The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-02-22
Occupation taxes ...........,".......'. $500.

Ot the ABOVE amount, lhlu III lOuhu ne
ures, is assessed at $l77,000 600; city and
town lois az S65, COO 900; railroads, $4,000,
600; horses and mules, S22,0U0,0OO cattle,
$Il0O0,0OO; sheep, $1,000, 90; goods ana
merchandise, $22,000,000 miscel laneous
property, $4,000, 900; the balance is made
up of sundry things, such as carriages
money on hand, etc, the total footing
amounting to an assessed property in the
state OF $4l2,OOO,OOO
lected from liquor dealers, in round figures
some 100000; from merchants, some
$50, 900; the balance coming from
various other sources. OF these same occu
uation taxes / note that Galveston county
paws the most, viz: $4,000; BeXaI
county pays SIS, 0Ooi Dallas county, so, OOo
Harris county, $4,000; Tarrant county
10000; Travis county, $4,000; McLennal
C ,unty, $4,000.
In view OF the cash balance on hand, in
Teasing valuations in Texas property al
b. ,und, and about q stationary expense ac'
count, it will thus be seen that our al val
orem tax can be reduced, or this can re,
main the same, and let the reduction tall
on the occupation list, or lei, all stand as
now and keep uselessly large reserve
fund.
That our property assessed values have
already largely improved may be observed
from the fact that in 1871 they were only
S222, 900 900; in 1875, $3.50 900; in 1879,
1904 100000; in 1881, 1887 100000 in 1857,
1920, 100000.
! he ordinary, necessary and usual annual
eXj 5nses of the state government are COM
DO ed of, substantially: For the executive
Il, partment Including payment OF rewards,
attorneys fees, ETC., $50 1000 some S3O,OOO;
for tbe State department, including public
printing, S35 900; for the treasury depart
ment, $4,000; for the comptroller's depart
ment, $4S, 900; Tor the general land ofhce,
$50, 900; for the adjutant-generaPs depart
ment, 500, 600; for the attorney-general's
department, $l1 900; for the Judiciary de-
partment, $3S5,OO0, of which $780, are
Tor fees and costs OF sheriffs, clerks, district
and county attorneys, and $4,000 for pay
of 80 district judges. The deaf and dumb
asylum, $27 600: the lunatic asylum, $780,
600: public schools one-fourth the revenue,
$40 600; quarantine, $4,000; interest on
public debt S2l5,000; sinking fund, SSO, GOO;
while various MINOR incidentals make up
the figure of 81, $4,000, as above stated.
For the next two years possible increase
of 800, 600 may be necessitated.
/ append the following table, which, will
especially interest certain class OF the
HERALD's readers:
Summary of special occu patton taxes received at
comptroller's Office from September l, 1850, 10
From September /, 1880, to August 81,
1851, from merchants who paid Tor
privileges of their commercial travel
ers AS merchants at 600 each per
From commercial travellers, from Sep
TENDER l, 1880 TO March a. 1851, 46
licenses at $40 each. .............. 300 "
From commercial travellers, from
March "a, ISL to August 81, 1851, ..,o
1902 licenses at $50 each. .....".... 65,lOO 10
From clock peddlers, from September
/, 1881 10 March 81, lSSl............ 100 20
From sewing machine canvassers,
from september /, 1850, to March Il, 1900
eNl,............ ...r.''s.''', ''''.ss o'N W
pas passenger aeg travel vel. ~ 1903 81
From transportation companies tax
on passenger travel 80. ..,,..,,.,. . 81
Fro9i } elmOoGt companies, lax Oh
passenger travel. ...,................ ~ IS
From stage companies, tax on passen- -.
ger travel, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SlJ %
i IDassS ee,gsiapn .o'A 'o SD %
From insurance companies license tax ID. i66 90
From express companies fl,327 O6,
less g2jj deposited TO county tax ac-
From palace car ompanies........." $50 90
Total .sl95, Az 40