The Arkansas advocate., 1833-11-13

ven dollars iiiriety-fivc cents, winch ,s now in the possession of the Committee, all oi which have been examined, the interest calculated, found correct, and to corres- nond with the entries on the Ireasurer's books.
 For all tbe warrants drawn on the Trea- surer. proper vouchers have been filed i'll the Auditors office, which, with the war
 rants and Treasuref's receipts, are now m Ipossession of the Committee, subject to order.
 he annexed statement marked 1i, iiiere- unto annexed. shows the amount of war rants drawn on the different appropriations of 1881, and the unexpcnded balances of said appropriations. It will appear from this statement, that the Auditor has over drawn on selection returnsn thirty-two dol lars twenty-five cents. The warrants drawn under this head have been applied to payment of Executive postage, and 10 persons who brought in the returns of the
 late election. There being an unexpend- ed balance of the contingent fund, the An ditor believed he was justified in making transfer from that fund, and consequently drew his warrants on the Treasury. inc
 Committee, however, under the law, feel
 bound to report him accountable for the
 amount so everdrawn; but. as the payments
 sl.ouisi nvcessar1iy nave been made at the ] time the warrants were drawn, they reeom-
 mend the passage of an act giving him re- l lief. The Committee also found, in ex-
 amining the vouchers against the sherifi5, l two clerks certificates-one from Pope
 county, seventeen dollars; and one from Jackson county, three dollars, which the
 Auditor had not charged to the sheriffs of
 those counties, Tn settlement. Consequent lily he was accountable for the amount,
 twenty dollars, which sun he has paid III
 Scrip to the Committee, and the same has been duly entered and included in the &C., counts submitted by the Committee. The Committee likewise found two other clerks certificates-one from Hempstead county, for forty dollars; and one from Crittenden county, for forty dollars; the former for the year 1881, and the latter for 1880. The sheriffs of those counties having settled their accounts previous to the receipt of the certificates by the Auditor, are not ac-
 countable to the Territory for the payment. 1 The Committee would therefore reconl- mend the passage of resolution directing the Prosecuting Attorneys in the lst and
 4th Judicial Circuits, to proceed against the clerks delinquent in those counties, for
 the recovery of the amount.
 The amount reported by the last Joint Committee, as due from detaulters, was
 one thousand and ninety-one dollars ninety seven and a half cents, which yet remains unpaid. There also appears due from col lectors of the revenue, for the years 1881 and 1852, the sum of one thousand and thrty-iour dollars and three-fourth cents.
 The Committee, notwithstanding the re- search and labor given to the discharge of tic duties confided to them, are unable to form any estimate of the amount of reve- nue that will bc received in the Ircastry the current year, as but few of the tax lists have been received by the Auditor. The
 military bounty lands, once a great source of revenue, have, Ill consequence of the
 number struck off to the Territory for non- payment of taxes, been reduced to little over one-fourth their original amount, and are annually decreasing. There have been of those lands struck off to the Territory, n the years 1881 and 1882, four hundred and twenty tracts, and, since the last report of the Joint Committee, to the 30th of Sep fember t,there have been redeemed sev- 6enty tracts, on which the taxes, interest and costs amount to the sum of three hundred and thiriy-nine dollars thirty-three cents.
 The act of 7th November, 1881, having declared all the Scrip issued prior to the passage, and not presented at the Treasury on or before the lst of December, 1882, cancelled, the amount before stated may be considered as the precise amount of the public debt. The Committee, on arriving at this certainty, have deemed 1t their duty to examine and compare the reports of the former Joint Committees with the present, Tn order to ascertain how near the Scrip III circulation, taking as basis former reports, would correspond with the actual amount in circulation. twill appear as follows:- The Joint Committee of last session report ed the amount of Scripin circulation, on the 30th day of September, 1881, to be eiaht thousand six hundred and thsrty-nsne dollars and ninety-six and half cents since which time warrants have been drawn on the Treasury for which Scrip issued, to the amount of six thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-niue and thrce-fourth cents; added to the said sum then reportedin circulation, makes the sum Of fifteen thousand three hundred and Iiffy- seven dollars and forty y-five and three-fouth cents; from which deduct the amount of Scrip received at the Treasury in payment of revenue, ten thousand and eighty -four collars and eighty-two cents, would leave the sum of five thousand two hundred and ninety-seyen dollars and three and tllree- fourth cents as the amount of Scrip in cir eulation on the 30th day of September last; being the sum of one thousand ono