Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-23
STATE BALANCE SHEET.
Summary of Receipts and Expen6fi-
lures for the Year.

lures IOT the Lear
A statement of the receipts and dis
bursements of the State of Wisconsin for
the fiscal year ending Sept. 80 last, con-
densed from the reports of the Secretary
of State and State Treasurer shows the
total receipts to have been S2,324, 572.01
and disbursements $2.340, 709.36. The
receipts, however, include S340,000 Dor
rowed from the trust funds and the
amount on hand in the general fund was
$33 ,G7S.21, which is S16.137.35 less than
the amount on hand Sept 30, 1896.
The largest item of receipts, more than
half Of the total. is from the license Or
tax of railroad companies, amounting to-
81. 264, 27O9S; sleeping car companies
paid burt $904.75; telegraph companies
$10,6S4.2S; telephone companies, $10,-
I'll. IA; street railway companies, $697.17;
loan and trust companies, S2,212.SO; log
driving and boom companies, S1.329.6ss,f
and insurance companies, 2S,964.1S-
The office fees of the several State de-
partments turned into the State treasury
were as follows: Governors, $145; Secre-
tary of State, S1O,SS7.45: insurance COM
missioner, $3S, 292.S7 bank examiner, $5,-
ops; land department, $7S9.65; superfn-
tendent of public property, 81, 2SS.5o.
The salaries and permanent approprla-
tons were 1923, 1873 and the Legislative
expenses were nearly $4,000 more
1888, 49,. O3. The expenses of the several
charita BILE and penal institutions of the
State for the year were: State hoSplfaF
for the insane, Mendoza, $119,310.gs
Northern hospital for insane, Oshkosh.
$13O, G61.75; school for deaf, Delavan,
$50, S37.37; school for blind, Janesvilles
$47,322.07; industrial school for boys
Waukesha, $7O,644.41; State prison.
Waupun. STA ,3SO.96; State public school.
Sparta, $65, 976.09; home for feeble-mimd-
ed, Chippewa Falls, $135, 1926.
Clerk hire at the capitol cost $7S, 1882
labor about the capitol, So, 657. 3S; TRAM
sient labor, $14,1329S; incidental ex-
penses, $14, 065.7O. Printing for the State
mot including the publications in news
papers, cost $31 ,324.4 The State paid
$96SS.79 for postage and $5,936.64 for
eXpressage. Gas and electric light cost
$4,3SS.3O; fuel, $3,367.42.
For educational purposes the State ex-
penses were: Common schools, interest
and examiners, $11O,373.51; normal
schools, fifth normal, interest, teachers
Institutes, $40 1000; university, summer
school, agricultural experiment station,
interest on certificates of Indebtedness
$43, 416.51 free high schools, $47, $685.
manual training in high schools, $1,250.
The expenses Of the Wisconsin Veter-
ans home, including care Of inmates.
were $50, O74.26; of this the United States
paid $9,459.72. The cost of the Wiscen-
sin National Guard through the adjutant
generals department was $S1,677.1S;
through the quartermaster generals de-
partment, $50, 71O.27.
The States expenses for its courts were:
Circuit Court judges, $6S,O0O; Supreme
Court judges, $34 ,9G0.25; Circuit Court
reporters, $S,S61.91. The expenses for
the board of arbitration were $1,623.G5;
State bar examiners, 81, 145.22; State law
library, $5,69S.73.
For maintaining chronic insane in coJln-
ty asylums the State paid 1913, 044.39, but
it received from counties for maintaining
insane, industrial school for boys, fifth
normal, free high school, manual training
department. and interest on certificates of
indebtedness, 1891 1850 The total in
vestment of productive trust funds is 3d..
513, 77:}.44, the amount Of each fund be-
ing: School fund.- So, 403 ,S0O.24; umiver-
sity fund, $1SS,343; agricultural college
fund, $204 ,9GG07; normal school fund.
81, 775, G53.13; drainage fund, $1,614.