No greater outrage upon the tax payers of…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

e board of com- missioners fails to show any order of the board allowing such rebates and they are clearly un- authorized and unlawful, and the grand jury recommends that action at law be at once insti- tuted against these parties for the collection of taxes remaining unpaid. No greater outrage upon the tax payers of the county could be perpetrated than the wiping out of such large amounts from the taxes of the rich, in secret, while the poor must pay to the utmost farthing. The committee had not time to inquire into the validity of all the re- bates entered, and others may prove to be un- authorized upon further investigation. The grand jury had evidence to show the charging of illegal fees for services not ren- dered by the present sheriff. We were able to conclude investigation in only one case in which mileage was charged for serving a warrant on a prisoner in the county jail — $96.75, and serv- ing two subpoenas on the same three persons in each case, in Silver City, upon the returns of which mileage was charged at $21 on each subpoena — making $138.75 for mileage charged for services made in Silver City.