The record-union., 1896-12-29

growth of the State, requiring attention
and consideration, has necessitated fire.
quent meetings to keep the business
| up and enable those having claims
against the State to receive prompt
payment.
1t has been the earnest effort and
desire of the board to reduce the busi-
| ness Of the State to a uniform system.
I'VE have had 1872 meetings and
| passed upon S,454 claims. ag-
gregating the amount of 7,131,-
414 AZ; IS claims have been
rejected, aggregating S6S2, ,633 5l-
the items cut out of and rejected from
| ether claims aggregate S66, 1862 "A. To
tai reflections, $TS4 1896 %. The total
| rejections aggregate more than 10 per
cent of the entire claims presented
The claims approved have been trans
mitted to the State Controller
Prominent-among the claims ap-
proved by the board are those of Den
mis- Jordan, of $63, ,563 66 for balance
| due for constructing one-half of the
Folsom State Prison, and the coyote
| scalp claims aggregating $2S7, ,615.
COUNTY BONDS PURCHASED.
The report relates that the following
| bonds have been purchased for the ben
eft of the State school fund since jan
uary /, 1895.
Placer County per cent, $4,000.
Premium paid thereon, $745.
San Joaquin County per cent, 500,
600. Premium, 1920.
Kings County per cent, $32 900
Premium paid, $500.
Placer County 5 per cent, $S,OO0
Premium paid, $152.
Marin County per cent, $160, 900.
Mendocino County per cent, SILL
800. Premium paid, 81. .423 70.
I Mendocino County 6 per cent, $500
Premium paid, SCI.
Los Angeles County 41a per cent,
$4,000. Premium paid, $3.50
1t is important, the report relates
that the law (Section $50 of the Polit-
ical Code) authorizing the purchase OF
bonds for the State school fund be
| amended. United States bonds are
selling at a high premium; the State is
issuing no bonds, and the counties OF
the State are paying Off their bonds
very fast, and the board finds that ii
is impossible to keep this money in
| that there is now on hand 100000.
DEFICIENCIES.
Great care has been exercised, accord
ing to the report, in granting deficien-
cies, but it was found absolutely neces-
sary to do so in a number of cases.
named in their order as follows:
For postage, expressage and tele-
graph in Secretary of States office for
the forty-siXth fiscal year, 500.
For support Of the State Insane Asy-
| lum in Mendocino County for the forty
sixth fiscal year, $50, 900.
For repairs and furniture for State
Capitol building for the forty-sixth fis-
cal year, $4,000
For support Of Southern California
State Asylum for the Insane and In
ebriates for the forty-seventh fiscal
year, $4,000.
For salaries of agents and assistants
to Labor Commissioner E. L. Fitzger-
aid for the forty-seventh fiscal year,
81 ,651 IS.
To pay Clement Bennett for report
ing the case of the Southern Pacific
Company against the Railroad Commits
| sioners, 81, 230 so.
For repairs and furniture for State
Capitol building, S5,0O0
To pay expenses Of Railroad Commits
| sioners in case brought against them by
| the Southern Pacific Company 81 600
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
The financial statement shows that
| the 5000 appropriated for the use OF
| the board for the forty-sixth and forty
seventh fiscal years has been expend-
| ed, but that no deficiency has been Gre
| ated.
GENERAL REMARKS.
1T is,' the report concludes, 1.-The
| judgment Of this board that supplies
| purchased for any Of the institutions OF
| the State should be purchased under
| contracts, and the contracts should CO.
! exist with the fiscal year
All claims itemized in accordance
with Section 3 Of the general appropria-
| ton bill (statutes 1895, page 2S9) that
have been paid have been promptly
| acted upon by the board.
| Claims that were not itemized OIL
| We're not sworn to. or did not contain
! vouchers, were returned
| The law requires the board to meet
| twice a month, but the board has held
an average of seven meetings month
| acting promptly upon all claims pre-
sented in legal form, and has not cut
I 60rt- +oI lot, g.