The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-03-03
Facts About the State.

We condcnse Il few items Of figures
and flcts from Comptroller Gaines
official report, just issued, showing the
States conditions during the last two
years:
The total value Of the taxable prop
erty in the STATE Is 2I1.768, 43S.
The decrease in 1880 Of the value of
property. ig the three grand divisions,
as coWparel with the preceding year
was as follows Eass Tennessee, 1852 i
525.> Middle Tennessee, $1,023,645;
West Tennessee, S2,d8l,10S.
There are S,004,127 acres Of land in
East Tennessee; 10, 208, 2G3 in Middle
Tennessee, and 6,6l4,937 in West Ten
nesscer 81 si.srza d sgee aH
The, laul in East Tennessee Is yalu-
ed at S37, HIP; in Middle Tennes-
see at SIS, -t63, 122, and in West Ten
nessco, at S 43;118,94S.
The value of toxin lots in East Ten
ncssee is .SS,3l9,S61; in Middle Ten
nessee s20,040, OBS, in West TenneSsee
S18,213, 500.
The value of other property in East
ennssoe is s3f3O3,058; in Middle
Tennessee 80, $40, 1868; in West Ten
nesscc- s. .956,811. ~ -.a
The increase in the value of property
in East Tennessee was 1851, 881i in
Middle Tennessee, $l,2l6,4 97; in
West Tennessee 81 1856 52,
The net decrease in taxation in East
Tennessee in 1880 was 1927 30; in
West Tennessee 81, 014,33
The net increase in taxation in Mid
die Tennessee was 1921.
1t will be seen, for instance, that the
aggregate assessed valuation Of proper
ty has in 1880 reached the lowest point
since 1857. There has been a steady
decrease in the volume Of assessed val
nations, since the year Sl3Tthe DIFF
ference IN q the assessed valuation for
that year. and for the year 1880,
amounting ~ S97,311, 3s0,- or about
thirty three per cent. There has been,
doubtless, during this period, no neon
siderable shrinkage in values; but it
is also believed. that the steady and
continued decrease in the tax aggrc-
gates is attributable, in q great meas
ure, to the conscientious care which
many tax-payers fail to exercise in
listing and yaluing their property for
taxation, and doubtless, also, 70 the
want Of experience, Wig lance and
efficiency in some OF the assessors.
While the decrease in the aggregate,
for the time mentioned, amounts to
about 80 per cent, the decrease Unreal
estate for the same period Is % per
cent, and in personality 90 per cent
The total taxable valuation of all per-
sonal property in the State for 1880
amounts to sl6l33, 1873, which is only
8 per cent of the total assessed taxa
bles for that year. In 1869 the taxa
bic personal property amounted IN
value 10 Il lpera cent. of the total taX-
able property 1878 itamomted to
10 Der cent In 1875 it was Il per
cent; in 1876, II per cent; in 1917,
10 per cent; in 1878 8 per cent. and
in 1879-S0, per cent. l-5y Vl1ss
The total amount due by delinquents
Is 1878, S0fTO. aThe ComptrpllcF says
that thoagh lthaaiggrcgate seems large,
it is now less than it has beeirin twelve
years ~ ' $4,000 Aa
The total indebtedness for the year
1880, of all the counties except four, is
$4,000, 1873; of the cities and towns
Sc 1888, S2G., These figures with the
population Of the State placed at l.
500, 900, and the State debt at $685.
636, $50 indicate per capita debt Of
$24,35. .aaf aa
The net current expenses for the
past two years ST ,O19, O9132. This Is
an avera G Of 1909 ,545 sc per annum,
whichis little less, in the aggregate,
than the estimate submitted by the
Comptroller to the hast General As
sembly, and which, according to the
report, shows sour State Gov Arnmen
to be one Of the most economically add
ministered in the Union perhaps the
most economically administered, when
it is considered that the item of erimi-
nal prosecutions rs the largest in our
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