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Show RAISES QUESTION AS TO LEGALITY County Auditor Desire to Clear Up Old Dills Eefere CAoe of Tear To cue if is county auditor ad dress-d a ett r to the county attor estcrda aek ng f t would be to sue aarraD datod January 1P1 tu a me t ot t. lis incurred d nng 1914 The aud tor lesires to par c i all old b lis before the new aim n strat un omcs n, but tho presto pres-to countx f nances will not permit of further jan nt out of 1014 revenue. In other ears when one Republican a ministrat on t cce Jed another It was the custom to catrv bills over to th new year bu n t w ot the De n ocrati adu nistrat on about to be ushered n the a 1 tor des rf6 to clean i up all but ness before timing his ac ounts ove to h s uecessor The 1 m ot debt for 1814 hai been reached th h lear as it uuallT 5 at th s t me m tear and the statutes prohibit the expenditure of mon in excess of the rev noes for the ru rent yoar The co nt attorn ras not able to av offbHPi whether the auditor s proposal pro-posal v.o Id be legal It might he that an aultor whose term I ecu 11 expires Jacuar 1 has no right to issue a war rant dated after that tine |