The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-07-04
l.. 5. Ross, governor
GENERAL LAND oFFICE.

GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
The land office will be closed to-day in
observance of the great and glorious
Fourth, and Commissioner Hall will go to
San Antonio to spend the day.
ooMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The following county collectors tleestd
yesterday with the comptroller:
s. H. Title, of Greer county; W. p.
Lane, of Harrison county.
Harrison county yesterday redeemed
$4,000 subsidy bonds.
The comptroller is sending out the fol-
lowing circular to the sheriff.:
To the Sheriff:
This department desires to inform you
of the following:
When q witness attached by you refuses
to give bond or makes affidavit of his in
ability to give bond, and you are neces-
sarily compelled to convey him to the dis
trict court of another county, after you
have delivered the witness to the sheriff,
the law does not require you to wait and
return the witness'at the expense of the
state. The pay of the witness, provided
affidavit of his inability to give bond has
been made, ia provided for under act
of April 90, 1888. Under act Of March
81, 1885, "a witness who refuses to give
bond, or make affidavit of his inability to
give bond, shall not be entitled to fees,
mileage or expenses"
When witness makes affidavit of his
inability to give bond, and is conveyed by
the sheriff, after he is recognized in court
he is entitled to per diem for each day
after recognlzance, and mileage return
ing.
Please observe the above in the future
and thereby incur no expenses to your
self, by paying expenses of witness after
delivery that cannot be reimbursed you
by the state. Very respectfully,
JOHN D. MCCALL, comptroller.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL's OFFICE.
The old armory building,to.the east of the
capitol is being fitted up for the elec
light plant, and the guns and accoutre-
ments which have been stored away there,
have been removed to the rooms in the
basement of the capitol just under the
adjutant-general's office.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
As stated in yesterdays STATESMAN the
appointment of the school fund among
the counties of the state will be made July
Is. This apportionment is made upon the
bases of the school population as
shown by the county scholastic census
reports. A number of counties
have as yet failed to send in their census
reports, and unless these reports are re-
ceived in the educational department by
July Is, the schools in those counties will
not receive the benefit which will accrue
from an increase of school population.
The following are the counties whose re-
ports have not as yet been received by
Superintendent Cooper:
Anderson, Andrews, Bailey, Bandera,
Bowie, Briscoe, BuTlesop, Cochran, Crane,
Frio, Gaines, Galveston, CARA, Gonzales,
Gray, HAL, Hansford, Hartley, Howard,
Houston, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith,
Delta, Dewitt, Dimmitt, Ector, ElPaso,
Encinal, Fails, Foley, Franklin, Hutch
ison, Jasper, Kent, Kimble, King,
Lamb, Loving, Lubbock, Lynn,
Marion, Martin, Milan, Moore, Castro,
Motley, Nolan, Pecos, Neuces, Shackel-
ford, Oldham, Sherman, Lamar, Smith,
Randall, tarr, Polk, Sutton, Roberts,
Swisher, Robertson, Terry, Runnela, Tom
Green, San Patricio, Tyler, Scheicher,
Upton, Ward, Winkler and Yoakum. The
following scholastic census reports were
received yesterday by Superintendent
Cooper: Red River, Austin, Center Point
Ranger, SSonewall.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT..
This department is sending out to the
collectors OF the principal cities circular
asking for a report of the manufacturing
enterprises, it being the intention to make
a feature of the manufacturing enter
prises in the forthcoming report of the
commissioner.
In few days Mr.. Dixon, of the agri-
cultural department, will send out circu-
lar letter to the private bankers through
out the state asking for the capital stock
of every bank and the paid up capital and
surplus on the 1st of January last. The
comptroller of the currency has already
furnished the desired information abou
the national hanks in the state.