The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-05-28
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HOW THINGS ARE WOUND
UP IN THE DEPART
MENTS.
Interesting Figures From the Comptroller
Charters From the Secretary Of
State--SchoOl knowledge
Land Matters.

Comptroller Mccall is young man.
and he has under him some of the
shrewdest young men in the state.
Every day when the reporter ap-
proaches the comptroller's apartments
and floats in on a slippery smile he is
met by a young man whose face tells
at a glance that he possesses more
than the usual qualifications He
doesn't look to be much over twenty
years of age. His black hair retires
modestly from broad forehead; pair
of frank eyes peer out from beneath a
pair of distinctly arched brows; the
flush of health hangs its mantles on
his cheeks, and pronounced nasal
appendage stands guard over very
promising young moustache.
This is w. N. Virgins, and young as
he is, he holds the responsible position
of chief bookkeeper in the comptrol-
ler's office. 1t is safe to say there is no
more responsible position in that great
capitol building than his, and it is just
as safe to assert that in all that great
bee hive of industry there is no more
thorough, conscientious worker than
he. He pays no attention to Office
hours, and often the reporters passing
through the capitol late at night have
seen him at his desk porting over those
never ending columns of figures, fig
ures. figures.
1t would be hard to detail the work
which passes through this department,
but yesterday the reporter made a
brief inspection into one little detail,
and this is how he did it:
Suppose" said the reporter to Mr..
Virgins, that am acounty collector
and want to turn $1,000 over to the
state. How do do it2"
"Well," was the prompt reply, you
either send or bring your money to
This office and get a deposit warrant
on the state treasury, authorizing that
department to receive $1,000 from you.
This warrant is made out in triplicate,
the original of which goes with the
money to the treasurer, the duplicate
is kept by the comptroller and the
triplicate is retained by you as collec-
tori
How does the money get out of the
reasuryT was the next query.
Through this Office too" was the
answer. 1.-THE comptroller draws a
treasury warrant, retaining stub and
the party to whom the warrant is is
sued receipts for it also. 1t is then
taken to the treasurer and cashed.
Once a quarter the treasurer reports
his disbursements to the comptroller
and that gentleman takes his book
keeper and pays visit to the treasury
where the warrants on which the dis.
bursements were made are checked up
and Cancelled and filed away for future
reference. The process of checking up
the receipts of the treasury is gone
through with once month";"
The reporter looked around the
rooms at the dozens of clerks and the
dozens of ponderous ledgers and was
glad he wasn't a book keeper
Turning to the work of the day it
was learned that the following col
lectors settled with the state yester-
day, showing their total collections of
state taxes and occupation for the
year:
s. D. Walker, collector of Lime
stone county. state taxes, $22, 1876. 10,
occupations, $4,772.60.
j. d. Birdwell, collector of Howard
county, state taxes, $6,302.44, occupa-
tions. 81, 49S.25.
J. J. Bruce, collector of Williamson
county, state taxes, $38, 111.12, occu-
pations, $9,351.
T. J. Hamilton, collector of Mata-
gorda county, state taxes, $7,154 81,
occupations, 1868.
T. s. Christian, collector of Hop
kins county, state taxes, SIS, 850.3S, oc-
equations, $4,311.
Geo. Carmichael, collector of Hill
county. state taxes. 1871, 1899, occupa-
lions, $S,057.70.
T. b. Dickson, collector of Titus
county, state taxes, So, 1920, occupa.
tions, SO ,312. 80.
w. A. Williams, collector of Shackel-
ford county, state taxes, $6,894.65, &C.
equations, $107.75.
Revenue collections for the day
amounted to 81, 1000.
La Sale county paid 1856 interest
on bonds.
Executive.
On being officially notified of his APP
pointment as one of the commission
ers to codify the laws, the Hon. A.
W. Terrell, declined to accept on the
ground of pressing private affairs that
would not spare him the time to do
the laborious work.
Judge q. F. Fillmore of Travis coun-
ty, an able and highly respected
lawyer has been appointed to fill the
vacancy. 1t is understood that Judge
Terrell is writing book of memoirs.
Secretary of State.
Articles of incorporation for the Tan
Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Frater--
nifty were issued by the secretary OF
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