Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-06


amount necessary to be collected under this
provision, and find that an annual levy of
$4,000 will extinguish the debt at the ex-
piration of ten years. | therefore recon-
mend that the levy for this fund be fixed
at a rate which will produce that amount.
The cash balances in the various county
funds October LIST are as follows
General Fund IS 030 IS
Hospital Fund. 6247 O6
School Fund. ........ ..... p O57 on
Road Fund. ...................... l'l07 %
Salary FUND 3l79 80
Bonds OF 1913 Eund 1854 50
Bonds of 1872 Fund....................... 3448 rs
Central Pacific r. r. Bond Fund.-. 1856 26
Swamp and Overlooked Land Fund. 2,7l3 "a
Unapporuoned......... I2 403 so
Cash on hand October l, 1885. ........ Sol CPS 20
From the balances are payable the float
ing debt of the county, viz:
General Fund warrants unpaid. .....S 39s 85
Hospital Fund warrants unpaid ......... 272 "a
Salary Fund warrants unpaid. ............. 900 90
Total $40 60
The amount in the unapportioned fund
represents the collection of taxes on the
personal property roll, which will be APP
portioned TO the various funds as soon as
the tax rate for the year is determined.
The taxable valuation of county prop
erty, as shown by the assessment rolls, is
as follows:
CITY roll Sip 1879 SIS
country roll.... 10 S25 COS
Personal property roll................... OBS 0gO
Assessment on railroads. 172f143
1Otdi asSesSIIellI iS6 9l3
The assessment shown on the city and
county rolls, amounting to So, 524, $50,
must be taken as the basis of your esti-
II hpipc, "a 10 ralxr ,,,,c,,
money being received from the railroad
companies, and the personal property tax
having already been collected.
The receipts and expenditures of the
general and hospital funds during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1885, were as
follows:
Iotal 1855 80 S}4 1876 20
Total expenditure............S 3,202 IS 81 437 80
Excess of revenue. 80 ,558 IS s2757 20
The source of this surplus revenue is
found in the payment to the county of the
balance due on account of the delinquent
railroad taxes of 1S8O-81-S2, which was col
lected and paid in by the District Attorney
on January 3, 1885. Without this paw
ment neither fund would have shown a
surplus for the year, and both would now
be about exhausted, making it necessary
which to pay our warrants up to December
LIST. With the present balances, however
and the assistance of the usual collections
of license money, | estimate that each of
these funds will be able to meet all de-
| mands up to that date.
This result is that which was intended
and recommended by my predecessor in
Office, and l feel that the policy of con-
| Quoting the county business upon a cash
| basis is the only safe one for us to follow,
| and should be continued. l therefore rec
| ommend that the tax levy for each fund be
fixed at rate sufficiently large to produce
full years revenue, in order that the
same gratifying condition of the county
finances which now exists, may be reported
| in a year from now.
| The general fund received last year from
the tax levy, in round numbers, the sum
| of S54, 900, and from all other sources. ex-
elusive of the railroad taxes above men
| toned, about 9,000 OF this latter
| amount about 5000 was received from
| the State as commissions earned by the va
| riouS county officers in the assessment.
computation, collection and care of the
State tax. This commission the Con-
| troller, under advice of the Attorney-Gen-
eral, now refuses to allow, and it will
| therefore be necessary to include this sum
IL.
| the amount received last year, however,
| about $4,000 was spent in the construction
| of the Twelfth-street trestle- Work-which.
being an unusual expenditure NAV be de-
| Quoted from the figures above stated for
| the purpose of estimating the require
ments for ordinary purposes. This shows
| that at least $4,000 Will be REQUIRED ia
meet the demands on this fund for the
usual expenditures of the year. In case il
is desired to expend any money for special
| purposes, such as the anti-debris litigation,
or for the purchase or improvement OF
county property, it will be necessary to in
crease the rate sufficiently to cover the
amount so required.
| The Hospital fund received from the tax
levy of last year S29,6S3 81, while the ex-
| penditures amounted TO $3I, 437 so. | am
| OF the opinion that levy producing $50
| 600 will cover the ordinary allowances for
the ensuing year, while if any special ex-
penditures are contemplated the amount
needed for same should he provided for in
addition.
The report of the Superintendent OF
Schools shows 10, 243 census children in the
| county. Section 1918 of the Political Code
| prescribes that the Board of Supervisors
| than So for each census child, making il
necessary to provide not less than $50, 72e
for this fund this year. Section 1919 of the
same Code provides that in case the Board
| fail TO make the proper levy as required
| the Auditor must do so, and must add the
amount to the tax roll
The amount to be collected for road Dur.
poses must be estimated by the Board, and
the rate of tax for same should be fixed to
/ produce the amount which it is necessary
| to spend. This tax can be levied only on
property outside of the city of Sacramento
| the value of which, including 81 .613, l5S on
railroads outside Of the city, is $14,93S, 1853
| The rate of State tax, as fixed by the State
Board of Equalization, is 81 40 cents on
each SLOAN increase of nearly 10 cent:
over last years rate. This increase, taken
in connection with the fact that it will re.
qulre raise of two cents in the rate o.
school tax to produce the amount required
for the school fund, and that it is now alsc
necessary TO provide for the redemption o.
$4,000 of our funded debt, will uudoubt
eddy make it necessary to considerably in
crease the county tax rate. The taxpayer:
may, however, congratulate themselves or
the fact that while nearly all the importan
counties in the State had their assessment
rolls raised bp the State Board of Eaualiza
ton, our own county was fortunate enough
to escape this action. which would hav,
materially increased the burden of taxation
Very respectfully, J. H. MILLER.
County Auditor.
The Board proceeded to levy the Stat,
and county tax tor the thirty-seventh fisca
year, fixing the rate at 81 % on each SlOt
of taxable property in the city, and 81 4:
in the ccuntry-the additional 20 cent
being for road purposes-as follows: Fo
State purposes, 54.4 cents: general fund. ?;
| cents; county school fund, II cents; Hos
pital fund, ii cents: sinking and interes
fund, 6 cents; bonds Of 1884, 8 cents; bond
of 1872, s cents; Central Pacific Railroad
bond fund, l.6 cents; county road fund, y
cents. The rate of taxation last year wa