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Show COUiTY FIIICI MflTTERSJSCUSSED Correction of Defects in Bookkeeping Taken Up by Department Heads Correct on of defects in the county s bookl eep ng affa rs as revealed by the report of V J Sull van special ac countant was cons dered informally by heads of county departments jesterday Mr Sullivan and the heads of depart ments n et with tne county commas sion Mr Snlll an po nted out more or less important defects n the affa rs of near ly all county departments h s one ex cept on be ng the off ce of the county phys c an Dr C C bnyder and the health department of wh ch the county physician is the head. In th s depart meat Mr Sull van said a thorough and complete system was already in vogue an 1 he had no suggest ons for improve ment Ilia pr nc pal cr t cism was directed aga nst the co nty treasurer an 1 the county aud tor s offices, in their rela t on with each other lie eaid that a ?ap had ex sted between the two of ces that bad resulted n a loose sys tern under wh ch a complete check was not poss ble on county funds Mr Sull van recommended strongly the adopt on of the new municipal ac counting methods used by many east ern cities and known as the Metz sys ten At the conclus on of the meet ng heads of departments were instructed to Srepare a report by net Wednesday eal ng with poss ble inprovements id the r respect ve off ces These reports and recomraendat ons will be gone over b) Mr Sull an and t is hoped that a uniform Bvstem can be evol ed from them |