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Show MANDAMUS PROCEEDINGS PRO-CEEDINGS FILED IN DIST. COURT Karl S. Carlton, through Sam Cline, his attorney has filed application applica-tion for a writ of mandamus against the board, of education of Beaver county asking that they either publish pub-lish an annual statement required by law for 1920, or show cause why they have not done so. The court has ordered that the writ issue, and the board of education, educa-tion, trustees and clerk of the board have been served with the writ, and must publish the ' statement before be-fore October 3, or show cause why they have not complied with the law. Following is the writ as served: "In the District court of Beaver county, Utah. State of Utah, on relation of Karl S. Carlton, plaintiff, vs. Board of Education Ed-ucation of Beaver County school district, dis-trict, C. C. Sloan, J. P. Barton, William Wil-liam Hurst, D. K. Barton, Isa-belle Isa-belle Detmers, clerk of the board of education of Beaver county school dis trice, State of Utah, defendants. The State of Utah, to. Board of Education Ed-ucation of Beaver county school district, dis-trict, A. L. Dotson, C. C. Sloan, J. P. Barton, William Hurst, D. K. Barton, Bar-ton, trustees, and Isabelle Detmers, clerk of the Board of Education of Beaver county district, State of Utah, Ut-ah, and each of you, greeting: Whereas, it manifestly appears to us by the petition of the said Karl S. Carlton, relator and petitioner herein, here-in, that the above named defendants and each of them -have failed and neglected to publish the annual statement required by Section 4614 of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1917. for the year ending June 30, 1920 and that no statement of any kind or nature na-ture for the sa''d year ending June 30th, 1920, has ever been published, and that there is not a plain, specr' and adequate remedy in the ordinary ordi-nary course of law: Therefore, we do command you and each of you, that immediately after the receipt of this writ you do publish the annual statement required requir-ed by Section 4614 of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1917, for the year ending end-ing June 30th 1920, or that you show cause before the court at the court room thereof in the county court house at Beaver City, Beaver County, State of Utah, on the 3rd day of October, 1921, at the hour of ten o'clock p. m. of said day, or as soon thereafter as counsel may bo heard, why you have not done so. Let due service hereof together with a copy of said petition be made upon the persons to whom this writ . is hereinabove directed without a delay. de-lay. Witness, the Honorable William F. Knox, Judge of the District court of the Fifth Judicial District, in and for the County of Beaver. State of Utah, and-the seal of said court, this 23rd day of September. 1921. Waldo F. Murdock. Clerk of the District Court." Sam Cline, Attoreny for Plaintiff. Beaver county is not the only county In the state which has failed ! to comply with this law. Many other counties have either failed to publish pub-lish a financial statement, or if they did, to make it so brief that it wo? of little benefit to the people of the county. This law stating that the officials shall publish financial statements, is a good one. If it is followed out to the letter, there will never be anv whisperings of graft on the part of the people, for the figures will be Derore all the citizens in black and white. And in case a taxpayer wishes wish-es to know how the public funds have been used, he can procure a copy of a newspaper much easier than he can go to the county seat and spend a dav or two running through the books. The Carbon county board of education educa-tion was recently forced to publish-' a complete report similar to the one asked for in the ahovwrit. . A |