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Show MANDAMUS SUIT FILED AGAINST i CARBON COUNTY BOARD ' OT EDUCATION Mandamus proceedings have - been started in district court at Price by j R. W. Crockett to compel the Carbon Car-bon county board of education and its clerk, Ida R. Tanner, to publish as the law. provides a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the district for the year ending with June 30th, last. Oliver . K. Clay is plaintiff's attorney. The board and its clerk were served with the papers in fie suit on Saturday last. What pretends pre-tends to be a statement was published , by Clerk Tanner In the two news-,, papers at Price last; August 27th.V The receiipts for the year in this' statement are given as $481,948.01. Total expenditures $291,283.26. In ten, (only) typewritten lines Clerk Tanner tells what became of this two hundred hun-dred and ainety-one thousand and some, odd dollars. Sees. 4614, Compiled Laws of Utah, makes it the duty of the board of education of any school district to show by publication in a newspaper: i First The amount on hand at the date of the last report. I Second The amount of sinking fund and how invested. . Third The moneys paid out, to whom and for what paid. ! Fourth The balance of school moneys on hand. Fifth The number, date and the amount of every bond issued and redeemed re-deemed and the amount received and paid therefor. , , Added to the total receipts of $481,-948.01 $481,-948.01 for the year ending with June 30, 1920, is $13,900.94, making a grand "total of receipts and balances" of $495,848.95 or nearly five hundred thousand dollars. But in ten (only) typewritten lines Clerk Tanner disposes dis-poses of this $291,283.26. One line merely informs the taxpayers of Carbon Car-bon county that there was on June 30, 1920, an "available cash balance" of $204,505.69. Taxpayers in general would like to know how the $291,283.26 close to three hundred thousand dollars was spent to whom paid and what for. In the pretended statement Clerk Tanner shows a sinking fund of $204,123.60. It is a huge sum of money, The people have a right to know. Hence this mandamus suit. Price Sun. . . |