The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1915-03-12

missioner imam the lCOoiN0 N'ii ~
The statement concerning them fol-
lows:
According to the tags sold, as
per the receipt shown in the treas
urers office, and the tags purchased,
per invoice, we find the difference
between the tags actually on hand
and the tags that should be on hand
so great that in our opinion the fig
ures cannot be relied upon, there be-
ing apparently more tags on hand
than records call for. At the sugges-
ton of your committee we have tenn
porarily, at least, abandoned the eff
fort to reconcile the tags actually on
hand with the book statements as
to what should be on hand"
1t is suggested that a statement be
procured from each operator of tags
purchased by him, and from the
manufacturers statement of tags re-
ceived by the department 1t is stat
ed that it can be done by correspond
ence, and, the committee says, sit is
our opinion this should be done"
The committee also points out that
the law requires that all fees for tags
should have been paid to the state
treasurer. He is required to exc
cute duplicate receipts, one of which
shall be kept by the party and the
other one filed with the commission
er of the department, who is then
to deliver the tags.
we find that this law has not
not been complied with and that the
payment for tags has been made di-
rectly to the department" says the
statement to the legislature. 1t fur
Their states that contrary to this
law the commissioner in many in
stances has received payment for
these tags and made delivery. If the
law had been complied with fairly
good checking system would have
been preserved"
Need of a complete and perfect
checking system for each and every
set forth in the statement, what the
committee desires to do is to impress
upon the legislature the necessity
of providing and maintaining a per
feet checking system upon each de
partment of the state government"
1t further recommends that all
tags used by this department should
be printed by order of the auditor OF
the state, who shall deliver the same
to the commissioner of mines, man
ufactures and agriculture and charge
same to him. This would prevent
any possible Justification of tags or
the issuance or delivery of tags not
authorized by law"
The only source of receipts in the
department of mines, manufactures
and agriculture is that of the sale of
fertilizer and feed tags. According
to the report to the auditing COM
mittee the total receipts from the sale
of fertilizer tags from November j.,
1912, to February 15,1913, were $53,-
845.06. The total receipts from the
sale of feed tags for the same period
were $42,768.3S. On account OF
the permanent injunction against the
sale of feed tags there would have
, been no receipts from this depart
ment after October, 1913, but this
amount shown was collected by the
department prior to October, 1913,
and held until February, 1915, the
report says. The report also says:
Funds to the amount of $4.4T7.-
3 from the sale of feed tags during
the year 1913 were withheld from
the treasurer until February, 1915:
also that funds to the amount of So
ooV rum me SAFE VI leIlllIZer tags
during the year 1913 were not turn
ed over to the treasurer until Janu-
airy, 1915"
A list of items amounting to $247.-
30, which is from 80 to 90 days old.
is still in the hands of the depart
ment and is included in the report.
Rec.-mmenIs GhahelInin,A Innnh