Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-01-22
STATE BUDGET
AMOUNT KNOWN.
Board Has Had Many Diff
culties in. Preparing
Report.

Bismarck, Nd, Jan. 22.-The ex.
as finally corrected by the budget
board, after pairing almost $3.000,000
from the requests of the various insti-
tutions, was announced today as 81.
greater than the budget as it finally
went before the assembly two years
ago.
difficulties with which the board has
to contend, the second page of its
ton of one Of Alman's cartoons on
1.-THE Great American Home" It is
probably the first time in history that
a serious public document has. carried
a syndicated comic as an integral por-
ton. 1--WE might devote a page of
close print to explanations and not
get our position over so clearly as we
can do through this cartoon" said
State Auditor Kositzky. Alman's
/ "Great American Home, is being used
through the courtesy of the Newspa-
per Enterprise association.
Some of the Items.
Some of the bigger items which go
t. hsT %aks up co th ! s4 s;ss2,,Ssf; 8 aid arc to
high schools, $1,000 aid to rural
schools, ss25,oOs; feeble-minded in
stitute, %s21O,565; hospital for the in
sane, $299,415; 18th legislative assem-
bly,. $114.O00; Minot normal, $780,
794; state penitentiary, s2S6,281; re-
form school, s119,760; tuberculosis
sa%nitarium sd7S;75o; Valley City nor
$4O1, $780,, wolf bounty fund, $4,000.
Special fund appropriations not in
| cluded in the general budget COM
prise $140, 000> for a governors man
sion and new history building; $780,
GAS for the game and fish depart
ment; $70,175 for the motor vehicle
for the state highway commission.
The new executive mansion and his
tory building will come out of the
capitol building fund of 100000,
while the other departments named
earn their own fees.
The budget boards report lists as
liabilities the unexpended appropria-
ton July 1. 1918, of s2,565,12s.o4
and estimated emergency appropria-
tons by the 10th legislative assembly
of 100000. making a total of 3d.
6~65,12S.04. The budget board made a
poor guess as to emergency appropri-
ations to be made by the 10th legisla-
for in four league bills-providing
for it's state industrial commission,
Bank Of North Dakota, mill and ele-
vator association and home building
association-aggregate a half-million,
and there are Others"
The budget board lists as credits the
1917 tax ~uncollected July J., 1918,
after %deducting five per cent which
it is estimated will not be paid by
July l, 1919, 1867, Cos. 90; cash on
hand in the general fund July 1, 1918,
6 5.173.49; miscellaneous collections.
estimated. ,$460.000; and tax levied
for 1918 to carry on businese>to July
1, 1919. s1,572,255.46, making a bal
ance of $2~,665,128.04, which will be
about a half-million short If the legis-
%lature gives the league all the emerg-
ency appropriations it is asking. The
budget board estimates that miscel-
laneous collections for 1019-21 will be
$1,O15, 200. :,
Among recommendations made, are
that the school of forestry at Botti-
neau be converted into an orphans
home, and the school pf science at
Wahpeton into an industrial school
for incorrigible girls; that the capitol
street car line be extended on Ninth
and Tenth to connect with the 500
railway; q four-story historical build
ing north of the capitol and an ex-
ecutive, mansion on the state house
grounds, and that the state treasurer
be made custodian OF the funds of all
educational institutions and hat the
local ~treasurers be abolished.