By an order made by the board of com-…
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Board of Commissionersorg
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a.k.a. board of commissioners, county commissioners, commissioners
Herbert Martyrperson
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a.k.a. Herbert Martyr
A. H. Moreheadperson
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a.k.a. Morehead, Mr. Morehead
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By an order made by the board of com-
missioners on the 4th day of June, 1890, there
was allowed A. H. Morehead an advance of
$600.00 for extending the taxes on the duplicate
of the assessment roll for the year and on the
4th day of August, 1890, a further allowance of
$400.00 was made to him upon completion of
the work, making $1,000.00 in the aggregate;
while the testimony of Herbert Martyr, a clerk
in Mr. Morehead’s office, before the grand jury,
discloses the fact that he did the work in full
for only $250.00, thereby presenting to Mr.
Morehead the sum of $750.00 of the taxpayer’s
money as a profit upon the labor of a man who
did the work. Before making such a liberal al-
lowance— and especially advancing 60 per cent
of it — the commissioners should, in the opinion
of the grand jury, have made some effort to
ascertain what it would cost the clerk to get
the work done.