Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-17
For the Delaware Gazette
..coUHfT FINANCES"

" F~inances,' and signed ali" The writer
makes a skaEios attempt to review the acts
Of the Commissioner IN leyying taxes Tor
the various purposes authorised BY law 1t
is Simply a new vameHihg up of an cid brok-
en- down story, put in circulation by certain
sore-heads and sweil-heads of both parties,
during the late canvass for the nomination OF
candidates Tor Commissioners and Auditor
The trick having gwen some little giymPes
OF sucsese, the inventors seem 10th to give 1t
up, and have accordingly dressed up their
bAI,ling il a new garb. and set il up before
the public in more imposing form as a news
paper article.
The low stupidity aud utter disregard of
truth in the writer of that article, throws him
hey ofsd the pale Of controversy with Us; Sne
we accordingly make no reply I" him. Sut
will make . brief explanation TO the public
Of the principles that have governed US Ia
providing and disourslng revenue for the vsri-
eu4 purposes required by law, within the
county.
Il has been our aim, and we believe that of
cur predecessors. To provide BY levy at the
June session, for the wants .! the year fol-
lowing The collection: 50 that at the June
settlement, when a general statement OF the
fund Oh hand is made, we aim to have enough
in The Treasury to carry over to the collcc-
Vi 81 and settlement OF the next duplicate,
which ior The sceolAod .tion OF tax payers, is
asraIIy kept opeu until late in February and
The new funds are arranged and subject 10
arali OH or about the irs. of March AT
thai time. the State having been previously
paid its proportion. the Corporation ana
Fuw nsi.ips, lhrcs2h their treasurers. usually
draw cat, immediately, all monies raised for
sprciai and lucal purposes, leaving nothing IN
the County Treasury bm :ttnds of a general
nature, aud payable ut intervals throughout
the year by the Coun.y Treasurer. There
should, therefore. be ON hand in June sufff;-
lent funds to meet The Probable demands up
to the nc 81 III trct,, or about three-auarters
Of the yea
This wsuld usually be but n small SUN
when nothing but county and bridge tax as
thus retained in the Treasuryi especially in
the simple days of Is 81. when the whole
county valuation then gu duplicate was bit
little over one million OF dollars against eight
millions now; or even in the Palrny days of
Hon. Fuller" when on the new apprais-
ment it reached 10 less than half the present
valuation.
But besides the d ,u5ling and TRIPPING OF
the duplicate of taxable property since that
lime, and the corresponding increase of tax
alton itself, we haSs introduced, since thoae
days several very important new elements
into the catalo rue of purposes for which rev.
enne is raised and paid from the County
Treasury ct intervals throughout the year
we uliude TO the recent introduction OF u
Railroad Fund and a County Inirnary Fund.
These two have been at times more than
half of the whole general fund paid at in
tervals out of the County Treasury ) and
hence the necessity of accommodating so large
an amount on hand al the june settlement,
to meet the demands of the riscal year.
The Il tllroad Fund happens to be all pay
able at this time, between June and The toll
lowing january. OF the $9,e57.76,6 pro-
| vided for the CountY's railroad liabilities, the
sum OF $3.50 was due on the first Of July
for the redemption of interest warrants, and
u like sum will fall due on the first of Janu-
cry next for the same purpose. Last August
L bill of $1,000 drawn in favor of tae ). NJ.
| s. P. Railroad Co. with interest for several
years came due; making the bill, then paya-
Bile, in the neighborhood Of $4,000, which
udded to the interest warrants, make in rouFsd
numbers about 50, 5o0-ah, excepting $3.50,
to be paid out with in tsso months alter the
June settlements. anG beforeii could possibly
be commanded from any other source than
The duplicate of the preceding year. The
January insialment of $3.50 also be comes
due before the new duplicate is closed up,
leaving then a balance of perhaps a little over
| 500 after these payments are made.
Our bill due the Railroad Company, in
August last, as we'll as nearly all the interest
warrants of July, have not been paid, aad
must 90 to protest and run at interest; which
! at the end Of the year, and before more can
be collected and made subject to draft, will
more than consume the remaining 800 and
actually leave q deficiency In that fund if even
every cent OF it IL realized before n@xt jan
uary.
Ihcee are the facts in relation to this Rail-
| road Fund of which "H" demands "ehat is
the use of collecting all his money a year end
more before it IS acanted." Aud with equai
disregard for truth asserts that. f'nearZy oil
this money aolp on baud toiHIie Idle in
he Treasury until the March, '59, session Of
the Commissioners"
The Cnua.y Fund is much more varied
than any other; both in its sources and dis
b~ursement. Some yeurs it is sweiled by ac-
ceasiops outside of the duplicate, not to be
exactly estimated beforehand; and in like
manRer it is in some years depleted by IN
expected drafts not easily anticipated. The
wants of an incoming year are estimated BY
the expenditures Of the past, and such other
light as is accessible; and levles are made
accordingly. And according 10 data of This
kind we believe that nearly, il not quite all,
the County Fund on hand in June iast will
be exhausted before next March.
In providing for this as Tor all other funds,
we have endeaFored TO guard against dcfic-
i~eHcies; go that the Treasurer may at all
times meet prolnptlyIaIl orders draw on him
by the county Auditor, and thus discharge
our liahiliiies as they accrue. This keeps
our paper at par, and enables US to contract
at the lowest cash prices for whatever pnr.
chases and Improvement may lie within
our jurisdiction, aud be thought desirable and
advantageous TO the county.
In taking this course we only act as every
frugal, thrifty business man would do in his
own private business. That is TO provide
sufficiently beforehand for our liabilities, and
thus avaid eipbarrasss aept. and keep our
credit above suspicion. Ia be used to adVap-
tage whenever occasion may arise. We
believe that this course will be approved by
lhe people OF the County, and we have no
fears Of the effects of such false and silly
misre ~ptatiens as those III the article OF III"
-nor yet OF the other penny whistle croak-
ers WIG attempt 10 deceive the misinformed
by pretending to discover mares nests in