The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-25

r H Landergin's bill authorizing
county commissioners to offer a boun-
ty Of mo- to exceed 5 cents a head on
crows was recommended without oppo-
sition. So also was Robert Stones bill
for the cutting of weeds along streets
ana highways, and taxing up the work
to the owners of the abutting property.
Inc local judiciary committee has
adopted the policy OF adversely report
ing all local bills which are covered by
the proposed Clark law, allowing board
ditions and tracts. This is causing a
good deal of srief to the statesmen who
had local measures to push through.
New System of Accounts.
S. 5. GlaSscOck, the Kansas City, Kan.
member has introduced a bill which if
passed Will greatly simplify the sys-
TENS of bookkeeping in use in the To-
peka city affairs, and in other cities of
the state. The bill has been ~favoTably
reported by the committee of the whole.
1t is as follows:
Section 1. Fiscal year-The fiscal
year of every city of the first class
shall begin with the LIST day of January
and end with the S1st day of December.
Sec. 2. Duty Of the state account
ant-In conformity with the provisions
of this act the state accountant shall
formulate and prescribe a system of
municipal accounting that shall be uni
form for every city of the first class,
which shall exhibit accurate and detail
ed statements Of all moneys received
and expended on account of the city
by all city officers and other persons,
and of all sources of the cities income
and the amount due and received from
each source.
Sec. 3. Separate accounts-Separate
accounts shall be kept of each apprO-
priation and of the,dates, and
manner Of each payment therefrom,
and also each municipal department,
institution. Improvement or ~undertak-
"sec. A. Comparative Municipal
Statistics. The auditor of state shall
require from every city of the first
class financial reports covering the full
period of each fiscal year, in accord
ance with the forms and methods pre-
scribed by the state accountant, which
shall be uniform for all cities of the
first class within the state said re-
port shall be certified as to its correct
ness by the state accountant; the au-
ditor shall publish in his biennial re-
port a summary of the reports of the
cities of the first class such report
contain an ~ccurate statement
in summarized form and also in detail
of the financial receipts of the report
ing city from all sources and of its ex-
penditures for all purposes; a state
ment in detail Of the entire city debt
at the date of the report from the city
and of the purposes for which such
debt was incurred and of the prOvi-
sions made for the payment of each
item of the debt, together with such
as the auditor of state
require. The auditor of state
have power to require the state
accountant to examine into alk of the
financial affairs of every city of the
first class within this state, and the
state accountant shall make such ex-
animation at least once each year. On
every such examination inquiry shall
made as to the financial condition
of the city and whether
the requirements of the laws and or
.dinances of the state and city have
been complied with; and into the
methods and accuracy of the city's
and as to such other meth
DDS as the auditor of state may pre-
scribe. The state accountant shall
power to administer oaths to all
persons whose testimony may be re-
quired on any such examination and to
compel the appearance and attend
of any person for the purpose OF
any such examination and inTestiga-
ton, and may also require the produc-
ton of any books and papers Will
full false swearing in such examination
be perjury and punishable as
such. TIN state accountant shall make
a report iof his findings to the auditor
of state and uch report shall be a
of public record.
"Sec. s. All acts and parts of acts
Inconsistent or in conflict with this act
hereby repealed
Sec. 6. This act shall take eHect
and be in force from and after its
publication in the official state paper"