The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-01-27

INTERESTING STATISTICS OF AUGUSTA
COUNTY AND STAUNroN. -From the report
of the Auditor of Public Accounts, for the year
endngsSoth September. 1873, we gather tile
following statistics Of Staaliton and Augusta
county:
Interest on State deposits in the National Val
ley Bank, $3.50; amount Of appropriation to D.
ID. & b. Institution, $4,000; to Western Lu-
matte Asylum. $50, 900; amount of Criminal
Charges FOR the. County and City. warrants for
which were issued from the office of the Audi
tor of Public Accounts, Augusta County, So,
927 lG; City of Stanton, Sl,2S2 %. The
amount of tax assessed upon each business
or calling subject to license tax for the year
1875, wasas f6ilnwe: Augusta County-Mer-
chants. ST Al 20; liquor merchants. 1907 80;
pedlars, $3.50 90; book agents, 800; agents for
sale of manufactured articles of other States,
Sl75 Is; retailers of tobacco 1906 SO; common
criers, $40; canvassers q buy. $3.50; manufacture
ers of ardent and malt liquors, 1928 81; orll,-
aries, 500; private entertainments. $13S 66;
boarding hosses s.; bowling alleys, ST. so;
theaters $28 8; circrses, 1924 81; attorneys at
law, SIS; physicians. $40; daguerrean artists,
$40; stations and jackasses, $40; sale Of horses,
mules, ttc.. 81 81; d Ler cent. on gross sales
.of liquors. $35 25, hobby-horse and merry go
round, $40 ST.; total, S5,l57 o. For the City
Of Staunton-Mercants, .9l5 IL; liquor mei =
chants, $l.l4a; commission merchants, $3.50;
agents, $50; agents for sale of manufactured
articles of other States, $40 %; general auc-
tioneers, s53 g.; junk dealers, s25; retailers of
tobacco, 1865 81; ortlinaries, Sl4S: boarding
houses, sl37 81; eating houses. 81, ALB Is; bow
ling saloons, $l75; billiard saloons. 800; baga-
telle saloons, So 40, theaters, $34 %; public
rooms, $40; attorneys at law. $500; physicians,
500; daguerrean artists, $50; storage aud n,-
pounding, s2S so; livery stables, sl36; sale OF
horses, ETC., s73 66; % ptr cent. Oh gross sales
of lieuor, $500 95; total 1922 So. The amount
of capitation tax, tax on personal property and
income, tax on real estate and the license tax
assessed for the year 1875, in Augusta coun'y,
is as follows: Capitation tax on white males,
$4,2l9; colored males, 5000; tax at 50 cents on
the 500 value Of personal property, s12,329 81;
aggregate amount of Income exceeding 5000,
taxed at per cent, $471 33; tax at so cents on
the 500 value of real estate, $45202 Sc; licenses
s., l57 %; total of State taxes assessed in Au-
gusta county, s6s.364 6s. The amount of cap.
italion tax. tax on personal property and in
come, tax on real estate and the license tax Of
Staunton, is as follows: On white males, $500;
coored males, 1913; personal property at so
on the 500 value, So. So 81; aggregate amount
of income exceeding $500, taxed at percent,
81 1853 IA; tax OH real estate at 80 cents Oh the
500 value, s., 567 0S; licenses. SIS, 322 9S; total
of all State taxes assessed in Staunton $2l,-
7Sl IL.
The annual report Of the Superintendent of
the Poor for the county, for the year ending
November 80, 1874, shows the number of per-
SONS provided for within the year, white AID
colored-Whte, 43; colored, 2G. Amount re-
eeived from annaal levy, sl,557 IS; amour. re-
ceived from sources othey than the annual levy,
$l.GC9. Amount expended by the Superin-
tendent, $3,22e IS.
An abstract of the returns received for the
years 1884. OF births, marriages and deaths
in Augusta county, shows: births, Cos; mar
riages, 239; deaths, ISL. Fer the City Of Staua
ton, births, l35; marriages, 40; deaths, "a.