The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-06
STATE CAPITOL.
NEwSY NOTES PICKED UP IN THE
STATE DEPARTMENTS
YESTERDAY.
Items Of Interest for the People and Oficial
Figures and Opinions for
County Officials.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE.
The governor was quite sick again
yesterday and nothing of public I'M
portance transpired in his office.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
The following charters were filed
yesterday: >.
The Ardinger-Rose company, OF
New York; capital stock, 1000.
The Waco Medicine company; capl-
tai stock, $4,000. IncorporaEors: d.
L. Kivett, H. V. Kolbye, A. H. Smith
and w. d. Boyle.
GENERAL LAND OFFICE.
Sales of school asylum and timbered
lands during the month of January, 1880:
acres
School 70, 800
Ornhan tasvlum GAO
Deaf and dumb asylum. ............ l,52O
Timbered ..................'..'. 'oo
Total ................73,2 5o
The number of acres leased was
$4,000, against 17S,O0O in December.
Most of the lands leased were in the
Panhandle.
CoMPTRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
Comptroller Mccall registered $lO,-
600 Paris street improvement bonds.
Comptroller McCall's report for
the years 1889 was issued yester
day and it is a carefully prepared and
interesting document. 1t is one OF
the most comprehensive ever issued
from the department, and contains
valuable matter never before pub
lished in report. From the report
the following statistics are culled:
BALANCE IN THE STATE TREASURY.
The balance on hand, as shown by
the several accounts, at the beginning
of the fiscal yea1 September l, 1888,
aggregated $9,0S0,95O.S6. OF this
amount ST. ,697, 914.36 was cash. At
the close of this year we find tina cash
balance had been reduced to 1884,
4S9.77.
From these figures we see that, in
stead of there being locked up in the
vaults of the state. treasury something
over half a million Of dollars, more
than is necessary to pay current ex-
penses, as was the case last year, this
amount is now in circulation among
the taxpayers. The balance carried
by the treasury today will, with the
ordinary receipts of revenue for the
next year, be adequate to meet all de-
mands made upon the state treasury
under existing appropriations. The
total balance in the treasury at the
close of the fiscal year August 81
1889, aggregated SIS, 437 ,31I.N.
STATE REVENUE.
Receipts and disbursements during
the year:
| Balance on hand ............. $1,259 126 II
Receipts from all sources of
| revenue. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. lol9,n4 W
Total receipts during the year
with balance on hand. 49,. $2,77S,9O1 81
Total disbursemts 2,272.347 q
Transfers adjust
---- 2,35O, 491 O3
Leaving balance on hand
August 81, 1889. ............. 42S,4lO 5S
From this balance there was a
further transfer of $31 ,506.90 to avail
able school fund after September l,
1889. This transfer was nade to adj
just the deposit Of 1888 taxes collected
The exact amount could not be de-
termined before the close of the fiscal
year, as all the accounts for the taxes
of 1883 had not been closed at that
date. Therefore the actual balance
to the credit of general revenue" on
the 31st of August, 1889, was 1885,
903.68.
| AVAILABLE SCHOOL FUND.
Balance on hand
August 81, 1885,. S3,949 ~
Receipts from all
sources including
| transfers. ........ 2,l97 ,Sl9 IL
balance on hand. 22S1, 7e8 81
Disbursements. 49,. $2,205, $3.50 80
| Transfers ....... 22,196 %
--2, 227, 526 g.
Leaving balance in
state treasury
August 81, 1880. $54, 242 IS
There has been expended during
the year for the public schools So ,205, )
330.39, exclusive of amounts accruing
from permanent county school funds
and amounts raised by local taxa
ton.
This amount is derived from the in