Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-02
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Cent-The Report.


Cent-The Report.
DETROIT (Mich.) February 1st-The fol-
lowing is the report of the Audi-ing Com
mittee of the Irish National League OF
America, R. G. Cushing, Chairman, to John
Fitzgerald, President of the League:
Pursuant to request, the undersigned
met at the Russell House, in Detroit, on
Wednesday, January 80, $780, for the pur-
pose of auditing the accounts of the Rev.
DIR. Charles o Reilly, Treasurer of the Irish
National League of America. Our sessions
were held with open doors, free to the pub
lie and representatives of the press. Your
committee then proceeded to the work in
hand. We found model system of books
kept by the Treasurer, consisting of a cash
book, in which the daily receipts of moneys
were entered, giving the name of the party
renting, the name of the organization, if
any, raising the money, and the date and
name of the place from which the remit
lance came. The cash-book was also ruled
with columns, showing the various funds
into which the remittances were divided,
with cross-references to the ledger where
each fund was posted in detail. These
various columns were footed up and care
fully tested without finding any inaccuracy.
The credit side of the cash-book shows all
disbursements and remittances, ana for
what purposes in detail
"Your committee also found the ledger
arranged alphabetically in the order of
States and countries, with complete indexes
for convenient reference. In this ledger
the Treasurer had grouped all the receipts,
so that the sums received from all sources
could be seen and examined in any method
suggested by the committee. We exam
ined every account with care, comparing
the same with the letters of remittance and
other sources of information, in order to
test its accuracy. We also compared in
detail these accounts with the credit side of
the cash book and the original vouchers of
expenses, and we report in each instance
we found the correspondence complete,
aud requisite and satisfactory voucher on
file for every expenditure. The receipts
for money sent to Ireland in each instance
were signed by either Joseph G. Bigger, N.
P; 7. Harrington, NJ. P; or by Joseph E.
Kenny, NJ. p; or by two of these gentle
men, and bearing upon their faces IN
equivocal evidence of their authenticity,
including an internal revenue stamp of the
British Government.
1.-The reverend Treasurer then submit
ted his letter books to the inspection OF your
committee in which We found letters writ
ten by him and his assistant on all subjects
of League concern. These books contain
impression copies of replies for remittances
and historical narrative of the workings
of the League for three years, so far as the
financial operations are concerned.
Your committee find that the Treasurer
reported at the last National Convention,
in August, 1886, balance Of $21, SS5 rs;
that he has since received from all sources,
as shown by the schedule herewith SUBJ
mitted, the sum of $257, 922 10; that he has
paid out for operation expenses of all kinds,
a schedule of which we submit. the sum of
So 225 81; that be has RENTED to Ireland,
as shown by his vouchers the sum of $237,.
23S 0S, and presented for examination and
inspection of your committee a certified
certificate of deposit in the Peninsula Saw
ings Bank of Detroit, on the first day of
January, 1880, for the SUN of $50, 345 %;
thus accounting for all sums received in a
manner unanimously approved by your
committee. The iiem of expense of S22,-
225 81, not only includes the expenses in
CURED by holding the last National Con-
vention of the Irish National League of
America at Chicago in August, 1856 but
also President Fiizgerald's salary of 81, 900,
which sum was by him donated back to
the treasury, thus leaving the actual ex-
penses at $40, 225 81, being less than seven
per cent of all the moneys received.
1--WE are led to say that upon the score of
economy and honesty the League is to be
congratulated on the admirable manner in
which its finances have been administered
by the Rev. DR.. Charles Reilly, to whom
deep debt of gratitude is due for onerous
and responsible duties so faithfully dis
charged by him. We recommend that a
full, detailed statement of all receipts and
disbursements covered by this report be
published in pamphlet form, aud be dis
tributed to the various branches of the
League and all contributors. We further
recommend that all books aud papers ex-
amined by this committee pertaining to this
report, be preserved and submitted to the
next National Convention for verifcation."