OF CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, FOR THE Two Years Ending October 31, 1888. TO THE GOVERNOR. INDIANAPOLIS : WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING. 1888 THE STATE OF INDIANA, Received by the Governor, examined and referred to the Auditor of State for verification of the financial statement. The within report, so far as the same relates to moneys expended for public printing and advertising and public stationery, is correct. BRUCE CARR, Auditor of State. DECEMBER 13, 1888. Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding. PIERRE GRAY, Private Secretary. Filed in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Indiana, December 13, 1888. 198064 CHARLES F. GRIFFIN, SECOND BIENNIAL REPORT OF SECRETARY OF STATE. STATE OF INDIANA, To the Honorable ISAAC P. GRAY, Governor of the State of Indiana. } SIR-I herewith respectfully submit the Biennial Report of the business of this office, embracing the period from the 1st day of November, 1886, to the 31st day of October, 1888, including the Attorney General's Report of Fines and Forfeitures, together with tabulated statement of the vote of Indiana, at the November election, 1888, for Presidential Electors, State officers, Congressmen and Legislative and Judicial officers of the State. I also submit, herewith, report of Hon. Charles A. Bookwalter, Clerk of the Bureau of Public Printing, Binding and Stationery. Mr. Bookwalter has been a competent and obliging official, and has performed the duties pertaining to his of fice with commendable promptness and ability, and rare fidelity to the interests of the State, as will more fully appear from a careful perusal of his report. Since the submission of the last biennial report of the Secretary of State, this office has been moved from the old State building to the more commodious, safe and convenient quarters in the new State House. The books, papers and public documents of all kinds pertaining to this office, have been re-arranged in as orderly a manner as possible, until some provision shall be made by the General Assembly, for the more thorough indexing and arrangement of certain important public records herein. |