Logan County KS Archives News.....Proposal to Examine County Books by Special Examiner MOORE, 1891 February 6, 1891
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The Oakley GRAPHIC, Oakley, Kansas; February 6, 1891 February 6, 1891

Special Examiner MOORE was engaged by the county commissioners to examine 
certain of the county records in accordance with the terms of his proposition, 
which follows: 

I will check up and examine the books and accounts of all county clerks and 
county treasurers who served your county from the date of its organization up 
to Jan. 1, 1891.  I will furnish, compile and open a new set of double-entry 
books, showing the entire business done by the county clerks and county 
treasurers for the period above named, which said book shall contain an account 
with each treasurer separately and an account with each and every fund with 
which said treasurers had to deal.  Each of said accounts to show the amounts 
received for its credits, the amounts paid out and the balance remaining in it 
at the date above mentioned.  I will also compile and furnish a tabulated 
statement by years showing the correct amount of each tax roll, the amount of 
bonds and warrants issued, the amounts paid and the amounts outstanding.  I 
will also furnish a balance sheet taken from said new set of books when 
completed which shall show the financial condition of your county on the date 
up to which the said new books are written.  The cost of the new books, expense 
of clerk hire, stationery and all other expense incident to said work to be 
paid by me.  No payment to be made to me until the said work has been fully 
completed and duly approved and accepted by your honorable board.  In the event 
of your accepting the said work after the same is finished and turned over to 
you then I am to receive a county warrant for the sum of $700.  The said work 
to be completed and turned over to you for your approval on or before the 15th 
day of March, 1891.  I also agree that unless the above named work results in a 
saving to the county of at least $500 that I will make no charge for said work. 

This examination is all right so far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough.  
There are other matters in connection with the administration of affairs in 
this county that need looking after.  A great avalanche of bills have been 
presented in the past three years and allowed without a question, and there is 
no doubt in the minds of those who have given the subject any attention but 
that thousands of dollars have been filched from Logan county in this way.  Let 
the investigations be thorough and far reaching, and "let no guilty man 
escape."  


Source:  The Oakley GRAPHIC, Oakley, Logan County,  Kansas; Friday, February 6, 
1891; Volume II No. 12, page 1 column 3.  Microfilm available at Oakley Public 
Library; filmed by/for Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas. 



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