Middletown transcript., 1903-10-31
county in the middle of the year which
our last report covers.

registration ices at the last general elec-
ton, and the expenses Of said election
were SIG, 1882, showing surplus of
S., ,2e1.2S.
At the end of the statements submitted
in this report will be found statement
of the receipts and disbursements on ac-
count of the properties sold for back
taxes by the receiver of taxes. The
amounts marked as receipts are the suf
plus over and above all expenses incurred
by the receiver and the county taxes due
on said properties. The funds are depos-
tied in the Farmers Bank in the name of
Horace G. Rettew, trustee, subject to
claims by the parties entitled. A num-
ber of proprieties were sold, where the
amount bid was just equal to the taxes
and costs incurred by the sale, of which
no entry is shown in this account.
The money collected from negro school
tax in the rural districts is still deposited
i'll the county treasurer's account at the
Farmers Bank at Wilmington, and no
disposition has been made of the same,
which condition prevailed and we men,
toned in our last report. Some action
should be taken to dispose of the same
in legal manner.
Respectfully submitted,
CHARLES G. KURTz,
L. ScoTT TOWNSEND.
Accompanying the foregoing report of
the auditors was the following financial
statement:
Receiver OF taxes and county treasurer's
general statement OF receipts and dis
bursements for the year ending June 30th,
Receipts
Total county and poor tax, 1919, 72039;
total capitation tax, 81, ,642, II; total dog
tax, 1876; total registration fees, $21 $780,
90; total road tax, $35, ,64965; total ne
gro school tax, 81 ,O61. IS; a total of $780,
649.S6, from these sources; settlement
in full with collector Duval Gibbs, $500;
Wilmington City Railway Company:(use |
of bridges) $3.50; Kent county's share of |
repairs to Fleming's bridge, $1636; Kent
county's share of repairs to Flemings
bridge, $61.7S; sale of prison van, $25;
sale of old material (irom jail) SIS; sale
of old material, J. G. Armstrong, $1.60;
sale of old material Wilmington City
Railway Co., Washington street bridge,
$727.50; sale of old material, Washing
ton street bridge, $171.6S; sale of old
lumber, Washington street bridge, $2.12,
Brosius & Smedley, share of advertising
sale of lumber, Washington street bridge,
SIS; sale of old material, Barnett &
Mccall Lumber Co., 1887 4s; old plank
sold, $1.00; wood from Odessa bridge,
So; Levi Birds estate, sale of willows,
So; fines and costs from F. L. Cleaver,
constable, 5000; from James L. Collins,
constable, $2S.41; from J. F. McLaugh-
lin, constable, $5; from Lucius G. Jones,
constable, s36; from Thomas Buckley,
constable, $2l; from Charles c. King,
constable, $14; from John 7. Dickinson,
constable, $14217; from Lemuel Marr,
constable, $l4; from J. T. Lyman, con-
stable So; from Charles Green, constable,
$40; from W. S. Quigey, Clerk of Peace,
$2644. "a; from Emmit F. Stidham, sheriff,
$525.92; over paid witness fees, Frank L.
Speakman, Prothonotary, So. 20; fines and
costs, George Black, chief of police, $40;
a total of S., 1882 from these sources.
Balance on hand July 1st, 1902: GEN
eral Funds, $50, 0,531.35 negro school tax,
$si9.72; road tax, 1904 IA, total of $751;
551.21. Grand total OF receipts, S437,-
Cos. SO.
Disbursement
Salaries, $40, ,367.39; assessors allow
ance, $3,O38.94; officers of the court, &c.
l5l.l2; grand JURORS, $3,95s.76; General
Sessions, S3,17033; Superior Court, $2,-
491.32; grand inquest, $1,O69.86; conrt
expenses, SIS, II; judges orders, $780,
80; magistrates and constables, 81, 1922. IS;
coroner and physicians, $2,257.42; rent
of morgue, 5000; Trustees of Poor, $4O,-
1880; public buildings, 81, 234 .01; water
and light, 81, ,456.47; telephones, $645.51;
public roads, 81, ,457.47; telephones, $685.
81; public roads, $1,314.7O.
Wilmington Hundred $50; third
district, $3,591.71; fourth district, $2,-
743.09; fifth district, So, 444. .4S; seventh
district, 81, ,41291.
Seventh street bridge, $l2 1887 AZ; Third {
street bridge, S6,O94.47; Washington
street bridge, $3,s16.22; Brandywine
bridge, S3SS.97; Eleventh street bridges,
S976.72; Market street bridge, Sc, ,444.S1. !
Interest on bonds, $22, 2,695. 90; board ]
,i prisoners, $2S, 152. 20; Ferris Industrial
School, $500; bonds redeemed, 500, 900;
investment tax, $7,661.99; election ex-
penses, SIG, 1882; printing and station :
cry, $S,971.32; auditors, $5S1.72; sheep
killed by dogs, 1914; overpaid taxes, $271,
Is; Insurance, $S7. 7.73; good roads $3.50 20;
lnappropriated funds, $500; negro school :.
ax-hoard of public education of Will ,,
$1l ,135; road tax commissioner
ind collectors, $50, 164. II; total of $314,-
L77.34 for these causes.
Balance on hand, June 3Oth, 1903
General funds, 1922, ,3O4.7O; negro school
ak, $53l.47; road tax, s6S5.O5, total ]
balance of $l23, ,52L25. v
Grand total, $437, ,69S.59.