During the January Uprising of 1863, the system of revolutionary authorities was really unique since they operated as an underground state. It was a thriving organisation, and it also established a state audit body – the Office of Accounts of the National Government in Paris. The task of the Office was to audit all national funds, to examine the revenues and expenditures, and the basis on which they were executed, to approve and file the accounts, as well as to carry out the whole account of the revolutionary revenues and expenditures.
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