St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-20
AS We GROW GREAT
So Does the Cost Of Running
Ramsey County Keep
Even Pace.
Expenses Exceed Estimates
and Cause a Lapse to
Each Year.
A Little Over a Quarter Of a
Million for the County in
1890.
Auditor Kahn Recommends a
Levy for a Small Sinking
Fund.

County Auditor NJ. F. Kahn has pre-
pared estimates for the tax levy of Ram
sey county for 1890, together with an
itemiZed statement of the actual eXpen-
ditures during the year 1889. The law
requires that such estimate and state
ment shall be submitted to the board of
county commissioners each year. The
estimated amount required for all county
purposes for the year 1890 is
S260,00O, of which SlS0.O00 is for
county revenue fund, $4,000 for
county interest fund, $31, 900 for county
poor fund, and $1,000 for county roads
and bridges. In the county revenue
fund, the estimate of taxes to be levied
for paying one-half of the expenses Of
maintaining the court house and city
hall, is S20,440; for salaries of county
officers, $4,000; for all other expenses
of the county, 100000; besides this the
estimate of receipts from the various
offices is S23. $40. The actual eXpendi-
lures for the year 1889 were S2S1, 535. "a.
divided as follows:
County revenue fund. $3.50 81
County road and bridge fund. 16,705 92
County poor fund :. ......... $3.50 4S
County interest fund .. 1920 90
.
court house and city hall in 1889 was
only S7,4S7.2O, while the estimate for
1890 is 500, 40. In 1889 the salaries of
county officers was S74, 665.S0; this year
the estimate is S6,234.20 greater. The
other expenditures for 1889, to be paid
out Of the revenue fund, for county eX-
penses, was $105, 936.50, or S3,936.54
greater than the estimate for this year.
The statements will show that the eX-
penditureS out of the county revenue
fund, aside from county interest, roads
and bridges, and poor funds, for last
year, were $1SS.0S9.54, while the esti-
mate for the same purposes this year is
$203, $40.
The expenses for all purposes last
year were SCI 1854 greater than the
estimates for last year.
Accompanying the tabulated state
mentS in detail Auditor Kahn subjoins,
among other things, the following:
Having compared the tax levy for
the year 1889 with the expenditures for
the first six months of 1890, we believe
that there will be no serious deficit in
any of the comfy funds at the close of
the fiscal year. We have anticipated re-
duction in the expenses of maintaining
the hospital, jail and the county roads
and bridges; therefore the estimates
presented do not exceed, and in few
instances are less than the actual ex-
pendtureS of last year.
Our attention has been called to the
necessity of establishing sinking fund
for the payment of our bonded debt, by
the recent message Of your chairman to
the common council. The bonded debt
of the county amounts to sS49, 400,
and no provision has yet been made for
its payment. The first of these bonds
become due on Sept. 1, 1892, and the
law authorizing their issue directs that
the board of county commissioners shall
levy sufficient tax upon the taxable
property in the county for the purpose
of paying the interest and providing for
sinking fund to pay the principal of
the bonds. We would, therefore, sug-
gest that you levy one-tenth of one mill
$4,000 annually for this purpose.