Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-03
Receipts and Expenditures.

Receipts and Expenditures. ~
to $1s.25s,s5s.SS. made up as follows:
Revenue collections account general
fund. on account of taxes. licenses, etc,
$s.4S1.39093; amount paid by the
United States on account OF proper
ton Of District OF Columbia appropria-
June IL. 1878. 3s,313,s03.06; trust and
special funds collections. $1,453.S65.69.
Cash expenditures for the year
amounted to $14.915.244.46. Of which
there was expended on account OF ap-
propriatiens, $12,S40.412.01; from trust
special funds. 31.556.3e7 and in re-
endorsement of the United States on
suant to certain acts Of Congress. the
sum of $51S.505.14. made up as follows:
Care of District patients at Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. 1875
1912. inclusive, $2s2,754.2s: Supreme
Court fines., July !. 1873. to September
80. 1908. .s4.3oo.7s. and Police Court
fines. July J, 1878. to January I. 1902.
$211 ,45012.
The details of the foregoing re-
ceipts and expenditures are fully set
forth in the report of the auditor.
Bonded Indebtedness Of the District
Of Columbia-3.e5 Bonds.
AT the >close of the preceding fiscal
year. June 80. 1916. there was out
standing 3.65 bonds in the amount of
$6,119, 500. less sinking fund assets &C
count same. S71O.1o0.5S. leaving net in
debtedness of $5.46s.7ss-42 During the
year there were purchased and can
celed bonds amounting to $130.60O. and
Investments made Of moneys appro-
priated for the interest and sinking
fund amounting to $s49.os417. which
sums. together with excess of cash
balance at close of year over balance
at beginning of year, $2,202.76, makes
a total reduction in net indebtness for
the fiscal year Of S7s1.ss6.s3. leaving
net bonded Indebtedness at close OF
fiscal year, June 80. 1917, of $4.6S7.-
9O249.
This balance is made up of outstand-
ing 3.65 bonds. $6.04s.300. less sinking
fund assets S1.3s751. leaving net
debt as above, $4.6s7.s02.4s.
Appropriations and Revenues.
The cash revenues of the District for
the fiscal year amounted to $S.491 ,390.93.
which. together with the amount OF un-
charged 6n to the credit Of the District
of Columbia by surplus warrant OF
June 80. 1917. ss3.s43.42, gives result
ing credit of ss,5S5.234.35.
was charged during the fiscal year on
account of the Districts share Of ap-
preparations $7,392.995.44. leaving a
surplus Of revenues over appropriations
for the year Of i.19s.2ss.s1.that is. Tor
the current fiscal year itself. Pursuant
to certain acts Of Congress. the District
was required to reimburse to the United
States on account OF care OF District
patients at Government Hospital for
the Insane, 1879-1912. a balance of
$2S2,764.26, in addition to sums here
tofore reimbursed on this account: and
also to reimburse on account OF certain
fines collected In the criminal branch
Of the District Supreme Court the sum
Of $24.300.76, covering the period July
!. 1873. to September 80. 1908: and to
also reimburse on account of certain
fines collected in the Police Court from
July !: 1878, to January l: 1902. the
Endorsements to the United States
during the fiscal year s51S,50514 and
reducing surplus by said sum. leaving
net surplus for the fiscal year 1917 of
$673,733.77. Adding this latter surplus
to surplus of revenues over District
appropriations at close of fiscal year
June 80. 1916. $1.3s0,21s.s0, leaves sur
plus District revenues, over all appro-
priations and charges. June 90. 1917. OF
$2.O53.952.s7.
This surplus is accounted for as fol-
lows: Cash to credit of general fund OF
the District of Columbia in the Treas
ury of the United States. $4.o56.547.10;
cash in hands Of collector of taxes
District of Columbia, account general
fund, 458,771.41; against which there is
liability of the District on account
of appropriations on the books Of the
Treasury Department. unbalanced. June
80, 1917. OF $2.061,366.14, leaving net
free surplus over all charges and ap-
propriations. as above stated. June 80
1911. of ss.o5s.s5e.s7.
Accounting for District Property.
In statements r and of the report
of the auditor will be found a sum-
mary and report of real and personal
property owned by the District of Co
| lumbia: Personal property, $3.sSS,-
| 704.71: real estate. $:3, ,24S.73; total,
! S27.645.953.50. These statements show
that. through the activities OF the
property division Of the auditors office
| authorized by Congress. there is being
made a very material saving to the
| District in the use of old materials
| that were formerly sold for junk. Dur
| ing the past fiscal year (1917) old ma
farfala were transfarred from dana p.