State Highway Expenditures Face Scrutiny and Reform Calls
John K. Aull outlines that the State Highway Commission controls a half million dollars monthly and that there is little external check beyond the commission itself. He notes extensive vouchers, evolving salaries not in prior appropriations, and urges itemized reporting in the annual highway department report to the General Assembly as a necessary safeguard.
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Comptroller General
South Carolina
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State Highway Fund
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Comptroller General's
Columbia
Comptroller General's Office
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Richards
Louisiana Purchase Ends French Control of North America
The 1763 treaty shifted vast lands from France to Spain between the Mississippi and the Rockies north of Texas. In 1800 Spain ceded it back to France, and Napoleon planned a Texas colony. Faced with war with Britain in 1803, France sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States for 15 million dollars, extending the nation to the Rocky Mountains.
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Germany notes Dawes payments and occupation costs
Germany has nearly completed the third Dawes annuity of 1.5 billion gold marks with 258 million spent on Allied troops in the Rhineland. The article states about six billion gold marks were used for upkeep of Allied forces from Armistice to the Dawes start. Future Dawes payments will rise, which Germany says is unnecessary and unjust.
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Rhineland
Alles
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