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into the cash room, where it goes to my credit on their books; and 
when it goes on their books I can draw against it, and not until then. 
Mr. Scorr. What governs you in the amount of your requisition / 
Mr. Evans. The number of vouchers that I have for payment and 
in sight, and I draw that requisition against the different appropria- 
tions. 
Mr. Scorr. How often do you draw a requisition—once a week or 
once a day? 
Mr. Evans. That depends altogether on the way the vouchers 
accumulate. 
Mr. Scorr. It is not a matter of periodicity / 
Mr. Evans. No, sir. In the first half of the month there are a great 
many more vouchers than we have in the last part of the month, and a 
large portion of the vouchers coming in the early part of the month 
are salary vouchers—pay rolls. 
Mr. Scorr. Do you pay those vouchers in cash or by check? 
Mr. Evans. By check, personal check. 
Mr. Scorr. Against the Treasury of the United States? 
Mr. Evans. Against the assistant treasurer of the United States in 
Chicago and— 
The Cuarrman. You do not pay by your personal check? 
Mr. Evans. No, sir; by official check. 
Mr. Scorr. I mean that the check is signed by yourself officially? 
Mr. Evans. Yes, sir. I have a credit in Washington and with the 
assistant treasurer in New York and with the assistant treasurer in 
Chicago, so as to make it convenient for people out in the West to 
have their checks cashed. 
The CHarrman. Now, if you by any chance audit a voucher wrong- 
fully, you are charged with it? 
Mr. Evans. I am charged with it; yes, sir. 
Mr. Apams. It might happen that if you were to pay an account 
and the warrant was issued by the Treasury, a warrant issued there, 
and then this new auditor should come in, his work would be liable to 
occur after the transaction was all completed, as I understand it, the 
work of this supervising auditor? 
Mr. Evans. Yes, sir; after the transaction is completed and the 
voucher paid. 
Mr. Apams. If a man comes in who is an outsider and he has a bill 
against your Department, and he gets that bill paid and goes out with 
the money, and the Auditor comes ih and finds an error in that pay- 
ment 
My. Evans. Then my bond is good for it. 
Mr. Apams. Your bond is good for it? 
Mr. Evans. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Scott. Would they not discover that at the Treasury Depart- 
ment? 
Mr. Evans. Yes; in all probability they would. 
The Cuatrman. How many years have you been in the Department? 
Mr. Evans. Twenty-nine years. 
The Cuatrman. What did you start at? 
Mr. Evans. I started as a laborer at $540 a year in the seed division, 
and I went there expecting to be there about six months. 
The Cuarrman. And you have been there ever since? 
