The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-10-04
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
STATE DEPARTMENT.

Secretary of State Baines yesterday
issued the governors commission tC
James ID. Sheeks, Jr., Esq, as district
attorney for this district, composing
the counties of Travis and William
son. The appointment was made
September 26, but not announced till
yesterday, as elsewhere noticed.
An amendment to the Dallas Home
stead Loan company, increasing the
capital of the company to S200,OOl
was filed yesterday with the secretary
of state.
CONTROLLERS DEPARTMENT.
Assessment rolls of Goliad county,
showing an incraase of over 81 ,00O,O 900
in taxable values, were received yes
terday.
The comptroller warranted for the
payment .of about $4,000 into the
state treasury for account of general
revenue.
The treasurer paid out about S25, 600
for account of general expenditures.
The comptroller purchased, under
authority of the board of education,
$l1 600 in Anderson countyErailroad 7
per cent bonds, and further stipulated
for $50, 600 county court house bonds
of Wise county, which are here in the
hands of Col Booth, of the. Decatur
| Tribune.
The Wise county bonds are per
cents, are issued in place of the 8 per
cents and are taken by the board of
: education at par. The Anderson
! county bonds are really 8 per cents,
but are taken on basis of per cent.
The comptroller also contracted for
the board of education with Col. Bon
ner, of Tyler, for $4,000 of Smith
county per cent. bonds, to net the
school fund per cent. interest an
nually.
1t appears from the records in
the comptroller'S Office that all the
counties are paying the interest, aver
aging about FER cent, on their
bonds. The board of education so far
has purchased and contracted for to-
gether about $350,000 of the bonds at
par, the purchases being authorized
by virtue of the adoption of the re-
| cent amendments to the constitution.
| The difference between purchasing
them and state bonds, which are at Il
much larger per cent, say 40 per cent.
! premium, makes quite an item IN
state expenditures.
| Smith county bonds to the amount
! of $1,000 were redeemed yesterday.
The expenditures of the state for
the past month largely exceed the re-
ceipts.
The assessment rolls of 1874 out of
10 organized counties in the state
show an aggregate increase of $l4,-
100000. The assessment of these 10
organized and so unorganiZed cOun-
| ties it is now estimated will reach
| fulIu GSO0 000 0A1 onainct GI1Q 0Q0 GOn
last year.
The comptroller has issued the fol-
lowing circular letter for the atten-
tion of railroad managers
Sir:-Your attention is called to the
provisions of article 4249 revised stat
utes, which requires every railroad
company in this state to make an an
nual report OF the operations of the
year, ending on the first day of Octo-
Der, to the comptroller, and to file
such report in this Office by the twen-
tieth day of October,i in each year. The
law does not require blanks for such
reports to be furnished by this depart
ment, nor is there any special form Of
report required. All that is necessary
is statement embracing the items
mentioned in said article, properly
sworn to by the treasurer and acting
superintendent of operations. Atten-
ton is called to article 1850 revised
statutes. Respectfully,
| WIN. j. SWAIN, Comptroller.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The following students have ma
| circulated since last report in THE
STATESMAN, making 164 including
SO young ladies, registered to date:
Geo. n. Gurns, of Austin, academic
department,
John II. Herndon, of Tyler, ac-
ademic department.
VIM. w. RasoT, of Waelder, ac-
ademic department.
j. B. Wilson, of st. Elmo, academic
department.
B. S. Afford, of Fiskville, academic
department.
DIV. Maddox, of Runnels, academic
department.
LAND DEPARTMENT.
The fees of the general land Office
for the month ending September 30,
amounted to the handsome sum OF
$6400, being an increase over those of
last month, which were unusually
large. These facts show that the
business of the Office is rapidly in
creasing, and indicates fine demand
for lands in this state. Applications
for patents come from all parts of the
county.
THE BRANCH LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The bids for building the branch
lunatic asylum, at Terrell, were
opened yesterday but action was post
poned upon them till Governor Ire
land returns. The bids were:
Hines & Roussea, of Terrell. ............ s279OO0
John Mcdonald, of Austin. ............. 1888
John Andrawatha, OF Au. tin. .......... 1G9,35O
T. H. Wilkinson, of Brenham. 172,3Gs
Mr.. Andrawatha also puts in an
Alternative bid of 1853, $50, covering
some changes which he explains as
follows:
1 propose, and agree, to make the
reduction off the cost of the building
! the sum of (S2750) twenty-seven hun
dred and fifty dollars, for each of the
two (2) wings or wards to be built in
accordance with the arrangement
contained in the plans originally sub
mitted to your honorable board by
me, for wards to be built of equally
good material and construction, to be
, semi. detached from the central build
ing to insure better facilities, accom-
modations and convenienceS for the
insane and for their better care and
. sanitary condition. The heating and
, ventilation to be controlled in such
wing or ward thoroughly and quickly
and an equal number of insane to be
better provided for. All of which
propose to do below the proposition
; of any responsible bidder as well a:
my own calculations and bid.
A BILL has been introduced
in the Ganrpia laUiSlatura nrO