Montana Territory Territorial Auditor records, 1865-1892

The 1865 laws of Montana Territory of 1865 describe the Territorial Auditor's primary duties as follows: issuing warrants and keeping a record of all accounts presented and all warrants issued; furnishing the county and district collectors with blank licenses and receipts for money collected; reporting to the legislature at the commencement of each regular session on the revenue and expenditures of the preceding year, with an estimate for revenue and expenditures for the upcoming year; recording the amount of revenue chargeable to each county and the aggregate of each object of taxation; and directing prosecution for delinquencies of assessment collection and payment of revenue.

Montana's Territorial Auditors were John Lott (1864-1866), John Hollis Ming (1866-1867), William Rodgers (1867-1874), George Callaway (1874), Solomon Star (1874-1875), David Cuthbert (1876-1879), Joseph Pedrick Woolman (1879-1887), and James Sullivan (1887-1889).

When Montana became a state in 1889, the Office of the State Auditor replaced the Territorial Auditor, and the office was made an elected position post within the executive branch of Montana's government.