight, allowed posed district does not Injure any i portioned fund, except for the quar- We append hereto a statement to executors commissions twice on adjoining district, then, the board tens ending April 1, 1903. and Jaau 7 1898. $23,253.84; 1899, $36,679.4$; *1900, $33,035.03; 1901. $28,284.28; 1902, $89,178.29; 1903. $37,68292; ,1904, $38,751.62; 1905, $25,653.12; 1906, $42,085.46. Upon the recommendation of the hoard of county commissioners levies are made each year to meet the ap proximated expenses of the county. These levies are collected through ■ the auditor and treasurer and placed to the credit of the board, subject to were for expenses and toddeMalS their orders. Section 806 of the Code should have been paid by the oouBty provides that no accounts shall be commissioners, and the supermtes*, audited and allowed and ordered paid dent is chargeable with this amount' by the county board of commission- When the present superintendent erg for any labor, fees, services, dls- assumed charge of the office he re- bursements, or any other matter, un* ceived from bis predecessor $500.'«MI less It shall be made oat to Items, to books and money, the law requtiv sworn to, that the services, etc., were ing the superintendent to keen In his done or rendered, and that no frart of office $500.00 worth of books for the- it has been paid, and the board may benefit of the schools. In addition refuse to allow any claim unless made to this $500 00 he has drawn on the out and sworn to In the manner general school fund for $51.76. an* hereto specified. And section 807 re- he owes the general fnnd thtir quires the commissioners to keep til amount, as his limit is $500.90. ’ their office a “File Book’’ to which all The members of the county board claims presented for their consider- of education are allowed $3-00 pep ation shall be entered by their Clerk, day. and mileage, not to exceed seven designating the date of filing, by days to any one year; said fund to be whom presented, to whom such claim paid by the county commissioner^' belongs, and the character •howtog the amount of money to his part of the receipts, this matter was may establish said district with the j ary 1, I .of. And on April 25. 1903. hands on November 13th, 1907. mark- called to his attention last April, but boundaries set forth to the petition.fhe was paid $16.66 and on January ed exhibit “B” — “ * * v ^ " * , “ i, * The law allows him ten cents per one hundred words for recording those papers which the law says be shall have pay for recording, out be hhs not confined himself to this amount thereof. The clerk shall number said claims in the order 1b which they are filed, audited and al lowed from number one upwards. The time of presenting said claims shall be entered in the mlnutet of the board. Section 767 says all accounts. 17, 1995. the superintendent approv ed a claim from district 26 to favor of <J. P. Turner for $49.00 for ouild- tog a foot bridge across Thlckety creefc to said district. This bridge washed sway, and on February, 9, 1907, be approved another claim In so far the matter has not been cor- Section 1208 says that an extrafc-18. 1904, $2190 for traveling expenses rected. We have made an itemized levy to any school district may be*by the county supervisor, statement, and after allowing the le- levied in the following manner; Up-f The school fund Is set apart by ths gal feejs of the office the executors on the written petition of at least}consultation and statute law of the still owe the estate the sum of $59.22. one-third of the resident electors and I State for school purposes, and any He has collected the fees for dis- a like proportion of the resident free other use Is illegal. On November it ~ often charging twice as charging the executors, but they had holders over twenty-one years old much. He charges $2.00 for appoint- not been discharged when his atten- being filed with the county board of ine and recording a guardian ad tion was called to this discrepancy, education, asking for the same and litem* we have been unable to find' The probate judge has a custom of stating the rate of levy. The board anv lew allowing him to make susb 'collecting his fees as they are earned, then orders the trustees of the dis- a charge. He la allowed fifty cent* i while he doesn’t allow guardians, trict to hold an election at which for signing and sealing a summons tepotors, etc., theirs till final settleAeiectiop only the trustees of the dis- and he baa not only made the chargp- meat trict pan be the managers of the elect-; favor of H- 8 Mullins from the same for this work but has charged it-'ln COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF Ion. This clearly shows that the dis-j district for $100 00 tor part payment cases where he never signed nor seal- EDUCATION. trict must be established before there of a county bridge across Thlckety ed them. In those cases where tne 'An examination of the records of can be any election for a special creek. On January 26. 1907. he ap- amount Involved were small, and the this office show that the commission levy. We asked for the petltloaa aai> proved another claim for H. 8. Mul- oosLpJua cut one-half, by law, the ippolnted to adjust the indebtednss ing for these new districts, but were line for $32.50 for part payment of a clcrkmegtected to gome instances to >etween this and the old countiesneg- furnished with petitions asking for county bridge across ‘ Beaverdam cbargXoae-half, and in these cases ected to make any adjustment as to levies in proposed districts. We have. creek to the same district. The pay- twice the amount allowed was col- the school fond. That portion of never been furnished with petitions * ment of these claims were diverting lected.’Sometimes, part of the cost Vork county which formed a part of for new districts. There mutt be at. the school funds and is a violation of was cut and the balance not Dberobee not only had no pact in- district before there can be a petition law. The building of bridges belongs Exhibit “C” hereto attached con- lebtedness, bat had a few hundred for an extra levy. Aa these petitions! to the county commissioners. No- tains the number of the Judgment lollars to its credit. The Spartau- asked for levies in propoeed districts, vember 11. 1903. he approved a claim roil $he title of the case and the mrg and Union sections owed for the election and levy are void. There; in favor of J. C Ott* for $690 for le- out of the ordinary county fun During the year 1903, the snpertn dent approved and ordered paid of the unapportioned fund to R. Sarratt and James C. Jefferies, mej bers of the county board of tion, $38 40 In addition to $18.90 . them by the county commissionersf| to 1904. $45.60; 1905. $38.70; 1906. claims and demands of whatever na*- $34.20; 1907. to November 1st. $41.40] ture agaiast the county for maintain- On December 5, 1903, he approved 4 tog, or keeping In repair any bridge, claim against the unapportioned fun€ ferry or public road moat be pawed to favor of Dr. R. F. ifcKown. a mean on and ordared paid by the couaty her of the board to 1902, tor $7.00< commissioners, and then the supw- This mahes a total sum of $20290; visor shall draw his warrant on the paid direct to members of the boards treasurer for the amount ordered On September 22- 1906. the supertiH paid by the commissioners, counter- tendent approved a claim I0r $46.0# signed by the clerk of the board, etc. to favor of the board an<^Hsbursed From the foregoing it will be seen it as follows; September 22, 19965 that the supervisor has no authority R. C. Sarratt 612.00; September 28 1 , to draw a warrant on the treasurer 1906. James C. Jefferies. $14.40; Octi for any amount until the board ap- oher 1. 1906, R. C. Sarratt (extn proves the claim and orders it paid, help) $9.00; October 1. 1906, J. W and before it becomes such a war- Ezell, freight and dr&yage, $4.40; Octi rant that the treasurer can legally obe r 7, 1907, R. C. Sarratt, (speda pay It must be countersigned by the work) $2.60; October 7. 1907, Jame# clerk and under the seal of the r. Jefferies, (special work), $2.60. Mr. Sarratt had been paid d| all allowed him tor 1906, though] from the wrong fund, and the Intendent drew this warrant and missloners. This law was violated when the first claim against the county was paid add has been violat ed nearly ten thousand times rlaee, and la being violated as moah today Sarratt received $21.00 again. Just as ever, twice the amount allowed him by Bacb claim must be examined and law. Mr. Jefferies received In all ordered paid by the commlsetouera.