AUDITOR'S REPORT.

Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby requested to communicate to this House the sum paid out of the Treasury to the Board of Public Works since its organization, specifying the amount paid to each member, and the items thereof. Adopted October 22, 1857.

J. H. BRITTON, Clerk of House of Rep's.
AUDITOR'S OFFICE, STATE OF MISSOURI,
City of Jefferson, October 23, 1857.

To the Honorable the House of Representatives:

GENTLEMEN: In reply to a resolution of inquiry addressed to this office by your honorable body, I respectfully submit the following statement, showing "the sum paid out of the Treasury to the Board of Public Works since its organization, specifying the amounts paid to each member, and the items thereof:"

Amount paid C. F. Jackson, as follows:

For services as member of the Board of Public Works, from September 24 to December 3, 1855, at $5 per day..

For traveling expenses paid steamboats.

For board paid Barnum & Fogg.......

For board paid Newman, Jefferson City...

For telegraph dispatches $1 15, porterage $1 25.

For W. D. Kerr's board bill.

Amount paid G W. Hough, as follows:

For services as member of the Board of Public Works, from Oct.

$355 00

32 00

72 80

1 50

2.40

21.00

$484 70

$355 00

For services from 27th May to 30th June, 1857. ·

1, to December 10, 1855, at $5 per day.

For expenses...

For amount paid telegradh office.

102 20

1 35

175 00

61 75

3.00

460 00

71 70

13 50

650

6 45

$1,256 45