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1406 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 30,
mary disposal of the subject, presents the following minority
report, being compelled to dissent from the majority for rea-
sons hereinafter mentioned.
According to that Section of the order immediately under
consiJeration, the 'Committee was required to "examine
into, and fully and searchingly inquire into the accounts and
disbursements of the Treasury Department, and the venous
departments and officers doing business therewith, and as-
certain whether the expenditures and disbursements of said
officers and departments have been made in conformity with
law."
With the statement, in the report of the majority, that
the books of the Comptroller are kept correctly, the minority
will agree.
The Comptroller should issue no warrant upon the Treas-
urer, unless authorized by law.
The respective entries upon the books of the Comptroller,
should state the order upon which his warrant upon the
Treasurer is based.
This being the character of the respective entries upon the
books of the Comptroller, it is clear that no discrepancy, in-
accuracy or improper disbursement of money could be de-
tected, unless the Committee examined separately the differ-
ent orders upon the Comptroller, which the Committee failed
to do. The minority desired the majority to examine all
orders upon the Comptroller, to ascertain Whether or not all
disbursements "have been made in conformity with law,"
as was expressly required by the order of your Honorable
Body.
The minority called the attention of the majority to the ne-
cessity of a thorough examination of the various Acts of As-
sembly and orders upon the Comptroller, upon which he is-
sued his warrant, as being the only way possible by which
the Committee could arrive at a positive and certain know-
ledge as to whether or not the disbursements made by the
Comptroller "have been in conformity with law," this being
the principal object of the investigation ordered by the House.
To this proposition of the minority it was the pleasure of the
majority to disagree, declaring that it was unnecessary, and
that such an examination was not in the province of duty im-
posed upon the Committee. In consequence of this partial
and defective examination, the minority is compelled to con-
sider the report of the majority, as presented to your Hono-
rable Body, as not based upon such a full and searching in-
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