Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1900-08-02
General fund About Exhausted, Total
Receipts in Six Months
$7O3,l47.94.
Some of the Items of Expenses that
Have Been Paid in Six
Months.
Amounts Paid for Support of ttospi-
tai of the In
sane.

The Bismarck Tribune gives the
following summary OF the state treas
urers semi. annual report. The semi
annual statement Of State Treasurer
DriscOll shows the receipts and dis
burSements OF the state treaSurer's
Office for the term ending July l,
1900. The statement shows a total
balance in the various funds January
| of $2O9. SSS.79 of which $50, 060. Is
was in the general funds. The total
receipts from all sources in the six
months period was S703, 1874 and the
total disbursements for the same
period S736, ,61O.73, leaving balance
on hand July /, 1900, of Sl76,4 OF
this amount $40, 2S9.36 was in the gen.
eral fund. There was total OF S39,
- 03;} in suspended banks Dec. 81, 1899,
and of this So, S53. 10 has been collected
in dividends during the six months.
Of the balance shown in the general
fund, the amount in suspended banks
is included.
The miscellaneous receipts from
various sources of revenue, including
fees of state officers and similar
sources was S13S, ,95O.76. Interest on
the public funds added S2,l10.9O to
the total receipts. Convict labor at
state nenitentlary turned in $4,265 to
the receipts. This was from the sale
of brick and other products OF labor of
the state penitentiary. The 20 per
cent. of the fees paid in the state for
hunting permits brought s37l.10. The
sale of certificates for the operating
fund of the state twine and cordage
plant brought S7,685.23 to be devoted
to the purpose for which it was au-
thorized by the state.
The total receipts to the bond in
terest fund were $44, S77.7O and to the
special fund for the payment OF wolf
bounty tax ST., 055.64.
The state tuition fund, distributed
for the benefit Of the schools OF the
state, received s4,305.40 from fines
through the state. The largest single
sum comes from Sargent county
wherefrom 81, POI in fines is covered
into the fund. Wells county is second
with 1890.
From the interest and income fund,
ta,rned into the state tuition tund
from interest paid on state school
funds. land contracts, ETC., the total
receipts are S9S, ,646.84. The total re-
ceipts from installments on farm
loans. made on agricultural lands
through the state from the perma-
nent school fund were ss4l7 and the
redemption of bonds aggregated
ahout, $4,000. The sale OF government
lands in the state, of which by re-
cent law the state receives hVe per
cent. brought in So, 2l9.oO. ....
Some Of the items of disbursement
are interesting The state paid out
during the six months SlO0 for the
conviction of horse thieves, by the law
authorizing the payment OF this
amount as a reward for the capture
of a horse thief: 800 was paid for flags
for public buildings: 81, ,026.S5 was paid
for the return of fugitives from JUS
tice; $3.50 was paid for the promotion
of immigration: 81 ,464.18 was paid for
the care of refractory boys at the
South Dakota reform school; 5000 was
paid for the burial of old soldiers and
sailors: S3.3O3.6O was paid out for
starch bounty: s6, ,7Ol.77 was paid to
the volunteer tiremen of the state as
their per cent. OF the tax PAID by
insurance companies: ira -sportation
of convicts to the penltentlary cOst
s3,27S.57 and of patients to the hosp-
tai for the insane cost 50, 4.36; So,-
7l4.Oo was paid as expenses OF the
state militia and $l,O50 to the state
fair at Mandan.
The sum of Sl29,69 1876 was appor-
toned during the six months to the
school districts Of the state from the
interest and income fund: the sum OF
$4.2l6.7O was apportioned from the
fines and penalty fund.
The aggregate amount of school dis
trict bonds purchased by the state
board of university and school lands
in the six months was $52, 100. OF the
wolf bounty fund $1,000 was paid out
in the redemption of certificates;
some slS, 900 was paid in interest on
the public debt; sl3,6s3 was disbursed
in payment Of building expense at