The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-14
CONTROLLERS REPORT.
Statement of the FOrtieth and
FOrty.first Fiscal Years.

j. P. Dunn, State Controller, has submit
ted to Governor Waterman the report of his
department for the fortieth fiscal year, end
ing June SO, 1889, and for the forty-frst
fsc al year, ending June go 1890, from which
the following comparative exhibits are
taken:
For the fortieth fiscal year the Controllers
ledger balance was S1,751, ,314 60 and the
warrants outstanding $3l7,763 30. Total
cash in the State Treasury June 80, 1889,
S2,G69,07S 15. Total amount in several
coupon accounts S140o. The total cash in
the State Treasury June 80, 1888, was
81, 549, TAO 81, showing an increase of cash in
the State Treasury in the fortieth as against
the thirty-ninth fiscal year of S519 337 Is.
For the forty-firSt fiscal year the condition
of the funds on June 80, 1890, was as fol-
lows: Controllers ledger balance, So. 39j.-
270 9S; warrants outstanding, S1T3. .295 10:
total cash in the state Treasury June so
1880. So, 56S, ,566 0S total amount in several
coupon accounts, S9665. Increase of cash in
the State Treasury in the forty-frst as
against the fOrtieth fiscal year, 81 ,499 4S7 SO.
The total State revenues for the fortieth
fiscal year amounted to S7,554, ,526 g. of
which amount S5.03S, 424 90 was received
from property tax. For the furty-frst fiscal
year the revenue was $4,000, $40 rs, of which
S7,21l, 414 90 was received from property tax.
During the first mentioned year the poll-tax
mentioned 1927 70. San Quentin Prison
contributed S309305 80 in 1889, and S204-
SIS OF in 1890. The railroads paid taxes in
1889 amounting to S5SS, $50 SO. and in 1890
S66S, 1o5 II. The Harbor Commissioners
PAID in in 1889 for tolls collected, rent of
wharves, etc., in San Francisco Harbor,
SS23, ,3S4 81. and In 1890 1914. III II. Incor-
ported banks paid in S15, 800 each year. The
remainder was distributed through all other
sources. The receiptso otthe two fiscal years
exceeded the disbursements to the extent of
81, 1887, 172 IS.
The revenue for the support of the COM
mon schuols arises from property tax, poll
tax, interest on unpaid principal due from
sales OF lands granted by the General Gov
eminent TO the State for educational pur-
poses, known as State school lands; from
interest on bonds held in trust by the State
for the support of common schools and from
the sale Of geological survey reports. The
amount estimated as necessary for the sup
port OF the schools for the two fiscal years is
S3,6O0,OO0 The number of census children
reported by the SUPERINTENDENT of Public
Instruction was 275.5O2, giving each census
child $40 63 for the year, or So IS more than
the 81 by law required to be raised annually.
The total securities held in trust for the
support of the common schools is So 26S, ,35O
The State University Fund is fed from
the proceeds of the per cent tax on all the
property in the State. The receipts during
the fortieth fiscal year amounted to $780,
191 76 and the disbursements sos, ,34S 38.
During the forty-first fiscal year the receipts
were S102,471 30 and the disbursements
S101,2c5 SO.
The Grammar School Course Fund was
only created March 15, 1889, and the re-
ceipts were S74.60S 50 and the disbursements
S65S2, leaving balance of S6S,026 50. Only
small portions of twenty-five counties have
availed themselves of this law and out of
2S0,SS2 census children only 355S are attend
ing grammer schools. The inference is that
the law is unpopular.
The State, Library Fund shows the re-
ceiptS for the fortieth fiscal year to have
been $50, 166 95and the disbursements S13,-
074 So. For the fOrty-frst fiscal year, re-
ceipts $40, 1862 IS and disbursements $44,-
779 80.
The last Legislature created three new
funds-the Special Mendocino Insane Asy-
lum Fund, the Southern California Insane
Hospital Fund and the School Land De-
post Fund. This latter provides for pay
ment of S25 to be made with each applica-
tion to purchase land from the State instead
of the So payment heretofore required.
Twenty dollars of the SIS goes to the School
Land Deposit Fund as evidence of good
faith in the purchaser, and the remaining
So is paid to the General Fund as fees.
AT the beginning of the fortieth fiscal year
the State debt amounted to So, 703, 500. Since
amounting to $4,000, and also $500 of
funded debt bonds of 1857 have been re-
deemed, leaving State debt on July /. 1890,
at 50, $4,000.
The delinquency of the Central and South
ern Pacific railroads and their branches for
the years 1883 to 1887 inclusive, amounting
to 81, 547. 100 81. is still unpaid.
The State Engineers department had re-
ceived up to the end of the thirty-ninth fiscal
year, ending June so, 1888, $3.50 70, of
which the State Engineer had received as
salary SOS, 500. The work should have been
finished in 1854. but it still goes on. The
office Is useless and should be abolished.
The total amount realized from the sale of
pure-wine labels from the passage of the act
in 1889 to date has been S1763 %.
The disparity in official salaries is COM
mented upon, and a comparison made of the
labor performed and the responsibility con-
nected with the different positions. Recon-
mendations relating to the official duties of
County Treasurers, cost of collecting State
revenues, isis of estimates of expenditures
and State Printing Office are made, and the
difficulties surrounding the attempts to col
lect money from the bondsmen of default
ing officers commented upon. The report
closed with tabulated statements OF every
transaction which comes under his official
sunarvistop