The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-09-01

Office of Comptroller, Austin, March ~ 1851
TO His Excellency, o. NJ. ROBERTS Governor
srI:-I have the honor to submit here
with summaries of the condition OF the
revenue department of the state for the
fiscal year ending August 81, 1881, together
with additional summaries OF the revenue
from September l, 1881, to March l, 1857.
w. Nj. BRowN, Comptroller.
DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS.
By the act of July o, 1879, chapter 30,
General Laws, provision IS made Tor regis.
tration in the comptroller's othce OF all
valid claims against the state for services
performed under the law, and for payment
Of which the appropriations are efnaIsieu:
now registered, which are valid claims
under the law against the state, and for
payment of which the appropriations made
for expenses up to February %, 1882, cover
ing the same are exhausted:
DEFICIENCIES FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY
%, 1882 AND PREVIOUS WEARS.
Quarantine claims, registered and -, o,
'a and reqistered e'''............ 91s 81
attorneys registered. ........:.... 166,S70 AZ
Conveying prisoners to the penitsn---
tiary, registered. ................:.. 16,2!5 %
For payment Of rewards registered. o,3OS w
Total $3.50 $50 Sc
Of this amount the sum Of $io, o6iS is
all that will be required from cash in the
treasury to meet the outstanding Claims
The balance, $242, 766.17. for payment OF
the items of cost to be paid sheriffs Tor Or
binary services and for conveying prisoners
to the penitentiary under former laws in
| force priorto the contract system will not re-
| ouiredsbursements of any actual cash from
the treasury. The sheriifs to whom these
claims belong have not settled their ac-
counts as tax collectors by the amounts
represented by their claims, they having
retained from taxes collected by them the
amounts severally due them by the state.
| APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PAY oFTEAcHERs
| AND SCHOOL OFFICERS.
From the appropriation of $4,000, made
by the seventeenth legislature, for the pay:
ment of claims of teachers and inspectors OF
public schools, there has been dlsbursed
the sum of $37, 094 60. From the appro-
preparation of $l5, 600, made Tor payment oil
school directors from September, 1875, TO
| August 81, 1876, there has been expended
800. 624 so. These appropriations were lar
in excess of the applications for payment Of
claims of this class. 1t is probable that all
claims Of this nature have been now Pre-,
sented for audit TO this department, and
that all that were meritorious have been
paid, excepting few that reached the otfics
after July LIST, and which were rejected In
consequences of not being filed within the
time required by law.
SALES OF LANDS AT CONTROLLERS oFFIcR
At the late sale for taxes, at the Office Of
comptroller, OF Ian Is situated in the unor
panized counties, the comptroller estimates
that there were advertised for sale, say one
million acres, on which taxes were due fol
1880 and back years. The state tax anc
costs on these lands was S3,49l.SS. Th'
number Of acres sold in satisfaction OF THU
tax was 233, $50. The purchasers, there
fore, paid about one and one-half cents pei
acre, on the average.
Il TAXES IN UNoRGANI7ED COUNTIES.
The lawrequires lands situated In the IN
organized counties owned by nonresident
10 be rendered, assessed and the taTs
thereon paid at this office, and IL frequent,
occurs that, after this has been done, thu
county is organized and the land assessed
for the same year by the county author
be so amended as 10 prevent the assessment
, of real estate in such counties until the frs
day of January succeeding the organiza
. tion of the Qpunty. The rule will cure al
defects in this system, and save innumer
: able embarrassment in this department ans
= to citizens.
: ASSESSMENT or ROLLING STOCK OF RAILWAY
nj coxPAsrrs.
Article 1857, Revised Statutes 90 prescrf
h. ing Tue mOQt OF nsttttlIE me rulllnR Htnl
= Of railway compau ies should be 30 amends
n as 70 vest in some officer, or tribunl
n the power 20 revise the assessment Of Va
!. ues made BIZ the companies. Under Il
!. law now IN force, the sworn values, as civ,
- BY the railway companies, fix the bans Z
m The assessment. This n an anomaly.
4 every other case where property is assess,
= there is q tribunal 10 revise the asses
"A meuts.
'e sIATK EEvrsuR tcCouEI-EEcErF1s.
% To balance on hend August n ISL O.. 10 90
10 To receipts rum fares a ISL. ~ -
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% To receipts from tares Of 1s7s and
n rrl1r years e. ..-.....-....-.-- q. ~
~ 10 reeeirt, from ofics fees. general
y land oricts- ---.-------...--.--.-- = -
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= lElll oillet --.-s.-s..-s- - y
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u Renersi lsnd oflics. .-...-....-.... SCI
To reeeiuu from rrt-emption fcea
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u To receirIis from cfira fees,-c0rru-