(No. 7.) AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT. AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan: } GENTLEMEN :-Pursuant to that part of the resolution approved April 6th, 1838, requiring the Auditor General to make a report of the finances of the state at the annual session of the legislature, I have the honor to transmit herewith sundry documents in numerical order, which exhibit the fiscal concerns of the state for the fiscal year which closed on the 31st December last, up to which period the receipts and expenditures of the government are properly designated. No. 1. Exhibits the receipts to be, Expenditures during the same period, $177,719 00 ry, 1838, of $15,067 92, 189,272 26 Excess drawn for, $11,553 26 No. 2. Exhibits the balance of state taxes due from the counties for the years 1836 and 1837, From the county of Monroe, about $35,388 12 4,500 00 $39,888 12 Also apportionment of state tax for the 3. Exhibits a balance in the bank fund to be 5. Certified copy of report of the acting com- do. internal improvement. 6. Exhibits the receipts and expenditures of 7. Exhibits the amount drawn from the fund Carried forward, 56,348 00 1,260 38 28 17 640,509 68 122,613 12 Carried forward, E. Exhibits the amount of advances made Hi- 10. Exhibits the amount of advances made 11. Exhibits the amount of advances made James B. Hunt, acting commissioner on the Clinton and Kalamazoo canal, and accounted for by vouchers duly audited, excepting $4,286 due on last advance of $5,000, Advanced to contractors by order of the board, for stone for sundry canals, and security taken for the faithful delivery, 12. Exhibits the amount of advances made Levi S. Humphrey, acting commissioner on the southern and Havre Branch railroads, and accounted for by vouchers du ly audited, 13. Exhibits the amount of advances made Rix Robinson, acting commissioner on the St. Mary canal, Grand and Kalamazoo rivers, and vouchers filed duly allowed for $17,568 56. 14. Exhibits the state of the sinking fund and expenses for repairing of the road and ru: ning cars, balance in the fund, 15. Exhibits an amount of an advance made L. B. Mizner while acting commissioner on central railroad, and balance due not accounted for, $528, 65,000 00 18,594 03 20,000 00 20,000 00 10,000 00 145,000 00 20,000 00 88,562 71 5,000 00 No provision having been made by law for the expenses of running the cars, and the repairs on the central railroad, they have been drawn from the general fund, since the 17th August, as they could not be legally drawn from the revenues of the railroad, which have been placed to the credit of the sinking fund. 13 Some legislative action should therefore be made for the future. expenses. The additional duties and labor that have devolved on me since May last, in attempting to make a final statement with the clerks and sheriffs of the several counties under the late law granting licenses, the auditing all the accounts of the several acting commissioners of internal improvement on the railroads and canals, and a number of claims growing out of it, which ought to have been adjusted prior to the taking effect of the last act for the regulation of internal improvement, and for the appointment of a board of commissioners, together with the additional duties imposed on him by the revised statutes, and the very limited compensation made by law for clerk hire, has rendered it in a manner impracticable to devote any time to the latter part of the resolution. Defalcations since my report in January, 1838: William Anderson, sheriff, Washtenaw. L. Buckingham, sheriff, Genessee. R. Wheaton, sheriff, Eaton. All of which is respectfully submitted. ROBERT ABBOTT, Auditor General. No. 1. Henry Howard in account current with the State of Michigan, for the quarter ending March 31st, 1838. mazoo county, $65 00 50 00 R. C. Payne, treasurer Berrien do do do 1837, 1,122 00 D. Page, treasurer Washte naw county, in full for taxes D. Page, treasurer Washte- Charles Hewitt, treasurer Len Carried forward, 86 22 6278 86 00 50 00 |