On 16 August no ribbon was cut—the paper simply started doing its work. In 1923, the Law on the State Audit Office came into force: an institution that in 1918 had begun as a controller attached alongside the government became Latvia’s constitutionally anchored, independent collegiate supreme audit institution. The law gave it the task of checking state property and funds not only formally but also in substance—whether actions were lawful, useful, and properly carried out.

Articles 87 and 88 of the Satversme required a special law so that audit could operate independently of day-to-day government politics. The young state still had to bring departmental accounting, budget discipline, and records of state property into a single order.