New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-04-03
RESUME OF COUNTY
FINANCIAL OUTLAY
bitches AND SCHOOL NEEDS
CALL FOR THE LARGEST
EXPENDITURES -+-
INCREASE IN ALL EXPENSES FOR
FIRST YEAR OF WAR
%.~ ADMINISTRATION

: According to the financial statement
OF the County, the receipts from all
sources during the year of 1917 amounted
to $685., 786.07. Of this amount $751;
8O0.85 was received from tax collections
and the balance was made up of licenses,
fees, fines, inheritance and mortgage
taxes and the collection of principal and
interest and sale of ditch bonds, etc.
OF this amount all was disbursed except
$57 ,807.24 which was on hand at the
close of the fiscal year. =
Ditch Bonds Total $146, 559.27.
From the sale of ditch bonds alone
SAG, 559.27 was realized. For the
privilege of hunting, the nimrods paid
into the county treasury the sum of
$708.3O. In the shape of fines there was
collected the sumo of $657. The re-
ceipts from the inheritance tax aggre-
gated $1,917.44 and from the mortgage
registry tax, the sum of $2,054.78. Into
the teachers fund there was paid the
sum of $532.5O.
The county revenue fund at the be-
ginning of the fiscal year was overdrawn
tothe extent of $16,212.86. The largest
sum expended for county revenue pur-
poses was for salary of county officers
for which .$19, 1912 was expended. OF
this amount the County Auditors office
was paid $4,304.3O; the Co. Treasurer's
office $3,948.00, the Judge of Probate's
office $2,507.34, the Sheriff's office in
addition to the fees allowed by law
$4,000; the Clerk of Courts office
$1,375 in addition to the fees allowed
by law; the Register of Deeds office
$500sin addition to the fees allowed by
ID zvss The =janitor was paid $720.s The
county commissioners received in the
shape Of salary and mileage $2,280.80.
Miscellaneous Items
Tie District Courts expenses az
gregated $2,993.72 and the sheriff was
paid for board and clothing of prisoners
$1,341.90. For light, fuel, etc., the sum
Of $2,292.93 was expended and for
books, stationery and furniture the sum
of $3,305.60. There was also expended
on the county jail for repairs and the
other usual expenses the sum of ST.
267.37.
To get the returns of births and deaths
the county expended the sum of $210.5C
and for insurance the sum of $542. 1C
was paid out. At the beginning of the
year the county poor fund was over
drawn by $13,221.13. There was ex-
pended for medicines the sum of $780,
the doctors received the sum of ST..
165.08; the poor farm expenses ag,
gregated the sum of .$4,762.44; fol-
mothers pension the sum of $2,805.0(
was paid out The relief orders amounted
to $3,680.55. For hospital bills, funeral
expenses, etc. the sum of $4,443.15 was
expended. The least money for relief
orders was spent from the second
commissioners. district where it amount.
ed to only $65.88. In the first district
it amounted to $22S.50; for the third
district $1,1S2.40; for the 4th district
$5S7.95 and for the 9Th district the sum
of $915.82.
Road Fund Overdrawn
For the county road and bridge fund
the sum of $86,321.05 was expended
and when the year came to close the
account was overdrawn to the extent
of $29,O31.21. This is almost $4,000
more than it was overdrawn at the
beginning of the fiscal year. The most
of this money was spent on the various
state roads. The most money was ex-
pended on state rural highway number
81 for which purpose the sum of $13,-
358.O1 was paid out. The appropria-
lions to aid towns amounted to $12,-
O99.25 and for repairs on county bridges
$4,64819 was expended.
Big Ditch Costs
] In the county ditch fund there was
on hand at the beginning of the fiscal
year the sum of S61,815.80 which to-
gether with receipts from various sources
including the sale Of ditch bonds in the
sum of $146,559.27 brought the total
receipts up to $245,4O3.59. Of this
amount more than half was expended,
the sum of 112,114.43 remaining on
hand at the end Of the fiscal year.
Out Of the county disinfection fund
there was expended the sum of $4,000
for the benefit of the town Of North
Star and at the. close Of the year there
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