Smyrna times., 1907-01-09
STATE AUDITOR DICKS FINE REPORT.
Comes 10 for Great Share of Praise BY the
Delaware Legislature and State Officials
for his Correct and Comprehensive Report.

Comes 10 for Great Share of Praise BY the |
Delaware Legislature and State Officials
for his Correct and Comprehensive Report.
State Auditor George H. Dick has
completed his report for the year 1905,
probably the most comprehensive work
ofits kind ever published by a Delaware
official. Every cent of money which
has been paid into the State or any of
the counties from a corporation to a
circus, Is exhibited aud every cent
that has been paid out, from a Judge
to blacksmith, is entered with equal
prominence. The cost of maintaining
the courts, the payment of witnesses
and juries, the cost of mending the
smallest piece of road, the exact return
of every collector and the amount he
still owes and for which his bonds
men are responsible-all appears in at
tractive and readable form. Mr.. Dick
has been able to compile the informa-
tion in his own Office, after visits and
Investigations in all counties and close
scrutiny of all the books, and in pre-
pairing the statement, he uses modern
typewriters, arithmeters, adding
machines and employees an office force
at his State House office every day in
the week. In former years it was the
custom of Delaware auditors to hunt
up some experienced printer, give him
some scrap memoranda and an account
book or two, and then get them to
print his annual "report."
State Auditor Dick, whose term of
Office expired yesterday, has revolu-
| tionized the methods of the State Audi
| tors Office. The official figures of the
receipts from the liquor business in all
its branches, so far as the State reve-
nue. is concerned, shows that, last year,
the State received $S9, 575 revenue
from the liquor sellers. OF these re-
ceipts. the preponderance of revenues
came from New Castle county. That
county paid into State treasury $685.
$50. Kent county shows payment of
only $4,000, while Sussex county,
though twice as large and very much
"dryer" because ofits sandy condition,
than either county, shows the payment
of only $3,775. The small payments
from Kent and Sussex counties, is ac-
counted for because of the temperance
1 sentiment. In addition to that, be-
| oauea tbara ora d;af;llar;oe .;4,o4ol -
nearly every cross roads, most of them
licensed "stills," but others illicit and
as yet undetected. These distlleries
are source of very little revenue to
the State in comparison to the large
payments from the hotels.
The liquor receipts in detail as furn-
ished by Auditor of Accounts George
81. Dick, are as follows: From New
Castle comfy license fees for inn or
tavern, $6S, 1907: special inn or tavern,
$4,000; retailer to, sell liquor, So, 300;
special retailer to sell. liquor, S5dD !;
druggists, $500; paid to State Treas
urer (distillers), 81, Total $50, 200.
From Kent county, licenses received
from inn or tavern, S4,6OO; from special
inn or tavern, $475; from druggists to
sell liquor, $120. Total, SIS, 1876. From
Sussex county-Licenses from inn or
tavern, SO, 400; special inn or tavern,
$375. Total, $3,775. Grand total,
$ss, ,575. Number of saloons-Kent, %
Sussex, Is; New Castle, ssO, without
specials.