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Show THE EXPERTS' REPORT. Till report of the experts on the "municipal financial a flairs is very long, and it has been fairly forecasted in preliminary summaries. Jt sets forth in detail the unsatisfactory nature na-ture of the methods hitherto in vogue, facts which in a general way were known before, and were in fact Lite .inciting cause for " the. .employment of i these experts. There has never, from the first operations of tl)o municipal government, been anything like an ox-pert ox-pert and satisfactory' system of accounting ac-counting arid account' keeping. But now, as avc arc .assured, a scientific nnd proper system is in operation and from henceforth it will be possible to have evcr-tbLng done right. . j The experts criticise the general fi-'naucinl fi-'naucinl system .of. having the city run practically on credit throughout, the most of tho year, and nnlil the lakes aro paid " in " flfo" iaT, V&. an -ob.jcc-' 1 0 i tionablo system, as wo have pointed out from limo to time; but this can not be helped by the city. The system is not confined to the city, but prevails also in Stale, county, and school dis-' Irict finances. It is .just as' right for one as for all, and just as objectionable for all as for one. But in the methods of account-keep- ' ing, of knowing how the city stands financially at all times, and of keeping keep-ing truck of special assessments and the payers thereon, wo shall -hope that never more in this city will it bo possible pos-sible for city officials to confess such impotence as was admitted by tho officials of-ficials of tho Morris administration, where, in reply to a demand for the refunding to property owners tho money mon-ey which they had paid for improvements improve-ments that could not bo made, it was replied that the accounts wore in such shape that it was impossible for this to bo done. This report of the exports closes their labors for the city. That their labors have been so prolonged as to causo somo harsh criticism, wo aro aware; wo grew impatient ourselves at tho length of their service. But if this system works out ns it is claimed that it will do, the citv will in tho end be a lurge gainer from their labors. |