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Excerpt from Sixth Biennial Report of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Illinois: Presented to the Governor November 1880 On or before the first day of November preceding each regular session of the general assembly, the trustees of each of the'state institutions named in this act shall make out and trans mit to the state commissioners of public charities, and they, if they find the same to be correct, shall deliver the same to the governor, a full and detailed report of all their transactions and doings for the two years ending on the thirtieth day of Sep tember immediately preceding, showing, for the two years, and for each of them, separately, the number of inmates admitted and-dis charged since their last report, the number then remaining in the institution, the average annual attendance, the receipts, disburse ments and expenditures of moneys and other funds, the valuation of property in the hands of the trustees, the amount of each appro priation or fund under their control, and the balance thereof remaining unexpended in their hands or in the treasury of the state. The reports required by this section shall be accompanied With a cash statement made by the treasurer of the institution, and with such other information, financial, statistical or otherwise, in such tabulated form as the commissioners of public charities may prescribe and require: Provided, that the said commissioners shall piescribe forms of statements as nearly uniform as may be practi cable for all the institutions, to the end that their accounts may be compared and consolidated for the information of the general as sembly: And, provided, further, that the said commissioners may call for and require special reports when, in their judgment, the public interest shall demand the same. 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.