The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-09-15
SLIGHT RAISE
In LATAH LEVY
COUNTY BOARD HAS FIXED THE
1915 LEVY AT NINE AND
SEVEN-TENTHS MILLS
Raise of Five-Tentlls of Mill Over
Last Year Due to Increase in
School Levy

The county commissioners this af-
ternoon fixed the 1915 tax levy for La
tab county at 81 mills on the dollar
five-tenths of mill greater than last
year. The levy last year was SO mills
With a million dollars less valuation
this year than last, the commissioners
were at their wits end 10 hold the
levy down. The only raise in the levy
from last year was in the school tax
Last year the levy was 3 mills as
against five-tenth of mill raise this
year.
The levy provides for the following:
State, 81 mills; general school, 3.5
mills; current expense, 2.5 mills
bridge, 6 of a mill; road, 1 mill; to-
tai, 97 mills.
According to the data gathered by
the county board it is shown that the
total of all estimated expenditures
for the current expense fund for the
fiscal year of 1915 is s59,499 and that
the receipts from other sources than
property taxes has been estimated at
$4,000. This leaves the difference to
be raised by property current expense
tax levy for 1915 of $49,499. The es-
timated receipts from various sources
from fees is as follows: Clerk, aud
itor and recorder, $5400; sheriff,
$1200 treasurer, $3.50; probate judge,
$162O from the county home, $500;
interest on bank deposits, $1,000.
A recapitulation of all estimates for
amounts necessary for all expend-
itures for the current expense fund
for the fiscal year of 1915 is shown
as follows: Clerk, auditor and re-
corder, $8250; sheriff, $4,000; asses
,sor, $4,000. treasurer, $4,000; county
attorney, $1777; county superintend-
ent, $3.50; coroner, $3.50; probate
judge, $3S92; county commissioners,
s325O; surveyor, $1100; district court,
$350O justice courts, $500; county
home, $4,000; poor outside of county
home, $4,000; court house, janitor, ex-
penses, etc., $4,000; miscellaneous,
$1,000; county physician and contag-
eous diseases, $1200
In a statement made to the county
board by Homer E. Estes, county aud
itor, is shown yoluminous figures con-
cerning the operation of various
funds during the past five months on
which will be based the annual levy.
1t is shown that the total assessed
value of the 1915 real property roll is
$19,905,592, less the exemptions ex-
tended on the 1915 rolls amounting
to $600087, leaving the total value of
real property for taxation at S19,-
,505 1t is shown that the amount
of state taxes apportioned to Latah
county is Sal, ,290.5S.
The report shows the warrant ex-
penditures in the various county funds
from the second Monday in April to
the present time to have been as fol-
lows Current expense, S20692.S1;
road, S13,944.79; bridge, S5370.45;
school, $37,441.45; road district, $14,-
999.39
1t is shown that the following funds
are overdrawn in the following
amounts: Current expense, $33S4.73;
bridge, $1960.24; road, s1823.52. The
following funds have amounts to their
credit: School, $32,164.53; road dis
trict, $6991.85; warrant redemption,
s17O.18; motor vehicle license, s4.-
5O4.50.
The amount of outstanding warrants
against the various funds are as fol-
lows: Current expense, $2O,O46.5l;
road, $897547; bridge, $507432; road
district, $500; school districts, $627.So