Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-02-11

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Into the Treasury Of the State from q 2otn day o
June, Ases to the LIT day Of January, and in
SGdea II esneEsl statement Of monie1 q The Treas
4teeks, and by the Board Of Public Works, In the
1a'l TABLEF. saas4 O.
The whole surplus Of hoasy in the
Treasury of the State, on the Slst day Of
January, 1865, as exhibited III AUDITORS
RepottIof this date, was $296, SOD ls. This
large surplus is strong evidene B that the
Legislature might, with great spropriety,
reduce the taxes upon the peopte, at least
twenty-five per cent, when they remember
that the whole amount of money necessary
for all the wants of the State, for whole
year, is only $232, ,e26 10, as in 3sble itB, J"
and that there was in the Treasury on the
first day of January, 1865, $295lsO0 1S, as
exhibited iu.table t'B" above q sted, be-
ing $62. .973 80 more than enou3 a to meet
the wants of the fiscal year, ending Sep
tember 3oth, 1865, without one dollar of
tax being collected from the people for that
purpose. Beside this, there is still due
and unpaid from the several SheEifFs of the
State, and others, arresrages for ta1as for
1s61e62-63 aud 1854, q sum Of at least
500, 900 moreii4 Add thisG amount to the
excess in the Treasury, over and above
sAN-4" VA bA0 AEl-tOE Au0 uSGdl
year ending September Both 1855, and you,
then have surplus of at least $l62; ;879 ls,
without collecting one dollar Of tax from
the people for the year 1865. There can.
be npIpropriety, then. in gathering off the
people amounts of, money not necessary
for the actual wants of the State. 4 ., -
The sixtieth section of chapter, 137,
passed December 10th, 1868, requires the
Auditor to deliver to the Governor, and to
the General Superintendent of Free
Schools, on the 1st day Of OctobAr, in ekSh.
year, reports showing the coa 1iton of the
School Fund. Table "D will exhibit all
the money in the Eeeasury of ths State up
to the let day of January, 1866, for this
purposes except such parts of payments
made by the Sherifs for taxes for the year
1864. AS no one Of the Sheriff5 have re-
turned delinquent lists of the taXss'of / 1854
to o-this office, the Auditor has no means of
knowing what parts of the payments made
by them on taxes of 1854, is liable to this
fund. Under the law, Sheriffs are not re
quired to forward their delinquent lists to-
the Auditor until in May, after the time APP
pointed by law for their last payment of
taxes, it would be impossible forthe Audi.
tor to make any report of the condition of
the school fund thus paid into the Treasury.
The same section requires the Auditor
to furnish abstracts of the accounts thereof
in his Office, No settlements having been
made by the Sherifs for 1864, tits impos.
sible for the Auditor to furnish abstracts
of the fines imposed by Court, and divi.
dends on stock held by the Literary Fund
for Free School purposes. They are sim.
ply Treasurer's certificates that the money
has boon deposited in Bank to ti,s5, credit of
Free Schoola H-3 %
Having thus briefly summed up the Op.
erations of this department to the Begin
ming of the year 1865, it only remains for
the Auditor to say that he feels good des
gree of pleasure in soon retiring from the
labors of an Office, over which he has pre-
sided for nearly fouryears, in relying upon
the facts and figures of his report, this day
made, and other reports which have been
made by him at other times, for bis watch
fulness and fidelity over the monied inter
ests of the people.
Respectfully yours, SAMUEL CRANE,
s, Auditor of State.