Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-26
COUNTY FINANCES
Receipts and Expenditures of Fulton
County During the Year Ending
August 31st, 1918. Extracts From
Report of County Auditor.

The county auditors office has just
completed a financial report to the
State Bureau of Inspection and Sup
| ervislon that contains some facts and
| figures that are of interest to all pub
lie spirited citizens; we like to know
how much money We pay for our gov
ernment and how the money we pay
is expended. WeNhave condensed the
report somewhat but no essentials
have been left out.
The population OF Fulton county
according to the census of 1910 was
23,913 and the taxable valuation of
the county for the year 1912 was
$36, 6,385,770. There was collected dur
ing the year ending august 31st, 1913,
on special assessment for road pur-
poses, $79,459.38 and for ditch pur-
poses 12,859.66 making a total of
special assessment taxes of 1872, ,319.04
in addition to the ordinary taxes for
all purposes which amounted to $685.
401.15; in addition to this the county
received from miscellaneous collec-
tions, $20,257.50, sale of bonds and
premiums and from the ordinary col
Elections such as fees of county Of
ficers, fines, costs, stenographer's fees,
infrmary receipts and interest paid
by depositaries, S24,842.59, making
the grand total receipts for county
funds $230,82027. A balance on
hand on September fst, 1912, swells
this total to $283,886.91 and the to-
tai expenditures for this period were
$211 ,80S.69, leaving the auditors bal
ance on September 1st, 1913, $72,-
078.22.
During this same period there was
collected and paid over to other civil
divisions $242,061.73. The part of
the report which will probably most
interest the taxpayers of the county
is that which shows how the $211,-
808.69 was expended. The first item
is for advertising; the amount ex-
pended for this purpose was $969.42;
nineteen assessors of personal prop
erty were paid $1,479.0O and eight
assistant assessors were paid $17400,
making the total cost of appraising
the personal property of the county
for the year 1918, $1,653.00. For new
bridges and culverts, the sum of $23,-
031.45 was expended and $3,14078
more for maintenance and repairs of
those already in place making a total
of $26, 6,172.23 for bridges and culverts.
For repairs on the court house and
jail, $1,004.94; janitors for these
buildings, $1,4S5.27; supplies for jan
itors, $241. so; furniture, fixtures and
carpets, $21.00; fuel and light, ST.
1877; water and ice, $36.84; tele-
phone rental and tolls, S225 81; mis-
cellaneous expenses, $85.23. Total
for maintenance of court house and
jail, S4,259.05. $8,180.31 was expend-
ed on perman cnt improvements on
the infirmary. The total running ex
pcnses of the infiHnary for the year
was S8,695.68. S4S7.94 was expended
for medical services and nursing out
side of the infrmary; $4,000 for
maintaining children in homes not
owned by the county; $571.98 for
clothing and incidentals for inmates
of state hospital for insane, $120.09;
for epileptics, S215.00; boys indus
trial school, $4409; girls industrial
homes S27009; feeble minded, relief
of INDECENT blind, $1,262; treatment
of tuberculosis, $578.29; expenses Of
representatives to conference of State
Board of Charities and Corrections,
$36.55. Total for charitable institu-
tions and support of poor, S12,657.71.
For courts the county expended a to-
tai of $3,821.38; of this $4,000 was
for the court of appeals, $3,195.79 for
common pleas court, $245.39 for the
probate court, $346.70 for the Juven-
lie court, S4.05 Justices and Mayors
courts, and $24.45, coroner's court.