The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-11
Nearly Two Hundred Thousand
in County Treasury.
Fifty-FOur Thousand OF This
Belongs to City.
SCHOOLS NOT SHORT.
Nearly Fifty Thousand Stands
to TheiI Credit.
Work on the Assessment Rolls
Is Going Forward.
NOT SHORT.

By working until nearly 10 o'clock
last night County Treasurer Medlicott
and his corps of deputies and the
county commissioners completed the
annual settlement of the county treas
ury for the year 1910. The doors of
the department were closed October
and for the ensuing ten days the toss
ing of figures has been carried on IN
der high pressure. The figures COM
piled show the amount in the various
funds and represent the unspent col
1ections on the 1909 tax assessmen
These sums remaining in the treasury
are the provisions for tiding over coun-
ty expenses until the new tax levied on
the 1910 assessment shall begin to
come in at the beginning of the fiscal
year, November l.
County Clerk Zimmerman with ex-
ira deputies is now working overtime
on the new 1910 assessment rolls in
order to get them ready for the new
collections. In the school districts and
the outlying sections, this new tax will
be slow to come in. Farmers are hold
ing grain and cattle and hogs for bet
ter prices. Accordingly they will pay
their taxes latter on. That adds to the
natural gap between the closing of the
year LOT the treasury anu the emu OIL
the fiscal year. How the expenses of
the county are paid in that time is seen
by the annual settlement wherein each
township, school district, city or fund
finds it's available cash.
The grand total of the 1910 annual
settlement shows the amount now in
. the Shawnee county treasury to be
$685. S4.69.
OF this amount $54,O34.44 belongs to
the city of Topeka and is divided
follows: General, $19,724.40; side
walk, $3,545.O2; paving, $17, 529.2O;
sewer, $S,849.92; drain, $52.49; abat-
ing nuisance, $115.0S; opening Garfield
street, $1.1O; park condemnation,
$40; park benefit, $.72. Total on or
dinances, $2,968.1O.
The funds remaining for the various
townships are as follows:
Rossville, general $194.97: road,
S194.95; Silver Lake, general, $15O.75;
road, $15O.76; Menoken, general,
S83SO: road, $S3.79; Soldier, bond,
$3O4.26; road, $409.26;; Topeka, gen
eral, S973.55; road, $946.S2; Tecumseh,
general $124.66; road, $124.65; Mon
mouth, general, $1,000; road, $36.O5;
Williamsport, general, $197.96; road,
S197.97; Auburn, general, $25.63; road,
S25.64: Dover, general, $3S.15; road
$3S.13; Mission, general, $213.21;
road, $213.21.
For Rossville city the general fund
balance is S131.O3; for Silver Lake, $1.21;
for Oakland, general $115S9, sidewalk
$S.26
The 1O3 school districts of the coun-
ty have a balance of $43,241.0S. Dis
trict %, Topeka city, shows ST, S2O.61
of this amount Districts which have
more than $1,000 are IA, 80, AZ, 46, 81.
Those which have more than $500 but
less than $1,000 are 1, 2, II, "a, Sc, So
SO.
The state of Kansas still has in the
county treasury on its 1909 assessment
S21,472 So.
There remains of the general revenue
fund $21, $3.50.
Special funds such as drains, bitches,
roads, etc. show as follows: Permanent
roads Sc SIP. Il, Rossville township drain,
general $326.65, assessment, $4425, levee
No. ?. $36. SO, Jacobs ditch $15223, North
Topeka drain, special $1,S33.16, general
81, 3S7. 80; state and county dividend,
S575.OS; normal institute fund $28.9S;
general bond, interest and sinking fund
81. 465. As: county surveyors fees $27O.05;
leased lands and lots $53S.05.
Funds in the treasury subject to
withdrawal on condemnationS and
drains amount to $7619.31. These in
ciude the Kaw drain $1,033.01, individ-
uaI redemptions, $2,O90.73, and among
railroad condemnatiOns, s432 for the
Topeka Southwestern.
Of the grand total of $166,5S4.69. the
county treasurer, Stanley Medlicott' has
S1s4. 977.S4 in banks and the remainder
in currency, claims, and coupons.