Report of the Public Auditor, January 17, 1816.

• imprint_number: 1816.005
• title: [Letter from auditor explaining cause of delay in transmitting the annual report of the revenue].
• sequence_number: 5
• year: 1816
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Thomas Ritchie
• author: Burfoot, John (d. 1826), auditor of public accounts.
• notes: No copy known extant; Ritchie was ordered to print 250 copies of this report, along with the four accompanying statements, on January 18, 1916; Swem records this letter as separate item from the supporting documents (1816.006); that entry also notes that Burfoot's report was then late in coming to the Assembly, so stresses the apology in the title he supplied; that delay was occasioned by the lack of clerical help, which the Assembly addressed by creating several new clerkships in the Executive branch to deal with ever-increasing workloads.
  
  
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