The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-11
Rabbits POLICY IS
SUSTAINED BY BOARD
Controversy Over Purchase of Supplies in
Outside Districts Projected by
Agent Severance.

ent of Public Instruction was decided
Yesterday afternoon regarding the pur-
V sustained the policy followed by Su-
ed that office. All prices being equal,
t advance of cost in the stores of the
/, all supplies may be purchased there,
lie department.
ID by the reading of lengthy cor
nd L. Severance, for many years school
stated Yesterday at the Board meeting
de of Mr.. Severance relative to listing
Iient 1t was stated that if Mr.. Sever
' of the department new school agent
E December concerning the receipt of
erance said the Hilo storekeepers were
dds the statement that the feeling up
OILS put under the control of the county
Il department persists in its policy that
intendent expressed the wish that the
the local press as every school agent,
should be acquainted with the policy
. The correspondence follows:
ment particularly to the chapter on
bills.
1t will be the duty of all officers in
curing expense to carefully instruct
persons having claims against the de-
partment as TO the proper manner of
rendering bills, to require that only
proper and reasonable prices are
charged Tor services rendered or for
goods o,. furnished to
that bills are rem Tered promptly and
that they bear date not later than the
last day of the month in which the
expenditure was incurred, to scrutinize
bills carefully both as to form and
amounts, to place on each bill the name
of the school for which the expenditure
was incurred, to certify both original
and duplicate of each bill, and to for
ward the same promptly to this office.
In order to keep within our appropri-
ations. which are found to be diminish
ing more rapidly than pro rata ex-
penditure will justify. it is further re-
quested that before mourning expense
on any account, school agents will
make application to the Superintend-
emf and obtain specific authorization
with instructions as to what appropria-
ton is to be charged.
(Signed) w. Fl. BABBITT,
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Extract from letter of Principal of
Hilo School, November 16. 1905.
(Copy.)
Mr. Severance seems to feel that his
to authorize purchases is ex-
tremely limited, and demurs about
buying for me.
Reply to Same. November 81, 1905
(Copy)
Replying to your letter of the 18th
instant, 1 am directed to say that, in
view of the Audit Act and the present
condition of our appropria lions, it does
Tot appear to the superintendent to be
to make provision for in
curing expense for the department by
school principals in emergency cases
such as you suggest. There would
cer .ainly be no doubt of your DISPOSE I
ion or ability to make purchases &C. ,
)nomically and advantageously but ;
here are certain kinds of expenditures
hat we are at the present time en-
irely inhibited from making, however
advantageous or necessary they may
De. Apart from the question of wheth
# the principal of a school is govern
nent officer within the meaning of the {
Audit regulations. it is doubtful if prin-
,ipals could give enough attention to
he matter to determine what kinds of l
are possible and what 1
would be impossible for lack of any l
TO cover them. While as
iuring you of our full sympathy in !
that is for the upbuilding of
he school. 1 can only promise to do
or you the best possible in each case =
Is it is presented. Yours very re- .
pectfully,
(Signed) l. NJ cox.
Assistant Secretary. E
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