The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1910-04-21
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT
ANT MOORE

tlemen of the ONT Commlttee
Appointed by the Legislature OF
the State of Mississippi to Ex-
anime the Executive Contingent
Funds of Elk Gov. Vardaman
and Gov. Noel:
Gentlemen: Acting under your
instructions, / have made an ex-
animation of the records aud
vouchers of the executive contin-
gent funds, beginning with Gov.
Vardaman's administrator in 1904
and closing with Gov. Neels re-
port to the present legislature, and
| have the honor TO haud you here
with my report.
Gov. Noel's report to the legls-
lature shows fully and clearly how
he expended the amount of his
contingent fund, and explains it.
self. | found vouchers to cover
all expenditures as exhibited by
him with the exception of amounts
used for travelling expense, and
these expenditures are fully ex-
planned on the stub of warrants
drawn to cover. Attached hereto
(exhibit . you will find a list OF
all expenditures of this nature.
However there should be stricken
from Governor Noel's report the
two items paid to c. A. Fransioli
on Sept. I, 1909, amounting to
$14.6o, and to the report should be
added the following items omitted:
Jan. ~, 1908, stamps, $500, and
Jan. 8, 1910, stamps and postofice
box rent, SII. so; total, $3.50.
The difference will be adjusted in
the current contingent fund, as
Gov. Noel is also entitled to sum
dry other credits for expenditures
made by him from his personal
funds.
AS to Gov. Vardaman's expendi-
lures. you will find a general sum-
mary and sundry exhibits hereto
attached. showing that the expend.
itures for his term of Office
(Ioo4-o7) amounted to S25,77o.78;
that of this amount S1I,o46.82 is
accounted for by satisfactory
vouchers on file, $2,o78.41 is &C,
counted for by paid warrants in
the treasurer's Office, which bear
the endorsement by the payee, and
a further amount of $2,297.72 is
accounted for by statement from
the Pinkerton Detective Agency,
showing that of the 2,454.II oi
the special wbitecap fund of 1904
for which there are no warrant
stubs, for which there are no war
rant stubs nor vouchers IN the
governors Office, $2,I57.2 wa:
paid to them and paid warrants or
file IN the treaeurer's Office show
the endorsement of the payees tc
the amount of $4,000. Travelling
expense, >sundry trips, show ar
expenditure of $I,925.75. Total
SIz34o.7I.
The amounts for which there
are no vouchers on file, and which
are not explained except by ora
testimony, are as follows:
Exhibit 8, difference be-
tween warrants and
vouchers-........ ............... IS 342.I4
Exhibit 4, Atkinson &
Bauer ..-...... .-..-...........-- 37.7s
i About $1,000 personal.
Exhibit 6, "Contingent
Expense, no explana-
ton except by oral tes-
timony .............. ....... I,8oo.oC
Exhibit ?, "Contingent
Expense" quarantine 2ro.oc
Exhibit 8, "Contingent
Expense" selling cot
ton ....-....-- -. $500
Exhibit 10, whitecap fund 1868!
Total -. ...... .-......... ...-...~S2,72I.2.
Besides the amounts as listed a
bove Exhibit 2 shows expenditures
to the amount of S769. .7o for which
, there are no vouchers but wherV
the explanation on stubs might b
accepted as SUCH. and Exhibit !
shows an expenditure from the. cy
lcIone fund OF 9A.o2r.oS for whicl