The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-11-19

AQ6 assessment Tolls nave D66Q re-
ceived from all the counties in the
state. except Fort Bend, Liberty, Ty-
Ter, San Jacinto and San Patricio.
The following interesting footings
have been made:
Cattle in the state. 6,792,6S3 S69, 996, 1874
hS5sss sa ada lSas Sss
sheep -..-..........." 4,74e, s69 6,2l7,519
Goats. ......-"."."....,.... 5l4,175 81, ~
k1ORS. 1.5lS,OSy 2,l69, 100
Total :;...,,s>,..... $147ls,65o Sill 4oi, $40
Estimating the five coun-
lies same as LIST year.. 2l6,S63 $2,596,6F
Total in state ......sI4, 935, 4s3 STA, col, 4s7
Agaipst old as'sment II ,29S ,915 $l25 $40, 1876
Showing increase 636,65S head of
live stock in the State, and decrease
of $10,908, 708 in valuation.
Cattle increase, 433,746; decrease
in value, $8,947 ,227.
Horses and muleS-increase. Is, 43S
head; increase in value. 1857, 900.
% Sheep-increase, $3.50 head, but
decrease in value, $3,066,278.
Hogs-increase. 100000 head, and
$4,000 in value.
The following correspondence ex-
plains itself:
AUSTIN. November IT, 1885.
Messrs. j. T, Nelson & Bro, Linden, Texas.
GENTLEMEN-1n reply to yours of
the 14th instant, enclosed please find
the petition of the ladies of Linden,
requesting you to stop the sale IF
spurious liquors at your store,
regret that cannot as an officer
of the state, take such action as will
enable you to recover part of the
state occupation tax paid by you as
liquor dealers, should you cease to
sell liquors before the expiration of
your license. There is but one law
in the statutes that authorizes any
part of the occupation tax to be re-
funded, and that is the act approved
May 5, 1883, (page 30, General Laws,
called session 18th legislature,) which
provides that in the event the local
option law prevails in any district,
and 9 liquor dealer is compelled to
80 = i1p.ss>aSS Ss, - is.'ao1 assler -szA
the adoption o. the local
option Jaw before the expiration of
his license, he can obtain relief by ap-
plying to the county commissioners
court Of his county and getting an
order of said court, showing the
amount of state tax to be refunded
for the uneXpfred term, also showing
the amount of county tax to be re-
funded; and the amount of state tax
to be refunded would be paid on Pre-
Sentation of such order of the court
at this office. If the local option law
is not in force in the district in which
you are engaged in business, there
is no way in which any
part of the occupation tax paid by
you as liquor dealers can be refunded.
1t you desire to go out of the bust
ness as liquor dealers, the only way
in which you can obtain any relief
for the tax for the unexpired term,
would be to sell your license TO some
one else in the same county, and trans
fer it in accordance with the act of
the last legislature, and the license so
transferred would be good in the
hands of the transteree for the IN
expired term within the county of
Cass. Respectfully,
W. j. SWAIN, Comptroller.
The comptroller wrote a letter of
instructions to the county judge of
Cass county, based upon the rulings
contained in the above letter.
The transactions on revenue ac-
count during the last fiscal year were
as follows:
RECEIPTS.
Balance on hand at the
beginning Of the year 145,s9s 26
Net revenue receipts
during the year..."".. 1,91s924 So
p. Total revenue..... $2,O6I 1922 80
DISBURSEMENTS
In payment of war
rants ..........:...... 81 .s4s.so2 II
Transfers to school
fund..................-- 126, 703 70
Transfers TO other ac-
counts correcting de-
posits. ..................... s,S74 70
Total disbursements. 1898, 1881 %
Revenue balance at
close OF year. $Sf,8n 81
The revenue receipts during the
year were from the following sources,
viz:
From taxes general and occupation 81 500, 175.O 6
I" sale OF state bonds. ............. 200, 900 90
loan of special funds ......... 1896. Al
" fees Of the department s.. 9S,7l8.90
railroads (under act Febru-
airy, 1880 24,4l6.54
From asylum funds in part pay
ment Of appropriations made for
support OF the asylum. ............ 4O,n9i.e4
From miscellaneous sources. ....,.. 1855 18
sI,9s,9,46s
The report of the Lake Creek Rail-
way company was received yesterday,
from which the following summary is
made:
Capltal St0CS.. .........,....S 5O.UO0
paid in. .................... 1000
Amount expended for purchase of lands 800
expended for construction of
Amount expended for buldings....... 30i
engines.....-... Z, 400
carS................. 5000
No indebtedness and nothing due the corpor-
alton.
Nothing received for transportation of mail
or passengers,
Received for transportation of properly s 9,OC7
4" from other sources ............... $50
Amount freight. in t0ns...-.... u OF
I" grain .............. Il
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
In conversation yesterday with
Capt. d. N. Robinson, chief clerk OF
the general land Office, THE STATEs-
MAN learned some interesting, and at
the same time important d .ts about
the location OF cerJl ca es on re-
served land.
By an act of the legislature ap-
proved July IA, 1879, all the vacant
lands in the Panhandle counties, and
all within the Texas and Poetic rails
road reservation. and the scraps Of $40
acres and less, within the organ. zed
counties of the state, was set apart
and reserved, one-half for the pay
ment of the public debt and one-h aIf
for the benefit of the common schools.