Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-06
Excise Board Estimates
This Amount Necessary
for 1919 Expenses.
LEVY FOR COUNTY
ESTIMATED AT At
Will Raise $2S5, ,091.l6 on
Taxes and $222,907.95
in Other Ways.

AIEARLY one-half million dollars
~ is needed to run the county
government of Tulsa county during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1917,
according to the estimate of expenses
for all the various offices and de-
partments made and announced yes
terday morning by the county excise
board. The exact amount of the
budget is S4S2,OS2.17. The levy for
county purposes was fixed at Al
mills while last year it was 10 mills.
The reduction this year is 80 mills.
The estimate includes all money to
be spent in the improving of roads
and the erection of bridges as well
as the actual cost OF administering
the county government
Salaries, supplies and contingent
expenses will require S102, ,032.34,
while the remainder, S390,049.S3,
will be used for the conduct of the
courts; caring for the poor and in
sane; schools for colored children;
building and maintaining roads and
bridges; providing a fund for poor
widows and orphans; the free county
fair and providing a sinking fund for
payment of bonds, erroneous assess
ments, etc.
S2i7,27O.4O for Roads.
There will be s247.27O.04 available
for the construction and maintenance
Of Tulsa county roads.
The exact amount to be raised by
taxes is s2S5,091.16, while s222,-
907.95 will be raised from other
sources including fees. Last year
it was necessary to raise s401,2S3.5s
by taxation.
Taxable property in Tulsa county.
according to the county assessors
certificate. is s6O,657,796 and levy
of Al mills will produce all the
money needed by taxation.
The state levy is LIS mills this
year, while last year it was 3.5.
Through the new system of book
keeping inaugurated by County
Clerk Lewis Cline, considerable
amount will be saved, as close
check is kept on the expenditures of
all officials who have to keep a rec
ord of the expenses of their offices.
$4,000 for Charity.
A fund of $4,000 is provided for
the care of the poor and insane.
while the fund set aside for widows
and orphans is s3,95357.
Teachers of negro schools will re-
ttlNt SlJ,JJO.Of, Wnlle Rf,UUU mas
been provided for the erection of
new buildings. Miscellaneous items
amounting to s1,744.7S brings the
total to s25,74132.
Sufficient money has been set
aside to construct twenty miles of new
roads while S12S,632.20 was allowed
hv the excise board for the mainten-
ance of the roads. Last year only
s123,045.05 was spent in constructing
new roadways and maintaining those
already built.
All of the above estimates. amount
ing to 1892, 1889, are for purposes
other than salaries supplies conting-
ent expenses and court costs.
Money for County Offices.
For the various county offices the
following amounts were allowed.
County clerk, salaries Sl0,165. sup
plies s2.500, contingent $1,000; county
treasurer. salaries s9,305, supplies
$4,000, contingent $3.50; county attor-
ney, salaries S5,255, supplies $500.
contingency S575 sheriff, salaries
Sl2,165, supplies $1,000, contingent
$4,000; county superintendent Of
schools. salaries s2.500, supplies $175,
contingent $713; county assessor. sal
aries $500, supplies $500, contingent
$500; court clerk, salaries s11, 1,305,
supplies s2,450. contingent $1,000:
jurors, district court $1,000. witnesses
$500; jurors, superior court $1,000.
witnesses $4,000: Jurors, county court
$3,356.24; transcripts, order court
$1,000; janitors' salaries 5000.
Expenses Show Decrease.
Contingent fund, s1S,46O.25 last
year, s23, 3,1s0.24 this year.
Salaries raised by taxation last
year $46,150.62, this year s9,925S2.
Separate schools, $32,214.53 last
year, $20,623.65 this year
Widows and orphans, $2,771.2O last
year, S3.952.57 this year.
Court raised by taxation. s46,15O.62
last year. *22,066.47 this year.
Road and bridges $31,3S243 last
year, S50,1S0.54 this year.
Road maintainence. $32.306.24 last
year, $66, 6,172.05 this year.
Poor and insane. $2S.613.39 last
year, $15,511.22 this year
Tick eradication, s3,69493 last year,
$2.20557 this year.
Sinking fund, 42,2S5.377 last year.
9.S51.64 this year.
County fair fund, $11,546 last year,
S9.374.39 this year.
Tulsa county is on a strictly cash
basis and her warrants are at par.
The sum of s330.902.7S is on hand at
the present time. or this sum $12S,-
900 must be set aside for one year
to pay any outstanding warrants that
may be presented.
Beginning Monday the county ex-
else board will take up the district
school estimates.
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