The changes on the Commissioner’s record…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

e in the minds of the county. The books of warrant stubs from which war- rants were issued from March, 1888, to July 1889, presents unmistakable evidence of syste- matic alteration of figures to make them corre- spond with similarly changed amounts of the Commissioner’s record. The changes on the Commissioner’s record appear to have been made by a more experi- enced hand than those on the warrant stubs, and many of them would escape detection under ordinary circumstances. The limited time at the disposal of your committee did not permit a complete examination of this book and com- parison of all the stubs with the commissioner’s record and with the corresponding numbers of warrants as they appear on the bond record as cancelled in exchange for bonds, but several hundred were so examined with the result that they were found far from satisfactory. Erasures were not found on the bond record to corre- spond with the commissioner’s record book and the book of warrant stubs, and the oversight enabled your committee to make more interest- ing comparison than would otherwise have been possible.