The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-06-25

The cost of landing the passengers and their luggage
from y : Aberseldis~ and ~HSnkoyS~ was 95 ma s.
people and their luggage from these vessels tor the
Of ten cents per passenger. but for the
tenders were ignored
The cost of preparing the contracts depended entirely
upon the persons to whom the job allotted Parties
outside OF the Government House were paid in one in
stance cents copy and in another Is cents while
parties connected with the department paid p and
SO cents per copy.
The charges for express hire were for carriage of the
Secretary of the Board of Immigration SO far rs the
vouchers show while the lunches were for the same Off
cial and his assistants
Drayase charges for the $ s Abergeldie~ and Han.
kow~ were double rates for day and night work
The cost of immigrants to the Board by the Bell
Rock MAIDS up by the Secretary of the Board of Inn
migration $40 per capita The figures for the other
vessels had not been made up.
The Secretary of the Board of Immigration called
upon for the cash balance in his hands rs per table A.
and presented in lieu thereof several rolls of vouchers
by Section OF the Auditors Act should have been
cred into the Treasury,
1t will be observed that the transfers herenbeiOre set
forth have been not only from and to accounts in
department. an act permissible under former appropra-
ton Acts. but purpOSey omitted in the Act of 1882;
but there have also been transfers from accounts
department to accounts in another department and for
widely different purposes The most notable instances
of these most irregular and unwarTantahe transfers will
be found in the three taken from the funds in the
hands of the Board of immigration by the Minister OF
called
The vouchers now presented to ME for examination
had not been audited although the Auditor-Generas
attention had been called to them at the close of the
fiscal period was informed that the AuditOr-General
was aware of the collections of money by the Secretary
of the Board of Immigration and of its disbursement
and it is preSumabe that he acquainted with the
provisions of the Act creating his Office; but for some
reason which he may be able to explain the Secretary
of the Board of immigration ordered to
the money into the Treasury. The Secretary of the
Board also states that he never called upon make
quarterly or any other exhibit to the AudtorGenera
for that matter to any other officer. He also says
that the accounts current which were placed in my
hands made up within the past quarter from the
memoranda which had been accommodating during the
fiscal period that the disbursements under cOnS
Grafton were authorized by the President of the Board
of Immigration, holding Office as follows
His Excellency 5. h kaai, from May Goth to August
Sth, 1882.
His ExcelIency J. E. Bush. from August 9th 1882 to
July Goth 1888
His ExeeiIency w NJ Gibson from July 9th to
August 9TH 1888
His Excellency C. T. Guliek, from August 9th, 1888
now in office.
These vouchers have been examined and classified for
the purpose of showing the objects for which the money
expended The only merit these expenditures have
IS that they mostly for purposes connected with the
Bureau of immigration.