Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-14
BIG BALANCE IN
STATE TREASURY
COmptrOIIer's Report Shows
S0.766,O66.Il as Gross Re-
ceipts for Year.

comptroiler's report for the fiscal
year ending october 81 was given out
today. It shows gross receipts of the
treasury to be $s,76s.0s611 and the
gross disbursements s7,sO5, 175.11. leav-
ing a nominal balance of $5,27O.S7O.2O
and an actual free balance of s2,44S,-
O610s. The states income increased
by sS4S, 2710S and there was an in
crease of 1914 ss in the ordinary dis
bursements.
The principal sources Of income for
the year were as follows: Railroad
taxes, s4.ss1, 64o.5s, increase 62,6i4.s7;
miscellaneous corporations. $2,604,-
ss1.10, decrease s1s,Ss2os; collateral in
herltance taxes, 5000. 1S0S9. increase
s157. 41s.7s; state banking and insur-
ance department. 1921, O7s.ss, increase
s45. 0S7.97: secretary of state office,
S205, 4s1. 45, increase s3l. $3.50; interest
on State money on deposit in private
banks at per cent, 1924. 601.5S, In
crease s12. SO; Supreme Court clerk
fees, $s3. ss6.29, increase s699.Ss; Chan
Gerry clerk fees, $57.5os.07. increase
ss,155.S7; State prison, ss4.1os.1s. de-
crease s6.63s.S2.
For the various State charitable in
stitutions and departments the State
expended a total Of 1882, 429.93. For
prisons and reformatories, s74S, 1901;
for educational institutions, $757,773.42;
for the courts. $780,. 21717; for the Ma
tional Guard. ss77,715.77; for Soldiers
Homes. 1851, 1854; for agricultural
boards, etc. $17s,762.s2.
Administrative Expenses.
The administrative expenses of the
state included $Ss, 99SS6 for the Board
Of Public Utilities commissioners,
s122. 1913 for the State and County
Tax Equalization boards, $114,41s.21
for the State Board of Health, $111,-
1920 for the legislative expenses last
year, $74, 59o.s5 for printing; office of
secretary of state, $110,S04.33; Oyster
Commissions, $50. 71o.7s; Department
Of Labor, s57,5OS.ss; Tenement House
Commission. $50, s51.4S; Banking and
Insurance, ss2,970; Civil Service Com
mission, s44, 1858; State Board of AS
SCISSORS, s51OO2.s5; Forestry Commits
sion. 2,474; State Water Supply
Commission, $21,630.54; attorney-gen-
erals department, $4s.000.4S; execu-
tive department, $21, 253. 80; geological
4 o or az <.I.o t.ff faes q ND
rections, 16,156.89; bureau of statis-
tics, 81, 720.45; weights and measures
department, s10,406.5S; department of
accounts, s1O,47s.46; State Library,
ETC., SIS. 711.14.
Among the extraordinary expenses
of the year, included In amounts
given above are $155, 105.09 refunded
from the collateral inheritance taxes,
20,s19.s5 for armories, s104,0S7.S s
from the epileptic village. s101, 50S.11
for the State House Commission,
sS60Ss.s1 for the Morris Plains Asy-
lun, $137.037 for several State insti-
buttons for dependents, $22, 1885 for
the State Reformatory for Women
and s27,s76 SO for the Railway Refor-
matory. The State Game Farm and
Fish Hatchery drew $25,612.70 and the
State tuberculosis sanitarium,
$21, 9Ss.4O.
Legislative Appropriations.
Comptroller Edwards shows that
the legislative appropriations last
year for this fiscal year aggregate
Sc, 500, 7S5. Except for what net sur
plus cash there may be in the treas
ury at the beginning of the fiscal
year November 1, the treasury de-
ponds for it's income entirely upon
the revenue to be derived during the
year the expenditures are to be made
under the appropriations voted.
There is TO be added also to the ex-
penses for the year whatever amounts
the Legislature may choose to APP
propriate in supplemental bill for
the same year. He estimates that
the treasury's income from regular
sources of revenue this year will be
s5. TIA. 40 for State uses only. This add
ed to the 81, 44S. 061 free balance in the
treasury gives IS, 217, 231 to provide for
the authorized expenditure of $780,
1850 and for the appropriations to
be made in the legislative supple
mental bill at this session.
There is now held by the treasury
on deposit in private banks total OF
! 81. 927, 611.11 of railroad taxes belong
ing to the school districts, the pay
ment to them being long overdue, the