By an order made by the board of com-…
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A. H. Moreheadperson
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a.k.a. Morehead, Mr. Morehead
Herbert Martyrperson
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a.k.a. Herbert Martyr
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chunk 512 · paragraph 1989
mnant of that
700 cords of wood, in view from the court house,
and being informed of the amount purchased,
would be incredulous regarding the salubrity
of our unequaled climate and conclude from the
consumption of wood that the frigid zone could
properly claim this locality.
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.