Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-13


1861 and 1862 and defining the funds from which they TO be
paid providing committee audit claims said APP
popaion providing for the thereof approved May
81, 1861
enacted by General Assembly of the State
of Indiana That the sum of 100000 be and the hereby
appropriated dey the growing out of the inuec-
onay condition OF portion of the United States and in enlist
ing maintaining and ubsisting troops and providing munitions
Including % the of this session OF the General
Assembly.
That appointed committee consisting
members of the House and of the Senate to be de-
Auditing Committee whose duty shall be to meet
indianapolis monthly and examine and audit the accounts OF
and General and all other
accounts pay of materials of kind purchased
designed be paid for of the appropriation made in the
and the Auditor of State expressly
hbted from paying claim of description whatever except
legislative expenses the appropriation made in the first
this until said claim has been audited and certified
by said committee, a majority OF them
This law very plain and officer unless he intends
disregard the panest provisions of law mistake misap
prehend 1t left nothing the choice caprice of any officer
of the State government 1t mandatory would be very
difficult frame employ language to express wish more
clearly. of General Assembly called
question: and the peoples representatives dehed and placed at bay
by had charge of the departments here
There could be question of the of the Legislature TO
Auditing Committee composed of members of both
The Courts have decided This feeling of resent
against the legislative power OF the State has been naugu-
rated worthy purpose it for the people apply
corrective Men occupying executive and other departments and
positions the State Govemm have but too often
Representatives Senators who make and enact
necessary wholesome laws what shall be done and what shall
doneeveyng expected to bend TO the
and attempts put check upon and arbitrary
rule scowl repealed by official inoence This Au-
dng all power discharge of
duties and till the Courts had sustained the law that
these Representatives allowed upon the discharge OF
The spirit which prompted this inter-
ference in the legitimate of the last General Assembly is
equally sitting off those here with fresh ndorse-
of the people.
The provisions intended for wise
purpose and obligatory all men who the duties OF
public place position that they enforced Those
provisions simple and TO the point as follows
Sec s. the Auditor of State shall draw warrant upon
unless the Treasury be-
longing to the particular upon which the drawn
pay and in conformity appropriations made by law
shall deemed guilty of msdemeano and upon conviction
shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars
thousand dollars, and be imprisoned IN the
county Jail not less than than six months
If the Treasurer of State shall the money OF any
particular money appropriated by law for parcu-
purpose drawn any other fund or APP
preparations shall be deemed guilty of miedmeanor and
shall fined not less than hum
dd dollars dollars and be imprisoned
i'm the county jail less than month longer than
months.
This has disposition speak unkndly of those
forgot laws of the State but there much at stake in
like these the OF the people scattered broad
cast that would be unmndu of its duty if failed to
those departures from duty which glangy mani
tested the history of egraion
designed protect the Treasury of the
State the the people from the depredaons of
their moneyed affairs The embezzlc-
ment law good one but how has it to be observed!
Let the On the 4th day OF May, 1851 the
General Assembly passed which place full the be-
ginning this report which the borrowing OF the $4,000 from
Governor &c. egaed and makes
appropriation May of 100000 be known the Con-
ngen Fund of the Governor and provides that the said $4,000
shall be paid of that fund Has this been done!
Has that law been complied with Not mt ALL On the contrary
paid charged another fund, the Military
the time the authority given,
authorizing the Military Fund.- and yet when this APP
preparation million dollars voted by the General Assem-
BLY, Auditor of State of this fund pays the loan of $4,000
F1nd hand,
and from which he directed to the borrowed
violating the law and taking from aPpropri-
APPLYING another then is useless put human
plain language guide public The committee wish
perfectly coordinate branch OF the Government
that this nacton OF all the forms
spirit that and should receive the notice of this Senate
will also by the tables annexed that large orders for
money drawn from time TO time the Military Fund dung
month of May and before appropriations were made for
the purpose Auditor Treasurer aiders these
egues in this have short of their duty TO the State