The Shasta courier., 1858-05-22
ADvERTIsENExT.
COMMISSIONERS REPORT
ON
COUNTY RECORDS.
FROM OCT. Ist, SIS, to OCT.5th, 1857.

COUNTY RECORDS,
FROM OCT. Ist, 1855, to OCT. sth, 1857.
To THE Hon. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, IN AND FOR
SHASTA COUNTY:
The undersigned, Commi sioner on Public
Records, acting by virtue Of {. resolution of this
Board passed at their November term, A. d.
1857, begs leave to submit the following as his
report of the condition of the County Records
from Oct. lst, 1855 down to Ct 5th 1857.
Through the courtesy Of he present county
Clerk and his deputies, and present county
Treasurer, have hsd FRI eess o,ell such
records ana MES thar deemed necessary for
full examination of the mode and manner in
which the county aft: irs have been conducted by
It's several chief county officers, and that owing
10 the imperfect manner in which found the late
county TreasurerS books had beeu kept, was
compelled to take the county Auditors book
"G" for the basis of my investigations, this
being the record showing the Debtor and Credit
OF all the county officers that have had the care
and custody of the public funds and also be-
ing the book showing the several settlements
required by law to be made with the Treasurer
have made careful examination of the re-
cord OF county warrants issued, and compared
the same with the Treasurers registry of war
iohlo Hot pdlu lot want OF IuHuS, anu Huu
an aggregate amount of warrants registered by
the Treasurer of $3.50 25 which there is no reg
istry of, in the Auditors book of warrants from
the organization of the county, in 1851, to the
close of the late term of officers, Oct. 5, 1851
The number, to whom registered, and the
amount of each are hereto appended and mark
ed as schedule "B," and made part of this re-
port.
The books show that there has been drafts
drawn on the Treasury, for the two years,
amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $780,
455 81.
OF this sum the Board of Supervisors have
allowed
On the General Fund the sum Off,. S44, OIL %
Ordered paid in cash ont of genl fd 1890 II
Ord. pd. in cash out of Building fund 1,7O9 43
Drawn on Hospital fund ............... s,5O5 50
Total by Board of Supervisors. .S56,276 95
There was issued by the County Clerk as Au-
ditor warrant7-
On the General Fund amounting to
the sum OF ............... ...........S29, 1862 so
On the gen. fund, to be paid in cash $50 le
On the building fd., to be pd in cash 225 90
On the hospital i'd, .................... 35 90
Total amt. by Auditor ............ S3O.l7s &c
There has been paid by special cash warrants
and orders the sum of S4,4Sl 30-leaving war
rants that passed into circulation amounting to
the sum of Ssl ,974 81.
find that the Board of Supervisors have been
in the habit of directing the county Auditor TO
issue warrants from time to time, to jurors, Off
GERS of election and witnesses in criminal cases.
without the list of said creditors ever having
been submitted and passed upon by the Board !;
the issue of warrants under these indefinite or
dcrs OF allowance have included in the aggre-
gate of warrants as issued by the Auditor, as
nothing in the record of the Board of Supervi-
sors shows what amounts were intended to be
allowed these items amount to large figure
in the aggregate, and this mode of paying said
accounts should be in future discontinued, as
the Board of Supervisors cannot delegate their
authority to audit accounts to third persons.
There was paid into the
Treasury from Oct. lst
to Dec. 3lst, 1855, of
Co. funds, the sum of Sl6,4s0 40
There was disbursed the
same period ........... s 63 9S
January lst, 1856, in the
IreaSur .............. Sl6,4l6 81
There was paid into the
Treasury from Jany.
lst TO Dec. 3lst, 1856
the sum of ............ S33 S9l so
There was disbursed the
same period. 1,173 55
January lst, 1857, in the
Treasury, ............... $ 3,l34 16
There was reed. into the
Treasury from Jan. lst
to Oct. 5th, 1857, the
sum Of. .,.............-.Sl5,7s ,7s6 AZ
There was disbursed the
same period ............ 1869 OIL
There was paid over to
present Treasurer..... S1,252 II
Showing the books bal
anced................... Sls,92l Is Sls,921 Is
RECAPITCLATIoN.
Total amt of drafts on
the Treasury.........S SS6,455 81
Total amt of cash reed
into Treasury ........ S66,l5s II
Showing an increase of