The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-05-20
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT Is GOING OK IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPIrOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY
coMprRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.

COMPTROLLER DEPARTMENT.
Chief Clerk Mccall was filling the posi-
ton of his absent chief yesterday, al
though still quiet unwell, and issuing his
instructions from his couch in ComptrOl
Ter SWANS Office.
Sums aggregating $4,000 were turned
into the treasury yesterday by the comp
troller, $21 900 to the credit of the gen
eral revenue and $4,000 to the available
school fund.
The following circular, issued yesterday,
explains itself:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Circular OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER,
No. A. Austin, May Is, 1856.
To the Comptroller:
The court of Appeals, having decided
that under the act approved March 81,
1885, persons pursuing any of the Occu-
pations, on which an annual state tax is
levied, save those specially mentioned in
the statute) can pay such state occupation
tax quarterly; tax collectors are notified
that the state tax on the following named
occupations, for which they have on
hand only annual receipts, can now be
paid quarterly:
NlhlTNOJuub DtTbOuS SGllllR Ol COUlIlb-
sion, cotton buyers, daguerrean photo
graphers or such like gallery, travelling
solicitors for daguerrean photograph
galleries, dentists, hacks, buggies, etc,
not connected with livery stables; land
agents, lawyers, merchants, mesmerists,
foot peddlers, ship brokers or ship
agents, toll bridges, wagon yards.
Where parties, pursuing any of the
occupations above named, insist on pay
ing the tax for quarter, collectors are
hereby notified to change the face value
of the receipts they issue to such parties,
by Sticking out the amount printed there
on, dhd inserting the proportionate
amount for the quarter They will
also make entries on the stubs of
such receipts, showing the changes made
i'll values and the amounts received. Par
tisular attention is called to the necessity
of making the proper entries on the
stubs, as n failure to do so will render col
lectors liable for the full value of the re
ceipts, as printed, in settlement with the
state
Under no circumstances will collectors
make changes in values of occupation tax
receipts until the taxes are paid.
The occupation tax receipts for the
year beginning July LIST, 1886, will be
printed in accordance with the decision
of the court of appeals.
Tax collectors are cautioned against
using any occupation tax receipts except
those furnished from this office, and bear
ing the signature of the comptroller. The
use of any other occupation tax receipts
in the collection of state occupation
ia ia violation ,c Ia
the collector using them liable to prose
cution.
Sums amounting to 100000 were re-
ceived at the comptroller's Office yester-
day, nearly the whole of which -$18,O00-
goes to the credit of the general revenue;
tbs remainder to the school fund
The Missouri Pacific railway company
paid in S6l5 of passenger tax for the quar-
ter just ended
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail
way company paid into the comptroller's
Off 20, yesterday, the sum of $39975, tax |
on passenger receipts. Everyone in the
office seemed to be busy, but no one had
anything to give up" Billie Oliphant
was so deeply immersed in a sea of cur
rent correspondence that he did not take |
time to exchange the customary war false
hood.
The comptroller entered the market
yesterday and purchased $4,000 of Ed |
wards county bonds.
The Texas x Pacific Railway company, |
through its receivers, paid in to the comp |
trollers office, yesterday, its tax on pas
senger earnings for the last quarter,
amounting to $1,5l5.42.
The receipts of revenue at the comp
troller's Office yesterday were beggarly
sum of $40.Sj, paid in by the Mexican
National railway company as passenger
tax. The amount was so insignificant
that when the
TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
was called to time uncle Frank" Lub-
book responded in his blandest manner,
busted
There were no transactions of import
ance at the treasurer's office yesterday, or
receipts of money, except the sum of
$33,OOO heretofore mentioned as being
turned in from the comptroller's office
call at the
ADJUrANr-GENERAL' OFFICE.
procured for The STATESMAN pedestrian
" w VI MAUI bNtWdIi ; uenOSltlOn III |
the injunction suit against himself and
other defendants, which is published en-
tire elsewhere. The Texas Benevolent
association, the attorney general said, had
refused for several years to pay taxes,
basing its refusal upon its eleemosynary
character. He is preparing to test the
question.
Adiutant- General King has received the
following letter from Colonel Henry
Exall:
I'VE desire your assistance in arranging
our programme. We will give $500 in |
cash prizes-say $500, 800, $50. For
infantry, $50 best drilled man; 800 best
artillery, If two companies compete; $50,
If but one; 500 best cavalry. if two com
panies compete; $50. if but one. The
camp to be under your command We
depend very largely upon your influence
and assistance. Please advise us fully,
and help us all that you can"
The adiutantgeneral thinks that it
may be not entirely convenient for him to
assume the personal command of the en-
campment, in which event some suitable
general, or field officer, will be assigned TO
that duty. All volunteer troops attending
will be subject. while there, TO military
regimen. Such assistance as the execn-
tive and the adintaut-Uenaral car ra,,lo. |