Mexico weekly ledger., 1922-10-19
Budget Bill No. 4s4.

AN ACT creating a state department of
budget, defining it's powers and duties;
providing for the appointment Of a
commissioner as executive head of said
department, fixing his salary, requiring
him to give bond and fixing the amount
and conditions of said bond; providing
for a central office of said department
OF budget, requiring said commissioner
to cooperate with other departments,
boards, commissions, bureaus, branches,
institutions and officers of the state in
the interest of efficiency and economy;
providing that rights, powers and du-
ties vested in any department, board,
commission, bureau, branch, institution
and officer, or any deputy, inspector, or
subordinate officer thereof, transferred
by this act to the department of budget,
shall be vested in and exercised by
said department of budget, and pre-
serving any rights accrued or any ac-
ton or proceeding commenced and au-
thorizing the same to be prosecuted
and continued by the department of
budget; providing how appropriations of
money for the department of budget
shall be expended; defining the rights,
owers, duties and obligations of the
COMMISSIONS of budget; providing for
the submission of bids and estimates to
the department of budget and the APP
prevail thereof by the commissioner Of
budget; requiring the commissioner of
budget to divide his department into
two bureaus, upon certain conditions;
defining the rights, powers, and duties
of the bureau of taxation and estimate
with respect Of taxation; requiring said
bureau to collect data Of expenditures
of all departments, boards, commissions,
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GERS, and of their needs and matters
pertaining to coordination and eff
cheney in the administration Of state
affairs; defining the rights, powers and
duties of the bureau Of purchase and
authorizing said bureau to supervise
the purchase of necessary supplies for
the state or any of its departments,
boards, commissions, bureaus. branches,
institutions or officers, unless other
wise provided by law; authorizing said
department of budget to supervise the
sale of surplus products of any state
institutions; providing that certain
printing shall not be done until ap-
proved by the commissioner OF budget
providing for officers and employees of
said department Of budget and defining
their qualifications, rights, duties and
obligations and providing for their
bAldrleSs auInOFlzlHB the department. OF
budget to examine the accounts, re-
ceipts and expenditures and the use
Of property by the departments, boards,
commissions, bureaus, branches, insti-
tutions and officers OF the state; re-
quiring said department OF budget to
keep certain account and requiring
said department to prescribe uniform
rules governing specifications, adver-
tisements for proposals, bids, and maxi
ing awards for labor and material; re-
quiring certain catalogues to be kept
authorizing said department Of budget
to examine accounts Of private corpora
tions, institutions. Associations OF
boards receiving appropriations from
the state; authorizing said department
OF budget to inspect articles and ma
terials furnished to or work done foI
the state, all departments, boards, com
missions, bureaus. branches, institutions
and officers thereof, and II not In ac-
, cordance with specifications nj con
tract reject the same under certain
conditions; requiring the commissioner
Of budget to report estimates Of in
come and evenues Of the state upor
certain conditions and to submit to thu
governor bfenniany q state budget, and
fixing the time therefor, providing fol
obtaining the items for said budget