Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — HAVE AN OFFSET TO NEWTON COUNTY CLAIM [ARTICLE]

HAVE AN OFFSET TO NEWTON COUNTY CLAIM

Attorney for Jasper Has Ascertained the Amount Due From Newton and Other Coutnies. Some time ago the Newton County Enterprise reported the cheeking up of the accounts for the past ten years between Newton and other counties of venued cases and pub lished the figures disclosed by an examination of th’e record. Jasper county was found to be indebted in the sum of $2,210. County Attorney Dunlap, for Jasper county, at once had the cases that have been handled in this county on change of venue checked and it was found that Newton county owes us an offset to their claim, $1,575, which would' still leave a balance due Newton county of $635, but Attorney Dunlap does not concede that amount due Newton county, owing to the fact that for a great many years Newton county has been using our jail for all of its prisoners, paying us only 40 cents a day for their care, while bearing none of the expense of jail upkeep, .etc. It is quite probable that a hill for this will be made out and included in the statement sent to our neighbor. There is a possibility that the errors may have crept into the checking up of these accounts, covering so many years and Attorney Dunlap will recommend to the commissioners that the accounts be counter-checked, Newton county sending some one here and Jasper county sending an accountant to Kentland. It is quite certain that there is something due our neighbor in this matter, as Jasper county has sent more cases there for trial than Newton county has sent here. The search of the records disclose that other counties are indebted to Jasper as follows: Benton i $ 12 Carroll 6 Starke 6 Pulaski 12 Porter 12 Lake 52 White 101 Total .$2Ol A new law requires that hereafter these matters be checked up after each term of court and settlement made at the time.