The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-11-18
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT Is GOING On IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
yesterday.
rxEourIYE pEpARrMKNr.


The governor yesterday issued proc
iamation revoking quarantine against
Biloxi, Mississippi.
STATE DEPARTMENT
The Cuero Street Railway company, cap
ital stock $4,000, filed charter in the
office of the secretary of state yester'
day Incorporators: Otto Harkins S. q,
Grimes, A. T. Parmie, V. b. Proctor, Louis
Keller, j. W. Hamilton and ID. j, Reuss.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The secretary of state received election
returns yesterday from the following
counties: Bosque, Rockwell, Wise, Fort
Bend, Lee, Bee, Camp, Fisher, Lavaca
Colorado, Rusk, Coleman, Wood, Robert.
sou, Chambers, McCulloch, Upshur, Atlas
cosa, Karnes, Falls, Burnet, Wichita, Viii
barger, Runnels, Burleson, Webb, ComaL
Val Verde, Pecos, Tarrant and Harde-
man.
The appropriation for payment of fees
of clerks, shorifTs and other officers is eN'
hausted, and certificates are being issued
by the comptroller in lieu of payment.
The appropriation was 100000 ench for
the two years. The deficiency is estimated
at 100000 in round figures.
The state school fund is again tempo
rarily exhausted, and warrants drawn for
coupon No. of the available fund are be-
ing registered till funds accumulate 10
pay them.
The Texas & Pacific Railway company
paid into the treasury, yesterday, Sl.SVN
passenger tax, and the MISSOURI Pacific
paid $500 similar tax ON earning for the
last quarter. The tax is one-half of one
per cent ON gross receipts. The payments
indicate fair earnings for the quarter.
Alarge quantity of lands IN Gray comfy,
sold to prominent cattle corporation,
has been forfeited 10 the state after pay
mentS amounting To about 5000 had
been made ON the purchases, The cattle
probably did not count ont 10 require the
extent of land purchased for grazing,
The adjutant general hiss No further al.
vices than already given in the dispatches
10 TuH STATESMAN as IN Ihc killing Of
fenoe.cuttorS in Brown county. Ii IS IS
eertained that no rangers were wounded in
the encounter.
The secretary of state received election
returns from the following countless Cass,
DOnly, Reeves, Jones, Wood, Henderson,
Angelina, Baylor, Erath, Hidalgo, Newton,
Menard, Kaufman, Wilson, San Jacinto,
Zapata, Stephens, Shackelford, Cooke, |
Delta, Kimble, Hamilton, Williamson,
Bexar, Hill, Calhoun, Blanco, Dewitt, Ed
wards, Callahan, Haskell, Pamela, Fannin,
Greer, Red River and Throckmorton.
The returns of state officers and CON
gressmen are required to remain sealed
for forty days after the election. The vote
for governor will not be counted till the
legislature meets in January.
The comptroller has officially notified
the governor that the Texas Il Pacific
Railway company failed to pay interest
due the school fund on the llth INST. The
amount, about six thousand dollars, will
probably be paid,
+. s. Fritter, sheriff aud tax collector of
Kinney county, has closed his accounts
with the state and turned over his books
TO his successor.
State Treasurer Lubbock was in his
office yesterday having returned from
Burnet the night before.
Governor Ireland WAS engaged yester-
day forenoon in the consideration Of Il
pardon petition.
The secretary OF the land board
received $1,000 yesterday from leases of
school laHds.
Applicants for appointments as .
notary public are ADVISES ~ the governor .
that appointments cE=nCt he made eX-
cept when the ssEI-s = n session
ooNPrNO-EEE's 1,E.r 2.T-A-ENZ-
The eompsr0lls- Tsssa-..Hy issued Print
cd circulars Of Instructions - TAX oOllvc-
tors for their sz31Enns N preparing iheir
official bonds hsa.,n PINNED WIKI HANK
bonds to be Gus,; e1a l.y -hem uccuTdIuE
to law.
At meeting % INA sguts mu6 hourd
the cess2rnEuinr M AZ. v 7
Gass, as state agens tsc ant suit Uud iaHSt
of school lands IL stt Dmisy HuU die
trict, was accepted ant ~ Z A. ba-7y,
formerly of Pal0 Pua1s., 1ur INV NJ I1uI.-
ley county, was sPpgl1lat II ms nfIuie.
The land board rsfu.,Ht IE ianss III h.
land on the coast II A-IlsHIF aHIury-
This is in accordance with ersT1muf -Ti-
ings of the boSri-isl3nis cg-uz1,r la-uI,-
ally under the rule against LEASING EI-sr
cd school land, on account Of 1.s lE.ut cg-
ing accessible as watered lands.
The comptroller has prepared the for
lowing statement as 10 the finances Of the .
State university at the present time;
PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND.