The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-18

The amounts pdlu Dy the Sldte are HOt included in the above.
 The fact that the total disbursements were s164, ,15l.50 in excess of the general receipts is accounted for by the heavy expenditures on the county sanitary sewers The expenditures on the sewers for the past year aggregated $2s1149s5
 The report shows that the county has paid out a total of sS2,S209S during the past fiscal year for the maintenance of the several courts This does not include what was paid out by the state of Ala bama in support of the court officials. This report shows a decrease of nearly $2O0O as compared with the year 1904, which is attributed to the abolishments of the several inferior courts of the county
 Bonded Debt.
 The bonded debt of the county Septem- Der 90, 1905 was s1, 100000 The fines and forfeiture claims were 1S7,S69.90.
 Relating to the county funds, the re- port shows that there was $s0, 75559 ex- pended on the county roads during the past fiscal year as against an expendi- ture of $145s75.09 in 1904. a decrease of $65 ,119.55.
 The receipts from the spesial road and bridges tax were as follows for the past year: Macadam fund, s49, O9555; three-dollar fund, $31. .2s0.21; bridge fund, $49, 145.07. Max ing total of s19521.s3 collected from the special road taxes.
 The receipts from the .n.ee-dollar road tax fund amounted to D: increase os $5S9.57 over last year. In his report the fo pliment the several district collectors in their diligence in collecting this tax. Another interesting feature of the re- port is the receipts from the special 10 cents school tax, which aggregated s49- 06524 This tax was voted for last year, and this is the first time that it has been levied The receipts from this source are very gratifying to the friends of the com- mon schools of the county
 By clause in the special tax law this money is payable direct to county de- partment of education and is disbursed by that department.
 The following comments accompany the report of Auditor Morris:
 Comments Made. While receipts from all sources for the present fiscal year do not aggregate sum equal to those of last year, it is nevertheless a fact that the county s ] finances were in a very much better shape at the end of the present year than they were at the end of the previous yea, because at the end of the previous year | there was only balance of 10,3992S in | the general fund.- with large outstanding | floating debt (about $25,000), while at the I end of the present year the county owes no borrowed money and starts the new | year with $46,009.33 to the credit of the general fund. This increase of balances l holds good approximately with refer | ences to all the other funds, except the ] sanitary fund, the explanation of which | will be found in exhibit M to this re- l port.
 "The tax rate for state and county re- mains the same as for the previous year namely. s1. .35 When the balances to tho l credit of the several different funds arc | considered and merging as now into an | other tax year with its income, it would | seem that now is the time when 8 reduc | ton in our tax rate could be easily made | Nothing is so attractive to the location | of people and industries in our midst ns a low tax rate, and nothing would b' | more appreciated by our people than tht | removal of part of their tax burden. Tt will be noted from an examination