Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — BOARD ASKED TO INTERFERE. [ARTICLE]

BOARD ASKED TO INTERFERE.

Asserted that County Treasurer Should Account for Interest. Jeffersonville, Ind., February 5. —Samuel Hedge, taxpayer, has filed a petition before the Board of County Commisaioners, asking an investigation of the accounts of B A. Coll, ex-county treasurer, alleging that he has retained for his personal use interest on county funds paid by two banks of this city and the bank at Charlestown. The amount is said to be nearly $7,000. Joseph A. McKee, county attorney, has been directed to investigate. The action is based on an opinion rendered by exJudge Alexander Dowling, of New Albany, at request of the petition-

er, who holds that the interest is part of the county fund and should be accounted for with it, and that the custom of treasurers in retaining it is no defense. It is said that the treasurers of Clark county have heretofore retained the interest, but the present treasurer, Isaac G. Phipps, accounts for it to the county.