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The total shortage on this account is four thousand nine hundred and eighty-six 

 dollars ($4,986). 



In addition to the amount found to be due the State on this account, there were 

 numerous outstanding claims for protectors' moieties and attorneys' fees which were 

 supposed to have been paid by the late Secretary. These claims have been presented 

 to your Commission from time to time, and the amounts found to be due have been 

 collected from the late Secretary and paid through your Commission. The aggregate 

 of these claims thus paid is five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and forty cents 

 ($598.40). There are other outstanding claims payable from this account that have 

 not been adjusted as yet. 



Maintenance Account. 



The maintenance account is the account of moneys appropriated and disbursed for 

 the general expenses of the Commission, and includes, in addition to the personal 

 expenses of the Commissioners, large disbursements for printing, advertising, sta- 

 tionery, stenographic work and typewriting, office furniture, supplies for hatcheries, 

 and, occasionally, salaries and e.xpenses of hatchery employes, shad hatching, sur- 

 veying; etc. Disbursements for the last two purposes should have been charged to 

 the special appropriations for those purposes. 



There is also another account of cash advanced under appropriations " For the 

 salary of the Secretary and the maintenance of his office." 



These two accounts appear to have been kept separate by the Comptroller's office 

 only with respect to the cash advanced. Vouchers belonging to one have been 

 charged to the other, and vice versa. For this reason, in the examination of those 

 two accounts, they have been considered as one and the same account, and wherever 

 the maintenance account is referred to in these reports it is understood to include all 

 disbursements made under the two appropriations referred to. 



The shortage on this account was $2,043.66 ; all of which has been collected by 

 your Commission and turned over to the Comptroller. 



Special Appropri.\tion, Chapter 438, Laws of 1894. 



This act appropriated two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the purpose 

 of reimbursing certain Game Protectors for expenses incurred by them in excess of 

 the amount allowed by chapter 577, Laws of 1888. 



The amount of this appropriation was at first apportioned among nine (9) 

 claimants. 



