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Show ADVISES AUDITING OF COUNTY BOOKS ProVO, Feb 5 At a meeting of the county commissioners of Utah county coun-ty yesterday A. V. Robinson, tbe county coun-ty clerk, presented a report on his examination of the county books. Te stated that he had discovered a number num-ber of discrepancies in the balances made by li ta predecessor ln office. He buid that Indications pointed tu the conclusion that "the auditing for some time had been done with the treasurers books as a guide'' It is possible that expert accountants will be t'tuploved to go over the books thoroughly and post them to the date upon which Robinson went into office. of-fice. Robinson stated in his communication communica-tion to ihe commissioners that he had r peatedly requested that (he former countv clerk. M K,. Kartcbuer Jr., to posi all accounts to January 1. 1913, but that the reqnesl had met with no fiiiswer The commissioners instructed instruct-ed Robinson to send an official re- I m quest from the board to former Clerk B Kartchner, asking him to post all ac- Br.'-' counts to January 1, In the event iH that the former official does not com- B ply It is probable that the books will IB be audited by experts.' m In his report Robinson states that tt the books show that Kartchner drew B I $9.27 more salary than was due him; B thai other officers drew a total of 128.14 more than they should have B . received. He said the receptacles for K bills against the county contained Hp many unverified accounts and ho ex- B presses a belief that many of the bills E. were paid twice He gives examples B of vouchers which led him to this con- M |