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FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 
It has been the policy of the commission to keep at all times well 
within the appropriation, and, as the following table will show, this rule 
has been strictly adhered to. Our system of accounting has been of 
such a character that it has been possible at all times to determine the 
financial status of the department at a moment’s notice. 
Some of our work, it was felt, needed additional funds for carrving 
it on, but such work was done as best it could be with available funds, 
rather than by drawing upon other accounts or overdrawing the par- 
ticular appropriation. 
