Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-23

total taxes for the previous year, and
was Mt the rate of $l.93 on each one
hundred dollars of the state assessment
for that year.
The purposes for which these taxes
were levied, the respective amounts and
rates, are as follows;
State taN .... s6Sl, $50 rate ...,....s.. l6s
County tax. Liin, isi rate ,.,,.,...,..., ~
Town tax Will. >, i2s, 0a1 rate .,.,...,,,.,, .NST
school taN,.... l. 1lS, ~ rato.s..,.,.,,..., As
Road tax. i,0eO, ESQ rate ...,...,,,,,. ~
These figures, OF course, represent
only. the direct taxes levied upon prop
erty. Quite large amounts were col
lected 10y the state, and cities, villages
and towns, in addition thereto, by way
Of licenses and otherwise. What the
total amount collected and disbursed
for public purposes may have been, Il
am unable to state. The total state tax,
direct and indirect, is represented by
the payment into the general fund, and
these amounted to 81, 100, 1857, 81, in the
fiscal year ending September 80, 1873,
and to 81, 249 ,33S o. in the fiscal year
ending September 30, 1879. The in
crease dur ng the last fiscal year il very
satisfactorily accounted for in the ex-
cess of cash on hand Mt its close.
In my lsst annual message, referring
to the state Tux then being collected, |
said; 1T is confidently expected that
this tax will pay all the expenditures OF
l\ae year 1879, and in addition, very
|! r.terially reduce, If il does not ON.
Ulrely extinguish, the deficiency in the
general fund which has appeared on
each first day of January for several
years last past" 1t gives me much
pleasure to inform you that this ex-
peotation has been more than realized.
January l, 1878. the general fund was
over-drawn SAG, 1882. January l.,
1879, it was over-drawn ga, SS0SS.
January l, 1880, the surplus or balance
ON hand belonging to this fund was
$l45 406.49.
The state AK now being collected is
1856, S71 50, which il $226 5l7.10 less
than was apportioned for collection
last year and more than twenty-three
per cent. less than the least tax in many
preceding years. ! sincerely hope that
this tax and the receipts from other
sources, with the amount now to the
credit of the general fund, may be
found ample for all the ordinary dis
bursements of the present year, and to
that end invite your most rigid scru-
tiny of all bills appropriating money.
ESTIMATES.
The Secretary of State estimates the
expenditures for the calendar year 1880,
will be $96S, 305.54, and the receipts UNI
der existing laws rs follows.
Taxes ........... .t,.......... ....a $207 800 -
Railway companies ....tst....,....... 3Nb,OtO 90
Insurance companies, ts...4.t..,. -, 5000 %
Miscellaneous sources s..,. .t..,...... 80 600 o.
Total. .t..sf....,..t..,. S677, 1865 81
II your appropriations do not mate.
rally exceed the Secretary's estimates,
tax levy by this legislature Of $780,
$1,000 will be ample for all purposes.
II does not need, think, that should
amplify the views heretofore expressed
upon the subject Of appropriations and
public expenditures. 1t Is neither piu-
dent or popular TO withhold what is nee
'essary. The people of Wisconsin are
not stingy, nor do they expect their rep
resentatiyes TO be nipgardly in the man.
agement OF public business. They re-
alize that penuriousness does not con.
stitute economy, and therefore will APP
prove wise expenditures aud account
them profitable investments.
EDUCATION.
The report OF the State Superintend.
ent shows that the total amount OF mon
ey expended for the support Of the COM
mon schools Of the state during the
past year, was &, 1852 1915, seyenty-four
per cent. Of which was for teachers
wages; that 293, 2s6 pupils attended
these schools and received instruction
from 1875 teachers In 5,G2G school
houses. The estimated value Of these
school houses is fI,319,445 81; Of the
sites OH which they are located, $73S,-
52095, and for the apparatus which
they contain, $157, 0123 0-an aggregate
investment for common school pur-
poses Of 1924, 979.0G. The total mum
Der Of children over four and under