Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-05-26
Field WINS;
HIS FIGURES
ARE ACCEPTED
Continued from page one)

the small sum Of $2,5S6.59. This
amount win not have to be written
off as hopelessly lost, as Field has
made clear in his report to the COM
mission that county warrants may
still be dug up from the records which
were not turned over by the county
auditor to him, which will even clear
up this small discrepancy.
The statement is as follows:
comparative RI statement, showing
reconciliation Of disbursements ~
county treasurer with warrants issued
for same and registered by county
auditor, taken from the entries In the
books OF these officials and the item.
lied schedules Of irregularities IN &C.
counts contained IN the report OF n.
cooding Field, auditor, 20 the Hawaii
County Investigation Commission:
/. County treasurer's statement OF
warrants received and transfers TO
funds, from July 1, 1905, to March u,
1913: - F IA ii.
General fund warrants received and
transfers to funds, 1885,, 729.40.
Road tax special deposit warrants
redeemed and transfers to funds, Vi.
0S4, 29S.46.
Permanent improvement warrants
redeemed, s74,702.3S. ':''.s7
School fund warrants redeemed.
$50, 7s1. IL. :. Il
Totals, sS,141,5213s.
.. County auditors statement Of
warrants registered and transfers
from funds. from July 1, 1905, to
March 81, 1918:
General fund warrants registered.
81, les, O99.13.
Road tax special deposit warrants
registered, $1,0S3,877 .s...
Total warrants registered, $2,24S,-
|976.45. - s.. s'=.S
Add: 81
Transfers from road funds, ;7ss..
1902.
Transfers from permanent improve
ments fund, $685. e6.17.
Transferred from school fund, s10..
600 90.
Total transfers from funds. ssl2,..
356.1s.
Add:
warrants redeemed by county treas.
urer. but not entered In register of
warrants ( by, county auditor (see
schedule, No. %, Fields report TO
leommissiop)s $1,756.77.
Less outstanding warrants 10 re-.
ported to Hawaii County lnvestiga-
ton Commission (see schedules 81
and 80, Fields report to commission) D
slS, 9Sl.46
Totals, ss,I44,1O7s5.
Summary
County auditors records show war
rants registered and transfers from
funds, less outstanding warrants, $S,-
l144,107.95. rs
County treasurer's records show
warrants registered and transfers TO
funds, ,141,521.36.
Difference, explained in note below.
;2,5S6.5s. rs
Note: To the above difference OF
81. 5S6.59, interest charges on register
ed warrants should be added to the
county auditors statement, but as NO
record Of these amounts were kept
by that Official this item could not be
ascertained. The variances between
! the county treasurer's figures (which
are correctly and those Of the county
auditor, may very likely be located
/ I'm warrants still outstanding. The
| records OF the county auditor, how
4 ever, are in such q deplorable condi-
ton that it is impossible to arrive
/ at q closer reconciliation than the
j above one, o.. - ~: ~
| The above statement has been ex.
amined and found correct by us, and
we concur In the above remarks as
i 30 variances In figures. a..
i CIIAS. H. SWAIN,
4 County Treasurer, County Of Hawaii
i SAM M. SPENCER, 49,. -
Special auditor, <
County of Hawaii.
Complied from original records, by
i H. GooDING FIELD, F. A. A.
i Auditor, Hawaii County Investigation
Commission.
Hilo, T. H., May rs, 1914.
On folio SS6, of Fields report to the
j Hawaii County Investigation Commits
sion, the following notation was
made by him: :.
"a number of the general fund war
rants issued in the years 1906 to 1911
and appearing on the books of ths
county auditor as outstanding as oil
March 81, 1913, might have been paid
by the county treasurer but no entry
was made of such payments by the
county auditor"
On folio 322, in Fields report to the
commission, referring to warrants en-
tered In register of county auditor
purporting to have been issued, fol
which no record was found showing
that the warrants had been issued Of
paid by the county treasurer tSche
dhle, No. % In report, Field stated al
under:
Warrants from No. 3000-Novem
Der 80, 1905 to NO. 34S9-Decembe
81. 190S--road funds, East Hawaii
were missing from the records of tn,
county auditor. These warrants hat
been duly cashed by the county trea
: surer."
| The information contained in tn,
| | foregoing notationS will account TO