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forty-two cents for balance found on examination of the Park 

 Commissioners' accounts due the city, this amount having been 

 paid by Mr. J. 8. T. Stranahan, subject to any corrections that 

 in.i\ be found in the further examination of the accounts of the 

 late Park Commissioners, to credit of Maintenance of Public 

 Parks. $10,60442. 



" | Signed.] A. D. WHEELOCK, 



" Deputy Treasurer." 

 I think that it is proper that we should remember, in weigh- 

 ing the burden of these deficiencies, that they are distributed 

 over transactions extending through twenty-two years and 

 amounting to over eight millions of dollars. 

 " Very respectfully, 



LUDWIG SEMLEE, 



Comptroller. 



Department of Finance, ] 



Comptroller's Office, City Hall, > 



Brooklyn, December 12, 1882. j 

 J. S. T. Stranahan, Esq., 



Ex-President, Brooklyn Park Commissioners: 



Dear Sir : 

 Having been requested by the present Board of Park Com- 

 missioners to cause an examination of the account of that 

 Commission up to the 17th day of June last, the date of your 

 retirement from the Commission, whose President you have 

 been up to that time, I have had tke account in question 

 examined and find from the report of accountant Win. A. Brown, 

 to whom the examination was intrusted, that there is a defi- 

 ciency in the account to the credit of the city to the amount of 

 $10,604.42. 



I consider it proj^er that I should notify you of this fact 

 before I close my examination and officially rej)ort thereon. 



Yours, very respectfully, 

 | Signed. ] LUDWIG SEMLER, 



Comptroller. 



