The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-10

acres. in 1894. 231 600 acres: in 1895,
o25 OoO acres: in 1896, 265, 900 acres; i'll
1897. 262. 800 lacneS Bhlts showing a.
difference one year and another during
tbe rast five years, of $4,000 acres Ill
that county.
Tho receipts of the Public Fund for
tho voor ending November Both, lS96'
,,.orc N 90. 45S.4O The receipts Tor
tho vear ending November Both, lS"''
yvere ST .292. 54I67-an increase over
1896 of $33 ,0S9.2I. ,a,..
The disbursements for the year i0''
were 81 ,244,911.51. The Disbursements
for 1897 were 81. 303, 904. 11-an increase
over 1896 of S5S, 9S6.J4 me lact tl",
the expenses of Il session of the Genera
Assembly are included in the disburse-
ments for 1897 accounts for the Increased
expenditure.
The revenue receipts from real ana
personal property were $2.1S1.03 less
in 81 than in 1896: but the revenue de-
rived under schedules "B" and 'C i.
known as privilege taxes. for 1897. eX-
sources, by $17.33712.
The most notable increase of revenue
from any one source for 1897. over the
ipctions made by the Secretary of State.
The excess of receipts through that De
partmcnt. over 1896, amounts to $780,
1898
The revenue from railroad property
exceeds the receipts of 1896 by 5000 As.
- change in the license tax schedule
on piano and organ dealers by the Gen
eral Assembly of 1897 has caused loss
de-
ceipts in 1896 were $4,000: in 1897.
$4,000.
There is IN increase of $1,607.05 from
telegraph and telephone companies, the
tax being two per cent on gross receipts.
The increase of revenue from tax on
incomes is $730.02 The gross amount
of incomes returned for taxation fof
1896 is S63OG24 The gross amount of
incomes returned for the previous yea
was S550,S93.
Circussos and menagericS yielded for
the year 1897 an increase Of $1,36G.50
over 1896.
The receipts from Merchants Pur-
chase Tax" shows an increase Of
| $2.S22.J4.
There is an increase of S1,JOJ.OO from
lawyers, physicians and dentists over
the previous year.
White polls increase from III, 915 to
172.2S1. while colored polls shows the
small increase between 6J,691 and CO.
740
During the year 1897 a very large
number of applications for pensions were
filed in the department. 1t must be said
that the general presentations made in
these applications are of such a charac-
ter as to make it difficult, in most cases.
to satisfactorily determine whether the
applicant is legally entitled to such pen
son as the State can pay or not. There
is no rashness in asserting that there
are those now on the State pension roll,
who are neither morally nor legally emil
teld 10 the aid they are receiving from
the State, and it may be reasonably sup
posed that there are those who have
applied for pensions. not on the roll.
| on account of some defect in the applica-
tions. as filed, who richly deserve all that
the State can offer them.
There was Il net increase of JS pen
SiOners during the year 1897.
The substantial and beneticent fea-
lures of Building and Loan Associations
do not appear to have found general
lodgment in the permanent appreciation
of the citizens of this State or such aSso-
Citations do not appear to regard the attl-
tude of the State as favorable to them.
At one time there were sixty organ;za-
tons Of this character operating in