The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-12-09
GOVERNMENTAL.
WHAT is GOING ON IN THE
DEPARTMENTS.
AN EPITOME OF WHAT WAS
LEARNED AT THE CAPITOL
YESTERDAY.
coMpRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.

CoMPRoLLERs DEPARTMENT.
Comptroller Swain made no deposit IN
the treasury yesterday.
For the month of November he made
the following:
General revenue, $50,940.l6.
Permanent school fund, $44,370.S1.
Available school fund, $6S,93772.
The comptroller approved the follow
ing tax collectors bonds yesterday:
Il. j. Epperson, Polk county; j. W.
Nolan, Kinney county; j. ID. Stafford
Camp county; B. w. Morris, Hood county
Robert e. Brown, Montague county
Charles Long, Houston county, and j. D.
Galloway, Roberts county.
Comptroller Swain yesterday approved
the following collectors bonds Nathaniel
Burton, Orange county; Il. A. Wilson, Bra
zoria county; W. G. Daugherty, Frio coun-
ty;W. R. Powell, Collin county; j. II. John
son, Colorado county; A. w. Sweeney,
Morris county; j. j. Bruce, Williamson
county; j. w. Jones, Callahan county; W..
A. Cobb, Freestone county:
The following is the amount of railroad
passenger tax during the year: $lS,363.o9.
OF this sum the Texas Pacific paid So
255.19; Missouri Pacific, $1,6359S; Hous-
ton g. Texas Central, $3,231.07; Texas d.
st. Louis, $377.37; Gulf, Colorado d Santa
Fe, $1,941.35; Sunset, $2,430.19.
The total assessed values of the proper
ty of the state amount to $630,591 ,029;
amount last year, 1921, oil $3.50; increase
during the year, $9,5s0,040. The poll tax
increased about $4,000, the tax being
$1.50 per capita.
During the month of November, the
drummers paid $2,555 tax; railroads pas
senger tax, $3,573; insurance companies,
SIS.
Non residents paid tax on lands in Or
ganized counties to the amount of 3d.
1917.
In answer to a letter from Vernon,
Texas, Superintendent Baker writes, shat
after a special school tax has been levied
in school districts, collected and turned
over to the proper custodian, it becomes
a part of the public fund, and should be
regarded as SUCH and when used for
building school houses, ETC., the citizens
should supplement it by an equal amount
of private funds, labor, material, or
money"
Under the rulings of the department of
education, teachers of public schools, if
they so decide, can open their schools by
reading chapter in the Bible, without
comment and with prayer, non-secta
rian.
The new county judge of Coleman
county wants to know how he is to gel
his pay for attending to school matters
his predecessor having pocketed all the
commissions for simply apportioning the
school fund, something contrary to the
law, as the following extract from letter
written by Hon. b. NJ. Baker will show
1The county judge is not entitled to com
pensation for apportioning the schoo
fund, but for disbursing it by approving
claims, and the commissioners cour
should only allow compensation for th
sums actually disbursed, and not unit
they are disbursed."
Yesterday Comptroller Swain approved
the following collectors bonds:
W. H. Rich, of Martin county.
w. w. Hill, of Cook county.
C. S. Thurman, sr., of Victoria county
John o. Neil, of Calhoun county.
w. II. Jones, of Val Verde county.
e. d. Downs, of Newton county.
A. H. Tralory, of Montgomery county.
d. S. Rowe, of Comanche county.
s. G. Wetson, of Burleson county.
H. Hamilton, of Bandera county.
Deposits were light yesterday, onl
about $500 going into the treasury de
partment.
NJ. l.. McCabe, of Thorockmortol
county.
j. w. Wall, of Burnet county.
S. II. Oliphant, of Sabine county.
Gains B. Garden, of Coryell county.
w.N. Barker, of Wilbarger county.
f. M. Moore, of Kerr county.
Comptroller Swain yesterday approve
the following collectors bonds: James \
Schmick, of Eastland county, j. M. Alle'
of Hardeman county, w. r. Smith, {
Caldwell county, j. @. Hart, of Mario
county, w. M. Brown, of Lee county, Me-
Robson, of Fayette county, w. l.. Rud,
of Karnes county.
For the year ending August 81, 1SS
the insurance companies doing bushes
in the state paid $l7,262.59 tax. TIL
is for the privilege of doing business
the state.
Galveston county paid this year So
0s7.70 occupation tax, of which $l6,3I
were paid by the liquor dealers. The