The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-08-19
Disbursementsby StateTreas-
urer Exceed Previous
Year by $669,009
LAST LEGISLATURE
COST S19O,653.52
Deficit of S226,967 Will Be About
Wiped Out by Direct State Tax -
Largest Increase in Departments of
Education and Highways.

The financial statement of State
Treasurer +. III. Deavitt for the year
ending June 80, 1913, as audited by the
auditor of accounts and bank commits
sioner shows total disbursements of So
0l9,5l7.93, as against $3.50, 50S.22 for
the preceding year, and $2,180,06S.32
for the last legislative year ending
June 30, 1911.
Comparing the two legislative years
and deducting the amount of temporary
loan paid in each year, $605,00O the
past year and $250,O0O for the year
ending June 80, 1911, there is an in
crease of disbursements of about $780,
900, so that while there was available
for the payment of general state ex
penses July l, 1911, $72,072.55, on july
|, 1918, there was not only no balance
available for such purpose but 1926
g87 "a was needed to meet the liabili-
ties of the state existing on the last
named date and which are payable
during the coming year. In other words
the direct state tax voted by the last
Legislature will just about wipe out this
deficit.
The greater part of this increase
for very little money appropriated bv
the legislature of 1912 became availa-
BILE for use before July !, 1913. How
ever, the legislature session of 1912
cost the state about $4,000 more than
that of 1910, the cost of the last legis-
lature being $40, 653.52, and that of
the one preceding $l45,Sl9.50.
The largest items of increase are i'm
the departments of education and high
ways, the state expanding $152.927.l9
more for education in the year ending
June 80 1913, than in the second year
preceding. The increase in the high
way department was 1872, 639.6S Some
Of the other large increases are $43,-
4sl.6s in the penal and reformatorv
institutions and $l0,006ll on account
of insane, the increases being occasion
ed in part by the erection of new
buildings in both instances. There was
an increase of $20,369.05 in public
printing and large part of this was
occasloned by the greater amount of
legislative printing during the last SEES,
sion over the session preceding.
There was an increase in the military
department of $22,6l4.29 and in tnr
administration of Justice of $1,000. %
The increase to the executive Offices
was $l9,5l4.S5, nearly $4,000 of which
was due to the appropriation for the
work of publicity and advertising the
state and expanding under the direc-
tIon of the secretary of state and So
oOo TO the additional work required Of
the commissioner of taxes on account
OF changes in the tax law.
The expenses of the department of
agriculture and forestry increased Sl5..
600, which is largely accounted for by
the appropriation for the county fairs
and the increased appropriation in aid
of forestry. The increase in the ex
penses of the public service commits
sion amounting to $4,000 was occasioned
on account of the elimination of grade
crossings. There was an increase in
the amount of interest paid of So. 700.
due to the much larger temporary loan
required.
The increase in the department. of
Justice was made up largely by an in
crease in detective service and in
quests: The revenues of this depart
ment increased about $4,000
Another item of increased expense
was the department of weights and
measures created by the legislature of
1910 and which cost over $4,000 the
past year.
The automobile fees which are nsed
Tor highway maintenance hive nearly
doubled IN the past two wears. being
SODIUM two years ago and $1O2 900 79
the past year. The corporation and
collateral inheritance taxes brought in
Sl,262 ,331.43 the past year as against
~, lO4 ,o3O.5l, an increase of over
$l50,00O
The larger items of increase in tho
department. OF education were $50. 900
Tor advanced instruction, the last two
years being paid in one appropriation
made by the last legislature. Sl3.O
increase in the state school tax which
~ PAID by the towns and is not a bur.
den on the state, 81 1000 for union su-
perVlslon, $l2, 900 for the johnson dor.
mitory, 1873, 600 for the colleges. and
$4,000 represented an investment of
principal of the permanent school fund
and so was not a charge upon the gen
eral funds of the state.
The larger items of Increase in the
expense of the highway department
We're S4S,OOO in maintenance which was
derived from motor vehicle license fees
ana not charge on the general fundl
OF the state, and $4,000 for permanent
work.
The increase in the military depaJ
ment includes nearly $4,000 addition
for the Soldiers home and $4,000
ard INDECENT veterans.
Treasurer Deavitt says it is expe +
that the increase in railroad and - h
corporation taxes made by the las !, 10
islature and the board of appeal : "
result in producing an inereas ,o
4LLoo,ooo IN that item of reven ne f
ne present year, and tins with fthe
- sIale tax or noarly as mut Ia mo
o take care or the expense h of t
49,; ior the current hscal ear a
wipe out the temporary loan IF 400
200 outstanding July L, 1913. This
suit may depend to some ext ont mn
the length of the special hssion
~, NenIal"re Whiel ~ ~ indersto