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Show 'COW IS iEBIEO y TO STATEHI ROADS Commissioners Go Over Accounts and Minutes in the Matter. j AUDITOR IS IN DOUBT Mind Refreshed by Miss McComsey and Reference Refer-ence to Records. j Tlipbccird of county commissioners contemplated con-templated yesterday the prom' from it a own records that Salt l,ake county owes it the state road fund ?22.0"vS.2r on accounts previous to .September :I0. 1316. f The sudden casting up of accounts as between the county and the state load commission was preclpltuted by the refusal re-fusal of the county to honor a requisition for $80,000 presented recently by the stato road commission. The county commissioners, commis-sioners, unaware that $22,orS.2. of past appropriations made had not been turned over, asked the county attorney if the state road commission could draw in advance ad-vance of collections. The county attorney's at-torney's written opinion was to the effect ef-fect ihut no advance money could bo made if the county must, in considei ation of the lownesa of Its available cash, borrow bor-row money to advance. The communication from the secretary of the state road commiSHlon was by nature na-ture of serving notice, that the road fund could struggle along without any advanee if paid the amount actually due on back account. The proof, as detailed in the communi-eation communi-eation from K. R. Morgan, Heerctary of tho slate road commission, was elucidated by Miss Ida MctTomscy, chief clerk of the road commission, who was before the board of county commissioners when the report was up for consideration, as was also Charles A. Weaver, county auditor. , Auditor Is Corrected. Mr. "Weaver disclaimed knowledge or responsibility of three items, totaling $16.-009.94. $16.-009.94. Miss M-Comscy took, issue with the county audi lor, declaring he fore 1 ha commissioners that she had personally called to his attention that (he money whs due the slate road fund under the official offi-cial actions of the county commissioners. L,ater reference to the records showed that tiie county auditor had not been dependent J entirely upon Miss McComsey for lnfor- f matlon to enable him to keep track of the county's indebtedness to the state road A fund. I Concerning an appropriation of $4464.20 1 voted to the state road f.ind by t he 1 county commissioners on Junk 1. lll;i, the letter files of the county clerk's of flea I showed that Mr. Weaver was notified un I der date of June 2, 1915. f I An appropriation of S'iOOO was vote 1 by the county commissioners on June 2j I 11) lti, according to the minutes of tj I meeting of that date. Since February 9 1916, County Auditor Weaver has hi supplied with a copy of the minutest the board of county commissioners, ly" J Ing triumphed in his demand for tiie if" utes copy on the claim that It was aP" .lutely necessary In his endeavors to check upon the county funds. T Balance in the Red. Recently Mr. Weaver reported to th county auditor that the county funri were down to about $10,000. This repoi did not take into consideration the $1 909.94 appropriated by the county con missloners to the state road fund, hi never transferred, so that the county w, actually about $6909.94 in the red wii its balance when Mr. Weaver report $10,000 on hand. I The third item going to make up til 16.900. 94 wJiich the county has disec J ered that it forgot that it owed, is of da I previous to the advent of the present ministration. It was for S744o. 63, a: was appropriated on May 23, 1914, but w never transferred to the credti of the ro fund. The remaining $3242.53 of ; $2,05S.25 is made up of several itei already conceded as owing to the st. road fund and properly transferred. An eleventh-hour investigation of i situation 'was started by Chairman A. Crabbe yesterday, after the board of c missloners had passed a resolution app priating to the state road fund all available money for this purpose. Make Part Amends. This consisted of $6957.16 of the spe road tax fund, something less than S: of which has been collected since Sept' ber 30 of this year, and" something n than $5000 of which was to the credi the road fund on that date, more than setting $3242.53 recognized as past to the fund and charged against the c ty on the county treasurer's records, addition, an appropriation of $1600 voted from the general funds of the co' to parallel as much apportionment f the motor license tax made by the t-for t-for road purposes in the county, maki total appropriation yesterday by the c ty commissioners of $S5.r.7.16, as as the state road commission's state; claiming $22,058.25 on old accounts. Further consideration of the inde' ness for which the county commissi, were by record responsible, but of v they were not cognizant until the retary of the state road coranii launched his little bomb, was reserve future deliberations of the board, claims of the secretary were accomp by copies of the various resolutio: the board of county commissioners a: Ing the appropriations in question, were substantiated by reference t minutes of the board's meetings. |