Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-15

from the appropriation Of SlO0 600 the sum Of
siJ5.l11 %. and tbis was he day after the APP
provai Of The aci creating the military fund.
Your Exceliency also shows. By your contin
gent iaud reroFl. that YOU had. up TO it, date,
expended between The 4lh Of MAY. 1861. and the
date OF the report the sum OF S54 .2l2 80. IL
j. also known T. your Excellency that since the
present Incumbent has been in Office YOU have
drawn from the contingent fund an amount
which added 10 said s5i. 2O2 -. makes very
nearly $l00.O0O
Thi- statement Of facts shows the account Of
your EKcelleucy with the contingent funl TO be
IN 4 condition that does the State Treasury. or
your Excellency great injustice. and call your
attention To- it for adjustment
On the 3lst Nav. 1861. your Excellency had
drawn from the contingent fund about sl33. liz
- The appropriation was slOO.OOO. and At
that time tie military fund did not exist. so that
the contingent fund WIS not only exhausted,
but your Excelency had Overdrawn il. without
appropriation 20 the extent shown
As the act creating the military fund expressly
prohibits the payment Of any claim therefrUm
until it had been audited by the Military Audit
ing Committee the Auditor Of State had no
power 10 charge what had been drawn from the
contingent fund to the military fund The con
tingent fund was, by the Legislature placed
under the control Of your Excellency. she the
military fund exclusively under the control
OF the Military Auditing Committee appointed
by the Legislature; consequently the Auditor Of
State could not, after your Exceency had not
only exhausted, but overdrawn tie contingent
fund. charge up the amount of Your Excellency' :
warrants to the military fund, 80 as 10 leave the
contingent fund untouched
This will appear the more manifest TO your
Excellency by reience 10 the dates OF approval OF
the two acts. The act creating the contingent
I fund hav hfe N.v
the military fund act Nay 81. 1861. as stated.
Your Excellency's report of June ]. 1851
showing that what you had then expended was
before the creation OF the military fund and as
each sum drawn from the Treasury must be
charged TO some fund al the time it is drawn. and
in accordance with appropriations made by the
Legislature. the amount drawn prior to the 5lsl
Of May. 1861. must have been charged TO some
other fund than the military fund. rs II did not
then exist, and could not afterwards, without
Legislative authority. be charged to another
! fund.
! In conclusion would call your Excellency :.
attention to the fact that the Legislature. by an
act approved May 4, 1851, Acts Of Special
1 Session. D. 80 ratified loan by the lndianapo-
/ lis Branch Of the Bank of the State of Indiana
/ 10 your Excelencv and the other Stite officer:
of the sum OF S25 900. and directed that the
same should be paid out of your Excellency s
/ cOntengeut fund
From an examination of your Excellency's re
I port TO the Legislature of 1868. | do not fnd
/ that yon have charged yourself with that sum
and when thus charged, it will be perceived by
/ your Excellency that, conceding that Mr. Ltnst
was correct in making tie transfer lie did OF your
warrants to the military fund. your Excellency
/ has, commencing MAY T. 1864, drawn irom the
/ Treasury. as from the contingent fund. consider
/ ably over the sum of $780, 900
/ In concluding this subject. will remark that
/ if the sum OF sl33.l77 rs drawn from the
Treasury by your Excellency prior to June !
1861, was not by the authority of the act creating
contingent fund. will be eratihed if your FIX
celiency will refer TO the legislation by virtue
OF which the warrants OF your Exceency were
drawn and paid