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Executive. § 69. All accounts and claims against the territory, which shall be by law directed to be paid out of the treasury thereof, shall be presented to the auditor, who shall examine and adjust the same, and, for the sums which shall be found due from the territory, shall issue warrants, payable at the territorial treasury, which shall be numbered consecutively, and each shall specify the date of its issue and the name of the person to whom paya­ble; and the number, date of issue and name of the person to whom payable of each warrant, and corresponding thereto shall be entered upon a stub for each warrant separately, and these stubs shall be carefully preserved by the auditor in his office.

§ 70. When the amount due from the territory to any one person is ascertained and adjusted, the auditor, if requested, shall divide the sum into amounts of from one to twenty dollars, to suit the convenience of the person entitled thereto, and shall issue warrants for the several amounts separately, into which the sum shall be so divided, and equal to the whole amount thereof; and any warrant already issued that may be returned by the holder thereof to the auditor, he may cancel and issue in lieu thereof small warrants, as herein provided, equal in the aggregate to the face value of the warrants canceled.

§ 71. For the redemption of all warrants issued in conform­ity with the provisions of this chapter, the credit of the territory is hereby pledged.

§ 72. The auditor shall enter, in progressive order, in a book or books to be provided by him for that purpose, the number of each warrant by him issued, the amount thereof, the date of its issue and the name of the person to whom issued, and the fund on which said warrant is drawn.

§ 73. The auditor shall make and keep in his office, in suit­able books, to be procured at the expense of the territory, fair and accurate accounts showing the debits and credits of each separate fund or appropriation by giving such funds credit for the full amount appropriated by law, and by charging to such funds severally the amounts drawn against them from time to time, and he shall also keep records of all such public accounts and other documents as have been or may be by law made return­ able to his office, and shall keep a file in progressive order of all receipts and warrants returned as redeemed from the territorial treasurer and other vouchers relative to the business of his office.

§ 74. The auditor shall submit a biennial report to the gov­ernor of the territory on or before the fifteenth day of December preceding each regular session of the legislative assembly, which report shall show for the preceding fiscal term ending on the thir­tieth day of November:

1. A statement of date, number and amount of each warrant; the person in whose favor, and on what fund each warrant was drawn.

2. The total amount of warrants redeemed and returned to him by the territorial treasurer.

3. A statement of the accounts of the several funds and appro­priations, which shall show the sums appropriated for each fund, the amount of warrants on each fund, and the unexpended balances of the same.

4. Such remarks on the finances of the territory as he shall deem proper, which report shall be transmitted by the governor to the legislative assembly.