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Travelers’ Guide.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
ROM and after this date the following
* Schedule will be run on the Cherokee ltail
f Leave Roc kraart at 7:00 A. M.
“ Tavlorsville, S:iX) ”
“ Stih fboro, 8:25 “
Arrive at <. artersville, 9:10 “
Leave Carl ersville 3:Ut) P. M.
“ Stillborn, 3:50
“ Taylorsville 4:30 “
Arrive at Rockmai t, 5:15 “
WESTERN & ATLANTIC RAILROAD
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
15 te following Schedule takes effect Novem
ber 2.C 1875.
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta— 4 20 pm.
Arrive Cartersville 636 pm
Arrive Kingston ....6 42 p m
Arrive Dalton 7 04 p m
Arrive Chattanooga 10 15 p m
No. 3.
Leave Atlanta 6 20 am
Arrive Cartersviile 8 42 it m
Arrive Kingston 9 If a m
Arrive Dalton 10 54 a m ]
ArrivelChttttanooga 12 42 p m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 5 55 p m
Arrived artersville 8 50 pm
Arrive Kingston 9 24 p in
Arrive Daltou 11 45 p m
SOUTHWARD* No. 2.
Arive Chattanooga 4 03 p m
Leav r e Dalton 5 51 p iy
Arrive King-i .n 7 31 i) in
Arrive Caitersville 8 02 p m
Avrive Atlanta 10 10 p m
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga 5 15 a m
Arrive Dalton.i 7 I t a m
Arrive Kingston 9 07 am
Arrive Cartel -viile 9 45 a m
Arrive Atlanta It 55 r.’n
No. 12.
Arrive Dalton i oo m
Arrive Kingston 4 21 a m
Arrive Canersville 5 18 a m
Arrive Atlanta 9 42 a in
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 2, bc
ween New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4 be
tween Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos *a3 ml 2be
tveen Louisville and Atlanta.
JSffXo change of cars between New Orleans
Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and Baltimore
and only one change to New York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m , ar
rive in New York the second thereafter at 4 00
p. m.
Excursion Tickets to the Virginia Springs
and various Summer Resorts will boon sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Colum
bus, Macon. Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta,
at greatly reduced rates Ist oi .June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to the
Virginia Springs or to Baltimore should ad
dress the undersigned.
Parties contemplating traveling should send
for a copy of the Kenneeaw Route Gazette , con
taining schedules, etc.
ESTAsk for tickets via “Kennesaw Route.”
B. W. WRENN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
ma\22 —dtf Atlanta, Ga.
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Sunday, Dee. 12th trains on tins
Rome Railroad will run as follows:
DAY TRAIN— EVERY DAY.
Leave Rome at 7 a m
Arrive at Home 11.30 am
SATURDAY EVENING ACCOMODATION.
Leaves Rome at 5-45 p m
Arrive at Home at 2 P m
ATLANTA & WEST POINT KAILKOAD.
PASSENGh K TRAIN- OUTWARD.
STATIONS. AKKIVE. LEAVE
Atlanta 10:25 p.m.
East Point.. 10:41 p. ni. 10:44 p. in.
lied <>ak 10:59 p. m. 11:44 p. m.
Fitirburn 11:21 p. in. 11:22 p. m.
Palmetto 11:3? p. m. 11 MS p. m.
Powell's 11.59 p. in, 11:59p. m.
Newnau 12:14 p, ru. 13:15 a. ni.
Puckett’s 12:39 a m 12:35 a m
Grantville 1: W a m 12:51 am
HogHUsville 1:08 a in 1:09 am
'Whitfield’s 1::U a in 1:35 am
I.HGrange 1:54 a m 1:55 a m
Long Cane 2:21 a m 2:21 am
West Point 2:40 a m
PASSENGEIi TRAIN—INWAED.
STATIONS. ARRIVE. I.E V.VE.
West Point 12:30 pm
laing Cane 13:30 p m 13:3(1 p m
l.a Granite 1 :t*2 p m 1:03 p in
Whitfield's 1:21 pm 1:21 p m
llogaiisvilie 1:21 pra 1:42 p m
Grantviile 1:57 p m 1:58 p m
Puckett’s 2:13 p m 2:tS p ni
New nan 2:29 p in 2:30 pm
Powell’s 2:44 p m 2:45 p m
Palmetto.. 3:08 p m 3:0? p m
Fair'uurn 8:32 p nt 2:23 p m
Red Oak 3: ; k< y m 3:i2 pin
East Point 8:37 p m 3:57 pin
Atlanta 4:lsjp m
SELMA, ROME & DALTON.
MAIL TRAIN DAILY—NORTH.
Leave Rome - 6:10 p m
Arrive at Dalton 3:24 p in
Making close connections at Dalton with the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Rail
road, and Western and Atlantic Railroad for
ail Eastern ar.d Western cities.
mail train daily—south.
Leave Dalton .00 p m
Arrive at dome 9.10 p m
Arrive at Cal era 5:40 a m
Arrive at Selma iu;2o a in
Making close connection at Cal era tor Mont
Comery and points South, and at Selma wit-
A. Central Railroad for Mobile, New Or
leans, Meridian, Vicksburg, Jackson, all
points South in Texas, Louisiana and Missis
si tP'- . M. STANTON, Gen. Sup’t.
Rat V night, Gen. Ticket and Pass’gr Agt.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Pa- sengcr Trains on Georgia Railroad,
AUaiuato Augusta, run as below:
, av " Aug’.-t.t at 8:15 am
1 eaves Atlanta at 7:uo a m
Arnve.- at Augusta 3:89 a m
Arrives at Atlanta .5:45 pm
Night passenger trains as follows:
Hi 1 ™: at 8:15 p m
Ai\es at
Arrives at Atlanta... .'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.V. 0C35 a m
Accomodation train as follows •
Leaves Atlanta _ _
Arrive* at Atlanta * “ l
Arrives at CovingtonV..V...V..V.7:|) p m
TUH COOSA RIVER STEAMERS.
Steamers on the Coosa
schedule as follows - UlVer wUI run as P er
Leave Rome every Monday at. . i„ rn
A.ri „t J Sntu.-ai.yß S S
f M ’ ei -LIOTT, Gen’i Sop’*>
GEORGIA LEGISLATORS
First Day- Wednesday, January l*}, 1876.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 A. M. Pres
ident Simmons in the chair.
Prayer was offered by liev. J. p.
Duncan.
The roll of members was called by
the secretary, and a quorum found
present.
Mr. Simmons arose and addressed
the Senate in appropriate remarks.
After a number of resolutions in
i forming the House of the organiza
tion of the Senate, Ac., the President
| announced committees to wait upon
1 the Governor and to secure a chap.
|lain.
Senator Kibbee—That the daily
I sessions of the Senate commence at
1 10 A. M., and terminate at 1 P. M.,
unless otherwise ordered by the Sen
j ate. Adopted.
Senator Cain moved a recess of ten
I minutes, while awaiting the organi
zation of the House. Adopted.
As the President announced the
motion carried, the message from the
House was announced. The Senate
then repaired to the House to hear
the message of the Governor.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Senator Arnow— A bill to in
corporate the Brunswick Bank and
Trust company. Read first time.
By Senator Hudson, 28th —A bill
to be entitled an act to alter and
amend an act for the prevention of
cruelty to animals. Read first time.
By same—A bill to amend an act
entitled an act to prohibit the sale of
intoxicating liquors in the county of
Putnam outside the town of Eaton
ton. Read first time.
By the same—A bill to be entitled
an act to punish any person or per
sons selling or giving to any minor
any deadly weapon. Read first
time.
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR.
The sergeant-at-arms announced
the presence of the secretary of the
executive department with a message
from the Governor.
Senator Kibbee offered the follow
ing resolution:
Resolved , That the portion of Gov*
ernor’s message relating to the pub
lic debt be referred to the finance
committee; that on the report of the
attorney general, constitutional
amendments, Macon and Brunswick
railroad, North and South railroad to
the committee on judiciary, and the
remaining portions of the message to
ap p ropri at e coin m ittees.
Senator Gilmore amended that 500
copies of the message be printed for
the use of the Senate.
The resolution, as amended, was
adopted.
On motion the Senate stood ad
journed to 10 A. M., on Thurday, the
loth.
IIOUSE REPRESENTATIVES.
In accordance with the constitution
and laws of this State, the House of
Representatives this day convened in
annual session, and was called to or
der by the speaker, Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, and opened with prayer
by Rev. John Jones.
Speaker Hardeman delivered an
address to the House, when —
The clerk called the roll of the
House, and a quorum answered to
their names.
The foliowing new members were
sworn in : David Irwin, of Cobb,
vice W. 1). Anderson, resigned; C.
Binns, of Wilkes, vice W. A. Quinn,
deceased; J. K. Holcombe, of Haral
son, vice R. A. Reid, deceased.
The Seuute was informed Of the
organization of the House, and a
committee appointed to notify the
Governor.
The Governor’s message was then
read as folio ws:
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
Executive Department, ]
State of Georgia, >
Atlanta, Ga., January 12,1875)
To the General Assembly:
In discharge of my dutj 7 under the
Constitution, I proceed to inform the
General Assembly of the state of the
Commonwealth, and to recommend
io their consideration the measures
that are deemed necessary and expe
dient.
In consequence of the vacancy in
the office of State Treasurer, which
occurred on the 2Gth day of Novem
ber last, no formal report of the ope
rations of the Treasury during that
period of the last fiscal year, enqing
on the day just named, has been re
ceived for transmission to the Gen
eral Assembly. It devolves upon
me, therefore, to present in this com
munication a full and particular
statement of the affairs of the Treas
ury during the period mentioned.
state treasury.
By a joint resolution of the Gen
eral Assembly, passed at the last ses
sion, t’ne Governor was directed to
appoint a “skillful and competent
person to assist the Treasurer in sys
tematizing the manner of book-keep
ing in his office, to make out a full
and complete registration of ail
bonded obligations in the Treasury,
to ascertain, if possible, all the out
standing obligations recognized as
legal or illegal by the State, to report
to tlio General Assembly a tabulated
statement of the same,” and to do
whatever else was necessary “to pro
tect the interest of the State in the
conduct of the business of the office.”
Under the authority of this resolu
tion, I appointed James F. Bozeman,
who entered upon the discharge of
liis duties on the 22d day of March
last. Mr. Bozeman has prepared and
submitted a full report of the results
of his investigations, which i? here
with respectfully transmitted for the
information of the General Assembly.
By reference to the tabulated state
ment accompanying the report, it
will be seen that the valid bonded
debt of the State amounts to $8,005,-
500.00. The whole amount of out
standing bonds of the State declared
null and void by legislative enact
ments, is $2,827,000.00. ine
amount of bonds c.assetl by Mr.
Bozeman as “ invalid ' is
250.00. The outstanding past due
bonds of the State amount to
Of these it has been ascertained that
5i2.500 are in the possession oi
Mo.- ~ts. E. P. Scott A Cos., of >ew
York; SB,OOO in the hands of L. L-
Haves, of the State ot Rhode Island,
and $17,000 are either in possession ot
parties unknown, or have been lost
or destroved. A full descriptive list
of these bonds has been made and
recorded in a book prepared for the
purpose. The report shows that the
amount of past due bonds legally om
] standing is very 7 small.
Books of record have been opened,
! iu which all the recognized and valid
current bonds of the State, as well as
all the overdue and paid bonds found
in any quarter whatever, have been
carefully registered. A book has
also been prepared lor the regJtra
tion of such bonds as shall be heiv.
ter issued. . „
Under an Act approved December
11,1858, entitled “An Act to provide
for the education of the children of
mis State, and to provide a sinking
I the extinguishment of the
Public debt,” $350,000 of bonds were
prepared and placed in the custody
| the Secretary of State. I would
i respectfully suggest that the public
Her _st does not require that these
| - 11.,I 1 ., s houUl be longer kept, and it
js therefore recommended that they
to destroyed. I also recommend
thav the $238,000 of 7 per cent, cur
reney bonds, numbering from 1 to
-06, inclusive, now deposited in the
treasury 7 as security for the school
fund, he destroyed. These bonds
were deposited as a pledge for the
replacement of $242,027.02 of the
senool fund taken on the 6th day of
August, 1870, by authority of the
•Legislature, and applied to the
payment of legislative expenses.—
His not probable that the school
fund will be materially increased by
this deposit of bonds: they should
therefore be destroyed.
Pbe second section of an Act en
titled “An act to set apart and secure
the school fund,” approved July 28,
1870, is as follows:
‘ That from time to time, without
delay, as definite amounts are ascer
tained by the Comptroller Genera!
to he due said fund, lie shall report
the same to his Excellency, the Gov
ernor, who shall thereupon deposit
with tiie Treasurer 7 per cent, bonds
of the State, to such an amount as
will perfectly secure the school fund.”
Under this section 150 7 per cent,
currency bonds of SI,OOO each, dated
May I, 1872, and due July 1, 18w2,
were prepared for execution in the
summer of 1872. They were never
executed, however, because it was
feared that a compliance with this
law would injure the public credit.
Rover having been executed and is
sued, or even deposited as directed
by the Act, they do not form any
portion of the public debt of the
State.
It is also shown by the report that
an amount of 6 per cent, bonds, not
exceeding $375,000 was executed,
probably in the year 1854, for the
purpose of being exchanged for thY>
outstanding bonds of the Central
Bank. For some reason these bonds
were never issued, but remained in
the Treasury vault at Milledgeville
until November, 1861, when, it is
supposed, they fell into the hands of
Federal troops. A rumor exists that
attempts have since been made to put
them in circulation in a Western
State. _ For the protection of the pub
lic against fraud and imposition, I
recommend that appropriate action
betaken, declaring these bonds null
and void.
The attention of the General As
sembly is esuei‘biim tej to uiat
portion of Mr. Bozeman’s report
which refers to the State bonds re
deemed by Henry Clews & Cos., as
former financial agent of the State.
It is shown that in the years 1870 and
l<s7l this agent redeemed bonds of
the State amounting t 05272,250.00, of
which $98,250.00 were afterwards can
celled.. The remaining $174,000, to
gether with SBOO,OOO of void currency
bonds, and £15,075 of sterling bonds,
which had also been redeemed, were,
on the 13th day of December 1873, sold
by the said agent at public auction,
New York, on one day’s notice. At
the sale, the $174,000 of bonds men
tioned were nominally bid off as fol
lows, viz: $153,000.00 by J. D. Hays;
$12,500.09 by the Misses Clews, (said
to be sisters of Henry Clews,) and
$-5,000.00 by Messrs! Chittenden &
Hubbard. The amount realized
from the sale of these bonds wasslß,-
625.00. Tue sterling bonds, and tiie
void currency bonds mentioned were
also disposed of for a trifling sum.
It cannot be doubted that this pre
tended sale was a mere device resort
ed to for the purpose of obtaining a
col or ofrigh t fo r p 1 acing t hes ea 1 rcad y
redeemed securities a second time
upon the market. After the sale they
all went back into the control of
Henry Clews &Cos., and it is alleged
that early in the spring of 1874, a
portion of the same bonds, amount
ing to $149,250.00, was presented at
the Treasury of Georgia and again
redeemed by the late Treasurer.
It has not yet been ascertained
when or by whom tiiese bonds were
thus presented for payment. ‘The
late Treasurer himself declares his
inability to give any information
whatever upon these points. He rep
resents that no written entry orj
memorandum, throwing any light]
upon the subject, was made by him. j
lie further professes to be entirely
unable to recall any fact which would
serve as a clue to the person or per
sons who presented these bonds for
payment. His possession of them
seems to be the only evidence within
his knowledge showing that he re
deemed them. In addition to the
principal of the bonds,the late Treas
urer claims that he also paid interest
thereon accruing after maturity,
amounting to $24,582.15. This alleged
payment of interest is not verified by
proper vouchers, nor is the Treasurer
able to state, from memory or other
wise, to whom the same was made.
In addition to the foregoing, it
would seem, the late Treasurer also
redeemed a second time other bonds
of the State amounting to a large
sum. On the Bth day of January,
1873, Alton Angier, clerk in tiie
Treasury, received from the Fourth
National Bank of New York $21,500
of uncancelled bonds which matured
in June and July, 1872, and in Jan
uary, 1873. These bonds have been
redeemed by the bank, as agent for
the State, by exchanging therefore
new 7 per cent bonds, issued under
the authority of the Act approved
January 18,'1872. Mr. Angier states
that he" brought the bonds from New
York and placed them in the vault
of the Treasury. It should he here
remarked, however, that no entry of
the redemption of these bonds was
made on the records of the Treasury,
either by the Treasurer or his clerk.
The then Treasurer went out of office
shortly after the bonds had been re
ceived in New York by his clerk,but
failed, it seems, to take any receipt
showing the delivery of them to his
1 successor. The latter denies that the
bonds were turned over to him by
| his predecessor, and claims that he
redeemed them in good faith after
!he came into office. If is proper to
state that he does not remember from
whom they were redeemed, nor does
he recall * any circumstance from
which the fact of their redemption
by himself can be ascertained. He
also claims that he paid interest cn
these bonds amounting to $1,080.00.
The ascertained amount of the al
leged payments made by the late
Treasurer*in second redemption of
bonds, was $196,612.15, a particular
statement of which i3 presented in
the accompanying documents,
j Before passing from this subject,
it is proper to state, that in the iat
i ter part of the year 1874, theTreasur
j er obtained warrants in His favor for
the amount of the alleged payments
mentioned. The payments them-
I selves had been made before the war
; rants were applied for, and without
\ he knowledge of the Executive. It is
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20, 1876.
not intended by this statement to
imply that the special consent of the
j Executive is required to authorize
the Treasurer to redeem the princi
; pal and interest of the public debt.
Each outstanding bond, and coupon,
also when properly signed, is, itself,
a lawful warrant upon the Treasury
which it is the duty of the Treasurer
to pay upon presentation at maturi
ty.
Paragraph 11, section 92 of the last
Revised Code of the State, is in the
following words :
“When he (the Treasurer) pays the interes,
j or principal of the State debt, upou a warrant
; issued in his favor, he shail deposit in the Ex
] cutive office coupons, or bonds, on which the
| payments arc made, there to be marked ‘paid’
and filed away, subject to the order of the
General Assembly.”
Section 955 of the Code is in the fol
lowing language:
“When bonds or coupons are paid,
they must be stamped as paid, anti
preserved in the Treasurer’s olfice
with the same care as the funds of
tht) State.”
The first section is a codification of
the Act of 1845. The second was in
troduced by the Code of 1863, and
materially changed the old law.
The first does not require the re
deemed bond or coupon to be can
celled until after the same is present
ed by the Treasurer for an Execu
tive warrant. The second requires
the cancellation to be made at the
time tiie bona or coupon is paid.
The first implies that the cancella
tion should be made under the direc
tion of the Governor; the second
that it must be made by the Treas
urer at the time of payment. The
first provides that, after the Execu
tive warrant has issued, and the re
deemed bonds or coupons have been
marked “paid” or cancelled, they
shall be “filed away” in the Execu
tive office. The second prescribes
that, after payment and cancellation,
they shall be “preserved in the Treas
urer’s office with the same care as
the funds of the State.”
Under the law, as it now stands,
the Treasurer is clearly the custodian
of the redeemed bonds and coupons
of the State. It has been the usage,
when the Treasurer applies fora war
rant to cover the payment of bonds
or coupons, for the Governor to cause
such bonds or coupons to be careful
ly counted by one of the secretaries
of the Executive Department. When
the count, which frequently consumes
many days, is completed, the vouch
ers are sealed up in a package, and a
memorandum of the contents and
amount is indorsed thereon. A war
rant, based upon this memorandum,
is then issued in favor of
urer, and the itself remains
in r -pn usurer’s office, “subject to
the order of the General Assembly.”
The warrant thus issued, it will be
borne in mind, is not intended to
give authority to draw money out of
the Treasury. Its only effect is to
certify that the Treasurer is entitled
to credit on the books of the Comp
troller General for the amount stated
in the warrant. The allowance of
such credit, however, is not intended !
to cone! ude the right of the .State to re-!
open the transaction for the correc- j
cion of any error that may have been !
committed. It is proper here to ob- j
serve, that the usage just mentioned
was conformed to, in every respect,
when the warrants covering the im
proper payments referred to were is
sued. No suspicion had then arisen j
that the Treasurer was not entitled
to the whole amount of the credits
claimed by him.
I recommend a careful revision of
all the laws governing the State
Treasury, and that such amendments
thereof be made as will guard more
effectively the public interest. The
law itself should require that item
ized monthly reports of the condi
tion and transactions of the Treasu
ry be submitted to the Governor,
and the information contained in
these reports should be, in his discre
tion, from time to time, given to the
public. The law should create a lien
in favor of the State upon all the
property of the Treasurer and of his
sureties, from the date of the execu
tion of his bond. Provision should
also be made for the issue of execu
tion against a defaulting Treasurer
and his sureties, without the inter
vention of suit, as is now allowed in
cases oi tax collectors and receivers.
The report of the Treasurer, sub
mitted at the last session of the Gen
eral Assembly, showed a balance in
the Treasury on the Ist day of Jan
uary, 1875, of $1,003,228.88. The
amount received into Troe.eury
from all sources from that time to
thej*2sth of November, 1875—-the
date of the Treasurer’s removal —was
$1,287,277.37. This sum, added to
the balance on hand on the Ist day
of January, 1875, amounted to $2,290,-
400.25. With this gross amount the
Treasurer stood charged at the time
of His removal from office. Tiie ag
gregate amount of his disbursements
in tiie year 1875, as the same appears
on the Comptroller General’s books,
was $810,401.79. This sum, deducted
from the gross amount with which
he stood charged, left a cash balance
against him at the time of his remov
al of $1,480,004.46. The amount of
disbursements just stated includes
only the payments made under (lie
Executive warrants. In addition to
these, the late Treasurer claims that
he is entitled to a large amount of
credits for which no warrants were
issued. To the following statement
of the items of credit thu3 claimed,
the attention of the General Assem
bly is respectfully invited:
On the 24th day of June, 1875, the
Treasurer presented his account for
interest paid upon the public debt in
the year 1874. This account consists
of the following items :
8 per cent coupons for interest due
October 1,1873 $ 46,360 CO
8 per cent coupons for interest due
A prill, 1874 47,210 00
8 per cent coupons for interest due
October 1, 1374.... 44,630 00
7 per cent coupons lor interest due
on o January 1,1375 259.7)0 00
7 per cent, coupons for interest, due on
bonds issued under Act .lan 18, ”T 2.. 30,007 50
6 per cent coupons for interest duo
on and before February 1, 1375 ... 62,115 00
7 per cent, on gold coupons due on or
before October 1, 1871 93,207 50
Miscellaneous coupons for interest
past due bonds, tie 34,207 50
Aggregating $632,527 50
Of the coupons last mentioned,
$6,615 matured at dates prior to Jan
uary, 1873, and, in some instances, as
far back as the year 1801. The re
cords in Treasurer’s office show that
the bonds to which some of these
coupons pertained, were paid at dates
varying from seven to sixteen years
agi>. After the year 1563, the State
paid the interest on her old bonds,
from which fact the presumption
arises that these coupons were paid
prior to January, 1873, the date of
the late Treasurer’s accession to office.
In many instances the dates of ma
turity are carefully and ingeniously
clipped, or punched, from these cou
pon-, in a manner strongly sugges
tive of a doubtful claim. A portion
of them had been twice cancelled,
and the records in the Treasurer’s
office indicated that many of them
had been paid by a former Treasurer.
In many instances, original entries
of payment on the records, iu the
handwriting <f a former Treasurer,
are altered amioverridden by second
i entries in the handwriting of the
late Treasurer. A further suspicion
of the validity of thcs<> coupons was
; raised by the Klmission of the Treas
urer, frequent If repeated, that por
! tions of them yere not proper cred
its, and had pfcbably been gathered
by his clerk from the sweepings of
! the vault, aid carelessly placed
; among his voichers.
' Objection whs made also to allow-
I ing the $93,57$ of 8 per cent, coupons
; presented, as $1 ready stated, with the
Treasurer’s account. These coupons
| represented alt of the first year’s in
terest upon tiie whole issue of 8 per
s cent, bonds, except $41,000. It was
a fact within my own knowledge,
that a large amount of these bonds
I was not disposed of until after the
! first coupon ibr the semi-annual iu
i tercet thereon had matured. It was
hence reasonably inferred that when
they were sold, the matured coupons
i pertaining thereto were cut off and
retained by the Treasurer. No
amount of coupons so cut off and re
i taiaed was reported, however, it
waf not doubted that the Treasurer
was entitled to credit for a iartre
amount of this interest; but no data
vveie furnished from which this
amount could be ascertained. His
books ought to have furnished the
desired information, but no full ae
; count of the sales-of bonds was sub
mitted. Neither bis written nor ver
bid explanations furnished any satis
factory evidence of the specific
amount of credit to which tie was
entitled. In the absence of this in
formation, it was manifestly improp
er to assume a fixed amount; and
lienee, this whole item was held up
for further investigation. I respect
fully submit, herewith, for the infor
mation of the General Assembly, a
particular statement of the coupons
so disallowed, and of the Treasurer’s
written in explanations of
the objections thereto.
REMOVAL OF TIIE TREASURER—HIS
A SCEKT AIN ED LI ABILITIES.
From facts which came to my
knowledge during the Treasury in
vestigation, I formed the opinion
that the surety on the official bond
of the Treasurer was insufficient.
Thereupon, an Executive order
was issued and served upon him per
sonally, on the loth day of Novem
ber last, requiring new bond and
surety to be executed in terms of the
law. With this requisition the
Treasurer failed to comply, by reason
whereof his office became vacant by
operation ~f M v> r , on the 26th day of
Kuverriber last. the jjltiou
allowed for the execution of new
bond and surety, the receipts into
the Treasury were deposited in the
Citizens’ Bank, of Atlanta, and dis
bursements during the same period
were made directly from this bank,
upon Executive warrants only. The
sums so received and disbursed are
particularly slated in the report of
the Comptroller General, herewith
transmitted.
Within the time prescribed by law,
the late Treasurer made a statement
of his accounts and delivered the
books and papers of the Treasury, to
gether with an amount of money, to
to his successor, taking his receipt
therefor. Tills statement of settle
ment was duly recorded in the Comp
troller General’s office; but the re
ceipt taken, as just stated, for the
property of the Treasury, has never
been jwrpsftntocl for record.
By referring to this statement of
settlement, a copy of which accom
panies this communication, it appears
that the late Treasurer stood charged
at the time of his removal, with a
balance of $1,480, 004.46. This state
ment of balance is verified by the
Comptroller General’s books. The
credits claimed by the late Treasurer
in bis said statement, amount to
$1,544,930.95, from which it would ap
pear that the State is indebted to him,
on account, in the sum of $64,926.49.
A careful audit and statement of ac
counts, made since his removal from
olfice, shows a net cash balance
against the late Treasurer, however,
of $110,274.84. This balance, it should
be here remarked, is exclusive of id 1
illegal and improper payments made
by him, and includes only the ascer
tained amount of cash actually re
maining in bis hands at the date
mentioned. The entire amount for
which he is liable on all accounts, as
shown by the carefully prepared
statements accompanying this com
munication, is $291,969.95.
By a joint resolution passed at the
last session of the General Assembly,
the Governor was directed to have
suits instituted against the Treasurer
and his securities on tiicir several
bonds for the recovery of the amount
appearing to be due from the former
to the State. The institution of these
suits was attended with uuadvoida
ble delay, on account of the great
difficulty in ascertaining (He true con
dilion of tbs Treasurer’s accounts.
So soon as the necessary information
upon whieh to predicate suit was ob
tained, however, the Attorney Gen
eral was instructed to lay the cases
before the proper courts. These in
structions have boon complied with.
The Governor was also instructed
by a joint resolution, passed at the
last session, to cause certain bonds
and coupons, in said resolution men
tioned to be burned, and to report
the fact of their destruction to tiie
General Assembly at its present ses
sion. This direction has not been
complied with, for the reason that
these bonds and coupans will be re
quired as evidence iu the several ac
tions now pending against the Treas
urer and his securities.
A vacancy existed in the office of
State Treasurer from the 25th day of
November last, until the 4th day of
December following. During "this
period, the Comptroller General
acted, by Executive appointment, as
State Treasurer. The amount re
ceived by him while so acting was
$204,287.79. The amount disbursed
during that period was $21,730.16,
leaving a balance, to be turned over
to the new State Treasurer, of $132,-
557.63.
APPOINTMENT OF A NEW TREAS
URER.
On the 4th day. of December last,
the Hon. John W. Renfroe, of Wash
ington county, was, by Executive au
thority, appointed and commissioned
State Treasurer, to act until the next
meeting of the General Assembly.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
The whole amount received by the
present Treasurer, from the date of
iris appointment until the close of
the last fiscal year, was $782,240.07.
j The disbursements during the same
period were $270,454.86, leaving a
balance in the Treasury, at the be
ginning of tho nresenC \ 7 ear. of $511,-
7 85.21,
For a more particular statement in
regard to the receipts and expendi
tures of the last fiscal year, the Gen
eral Assembly is respectfully referred
to the report of the Comptroller Gen
eral.
(Conducted on Fourth Page.)
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