The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-01-17
GOV. SCALES MESSAGE.

GOV. SCALES MESSAGE
WHAT HE SAID TO THE LEGlsL "A.
TURE LAST WEEK.
An Int resting Review. of Important
subjects and Some SensibIe and Pa
triotic Recommendations.
Governor Scales Message was feac
in the Legislature last Thursday
The first snbject presented therein ii
that of finance. The following is 8
summary of the message: 49
/ The receipts of the Educational
fund for the fiscal years 1887 and
1888, are as follows: Fiscal year
1887, $6.920.4S; fiscal year 1888
s11 ,403.01 The disbursements are
as follows. Fiscal yer 1887, S5,.
524.21; fiscal year 1888, $5,582.86
The available assets of the education
al fund are s99, ,250 of four per cent.
State coupon bonds, proceeds Of the
funding of bonds and certificates un-
| der the ac. of March 4th, 1879, to
compromise, commute and settle the
the State debt.
The receipts of the public fund for
the fiscal years are as follows For
18S7,-$85O,177.70; for 1888,-$724,-
5O6.45. Deducting the special funds
not constituting part of the reven-
ves-amounting for the fiscal year
1887, to $194.462, and for the fiscal
1888, to $2OS,S16.67 and we have for
the fiscal year 1887, $685., 1853, and
for 1888, s515, 673.78. II
The disbursements, deducting
amounts not provided for from the
ordinary resources of the Treasury,
are s597, ,724.S3, for 1888, $632, 474.
55 vf Ia
The estimated future expenses Civ
en- as a whole are $713, $50.
The estimated resources are stated
thus:
The whole value of personal and
real property is 217,7O0,0OO. "A tax
of thirty cents on every one hundred
dollars worth of property is 1904 ,395;
add taxes collectable by sheriff under
schedules B. and c., $4,000; taxes
collected by sheriffs On incomes and
under schedules B. and C.,9 $28, 900
revenue from all other sources $40, 900,
and we have $7O2 1876; add balance at
close of fiscal year $1,000, making
$7O9,395. ga
Principal of the bonded debt re-
cognized in the act of 1879, bonds is
sued before May 1861. at forty per
cent. S5,477, 400; bonds issued dur
ing and since the late war, by author
ity of acts passed prior thereto, at %
per cent So, ,261 ,045; bonds issued in
pursuance of the funding acts of
March 10, 1866, and August 20, 1868
at Is per cent, $685., 800; total recog-
nized debt $12,627, ,045. \ = =
The Auditor and Treasurer both
concur in the opinion that, in order to
meet the expenditures of the next two
years, it will be necessary to levy tax
of thirty cents on one hundred dollars
worth of property. This has been rem
dered necessary by the loss of the
| dlummers' tax, under a decision Of
the Supreme Court believed to be ap-
plicab,e to our State, that the law was
unconstitutional, and the reduction Of
tax in 1887 to twenty cents on the one
hundred dollars value Of property ;
from these two causes the public reve-
nue. has been reduced 100000 This
decision only applied to drummers
from other States, but it was evidently
unjust to collect this tax from our
merchants when all others were free
of tax, SO the whole tax has been sus-
pended, by reason Of the failure of the
sheriffs to collect it. In the
meantime / would ask the Legislature
to suspend the collection of that tax
as to our own people, and give to the
sheriffs legal sanction for failing to
do what equity and justice seem to de
mand.
rPENITENrIARY.
1t is suggested by the Treasurer
that it is open to the Legislature, il
in their wisdom they deem it proper
to adopt it, to make the Penitentiary
self-sustaining, and thereby reduce
the estimates of taxation from thirty
cents on the one hundred dollars
calue of property to twenty-five, Oh
thereabouts.
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
In the spring of 1888, work wal
commenced ON the main or Agricul
tural building. This is of brick, an,
the penitentiary b rs furnished for thi
purpose, SO far, SOC, ,OOOs all Of which
except few thousand retained t.
build an annex, are already in tn
main building. It is thought tha
this building can be complesed by tn
coming summer, SO as to open Its door
for the reception of students. II
| PENSIONS. ~
1 By the law of Code, chapter 40
and the lawr of 1885 and 1887, tn
State has acknowledged and attec,pt
ed to meet the secret obligations sh,
owes to her disabled and destitute sol
diers. The laws mentioned, though
we'll intentioned, are wholly made
quate.s BY the acts and amendment
of 1885 and 1887, the sum Of $50, 90
was appropriated to = certain defines
class of soldiers and widows of deceas
ed soldiers, in the expectation <tha
each entitled would receive the sur
Eof thirty dollars.
j The number Of soldiers drawn,
pensions are 1883 the number
widows drawing pensions afs 4 ,635
total, 9, ,708 allowanee for each ~
der and widow, 1925. Thi
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