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Show A NICE OFFICIAL. w'alter Murphy's Conctnct Exposed fey Colonel Nelson. HE TOOK EVERYTHING IN SIGHT. A. Sensation gprens at the fleeting of the Board of Education Last Xlsht The County Attorney in tne Role of a Fee Fiend Teachers r and Janitors Employed 31 ore School Bonds for Kale. The fees incurred in the litigation arising over the illegal school tax levy for 1S90, came up for discussion at the meeting of the board I of education last night. Williams & Van Cott, the board's attorneys, sent in a report tatlng that the matter having been determined deter-mined Anally by the court, it could not be re- ' opened, and the board had no interest In the taxes in the hands of the clerk of the court. The attorneys also sent in a coinmunica- I tion calling attention to the fact that the costs in this litigation were due the clerk of the-court, and suggesting that the same be paid. Colonel Nelson stated that some $4000 had already been eaten up in fees, and of this sum the cleric as receiver, and the collector as referee, received about $700. According to a memorandum in his hands, the division among the attorneys was on the basis that County Attorney Murphy got a third. The attorney charged Collector Hardy a private fee for appearing for him, and then went to the other side on the prospective division of fees on the refund and got rather more than one-third of the $S300 divided amonr the attorneys. Judge Judd got less than a third, while Judge Sutherland got only one-sixth, and Richard Cabell less than Judge Sutherland. It struck him that fees enough had been paid. "It seems," said the colonel, "as if there ought to have been enough fees taken out of this fund already without this application to the board for more. Those who have received re-ceived these large sums should arrange the matter among themselves, or the court should help them to do so and not ask this board, which has got tha worst of it all through, to contribute from the public revenues reve-nues to pay further fees. The whole matter should be referred to the court, with a view to getting an order to quiet the fee business forever as far as it relates to this fund." At this juncture. Trustee Dooly !cut the discussion short by moving to have the whole matter laid on the table. The finance committee was authorized to settle with Ackerman & Co. for printing the reports. The committee on sites and buildings reported re-ported that the lowest bid received for the removal of dirt from the Lowell school site was that of Stout A Drage, for $1450. The clerk was authorized to make a contract with that firm. The bid of Heesch, Davis & Co. of $622 for putting in the water works system at the Bryant school was accepted. The committee on sites and buildings was authorized to contract for the plumbing at the Hamilton school. On recommendation of the committee on teachers, Mrs. Hamer was employed in the primary department of the Eleventh school at a salary of $75 per month. James Morrow was employed as janitor at the Lincoln school at a salary of $90 per month. The finance committee reported that advertisements ad-vertisements had been placed for the sale of the remaining $150,000 of school bonds. Appropriations amounting to $4115.47 were made, and the board then adjourned for one week. |