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Show THE MARSHAL'S STATEMENT. (jiMH't-al Maxwell Explains, and Asks fur a Thuiuiih loves-fixation. loves-fixation. He Says tne Second District Grand Jurors Have Gone Off Wrong. Salt Lakk Citt, December 14th, 1875. Editors Herald : The action of the grand jury of the Beaver district court, published in your dispatches this morning, and commented upun by you in the same issue, being of official significance, demands an explanation. The grand jury report an appropriation appro-priation of $13,200 te defray the expenses ex-penses of the Second judicial district. This is a mistake. The appropriation appropria-tion to which they designed to refer was one of $23,-100, by act of congress of March 3d, 1S75, which was to defray de-fray the expenses for the entire Utah district (comprising the whole terri tory). I estimate its application under the jlaw and instructions from the department depart-ment of justice, as follows : Tbr.-e clerks of court (aTerage ?1, COO each) ..$3,000 District Attorney 2,600 Assistants 1,000 Four commi-aionere at 300 each.... 1,200 Total, 7,700 feeaviug for my use as marshal, $15,700, with which to attempt to j defray the expenses of.the threedistrict courts, four sessions each year, the ! supreme court, with two sessions each iyear, the capture, transposition, and subsistence of prisoners, including includ-ing penitentiary expense. Of the estimate of $15,700 to be disbursed by me as marshal, I have had advanced the sum of $13,200, this buoi being for the entire territory and not for the Second district. (The department of justice never intended to use up almost the entire appropriation appropria-tion in one district. The account current on file in the Second judicial district was the opening of an account for the entire district of Utah territory. terri-tory. The regulation system of accounts ac-counts may be thus explained: There are three courts and but one set of books, and they are in the marshal's office. The attorney general instructed that jurors and witnesses should be allowed and paid under the territorial law. Those vouchers referred to as receipted re-ceipted have been explained by letters to the department of justice as not having been paid, and reasons given therefor. After having carried the burden of territorial prosecutions for one year and a half upon the me.'gre sum of $13,200, and the munificent sura of $300 from the territory to be added thereto, what wonder is it that a multitudo of jurors, witnesses and guards should be clamoring for their just dues? On the 2Sth day of September, 1S75, feeling satisfied that matters ol such vital interest to the Government, thtf community, aud myself, demanded de-manded it, I made a special personal appeal to the United States attorney general to send an inspector, inspec-tor, in whom ho had confidence, and make a thorough and complete KT.iminMian of tvll thiuga Muuulca with my department, assuring him that it was ol the utmost importance that some measure of relief be adopted, as I could not possibly carry the burden bayond the 1st of January, Jan-uary, 1S70. Receiving no reply I applied for leave of absence, to enable en-able me to present my claims aud represent the situation; which was denied as long as the courts are in session (under rule). I presumj and hope my accounts jwill be examined, first, by the comp-jtroller: comp-jtroller: second, by the auditor; third, I by the committee on appropriations j for the department ofjustice; fourth, j by the territorial legislature; and j finally, but not now, by the honest ; starving aspirants. Aud I feel sure that I shall got relief from some s-ure. In the meantime what , wonder that there should be com-! com-! plaint? George R. Maxwell, I . U. S. Marshal. |