Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-06

from TINT TO time, ana whenever coHNchIO oy {
the Governor, for consultation and action IN
regard to public interests The sanction OF
such a Council to the drafts on the contingent
appropriations just proposed, would constitute
an ample guaranty against improvidenee and
abuse. 6
sIi,e whole amount of receipts into the Treas
ury during the last year-wis S3,5l -,l54. and
the balance from the preceding year was
S226I.1e. The total sum subject to disburse-
ment in 1859. was SO. 746,272-
OF this sum S22. 900 was realized from drafts
in anticipation of the revenue of 1850 2,939,-
133 dollars were received ION leyies, Oh the
Grand List OF 1889, of one mill and a half on I
the dollar for Common Schools eise-tenth OF
q mill foF Schools Libraries nina-tenths for
Sinking fund seven-twentietils for reimburse
ment of Temporary Loan and seyen=tenths
for general expenses of State Government
These @levies, amounting in the aggregate to
three mills and eleven-twentieths ON the dollar,
| assessed upon the taxable valuation of 640t
S0O.03l dollars, exhibited by the Grand List
of 1855, would have produced, if fully collect
ed, 2,9S4,840 d1liars. The difference between
this sum and the revenue actually received
about forty-fve thousand do!lars-is attributa-
bic to costs of collection, variations between
delinquencies unpaid and delinquencies collec-
ted. and errors in assessment.
The principal sources of revenue, other than
leyies, are Tolls and Waterrents on the Public
Works; collections of Surplus Revenue; Pro-
ceeds of sales of lands Convict labor and
! Canal, Turnpike and Railroad Dividends. OF
receipts from these and other sources besides
levies, some, ciassed as revenue, cannot proper
" be considered such. Proceeds of ovcr-work
of ~eonvicts, for example, and collections on old
claims, and advances from contingent funds of
Executive Officers are not properly revenue :;
but either simple deposits, or means made
money, or mere transfers from one account to.
another. 1t is to be observed, moreover,
that more than the Whole realized from all
sources, except l~evies, is either absorbed by
the expenses of The Public Works, and the
Penitentiary. or specifically appropriated to
the Sinking Fund foF the payment Of interest
landl principal of the Public Debt.
,Iai Forathe annual expenses of the State in Ed
~ucation, for Benevolent Institutions and for all
stantial reliance can be placed on any other
sources of revenue than the annual leyies.
The whole amount of disbursements during
1853, upon all aces ants, was 1852, 304 dollars
ard the balance in the Treasury at its close,
was 1926 dollars
A more particular review of the several
branches of collection and disbursements will
present in a still clearer light, the financial
transactions of the yeaf. For the support oil
the State Government and Institutions there
was collected during the year, from levies on
the Grand List, the sum of 5000, $40. Re
ceipts f om licenses and auction duties from
the Penitentiary from taxes on Banks and
from claims collected, together with the bal
anee at the close of 1858, increased the sun
to S884107. From this sum several amounts
not properly constituting revenue. should be
deducted, leaving the true sum fer disburse
ment, $66e,950. OF this there was disbursed
during the year, S782,5S5. But as the re
ceipts did not exactly represent revenue, SC
neither did the disbursements precisely repre-
sent expenditures. For example, The sum Of
sea, AGO is charged as disbursed, when the reaI
transaction was the placing of Old claims, nom
inally of that amount. in the hands of the
proper officers for collection and the sun
of 800 200 was similarly charged, when tht
whole amount was paid. hot for general pur.
poses, but on account of Public Works. under
the direction of your predecessors. The ae
r tual disbursements for the Executive, Iegisla-
r tive anu Judicial department, and all the be-
nevolent and rcfornlary State Institutions, i'll
r Guiding the Pcniten:iary, were, therefore
, S626,6 The balance remaining was SOL,
591.
For the expenses of the Public Work;
:, +trrrr- uus received from tolls and water rent:
on the Ohio Canal, 81 .442 on the Miami
and Erie Canal SI14,337; on the Muskingun
Improvement SI8,274 on the Hooking Ca
nal, Sl7, 301 on the Withholding Canal
$475 on the Western Reserve and Maumee
Road S2,19l on the National Road, S5,551
from sales of Canal lands, $516, and from
other sources, So 1921 in all, S246, ISL. The
disbursements were $685. 82. The apparent
excess of outlay over income was, therefore
: 800, 1890, and this amount was paid from tbs
General Revenue, as has Just been stated. OF
this sum, however, S94034 was expended in
payment for the Lnwistown Reservoir, and toI
other special purposes. outside of the proper
! repairs CT the year. The real excess of cost
{ over receipt was S6,l70-
=. Fer common schools there ' as collected Oh
the grand list. for schools, but as part of the
levy for Sinking Fund. Sl53,695 50. This
sum was the interest o. the Irreducib!e Debt
j. created by the appropriation of the proceed;
nf the school lands to the general State pur
poses. The two sums, with the balance from
the proceeding year. formed an aggregate fol
school purposes of 81 ,418,647, of which were
dishursetl 81 800. 92e. leaving q balance Of
$52,749.9fu .5
yi4 Thesarnount collected for School Libraries
already stated, with the balance of the pre-
ceding wear, was S90,173. The amount dis
i. hursed was S79,569, leaving a balance o
i, $3.50. 'sa.4
For PAYMENT Of debt and interest, there
, was collected from Ievies, 81 ,029,l24 of which
:. ST4G.970 wee for the general purposes of the
= Sinking Fund, and S268,l24 were for the re-
Endorsement of the Temporary Loan. There
: were also received for the Sinking Fund, from
Surplus Revenue deposited with counties, from
sales of School Lands, from Canal Turnpike
and Railroad dividends. and from a few othei
$ comparatively unimportant sources, Sl45, 952
; and there were returned to the Treasury, o
money drawn for the payment of interest
: S2S,ll2. These sums, with the balance o
$4,000 from 1855, amounted to 81, 3T0.239
f which was the amount applicable to Sinking
, Fund purposes in 1859. Of this amount
4 S9s3,07O were rsed to pay interest on For
eign Debt; SI8,216 on the Domestic Debt
$153,S 500 on the Irreducible Debt !; Sl2,759
} were applied in payment Of the expenses Of
the Fund Commissioners, including the cost
of a vault for their office 81 800 in discharge
of a claim ordered to he paid by the last Gen.
eral Assembly and $62,528 in purchase OF
bonds of the Temporary Loan, and other bonds
to be used in its payment. The aggregate ex-
uanditura wac 5I III GQ2 and a hoIaooa uas