Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — FIELD EXAMINERS [ARTICLE]

FIELD EXAMINERS

Charge Back $533 After Investigating Books of White Coun ty Auditor. A total of $533 has been charged back by field examiners who recently examined the books and records in the office of J. L. Ackerman, auditor of White county, during 1909, and for the first seven months of 1910. Of this amount, .sl7l is charged against Ackerman. The remainder is charged against . attorneys to whom fees were paid for gravel road services, against two county councilmen, who allowed expenses, and against a citizen for barn rent. The allowances, in the estimation of the examiners, were illegal. Of the amount charged to Ackerman, $l5O is for making up books for township assessors, and the question involved in the payment is now being tried in the White circuit court. The rcmainder.or s2l, is for errors ma le in charging for transfers of documents.

In the sum charged against the attorneys the total is distributed as follows: E. B. Sellers, SKX>, R. J. Million, S7O; G. W. Kaasabaum, $140; total, $3lO. B. F. Price was paid $36 by the commissioners for rent of a barn, and A. L. Teller and J. E. Carson, county Councilmen, were each paid S 8 for expenses, allowances held by the examiners to be illegal. An examination of the treasury of White county, M. B. Spencer treasurer, shows $1,126.60 owing the county from the last three tax collections and from errors and omissions* News. - '• Souvenir envelopes of Rensselaer on sale at The Democrat office at 10 cents per package of 25. By the single hundred, with return card printed in the corner, 75c. A proportionate reduction in larger lots. /