These gentlemen ask us to give them credit for, after more than two years, paying a dividend of 10 per cent., (making 30 per cent. in all,) and affect to regret that they could not, indeed had not the means to make it ten more. And yet they admit the fact that their “expense account,” in three years, reaches the enormous sum of $179,437.20; $62,536.22 of this was for their own salaries and the salaries of clerks, and $23,008.92 for fees paid to favorite lawyers. In other words, eighty-five thousand and five hundred and forty-five dollars and fourteen cents ($85,545.14) went into their own, and the pockets of the type of lawyers I have described in another part of this work. Well might Mr. Beverly Douglas exclaim: “The Commissioners regard what there is left of this sad wreck as a legacy for the benefit of themselves and their retainers.” That the money is fast disappearing into their own pockets, and that in two or three years more there will be but very little of it left for the washers and the scrubbers, the very poor and the very ignorant, who were so cruelly robbed, we here have ample proof. A glance over the salary list referred to will show with what heartless regularity these well-paid Commissioners came up to the bank’s counter on the _last_ day of each month and drew their salary. I here insert a few specimens: January 29, 1875. Sundry persons by N. Y. drafts 391 00 J. A. J. Creswell 250 00 Robert Purvis 250 00 R. H. T. Leipold 250 00 George W. Stickney 250 00 A. M. Sperry 208 33 G. W. Clapp 116 66 H. S. Nyman 100 00 C. A. Fleetwood 166 66 G. H. Bruce 55 00 C. H. Jones 70 00 Henry Mason 60 00 John T. Green 45 00 E. A. Wheeler 125 00 W. E. Augusta 100 00 A. F. Hill 100 00 D. A. Ritter 100 00 -------- $2,637 65 =========