Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-03
Semi Annual Report Of State Treas.
urer Driscoll is Filled With Gov
ernor Fancher.
States Finances for the Period of ST,
Months, from December to July
of this Year.
Items Of the Receipts and Disburse.
ments of the State Treasurer for
the Semi-Annual Period.

with the governor, showing the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the state
treasurer's office for the term ending
July 1, 1WW. The statement shows a
total balance in the various funds Jan
uary l of 5000, SIS. %, of which $59,-
Ot;O. - vas in the general funds. The
total receipts from all sources in the
six months period was SOB, 147 "a and
the total disbursements for the same
period j G,GlO. -, leaving a balance
on hand July 1, 1900, of $176,42G. OF
this amount $4O,2S9. 3G was in the gen
eral fund. The miscellaneous receipts
from various sources Of revenue, in
Guiding fees of state officers and SINH
lar sources was $1:iS,S5O. 7i. OF this
amount there were S3,42O fees received
from the Office of the secretary of state
Incorporation, brand, notary and other
fees. The fees received from the
Office of the commissioner of insurance
were S77,7O3. 80. Taxes charged against
the insurance companies and collected
during the six months gave a total Of
.,SS:H2,:'70.23. Interest Oh the public
funds added $2,llO. 80 to the total re-
ceipts. Convict labor at the state
penitentiary turned in 81, to the re-
ceipts. This was from the sale of
brick and other products of labor of
the state p~enitentiary. The 20 per
cent of the fees paid in the state for
hunting permits brought $3371 40. The
sale of certincates for the operating
fund OF the state Irvine and cordage
plant brought S7G,GS5.233 to be devoted
to the purpose for which it was author
lied by the state.
The total receipts to the general fund
from taxes. paid in by the counties,
was S3341 ,OiS. 9S. Of this amount
the largest single amount was paid by
ECass county, SD :E33 Is. Grand Forks
comes second with $2S,491 .2S. Rich
land is third with S223,GajO. % and
Trail fourth with $780, 94 %. The
smallest amount paid was by Mercer
county, SOD 80. The total receipts
80 the bond interest fund were $44,-
sS77-10 and TO the special fund for the
payment of wolf bounty tax ST.
Ol5. GA.
The state tuition fund, distributed
for the benefit of the schools of the
state, received $$4,3395. 40 from fines
through the state. The largest single
sum comes from sargent county where
from $1,2O7 in fines is covered into the
fund. Wells county is second with
$3.50.
From the interest and income fund
turned into the state tuition fund from
interest paid on state school funds
land contracts, etc., the total receipts
are SOS ,G4G. 81. Cass county pays
owe 100000 of this sum, Grand Forks
S11 200, Richland $1,000, Trail S14, ON
and Walsh $l1 900. The interest or
bonds held by the permanent schoo,
funds of the state aggregates sd .OG9. Il
and the interest on mortgages 81,
45j. 90. The total receipts from in,
stallments on farm loans, made on ag
ricultural lands through the state from
the permanent school fund were $S,41'
and the redemption of bonds aggre
gated about $4,000. The sale of gov
eminent lands in the state, of whicl
by a recent law the state receives fv
per cent, brought in 1929. so.
Some of the items of disbursement
are interesting. The state paid on
during the six months 500 for tn
conviction Of horse thieves, by the lay
authorizing the payment of this amour
as a reward for the capture of a hors
thief; 500 was paid for flags for publ
buildings; S1,02G. 50 was paid for tn
return of fugitives from justice; $2G
was paid for the promotion of immi
grafton; S1,464.1S was paid for tn
care of refractory boys at the Sout
Dakota reform school; 5000 was pal
for the burial of old soldiers and sal,
Ors; $1,000 go was paid out for stare
bounty. So, 7O1 - was paid to the vo
unteer firemen of the state as their
per cent of the tax paid by irsuranc
companies; transportation Of convict
to the %penitentiary cost $3,27S.57 an
OF patients to the hospital for the il
sane cost S5,114.3G; $5,714. 90 was pai
as expense OF the state militia and 81
$50 to the state fair at Mandan.
OF the state institutions, $50 1885,
was paid out of the appropriation #
the state university at Grand Forl
for current expenses; for the hospit!
for the insane, $50, 729. IS was paic
for the state %penitentiary, $22,4S7. /:
for the state school for the deaf at De,
lis Lake, $2222,3391 40; for the soldier
home ~$5,G44.77; for the agricultur;
college, $12,O77. 81; for the Valley Cit
normal school, $1O,5G1. &c; for tn
Mayville normal school, $780,. SO an