Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-08-07
SIX MONTHS EXPENSES AND
RECEIPTS.

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SIX MONTHS EXPENSES AND
RECEIPTS.
A summary of the semi-annual re
port of State Treasurer Mcmillan for
the first half of the present year con-
tains some interesting information.
The cash balance in all funds on the
first Of the year was $15S, 1854 SO. The
receipts from all sources during the six
months have been $S33,O6O. II. OF
this amount the receipts from fees to
the several state departments, insur-
ance taxes and other incidental
sources of revenue have been $685.
231. 60. The insurance companies paid
nearly $4,000 in taxes during the
semi-annual period.
The taxes received from counties for
the general fund of the state aggre-
gated 1921, 237, and for the bond inter-
est fund $42,2S1. The wolf bounty
tax paid during the six months
amounted to $16,7S7. Interest and in
come for the state tuition fund
amounted to over $4,000. Some $751;
600 was received from the sale of state
school and institution lands.
In the disbursements of the state
treasurer, aside from the salary and
clerk hire of the various state depart
ments, some of the payments are as
follows: For state aid to high schools,
81, 1S9 was paid, under the state law
which authorizes certain financial as
sistance to high schools through the
state which have complied with re-
quirements of the state department of
public instruction concerning course
of study. Conductors and lecturers
for teachers Institutes received about
$500. District and supreme court
judges received about $4,000. Dis
trict state veterinarians received ST.
$50. Armory rent and expense of the
state militia amounted to about $4,000.
Maintenance of the state capitol
reached a little oven $4,000.
Mileage and per diem of the last leg
islative assembly amounted to $780,
sci. 20. Per diem of the officers and
employees of the legislative assembly
reached the sum of $26,96O. For the
conviction of horse thieves, $4OO was
paid out under the law which author
ICES 800 reward for the conviction of
each horse thief. Insurance on pub
lie buildings cost $6,62O. Incidental
expenses of the legislative assembly
were $9,7O7. Some / 100 was paid
out for expenses of %extraditing GRIM
inals. The sum of $4,000 was paid
for care of refractory youths at the
South Dakota reform school. To the
fire companies of the state $6,572 was
paid as their two per cent of the in
surance companies tax, and $1,000 for
aid of the state iremen's tournament.
Transportation of convicts to the pen
itentiary cost $2,254 and ~transporta-
ton of patients to the insane asylum
cost $6,154. For the care of the blind
the sum of SLABS was paid. Of the
$4,000 appropriation for the Pan-Am-
erican exposition exhibit, the sum of
$5,504 was paid.
The permanent school fund Of the
state paid out $26,7OO for the purchase
of bonds from school districts. The
sum of $19,S66 was paid out of the op-
Grating fund of the Irvine and cordage
plant. The state treasurer redeemed
$16,7S7 Of wolf bounty certificates dur
ing the six months.
Other expenditures were for the
maintenance of the several state insti-
buttons and other current expenses of
state government. The total expendi-
lures during the six months were
$743,23S.57 and the balance on hand
in all funds July 1 was $247, 9S5. 81.
About $4,000 of state funds are still
in suspended banks of the state.
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