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ere 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. Sec. 6 of the act authorizing the funding of county indebtedness, provides that the com- missioners “shall provide a book and shall register therein, in the order in which they are issued, the number, date and amount of each bond so issued and the time when the same shall become due, together with the name of the person to whom issued, and a description of the warrants or bonds, as the case may be, taken up and cancelled by issuing said bond or bonds,” etc. On page 1 of the book provided for this purpose by the commissioners of this county, it appears that $33,000.00 in bonds were issued July 1st, 1889, to take up a corresponding amount of court house bonds and funding bonds of 1882. The amount of bonds is falsely stated, there being at that time only $30.00 of these bonds outstanding, while the record shows that there were $33,000 outstanding. A large num- ber of warrants are described as to number and amount on page 1 and 2 of this record, but are put down entirely without reference to the bonds for which they were exchanged, so that ( 32 )