Show CITY WARRANTS joseph 8 peery has a communication in this issue of THE STANDARD which should be read by every taxpayer tax payer in the county he has carefully care lully invest gated the condition of city funds ana the method of paying taxes and after much research gives to tho public the results of ills labors which we believe will caneo auice a stir in the community laeff year the taxes collectible amounted to and became delinquent ia november BO that those who escaped abe delinquent liba paid their taxes prior to that date and as only to failed to be paid there remained lc tweda and paid by the ax payers which should have bead immediately accounted for by the city officials 01 this amount reached the treasury in 1895 and in may 1896 leaving wo understand something Eom ething over 1000 unaccounted foi up to date joseph does not inform us that thero is anything irregular in abw particular but in the practice 0 accounting tor taxes by paying in warrants as carried on by collector F B he makes bome telling points and shows tho office oi collector to bo aba moat profitable of any in the gift 0 the city the collector refuses to accept from taxpayers more than two thirds of their taxes in warrants but in turn pays into the treasury four dollars in warrants of every five dollars collected only ono dollar being in cash city warrants are at a discount of 10 per cent and as only a tow of the taxpayers avail themselves ol 01 the right to pay part of their taxes in warrants it is fair to presume that one half of tho amount collected is in cash the collector is in duty bound to turn over every dollar of whatever description paid for city taxes to tho treasury instead of BO doing only one dollar in cash out of five dollars in taxes reaches the treasury the collector has no more right to utilize a dollar in cash paid for he would have to open the vaults of tho treasury and take tho cash from the treasury boxes and go out into the street to purchase warrants and return to the vaults warrants in place of the cash if one bait of the taxes of 1805 gaii in cash it would indicate that the collector made a profit of something like by purchasing city warrants with city cash whilo the city does not suffer except its credit by such questionable transactions holders ot county paper are virtually defrauded out of 10 per cent of the face value of their warrants we do not pretend to eay that the city has not legalized this irregular way of treating city warrants but wo do assert that a city official who stoops to take advantage of such loop holes 10 municipal law does not do honor to the office nor reflect credit upon ids name |