The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-22

accounts by distribution among tnlTEeeH ull-
ferent funds, oil more or less connected, II
having to balance with the books Of the
Treasurer. With ench fiscal year ending De-
cnmber 81 each and every account has TO pc
closed at the end Of the year and re-opened
January |, to be closed again on final
settlement Oh the twentieth OF January,
and again reopened, making double work
each year, since the passage oil acts NOS.
and 3 Of 1878. After the closing OF the books
at the end OF the year quarterly settlements
have to be made with each tax collector, and
quarterly statements prepared and pub
liehed, all within twenty days from the first
OF Janllary--the time fixed for the tax col
lectDrs to settle being the tenth day OF
the month-they being allowed only ten
days to prepare the statements after
balancing the books, which have to be
checked off with those Of the Treasurer. At
the end or the year elaborate and volu1ninous
statements have to be prepared and em-
| braced In d general statement, such as APP
nears in the Auditors printed report to the
Governor and General Assembly, In time to
be published, as the law requires, on the
twentieth OF January, during the session OF
the Legislature. The Auditors last report
is volume Of BAG pages.l
This gives some idea Of the principal
features Of the book keeping of the office
Bit ii addition to oil this there were Issued:
In 1877, 9121 orders and 9655 warrants; In
/ 1878, $500 orders and 10000 warrants; ana TO
date, already, In 1879, $500 orders ana over
10000 warrants, each order requiring
| separate calculations az to each fnnd ana
wear. and examination and verication OF the
deljnauent rolls OF each Of the country
marshes, and for the parish OF Orleans o.
seven delinquent rolls, thus entailtng con-
siderable labor, and having to be passed In
regular and separate entries through the
books For the parish OF Orleans one copy
each Of the seven districts OF the city has to
be made for tho Recorder Of Mortgages and
Registrar Of Conveyances, aggregatlng i've
hundred pages Of forty lines OF writing to the
mage Besides there have to be made copies
of sixteen assessment rolls of the city
averaging twenty five hundred pages, impe
rial size. of thirty-two lines each. for the city
tax collectors work, which was formerly done
by the assessors, us required by previous
laws, but Is now devolved upon the Auditor
. office
! There are also books to be kept TO recorf
bonds, redemptions Of lands, lands forfeited
for taxes. tax collectors receipts. etc, ant
large Journals, fund and appropriation
books.
The warrants, as we'll as the orders. have
all to pass into entries through various books
and be checked off with the Treasurers books
involving considerable work, independent 9
7 the great amount Of writing required t.
make out SO large number of them. An ex
peditious warrant clerk finds it difficult t.
get through with this labor alone. even b1
y working at night out Of office hours as h
and the other employees have often to do
y Formerly he and the tax clerk were provided
with assistants.
. Finally, vast amount Of copies OF voucher
. and abstracts from the books have to be mad
4 for courts and attorneys.
! Before closing the labors OF the Convention
n will not some Of the delegates take glanc
G at the work of the office, and thereby becom
y convinced. as we are, that the appropriatio
: Sutterly inadequate for the work?