FINANCIAL REPORT AUDITOR PUBLIC ACCOUNTS. AUDITOR'S OFFICE, ILLINOIS, Springfield, December 18th, 1872. JOHN M. PALMER, Governor of Illinois: SIR-I have the honor to submit the following report for the two years commencing December 1, 1870, and ending November 30, 1872. You will find the following items embraced in the report, viz: 1. Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of General Revenue Fund. 2. Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of Special State Funds. 3. Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of Local Bond Funds for payment of principal and interest on Bonded Indebtedness of Counties, Townships, Cities and Towns. 4. General Statement of Warrants drawn on Treasury for all purposes. 5. Detailed Statement of Warrants drawn on the Treasury for all purposes, and to what account and appropriation charged. 6. Statement of the amount of Auditor's Warrants outstanding, unpaid December 1, 1872. 7. Statement of the School, College and Seminary Funds. 8. Statement of Insurance fees, required to be made by Act of March 11, 1869. 9. Statement of the condition of State Banks. 10. Statement of State Indebtedness redeemed with Illinois Central Railroad Fund. 11. Statement of State Indebtedness redeemed and purchased with State Debt Fund. 12. Statement of the accounts of the State Treasurer, with the several State Funds, and Local Registered Bond Funds of Countie Townships, Cities and Towns. 13. Statement of County, Township, City and Town Bonds registered in the Auditor's office. 14 and 15. Statements of State taxes charged in the several Counties, amounts collected, etc., for the years 1870 and 1871. 16 and 17. Statements of the School Tax Fund for years 1870 and 1871. 18. Statement of the Dividends of School Tax and Interest Funds to the several Counties, for the years 1870 and 1871. 19 and 20. Statements of Taxes charged on account of Local Bond Funds, amounts collected, etc., for the years 1870 and 1871, for the several localities having Bonds registered in Auditor's office. 21 and 22. Statements showing amount of State, County, Town, District and other Local Taxes, charged in the several Counties, on the State and county assessments, for the years 1870 and 1871. 23. Statement of the assessment of property in the several counties for the year 1871. 24. Statement of rates per cent. of addition and deduction determined by the State Board of Equalization, on assessment 1871. 25. Statement showing the Assessed and Equalized Valuations of the several classes of property for State taxation for the year 1871. 26. Statement of the re-assessment of Cook county for the year 1871. 27. Statement of rates per cent. of deduction determined by the State Board of Equalization on re-assessment of Cook county for the year 1871; with Assessed and Equalized valuations. 28. Statement of the assessment of property in the several Counties for the year 1872. 29. Statement of rates per cent. of addition and deduction determined by the State Board of Equalization, on Assessment, 1872. 30. Statement showing the Assessed and Equalized Valuations of the several Classes of Property for Taxation, for the year 1872. RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. The amount of all funds in the Treasury Dec. 1, 1870, was as follows: General Revenue Fund $1,456,031 05 Receipts into the Treasury from all sources from Dec. 1, 1870, to Nov. 30, 1872, inclusive, are as follows: The Disbursements from the State Treasury from December 1, 1870, to November 30, 1872, inclusive, are as follows: $2,045,290 69 Balance of all Funds in Treasury, December 1, 1872, The balance of each of the several Funds in the Treasury, December 1, 1872, is as follows: General Revenue Fund, State Debt Fund, Interest Fund, State School Fund, Canal Redemption Fund, Delinquent Land Tax, Local Bond Funds, $588,577 26 333,765 37 17,855 46 62,964 00 454,312 47 331 06 587,485 07 $2,045,290 69 The sum of $848,738 82 is included in the $13,200,485 08 disbursements, which, properly, should be deducted from said last named amount, being for transfer of funds, on the warrant of the Auditor, to other funds, as follows: General Revenue Fund to other funds, $149,905 77 Illinois Central Railroad Fund, 66 685,265 20 $848,738 82 For the same reason the actual money received into the Treasury is the same amount ($848,738 82) less than shown by the foregoing figures, ($10,748,342 25). A transfer of money from one fund to another makes it appear in the accounts of this and the Treasurer's office, that the money was drawn from the Treasury on account of one fund, and a corresponding amount paid into the Treasury on the account of another fund, thus ficticiously increasing the volume of receipts and disbursements. This process, being in obedience to provisions of law in keeping the accounts of the two offices, in the ordinary statements, for the past biennial period, makes it appear that the large sum above stated ($848,738 82) has been received and disbursed, by the State, when in fact, such is not the case. Therefore, instead of $10,748,342 25, receipts into L |