Statement of expenditures of insular cold storage and ice plant during the month of August, 1903-Continued.

Statement of expenditures of insular cold storage and ice plant during the month of August, 1903-Continued.

Statement of stores on hand July 1, 1903, and received during July and August, 1903.

Statement of stores delivered during July and August, 1903, and remaining on hand August 31, 1903.

Ice statement, insular cold storage and ice plant, July and August, 1903.

Cold-storage space rented to Subsistence Department, U. S. Army and U. S. Navy, and revenues therefrom during July and August, 1903.

Total number cubic feet, 618,196a; total revenues cold storage, $21,904.07.

aThis amount does not include extra meat stored for U. S. Navy, which was stored at 35 cents per quarter per month, or fraction thereof, and not by the cubic foot.

Insular cold-storage and ice-plant revenues during July and August, 1903.

Financial statement of insular cold storage and ice plant, July and August, 1903.

EXHIBIT 5.

REPORT OF THE AUDITOR FOR THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1903.

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS,

OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR,

Manila, P. I., November 1, 1903.

SIRS: In compliance with the provisions of rule 38 of Act No. 90 of the Philippine Commission, I have the honor to submit my annual report of the financial concerns of the government for the fiscal year 1903, showing the receipts and disbursements of the various branches of the government, by departments, bureaus, offices, and provinces, together with such deductions from results obtained and suggestions as to future policy as seem advisable.

In this report are considered all transactions of the said fiscal year which were embraced in accounts received to November 1, 1903, for the period ended June 30, 1903, and such settlements pertaining to prior fiscal years as were not included in previous annual reports.

All accounts of transactions pertaining to the fiscal year 1903 but subsequent to June 30, and all suspended items in accounts of said fiscal year, will be considered in subsequent reports according to the fiscal year in which admitted, but on account of the fiscal year to which the transactions pertained.

The organization of the office and the personnel of the executive staff at the close of the fiscal year were as follows: Auditor, A. L. Lawshe; deputy auditor, William W. Barre; chief clerk, W. H. Clarke; bookkeeping division, H. C. Lewis, chief; customs division, A. J. Gibson, chief; postal division, W. A. Walsh, chief; miscellaneous division, C. H. French, chief; provincial division, Ó. H. Tibbott, chief; property division, C. A. Smith, chief.

The authorized personnel at the close of the fiscal year was an auditor, a deputy auditor, three clerks of class 3, four clerks of class 4, three clerks of class 5, nine clerks of class 6, five clerks of class 7, nine clerks of class 8, ten clerks of class 9, six clerks of class 10, four clerks of Class A, two clerks of Class B, two clerks of Class C, three clerks of Class D, three clerks of Class E, two clerks of Class F, two clerks of Class G, two clerks of Class H, two clerks of Class I, two employees at $180 per annum each, and two employees at $150 per annum each. A net increase of nine clerks was granted in the appropriation for the first half of the current fiscal year.

THE BOOKKEEPING DIVISION.

Effective April 1 an exchange of positions for the period of six months was made at my request between Mr. H. C. Lewis, chief accountant of the Bureau of Insular Affairs at Washington, and Mr. W. Y. Handy, chief of the bookkeeping division of this office, for the