AUDITOR

A public officer whose function is to e.tamine llnd pa upon the accounts and vouchers of officers who have received and expended public money by lawful f authority. In practice. An officer (or officers) of th~ court, a igned to state the items of debit and credit between the l)llrties in a suit where accounts are in question, and exhibit G the balance. Whit well v. Willard, 1 ¥etc. (Ma .) 218. In English law, An officer or agent of the crown, or of a private individual, or corporation, who examines periodically the ac-, H' counts of under officers, tenants, stewards, or bailiffs, and reports the state of their accounts to his principal. -Auditor of the receipts. An officer of the English exchequer. 4 Inst. 107.-Auditors of the imprest. Officers in the English ex- I chequer, who formerly had the charge of auditing the accounts of the customs, naval and military expenses, etc., now performed by the commi ioners for auditing public accounts., [s. 111]