The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11
STATE RECEIPTS BIG
MORE TAKEN IN IN TEN MONTHS THAN IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
Some Interesting Figures Compiled in State Auditors Onfce Rearing on the Income of Alabama
 in Recent Months.


 The Treasury of the State of Ala bama has received from October 1, 1908. to July 3l. 1907, an increase of siI7,- ils 70 over the entire receipts of the last fiscal year.
 The receipts from octobsr l, 1906, to July s1, 1907, exceed the receipts for the same period of the previous year, Ssol These figures were complied and yesterday announced by ChieI cierk J. F. Cook of the State Auditors ofIice.
 To the general fund. taxes for 1906 brought $s54,42449. taxes from former years brought ,sI,sl9.14; insoIvancies. s22e.iS and redeemed lands, sf,sI7.72.
 Licenses contributed to following amounts: General. s40i.2si. gS; sii companies, $s.156.7s; railroads, sl7,- l2o.sS; guarantee companies, $500: building and loan associations, $ss5 2s; telegraph, express, sleeping car com pantes and long distance telephone companies, sII.sfsTS.
 Other sources of revenue contributed as follows Tax on recording of mort gases, S69,244. 61; solicitors fees, sS2.713.s5; Convict Department, ss46,- 344 30; Insurance Department s114,- 56s 57; Department of Agriculture and Industries, s9n,ses. .4s; corporation franchise tax, s26.e72. .65.
 The revenues from the sale of lands were derived from various sources in the following amounts: Tax lands, sl,sS4.40; sixteenth section. $i,572. .o2; school indemnity, $s,1S9. AS; Girls h. dustrial School, s10,471. 75.
 Sums amounting to $239 s4 were re- funded for feeding prisoners, while $3S. 62 in overpayments' was turned into the treasury from the same source The removal of prisoners brought the State $65S. 52
 The contributions of the State De- -partments were: Secretary of State fees, $2,720.07; sales of acts, $59; sale of codes. $1s5. 50; sale of Supreme Court reports. s2.94o; State Auditors fees. S52. 80; State Treasurer's fees. sl1O.50; Attorney Generals fees. s165; premium of sale of bonds, $25.707.9S; Department of Archives and History amount refunded, $s77 .66; erroneous refund on solvent credits. s15.02; miii-, tary fund, $3.65; game and fish protect ton fund. $461 53.
 The Department of Education, from its various funds, contributed as fol- lows: Special school tax for 1906. sLo6T.o0s s4; poll taxes. $102, 2,055.7s. solvencies, $271 TO; taxes on lands re- deemed. $so 80; examination of teach CTS fees, $6,691 .26; escheats, $249; reg istration of dogs. $4s.
 The pension fund gave the follow ing sums: Taxes for 1906, s355, 5,079. .e5; 1; taxes from former years, s25992; in- solvencfes, $90.64; taxes on lands re- deemed. s3e.79; amounts refunded. $95. .45.
 The special funds brought in by the 2 and 3 per cent funds, $1,05S.90, and through the college for agricultural and mechanical arts, s30,000.
 All this together makes the total re- ceipts up to July 31, 1907, s3.s93. .66o.14, while the receipts for the same period last year were $3,592,344.47, a differ ence of $301 ,315.67. The receipts for the entire fiscal year previous were ss,776,546. 94. making the receipts for the past ten months, $117, ,113.20 in ex- cess of the receipts of the entire busi- ness year immediately preceding.