Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04

year at a 20per cent. adyaierem tax, we
have the following, viz:
Balance on hand August
acknowledgements during
the year. .-s.....-.-. l,oUz,SS5 %
Total receipts with bal
ance on hand Sl,s12, $50 46
Estimated appropriations, 81 ,044 ,971.-
%; showing an excess in the estimated
appropriations over the receipts for that
year Of SIP, 490.74.
Receipts of both years are based on the
1888 assessed values, amounting to S6Sl,
084 ,904, an increase over the assessed
values of 1887 of $50, 672 .503.
THE SCHOOLS.
The embarrassment caused by the con-
tinued necessity of registering warrants
drawn on the available school fund could
not in the past, and cannot in the future,
be avoided under the present system of
apportionment and operating thesphblic
schools Conforming to the laws, the
board of education in July each year
makes the apportionment for the next
year beginning September L The schools
open over the state in September. A pc
riod of about four months intervenes be-
tween that date and the time when the
funds become in any measure available to
meet the expenses. The loan made by the
! called session of the twentieth legislature
of S504 600 afforded temporary relief
| only. The constant everyday query
from almost every section of the state,
'when viii we get our school money, "
etc. places the comptroller and the state
treasurer in a very menviable position
trying 10 explain the cause of the delay,
and offering excuses for the existence of
the unavoidable trouble There is no
Disgusting the fact that under the present
regime the system Is unbusiness-like and
pernicious, and is badly in need of the
imprint of new and decided legislation.
TIE PENITENTIARIEs
Reference is made to page thirty-siX,
table No. lifty-four, showing the condi-
ton of the account of W. G. Parish,
financial agent of the penitentiaries.
1t viii be seen the balance in the hands
of the financial agent August 81, 1887
was S31 1863 %; receipts at Huntsville,
| S453 ,405 10; receipts at Rusk ,S54 1866 81;
the amount drawn from the treasury,
| Sl27 $50; making a total of S666 ,z9I %.
| OF this amount SAT- 1872 was expended at
|. Huntsville; SIP ,l2S .43 was expended at
Rusk, leaving a balance in the hands of
the financial agent August 81, 1883, of
| ST. ,290 80.
Thus it viii be seen that the expenses
at the penitentiaries for the year was
| S649 500 .43.
OCCUPATION TAXES.
The receipts from occupation taxes,
collected by tax collectors from July l,
1887, to May l, 1888, (ten months were
| from the following occupations:
1914 retail liquor Dealers at S30n each 1922 200 90
34wholesale liquor dealers, at $500 each 10, 200 90
3lj quart liquor dealers, at 500 esch.. 1900 90
652 beer dealers, at $50 each ......... ~ 60O w
444 billiard tables, at $50 each: $3.50 90
All other occupations ................ n6, 433 30
Total. s55s, 313 SO
To make the year complete, we esti-
mate the collections for May and
June at ..............:...... $4,000 90
Making the total collection. $500, 318 SO
department. So, 825 Sc
Grand ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $685. l39 81
respectfully suggest that the occupa-
ton laws be amended so that each per-
son, or firm of persons pursuing all Oc-
| cupation that is taxed under our statutes,
be required to register their occupation
license with the county treasurer in the
county where the receipt is issued and
that county treasurers be required to
keep a suitable book for the registration
for registration. And to perfect uniform
ity in these records, 1 further suggest
that the quarterly reports required of tax
collectors under article 1912, Revised
Statutes, should be made to run from
May /, to April 80 conforming to the
time in which tax collectors are given to
collect the taxes and settle their accounts
with the state, and that the registration
of the occupation license by the various
county treasurers be kept separate for
each year (from May l to April 80 y
The keeping of these records in this
manner would often furnish information
to counties that is frequently sought and
difficult to obtain.
GATHERING STATISTICS,
There appears to be gross inequality in
the amounts paid assessors for taking
statistics for the year ending December
81, 1887.
For instance, the amount allowed the
assessor of Galveston county by the COM
missloherS' court for taking statistics,
S3206 80 Galveston county has Il popu-
lation of 26 ,379. The number engaged
in agricultural pursuits is limited. Fannin
county has population of 80 ,S72, and
you might say a strictly agricultural
county. One thousand dollars the COM
misSIoners' court thought sufficient pay
for the assessor. Hood county paid
cents for each assessment taken, Calves
ton so cents and Cameron county paid
81 for each assessment made by the as
SCISSOR.
There is general want of uniformity
in the amounts paid the assessor. Coun-
ties having about the same population
and valuation differ in amounts paid as
SCISSORS hundreds of dollars.
MICHIGAN'S NEW GOVERNOR.