The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-04-02
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The following are among the principal
Record books to be kept in this Office:
Tract book Of entries of Chiekasaw lands
money reeeirsd By Secretary.
/ Tract book of entries OF Swamp lands,
eIt red in Land Office, and money reeeiued bg
Treasurer.
! Auditing book fr public printing Sec
fstary to approve vouchers and 10 Be .fled
rith Auditor.
Record Of Iueorporations-approged by
Attorney General and Governor.
Register Of Commissioned all officers
in State and CoD'rs Of Deeds and Notaries
Public.
Record Of Proelarnations and Rewards
by Governor.
Record Of L qpisifions for prisoners and
arrests on Requisitions.
Record Ci PardDns by the Governor.
Record oil Election RetuTns-fling the
same.
Record Of State Census and Educable
children
Record of the sales OF Codes and Re
ports, and distribution Of Laws, Journals
and Public documents
Filing, numbering and indexing, with
title OF all acts of the Legislature
All of which found to be legibly. sys-
tematically and accurately kept and posted. !
BY an arrangement with the Expnss Conn !
pany, considerable saving to the State |
has been made in the distribution Of pub |
lie documents; nd, in the lak t report of the !
St cretary, another saving in the public /
printing-in haring no hpLfbkt pages left /
in his re2ot-which ought to be followed |
by the other departmen's-the printing Of
which is a very Ii. ayy item of expense; Tor,
as figure work cotupeses the largest part
of these reports, and costs about d uble
that of plain work, and as all these docu-
meuts are also printed in the House and
Senate Journals, and charged for by the
pdge-the State thus paying three or four
times for the same work, and there ought
to be no half blank pages in these docuz
nents. The Public Printer hims, lf-Col
Power-suggests another saving in that
line which he intends to introduce in the
printing and for which he wi be entitled
to credit. great improvement has been
made also by the Secretary in the forms
and instructions he has adopted, aud SEM
to Commissioners of Elections for their
reports. The Secretary is also entitled to
credit IOf lne cleaf ana excellent CSflStls
Records in his Office which cost great
deal of labor-without remuneration-to ,
but is really creditable to the
1fice-eaeh county being in detail, and the
whole in condensed statement.
The ocal laws, passed by the Lesisla-
.ure, and not now published but only filed,
ought to be bound for future presery alton;
md the Archives room relieved from the |
mass of books accumulated, and more
helves and cases placed in it. The com
njttee ought also to impress upon the |
present session, the importance Of arrang- /
ne, protecting and preserving all the
ecoras OF the Territ rial government,
Viii h are now piled up in confused
mass, in dilapidated condition. near the Q
oof Of the Capitol. It affords me pleasure
o be able TO report to you the satisfactory .
manner in which | find the Financial I
ffairs, and the Books aud Records are !
ept in this office.
Respectfully submitted. Y
A. ii. ARTHUR.