We find that up to the first day of August,…
source date: 1890
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to pay over to the territorial treasurer any of the moneys due to the territory since January 24th, 1890. The law requiring payment on the 10th day of each month of the amount in his hands due the territory on the first day of the month, has been entirely disre- garded. We find that up to the first day of August, 1890, the amount collected for the territory was $39,206.57 and that collector Whitehill had paid prior to the 25th day of January, 1880, the sum of $19,848.59 to the territorial treasurer, leaving a balance due the territory on August 1, 1890, of $19,357.98. Mr. Whitehill claims an offset against this, in bills as sheriff, not yet audited, amounting to $6,421.35, which, if al- lowed, will leave a net balance due the territory of $12,936.63. At the same date, the balance due the county treasurer was $4,220.88, making in the aggregate $17,157.51 of public funds which should be in his hands, of which we have evidence that $9,133.83 is on deposit in the Silver City National Bank to the credit of H. H. Whitehill, collector; $2,096.76 depo*sited with Lindauer, Wormser & Co., at Deming, and county warrants in safe $1900 and what are counted as cash items — some of which we re- gard as of questionable value — amounting to