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Mr.. James r. Ward, First Marshal to Mayor
Morris, and the fnancier and banker of that etl-
cient and discerning Chief Magistrate during the
time that the City was under the Government {Per
ferce) of the Mayor and Watchmen, and who fur
nished the S. 900 for Street-sweeping without au-
thority of law, was on Saturday arrested and con-
fined in the City Prison, upon evidence of enor-
nous defalcations in his accounts as collector of
Hospital Money from the passengers arriving at
this Port These defalcatisns were discovered
by Justice Taylor, the Mayors new Wing Clerk,
in investigating the robberies of Mr.. Taylors pre-
decessor, John Ahern. They took place over two
years ago, while DR.. Hart (Leco) was Health
Commissioner under his appointment from Gov.
Marcy after the heavy defalcation of Harris pre-
dccessor DR.. Smith Cutter, had been detected.
Hart appointed Ward his agent to ccectthe Hos
pital Tax of 81 from each steerage and $ld from
each cabin passenger arriving here from Foreign
Ports, ard allowed him a commission thereon.
Ward received the money, gave the receipts there
for, and paid over to the State such part of it as
he could conveniently part with retaining the bal
| ance in his own Sub-Treasury. Sometimes he re-
turned nalt OF IL, SOmetlWeS tnl1O sometimes
quarter, and often none at ALL His accounts were
of course kept as blindly and confusedly posi-
bic, so as to battle investigations and it is not pro-
bable that the precise amount of the defalcation
will ever be known The American thinks 1t will
range from FIFTY THOUSAND TO one HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS.


The utter looseness and ineficiency Of the sys-
tenn under which these enormous robberies OF
Lloyd, Stevenson, Ahern and Ward Eave been
perpetrated, must strike every mind. The men
were villains, but the facility afforded to their
peculations is most extraordinary. Ward had the
- nsk DR.. Turner, the present Wing Com
missioner, to couvr'---'.--4 Collector of this
Revenue; but Dr. T. did not like the breec' aff.
decl;ned his services. 10 IF Loco-F F0colsm had
continued in poueu IN our State and city, 'rAert
,eouzd these robberies haze ended