Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-25

Maryland, $4,000; Elk River, s6,eOo-l
total of $76 6l2. so.

Maryland, $4,000; Elk River, s6,oOO-s
total Of $76,6l2.50.
Navigation companies in the western
end got 500. $40 Of Virginia appropriations,
the Coal River Company getting 500, 600;
the Guyando.te River Company $106, 800,
and the Tug Fork River Company $5,O4O.
Other sums devoted to the same section
were the items Of expenditure for the Gov
ipgton and Ohio railroad, $500, 900; stock
in West Virginia banks $5S9 600; for begin
ming the Weston Asylum $l2J, 900. and for
the Lewisburg Law Library $4,000.
Stating the Account.
To get at the total expenditure in West
Virginia on account OF Public Improve
ments made by the old State the Commits
sioners added up the lstter's expenditures
on account of roads constructed on State
account, joint stock turnpikes, bridge COM
panies, navigation companies, railroad,
Virginia stock IN West Virginia banks,
Lunatic Asylum and Lewisburg Library,
and found they amounted to $500, ,S67 SO.
From this they deducted the pro rata ex-
penditures in Virginia on account OF roads
that lie in both States, amounting to Sl16,-
93S so, leaving q balance OF So, 343 1929;
and from this further deducted the stock
of Virginia in West Virginia banks
1850 6OO,) together with the value of the
Lewisburg library $50, ,000) and it left a
balance Of 81, ,7S4, 1929, with which West
Virginia was chargeable.
Taking the sum of $3,343, 929 90, which
remained before -deducting stock OF Viz
ginia in West Virginia banks and the value
Of the Lewisburg library, as representing
the total expenditure with which west
Virginia was properly chargeable, the Com
nat
was entitled to be credited with one-tourth
the estimated value of the public build
ings and other assets OF Virginia in 1861;
with three-thirteenths Of the L nited States
surplus fund paid Virginia; with three
sevepths OF the Virginia Literary Fund as
it stood in 1861, and with the amount col
lected in West Virginia by Virginia after
January /, 1861, the whole OF these credltS
amounting TO 81, 800, $50 06, and leaving an
admitted balance due Virginia OF $685.
$50 23.
Does Virginia Owe Us:
Other calculators, proceeding upon diff.
erent premises, have brought the old State
into debt to the new one in the conclus-
ions reached. The Finance Committee OF
the West Virginia Senate In 1878, assum'
ing that the State of Virginia had expend.
ed So S6G, ,929 within the present limits oil
West Virginia, between 1922, when Eir'
ginias Bonded debt began, and 1861, calcu'
lated that the surplus of West Virgnis's
contributions in taxes during that period
over her fair share of the expenses OF the
old Stste government amounted to s3 S92,-
90. ano inat on fair settlement OF ac'
counts Virginia would owe the new State
l525, 900
The difference in the results obtained by
tho debt commissioners and the State FL
oaI ce Committee shows that the princi-
psl uron which the debt is to be adjusted
is The important point to be settled
Meantime the publication OF the figures
msy aid III ventiIating scheme to "6ulI'
YUgipia's deferred certificates, by induc.
ing belief that in any settlement that may
De b. resfter made West Virginia will be
hupd largely indebted to the mother
State. Ian.