Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1877 — Squaring Up Accounts. [ARTICLE]

Squaring Up Accounts.

The Centennial Board of Finance have paid the Government all but about $50,000 of the $1,500,000 that the Supreme Court adjudged to be payable. Against this $50,000 that yet remain a to

be paid, the Board have entered a cross charge of $20,000 paid by them to the Custom House officers employed on the grounds and in the different buildings at a time when the Secretary of the Treasury had no funds to pay them out of existing appropriations.