The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-09

chester ...................... 3,2S5 4578
Dauphin hin.....".'.....".'....... 3iI 1876
Er1e...,,.........................1 Il, ,3O4 40 432
Phiiadelp lphia.........."....-llO9 9l3 565,529
Schuylk1ll. ......... S,9ST 80 SIC
IlCgR. IL 5l1 3IO4i
Washington".............. S577 48 sos
Westmoreland. .............. $3.50 53,736
The total State revenue from the tax on per-
'sonal property amounted to S267 3Sl. Philadel.
phia therefore contributed about IS per cent. OF
the whole amount a fact which shows that our
city is the great centre OF the wealth of the
Justice.
Allegheny ."..-""Sl7 ,S3S Frank S9.2i9
Berks........". 6654 Lancaster ,;::".''. S'SM
Chester. ............. 10 5i7 Philadephi
Delaware....:..;... 69O3 Washington .... . i06
AS the whole amount realized from thts
source was s271 6l5, Philadelphia contributed
over 80 per cent. This circumstance also
comes to the support Of The city as the ceatre of
Pittsburg must be the great headquarters of
amount realized from Pedlers' licenses, $3.50,
Allegheny couaty contributed Sl269, while PHI
ladelphia paid In hut 1881.
Strange as 1t may appear, Allegheny county
S2l4s out OF total Of $49O3. while Philadelphia
When it comes to Patent Medicine licenses,
however, Philadelphia leads with SllSS out OF a
total OF S2296, Allegheny being deprived OF the
benefit of this sort of pnysic entirely:
this denrVstion s by % oontributiSg ssh far Dis
tiilery and Brewery licenses, out or total or
s66s9, the amount received from Philadelphia
one of the exceedingly minute sources of
the total amount being only $50, for which
Irwin Rutledge, whoever he may be, Is credited
with $25; certain justices OF the peace in three
counties contributing the following amounts:
Lancaster county, sl2 Luzerne, IS; and In.
The sources OF State revenue are wound up
by the magnificent bequest OF the late Ben, seq,
jamin Wethsrby OF chester county, t a;a wniea
amount OF $23 3D.
Turning now to the subject OF the expendi
.tures OF the Commonwealth for the year ending
November 80, 1865, we find, at the start, that the
members of the State Senate received SD. .547 for
not including the postage bill, which ran up to
sle l26. Then comes stationery and "etc"
Berener, @ H for ri saSS5. % Mr.. George Bersner. VINO
we believe. is not the publisher OF "Purdo1's
was @ s9 copes 6nS ef tss
invaluable treatise for the amount of $780, also
forty copies nZiesePs MsnDa for bys sS2
another set of Purd3n Sau,,1eds and Zteger, agnns
Mr. john X. Robinson, who Thought he was
fhe T%e,y 20 rst district and who
contested the right OF Mr.. g. T. Shugert to that
$685. George
the chairman OF the committee which settled
the contest and eaen o5 tns Rnper1 SIX
alarms, S6356 for serving subpCenas and attach
enis IN the same case IN the s9 t9ta a cost Tn Of
showed what ''neat little thing" was missed
nv the Democratic candidates VINO were de-
feated last October, in not entering into a
wholesale "contest." as they at first proposed
10 do. -, 49, w., . W,
aentatiyes made hole in the State Treasury
as large as Sl07, ,S09 for pay, including mileage
&G Gained it' at sisSg6; and distributed among tne
seives-as they are about doing again-one
hundred and 1--WE copies of "P9rdon." fOr
which Mr.. George Bergner received SlO5O. and
one hundred and ten copies of "Zteger," for
which the same Mr.. George Bergner received
1920 1t also appears that the Representatives,
as well as the Senators. ran out of stationery,
and Mr. George Bergner supplied their wants
in this line, without any "ete" ;" involved, to the
extent OF s5265. The aggregate expense of the
legislature in this somewhat fanciful way was
rn5 up to 1858 2A-Sll9770 for the Senate and
9233, ,464 for the House OF Representatives.
Tie public printing account for the year foots
up sl3i 96S. Among the more noticeable items
is one Of $7S25 paid to Mr.. George Bergner for
publishing the Daily LegtSLattye, Record Reeord for the
Session of 1867 and another OF $24 800 paid to the
same Mr. George Bergner for publishing the
DaiID Legislative Record for the session of 1883.
The aggregate expenses OF the State govern
nent are set down as follows-
kSpnate
Youse OF Representatives. 233, ,45i
PuOlic l6l 4Oo
rwaoutIva DepQrlment. 30 615