Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — Objection to the Illegal Method. [ARTICLE]

Objection to the Illegal Method.

In these twenty-four counties that have received Governor Hanly’s letter the law has not been followed. In these counties the commissioners have not made the appropriation loan at the beginning of the year, the trustee using the funds that he collected at the December settlement previously, and administering the relief from this money directly. The September tax levied, terefore, is turned over to him direct, and he uses this during the next year, no cheek being placed on his expenditures by the overseeing of the commissioners. The absolute control that this method gives to the trustees is said to have made them more liberal in the distribution of poor funds, and this occasioned the letter sent by tne governor.