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Board and failure to make a report of the finances of said County according to law." Seal was not mentioned by name.
A fine of that size was enormous, considering the times.
In a special meeting of December 1868, the Board passed a resolution to cite Seal, requiring that he appear the following month for the purpose of settling accounts. In addition, it was resolved that a committee of three be appointed to investigate all officers of the county who might have had custody over the funds and their distribution.
More serious action began in the special term of January 1869. First, the Board said that
it had ordered Seal to appear on the first Monday, the 4th day of January, 1969, to make his final report, "and he has failed to appear and make his final report as said by said citation." It was then ordered that suits be brought immediately on each of the Bonds given by the said FH Seal, as such Treasurer, against himself and all of his securities for the full amount of the penalties of said Bonds."
JC Monet was appointed to institute such suits.
Nothing more is evident in this matter until the June 1869 term when it was reported that county warrants of $1,166 were turned over to the present treasurer, Jasper White, by FH Seal, former treasurer, and that those warrants were to be "received, cancelled and filed away for future actions."
Three years later, at the June 1872 regular meeting, JC Monet was paid $363 as attorney for the county in the case of the State of Mississippi vs. FH Seal et al, and that a warrant or warrants be issued for the same in accordance Sec. 1385 of R Code 1871.
Board minutes for the months of May and June of 1872 seem to be silent as to the disposition of the suit, but another source tells the final outcome. A separate document, called Enrollment Document, records that on May 13,1872, defendants FH Seal et al were ordered to pay Hancock County $6,956.10.
Healing Comes to Hancock County
Facts of a functioning legislature are in evidence, even though the county was perhaps
hemmed in by scarce money and dependence on the 21st Military District. Actions were taken in accordance with the Mississippi Revised Code of 1871. The county had been restored to order. People were finding jobs and building things.
Although tax bases were limited, taxes were being collected, usually as a factor of the schedule of state taxes. When necessary, school funds were borrowed. A fund was