The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-31

deep interest to the people is, have her
public servants thus far conducted, in
accordance with the plain letter and
spirit of that constitution and ideal OF
the people7 If not, now is the time for
the people to check any infraction or
deviation, and command the officers
infringing or deviating, back to their
line of duty, or out OF their
offices. Otherwise infractions and de-
viations of and from the constitution,
acquiesced in by those whose rights and
privileges have been infringed, become
PrecedentS, which soon ripen into law,
and the constitution will become there
by changed, and its wholesome re-
straints and safeguards frittered away.
Every aggression, therefore, however
small, should be resolutely met and
checked by the people at the commence
ment- The services of no public officer
can De important enough to justly q VIo-
tdtion of the constitution IN order to re-
tain him.
In each of the years, 1864, '65 and '66,
tax of 80 cents on a hundred dollars
value of all real and personal estate,
has been assessed, with 10 cents in adj
dition on hundred dollars with the
capitation tax of Sl.OO per head, for
school purposes, s,-besides the taxes and
income arising from all the other
sources.
The amount of taxes thus assessed
for State purposes, exclusive of the
school tax, for the years 1865 and 1866,
according to the Auditors last report,
is S7S4, ,596,24. 1 have nothing showing
the tax assessed for State purposes for
the year 1854, but believe il may be as
sumed to have been $3.50, 900, which,
added to the first named, makes 81, 1884,
596.4. Now add to this Sl50, 900, trans
ferred by the old State, June 2lst, 1868,
and 1t makes one million ttCO hundred
aud ei1hty.four thousand i've hundred
and 1linet1-Si1 dollars and tIVeHty four
cents, besides what has been received
from the taxes and debts due the old
State and transferred as aforesaid: See
session acts 623, PIP. "a and 66. From
this last source / see by the Auditors
report there was received between JAM
1st and Oct. lst, 1866, S32, ,062.66. have
not the means of determining the
amounts received the previous years
from this last source. .
Now all these moneys have been
paid, or ought to have been collected
and paid, into the State treasury,
as well as those assessed for
school purposes as before stated, and
was designed exclusively for conduct
ing and administering the State Gov
ernment, for paying its "ordinary cur
rent expenses" and the appropriations
the Legislature has made for e1ctrdordi-
nary purposes, as erecting public build
ings. &c. The first of October last, the
Auditors report shows that there was.
SSO, 900 unpaid of the appropriations for
the hospital and penitentiary, and at
the same time only $34, ,793 49 in the
Treasury.
I propose in another number to call
attention to the accounts our public
servants have given us of their stew
ardship touching these moneys, with
their estimates and proposals for the fu-
ture. L would state there was an addi-
tional appropriation made to the hos
pital, which 1 omitted to state in my
last. of 1876 9s, made by the Wheeling
Legislature in 1861; also that a gentle
man, who is in all respects reliable, in
forms me he visited the Insane Hospi-
tai for the State of Iowa in the year '63,
then about being completed, being four
stories high, and in all respects COM
plete and commodious, built of grey
sand stone, transported six or seven
miles, and that the whole cost did not
exceed 500 600, and will accommodate
$50 patients. Iowa had, in 1860, 674, ,94S
Inhabitants. -
Very Respectfully, p.
January 2Sth, 1867. --
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