Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1842-01-14
FINANCES OF OHIO.

Auditor Brough's Annual report forms
a,book ofOn7y las. pages, instead Of more
than two hundred, as was enormously
stated in the Free Press Of last week -
The following synopsis ofthe report we
find iu an exchange paper, copied from
the Springfield Republic:
The receipts into the Treasury fer
The year ending November Is, 1871,
was 1885, ,632: The expenditure $l92,-
279-Ieaving balance Of $G3,572. So
says the Ohio Republican. The Re-
public says, "the amount Of General
Revenue and other funds, remaining in
the Treasury on the 18th Nov. the end
Of the fiscal year, was $l2O,747 93."
Expenditures We quote some Of the
items of the last year: State officers, g.
100 dollars; Judges Of Courts 25,48S;
bounty on silks 1923; wolf sea ps 1903;
State Printe: 1876; Legislature A.
O07; Presidential Election 3.0l8; Board
Of Equalization 1896. The amount
paid to the State Printer is worthy a
word Of comment. The Wings did all
they could the past year, with majority
in but one House, to reduce branch
Of public expenditure which "had increa
sed, was increasing, & ought to be dimin
ished" Their efforts we're ridculed,
but we hero see the result. In 1887,
Medary received II, 1877 dollars; in 1898
1904; iu 1889, 90, ,9S7; in lS4O, l6..
50G-but last year, only ,576! Who
will wonder at Medary's abuse Of the
w hgs of the last Houso9
TaratiOn. The Auditor recommends
a reduction on the grand levy orone half
or three-iourhs OF O mill on the dollar,
for general purposes, and an increase OF
one fourth or one half q mill for canal
purposes, The present rate Of taxes for
State purposes is stated 10 be 5 mills on
the dollar.
C6lldted SidtuLPS-The whole cost Of
this work, so soon 10 be marred by the
disposition 10 innovate upon the existing
code, is stated as follows:
Cost Of paper, $l846O 80
Cost Of printing, 1897 81
Cost OF binding 10000 90
Paid Judge Swan for coIISting 2,lIS 28
Total 43 ,576 Sd
Canal Tolls Ohio Caral S422, ,49l !;
amount paid for superintendence, &C.,
lei ,0S6- Miami Canal tolls, 70477;
paid for superintendence, &c. 63,99S.-
The Revenues for the present year fall
short of the previous 57,67l.
Subscriptions and payments 10 Turn.
pike Road, Canal and Sldckmater Nae.
igGtiOn Companies Amount subscribed
by Slate 10 date OF report, 1851 60
amount paid 2,Ol4, 4,900-amount due
545,679, OF these he thinks the utmost
vigilance is required to protect the State
from being swindled out of portion of
lie subscription IN these useful works,
Taxable Property, The total taxable
property in the State embracing 2l,-
04l ,7S4 acres Of land) is valued al l2S !.
353,057 dollars; being an increase over
TINT of the former years Of about &c..
3l5,706. The new valuation has in.
creased the taxes this year over last, for
state and canal purposes 70, 100 dollars,
Interest on The Public Debt,-This IS
stated at s6l 1853. There IS defcien.
cy in this fund the present year, Of 96,,
575 dollars. Tho amount of the debt is
to be tho subject of special report o.
Mr.. Brough.
The Columbus Correspondent Of the
Western Reserve Chronicle, condGnse,
tho Auditors Special Report on The Stat,
Debt, as follows:
"The amount Of permanent loans il
f stated to be II All, ,234 II. Temporary
loans for which scrip certificates hnv,
been hypoIhecnted amount 10 l,359,00(
! 90, and the amount Of stock hypolhpCa
( tod for these loans, is | 100000 90. Tn,
q temporary loans for which no stock ha
0 been bypOlhecated amount 10 25O,35I
a 70.
1t The amount Of Surplus Revenue boI
o rowed from Trumbul, Portage and Wal
" ron counties, now due and unpaid is So
% 600 So. The sum due 10 Trumbu
'. county is set down at 27,7lG So.
q The amount of surplus revenue loane
m by tho Auditor Of State TO the Fund Con
ID missioners is 1880 80.
= The subscriptions under the "plundC
70 act" so called, to Turnpike Road, Ca
10 nal and SlackwOtcr navigation compa
y, nies, amount to 1851 ,660 90, the pay
3, ments 'o2OI6,l73 70 leaving a balunC
y yet due Of 5S5 48G SO.
v. The domestic debt, that is, the del
'r owing to the different school funds, sue
as section sixteen, Connecticut Wester
o Reserve School Fund, &c., amounts
0, l,349,5Ss Oa, and tho scrip issued