Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-01-04

DuidnCe III Lllc lTcubuIy5
Nov. Is, 1889, $23,062 63 0
Among the items of expenditure we find,
that the doorkeepers, clerk, and committees
of the last Legislature received 44,979-
officers of the government, ss27 ,57l--Stale
Printer, $50, 987-Stationar for State,
SaO, O,976-whilst the Governor, Auditor
Secretary and Treasurer, expended Sl2
6O8 40 out Of their respective contingent
funds. Add up these items, and the total
amounts to one hundred ard ttccnty sr hiou-
sand eight hundred and nineieen dollars
thirty-one cents, nearly one haT of the
whole sum place under the head of "Erpen-
ditures." The subscriptions to turnpike,
canal, and slackwater navigation companies
on the part of the State,
amount to $e,2G8,7OO OC
Upon which has been paid 1,l68,118 4E
Balance due $l,l00,539 81
The Fund Commissioners have paid large
amounts to the Cincinnati and White Wa
ter and the Milan Canal Companies, which
will considerably reduce the balance.
The amount of canal tolls received dn.
ring the last year is Ss478,483 so, being al
increase of $42, ,534,17 over last year.
The Pententlary pays profit of t$2,3l2,
81 for the present year.
The State labies are set down in round
numbers at twelve millions five hundred
thousand dollars. The Auditor " estimates
that we are paying interest upon ELEVEN
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS annually
which, at six per cent, amounts to sir hut
dred and sirty thousand dollars.
To pay interest upon our State debt, the
tolls and revenues of the canals and hC
tax levied supply 1856, 242-from this de
duct TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS paid for super
intendence and repairs, and four, hundred
and six thousand two hundred and forty
two dollars remain. Thus it will be seel
that S253,751 must be produced by loan o
otherwise to make up the deficiency to pa,
interest upon borrowed money annually. Ii
addition to all this tho Auditor estimate
that vigorous prosecution of the pub
: works the ensuing year will cost ttoo an
a half million.
A variety of useful information is i'm
parted to the public under the heads o
Lands and I'aration,"" Canal Lands
School Lands" &c., which merits the earl,
attention of the Legislature. In the annu
al copying of the duplicates, large quaint
ties subject to taxation through The care
lessness Of the proper officers, are omitted
and thus the revenue is diminished. A vas
amount of Canal Lands remain untaxed
"The total amount which has thus es
capped the records" says the Auditor,
should suppose from n hasty calculation t.
be about 100000 acres. Much of this
however, has found its way to the dupli
cate through other sources" He also adds
at is a question of some importance, how
ever, whether those lands which becaI,
taxable in 1835-'56-'37 and '58 sha
now be brought into taxation for the frs
time, and suffered 10 escape the taxes 70
those years. A re-survey ofthe Virginia Mi
litary Land District is recommended. Larg
bodies of this land escaped taxation. An in
stance isgven where warrant for 5000 acre
upon re-survey has produced $4,000 acres
and yet tax is only collected upon the origi
nal entry Of 5000 acres. The counties Q
Highland and Fayette are composed entire
ly of this description of land, and are es
tlmated to contain 970 square miles, whcl
gives Ga0,0J0 acres, of which 554,55
acres, only are taxed from 1899, leaving 66,
34l acres untaxed.
School Fund def;,lcations are touched
upon and Legislative aid invoked.
TAXES ON BANKS .''-Delinquence
have been discovered through the agency
of the Bank Commissioners to the amour