Evening journal., 1898-08-02
APPROPRIATIONS MADE
Levy Court Adopted the List
This Morning.
RETURNS OF THE TAX COLLECTORS
TALK ABOUT DELAWARE RAIL
ROAD RETURNS AADAMS TAX
DUPLICATES DELIVERED TO
THE CoLDECToRs-PlAY-RoIG.
AND BILLS DELIVERED.


THE COLLECTORS PAYROLL,
AND BILLS DELIVERED.
Levy Court met this morning and
made the following appropriations for
the current fiscal year:
For the payment Of maturing bonds
OF loan for funding of the floating debt.
$4,000; Trustees Of the Poor, $35 900;
SALARIES Of county officers and en-
piog'es, $4,000; interest ON bonded
debt, 100000; maintenance OF public
buildings, $4,000; public roads (dam-
ages and services on new roads), ST.
600; maintenance Of county PRISON
Jail commissioned, $1,000; First dis
urict $4,000; Second and Third districts
Wilmington, s1S,OOO Fourth district
$4,000; Fifth district, $500; assessors.
$1,000; coroner and physicians, 1880;
magistrates and constab.es, $1,000; offi-
Gems Of lhe courts, 10000: printing and
stationery. $4,000; errors in assess
ment, $4,000; EXPENSES OF courts tSu-
per'ior, General Sessions, Oyer and
Torminer etc.,, $4,000; rent OF coun-
ty m9rgue, 5000; auditing commlttec
$500; insurance ON buildings, etc, $500
telephones, $3.50; refunding Of overpaid
taxes. $4O0; administration OF convict
labor law, $4,000; salaries OF Jail ward
ems, Sl,SSO; SALARY Of Jail physicianl
S4O0; waiter and Tight at Jail and
sherins house, $1,SOO; light and power,
building and bridges, $4,000; board OF
pdsaUers at Jail, $4,000; commission
to delinquent tax collectors. 81 900; re-
bates on taxes, $4,000; total s27i $50;
unappropl-iated funds, si4,OO7.14; total.
s2S5. .S377z
There are several changes in the list,
compared with last year. The Ta7us-
t5cs Of The Poor get $4,000, as
against $4,000. The salaries or coun-
ty officers and employees are raised
from s23 Pos TO $4,000. The interest
on the bonded debt is increased from
s25, ,O5O to $4,000. Therei an increase
OF 81 600 for the malntenancen or pub
Tic buildings, and decrease or 81, 900
on publlc roads. The $500 item fer
interest on temporary loans is wiped
out. One Thousand dollars Is adde 10
the maintenance Of the county prison.
The First district gels an increase OF
s., 800; Second and Third districts. 49,
600. and Fourth district. 81 500 The
assesors' allowances are reduced from
s., 900 to $4,000, and coroner's physl-
clans from $1,000 to 81 500. The al
lowance for magistratts amid constables
is increased from 81, 500 to $1,000; that
for officers OF the courts from $4,000
TO $4,000, and court expenses from
SIT 900 TO 10000. hTe following ap-
propriations to charitable institutions,
etc. are stricken off: Home for Friend
lsss and destitute Children, $500; st.
Peters Female Orphan Asylum, $500;
Delaware Hospital $500; Homeopathic
Hospital $500; Ferris Industrial
School, $4,000; S. p. c. c., $500; Girls
Industrial School. $1,000; 81. Nlichael's
Day ursery. $500; Sunday schools, $500;
st. Georges Marsh Company, $780,;
elections, $4,000 The allowance TO
the auditing committed is increased
from $500 to 5000; that for telephones
from s11S to sl5e; the appropriation
for refundtng oyerpaid taxes is re-
dncod from $500 to 500; THAT for water
and light at the Jail is increased from
$1,000 to 81 800, and that for the board
Of prisoners at The Jail from $4,000 to
$4,000 Commissioners to delinquent
tax collectors are reduced from $4,000
to 81 900.
The total Of appropriations lant
years was $272, ,OO3. as against 1871 $3.50
this year, while the unappropriated
funds last year were s16,16322, as
against sl4,OO7.14 this year. Total for
last year, s2SS, 1922; this year, 1885,
337.77.
County Treasurer Horace G.. Rettew
reported the D5a,owing returns by the
county tax collectors for the month OF
July:
Wilmington hundred-John T.
Dickey, sS3241.
Christiana hundred--George McIn-
tyre, for 1897, s14.43; 1898. s1,Ss4S4;
road tax. 1897, 1922; 1898. sS9e>ie.
BranIiywine-W William E Husbands,
county and poor, 1897. $5S.19; 1898
s92S.66.
st. eGorges-L. c. Scott, 1897,
sl47.14; 1898. s55O55; road tax. 1897,
s5S.9S; 1898, s2O1 .G7.
Pencader-J. b. ORourlNe, 1897,
s59.iO; 1898, $1,000; road. 1897, 1864;
1898, $1,000.
Appoquinimink-lc Edward yIart, 1895,
s53S.1s; 1896. S22O6; 1897, S55.O7; road,
1895, s2e6.es; 1896, sihO5; 1897. 1851.
White Clay Cresl1--John w. AIorI7i-
son, 1896, sS13; 1897, $1,000; 1898,
s44S.7l; road, 1896. SASS; 1897, s46.6s;
1898. sl57.05.
New cast;e-John T. Hayes, 1898