Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-16
COMPROMISES REPORT.
CoAPrRoLLER's DEPARTMENT, !
Raleigh, Feb. ID, 1856.
TO His Excellency, THOMAS BRAGG,


Raleigh Feb. Is, lsa6.
70 His Exceency, THOMAS BRAGG,
Goet7,or Of North Carolina:
SIR: herewith transmit you, as required by law 2!
Annual Roper, Of the receipts and disbursements she
Treasury Department Of the State of North
the fiscal year ending the sst day of vs
statements OF the Public Revenue as deriyeo 'l" ~ ~
rous subjects Of taxation in the fs" counties " wv
State. ,,,a Of one
hundred aud m une thousand three hundred and hteen
dollars and yfve cens 9' be'"ngng th s
Literary Fund; Whine ofthe Public State Fund mere
is deficit of tweuY.three thousand nine hundred ana
seventywO dollars and eighty cents. S2Jfs oo1 Ed
has been supplied from the surplus m snS hn funds the
of hundred and twenty>eyen Thousand tte s.
drcd and forty three Liars and fifteen cents .t91 ,
The nett tax es t- the year IS ~ including inc aH vi
sales of Auconeers and for Licenses to Retailers on spirit
nous liquors, returned by the Sherfs OF the severn I
ties through this Department, amount to NV" hu'su
eirhvnr thousand two hundred and nnety-sx dollars
and seventy-nne CENTS (2s4 2y6 " showing an increase
of ninetyone thousand hundred and seven dollars ana
seventy cents (9 0 1o the amount for the proceed
ing year This increase has been realized princlpay, "
the lew of twelve cents of the $lu valuation
Of reo and forty cents instead Of twenty the poll
AS authorized BY an of the last General Assembly IL
should remembered also, that this levy has been esta
ted on the cid assessment and that additional increase
of similar be anticipated for the present year,
from the increased valuation of real estate under the new
assessment already made; although no returns unoe
it, have been received this Departments yet it is well
known that valuation of lands has been very greatly en-
HANGED especially along the lines Of our public improve
nents and in those portions of the State where her miner
al wealth has been so abundanty developed oiher IN
will also be realized under he new
law from subjects heretofore taxable and, on some OF
which, the taxes have not become due.
Under construction of the law by the Attorney General
the per capital employed in the liquor traf-
tic estimated the amount employed only for the m
term between the 10Th of March, * s. 1.-The day ON which
The act effect and the LIST day of April following In
some counties, however the clause differently con-
strued and collected the capital employed
for the entire year preceding In such instances soon
as the necessary statements furnished to enable Inc
Comptroller make the proper reductions warrants were
drawn upon the Public Treasurer to red tue balances 10
such counties This thought proper r order that M IN
justice might result to rpm the ambiguity o1 the
law. -.
Not only in this Instance have the revenuscers exPe-
rienced difficulty in the prsetica operations ofsome OF the
provisions of the last much of which difficulty
however longer ests since the chief embarrassment
constituting the law in its connection with the
old one and putting into successful operation as
greater force is required put in motion complicated
machinery than continue it there are not
withdrawing, notifications which seem to be neces-
the ppriety of which however need not be
this time legislation be had the subec, be-
fore annual report will be laid before the egis
ure; BY which time the experience OF another year VIII
enable point cut successfully the slight detects
of the law and suggest such amendments as the public
interest may require
With very great respect, have the honor to be your
Obedent servant,
GEO. W BROOKS,
Comptroller Of State.