Pennsylvania Act 1897-226 — AUDITOR GENERAL, FORMS AND VOUCHERS

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AUDITOR GENERAL, FORMS AND VOUCHERS
                 Act of Jul. 15, 1897, P.L. 291, No. 226              Cl. 72
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Auditor General to prescribe the form and
        requirements of vouchers, monthly and quarterly returns and
        statements of county officers and institutions receiving
        State aid, and to obtain from State institutions the evidence
        of State ownership, and making an appropriation to meet the
        expenses thereof, and authorizing the appointment of expert
        accountants in certain cases, and providing for the payment
        of the same.

        Section 1.  Forms of vouchers, returns, etc; for department
        That in the settlement of accounts in his department and in
     the monthly and quarterly statements and returns of institutions
     and county officers now required by law to be made to his
     department, the Auditor General shall have the authority and
     power to devise the form of voucher, statement or return to be
     used aforesaid, and to prescribe the requirements to be
     contained in the same, to the end that the public accounts can
     be adjusted and audited to the best interests of the
     Commonwealth. 1897, July 15, P.L. 291, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  Expert accountants; compensation
        That the Auditor General is authorized to appoint, from time
     to time, as necessity may require, one or more expert
     accountants to examine the accounts of county officers, and of
     institutions, receiving State aid in whole or in part.  The
     compensation to be first fixed by the accounting officers of the
     Commonwealth before any appointment shall be made, which
     compensation, with the necessary expenses incurred in the work,
     shall be paid by filing proper voucher on the warrants drawn by
     the Auditor General on the State Treasurer, and payable out of
     moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated:
     Provided, however, That the payments for the services of the
     said expert accountants shall not exceed the sum of one thousand
     five hundred dollars in any one fiscal year. 1897, July 15, P.L.
     291, Sec. 2.
        Section 3.  Custody of title deeds, etc.
        The Auditor General is authorized to demand and receive from
     the managers of all institutions owned exclusively by the State,
     the title papers, insurance policies, plans of buildings and
     grounds, deeds and other legal evidences of ownership thereof:
     Provided, That the expense of obtaining and of classifying,
     recording and indexing the same shall not exceed two thousand
     ($2,000) dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated for that
     purpose out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise
     appropriated.  The vouchers for such expenses to be drawn by the
     Auditor General upon the State Treasurer, and the managers of
     all state institutions are hereby required to supply such
     evidences of title to the Auditor General, who shall become the
     custodian thereof.  1897, July 15, P.L. 291, Sec. 3.