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Excerpt from Biennial Report of Alfred E. Bent, Auditor of State of Colorado: From December 1, 1904, to November 30, 1906 Inclusive Scalp bounty certificates to the amount of thousands of dol lars continue to be filed in this office, with no money to pay them. The Legislature should either repeal the present law or make some provision for the payment of these claims. I would recommend the establishment of a permanent sur plus fund to be used-for the redemption of the outstanding war rants for the year 1891 and subsequent years wherein the war rant issue has been in excess of the revenue. The Fifteenth General Assembly appropriated for the Gen eral Incidental Fund the sum of This is an amount considerably less than has heretofore been appropriated for this purpose, nevertheless the Auditing Board has economized to such a degree as to keep its expenditures within the sum mentioned, and you are well aware the Auditing Board has denied requisi tions for actual necessities by the Departments, in order to pre vent a shortage in this fund, therefore, I am sure you will agree with me that the Sixteenth General Assembly should be urged to appropriate the sum of $7 for this fund. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.