Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-01-17

| property which has been discarded.
! 'psc General Assembly should ut once
| strengthen the laws governing the
| State auditors Office In such way as
! to give to the State auditor all neces-
aary power and authority to make nm
audit OF all ACCOUNTS and transactions
| OF any State department. institution.
agency, etc. and should insure this aii@
! thority by making 1t compulsory upon
all State departments institutions,
| agencies ETC. To comply with the re-
| quests and orders of the State auditor.
/ The General Assembly should author
/ lie tho employment of some reputable
| concern to install complete set OF
/ books, ledgcrs, records. etc, In the
| State auditors and State treasurer's
Offices which would enable the state
auditor and State treasurer To keep
| complete. accurate. up-to-date check
| and data upon all the financial trans
actions Of the several departments and
agencies of the State. including those
which involve income as we'll ms ex-
| penditure.
The State Board of Supplies should
have fun and complete power and
authority to contract for and purchase
| all supplies used by any State depart
| ment. institution. agency, etc, which
| receives financial aid from the State,
with the exception of the judicial De-
partment and the Department of Pub
| lie Arms and Defense. but these two de-
partments should have the option of
having their supplies purchased
through the State Board of Supplies.
| Supplies should include all office sup
| plies of all kinds. any and all kinds of
Office equipment, furniture and fixtures
| II should include the printing. binding
| ,ls ..f al ttx4,a tod tor
| issued by any of the state legislative
| and executive departments. IL should
not include such institutional supplies
| as hardware. machinery, food. forage,
| clothing. drugs chemicals. etc. used by
| State institutions and agencies of vafi-
| Gus kinds The board should have
| charge of the purchase of all fuel used
| I'm the state Capitol building and of all
repairing. heating and equipment of
| said building. II should be authorized.
empowered and directed TO fix stand
ard for all supplies Of all kinds. 1t
| should have charge of the disposal OF
all waste paper and all other unservice-
able personal property of the State. II
| should have the righ TO dispose OF all
such personal property of any State
| bureau, commission or institution
which may terminate it's existence for
| any reason whatever A custodian or
| steward should be designated by the
| board to take charge of the storeroon.
! In letting contracts for printing the
| board should have power TO designate
/ the size, character and measurements
| of type 20 he used and to hx the unit of
| compensation for printing. The
1 board should be compelled to submit its
estimates to the budget making author
/ ity or to- the Legislature In event there
| is no budget law. There should be an
/ inhibition against any State agency
| making any requests for appropriations
to cover the purchase OF any supplies
| which are or may be handled by the
board. In addition to the estimated ex-
penditures of the board. Il should be
| permitted a contingent fund for the
purpose Of going into the open market
and htiying supplies ahead of the i'm
| mediate requirements of the state when
by so doing IL can obtain the adyant-
age of unusually reasonable prices. The
contingent fund should not exceed 10
per cent Of the total amount of the
estimated expenditures of the board for
any one fiscal year. The fiscal year OF
the board and OF all state agencies
should begin on July of each calendar
year and end on June 80 of the sue
ceeding calendar year. and all estimates
/ submitted TO the puafd ny inc sesf'd a
State agencies and all contracts award
ed by the board should be for the fis
cal year. The board shall advertise fol
: bids, using the classified list as basis
for soliciting bids. II must insert ad
! | vcrtisements for bids for all supplies
. | needed In at least three Delawar'
: newspapers, one published I'M each cour
: ty and il may also insert advertise
K ments in such trade journals as !
: | may deem advisable for total or par
tial lists Of supplies. 1t shall also sem
| notices TO not less than five dealers
| manufacturers. The usual regulation
safeguarding bids and awarding con
tracts shall be observed. including tn
:, provision that contracts may not b
: awarded to any bidder whose price
: are unreasonable or higher than pre-
; valing market prices. The board ma
; not purchase any supplies from an
, concern In which any member of tn
> board or the State auditor has an
: pecuniary interest. In addition to othe
| duties assigned to him by the Genera
Assembly, the State librarian shall b
custodian or steward of all stores an
@ stocks of the board.
A Creation of a permanent Board c
:. State Tax Commissioners, to be com
: posed of three members and who's
: powers should include:
o Assessment of all property or busi
e ness that is subject to State tax.
o Supervision and preparation of a
: lists from which the income tax. III
franchise tax, the taxes upon inSur
ance, banking and other corporation
and other like taxes are compute