The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-09-16
$3,S76,2O7 WILL Be.
RAISED FOR EXPENSE
OF n. D. GOVERNMENT
Total Is Over Half Million Above
That Of Last Year; Must
Meet Interest
Initiated MEASURE FELT
Reduction in Taxable Valuation
Has Effect of Showing
! = Levy Rate Upward

The state tax levy for 1882 was fixet
by the state board of equalization Fri
day at 6.83 mills to raise $3,876, 207 TO,
general expense of the state govern
ment and for interest on the STATE
debt. The levy is $545 ,326.75 above tn,
1881 levy of $3.50, s8o.25.
The board levied four mills, thu
maximum possible under the constitu.
tional limitation, for general state
purposes, which includes a one-tentt
mill levy for the capitol building fund
but was still 1881 900 short of the es.
timated amount required to meet leg.
islative appropriations made In 1881
The levy for interest on the state debt
was fixed at 2.83 mills.
On account of an initiated Law
adopted at the June primary, pro.
viding for reducing the general prop
erty tax base from rs per cent to Sc
per cent of the assessed valuation
and because OF a decrease in the as.
sessed valuation of personal and rail.
road property, the taxable valuation
of property was reduced from $780,
608,202 in 1891 to 1857 ,526,588 this
year, reduction of $3l3,08l ,614 OF
1855 per cent. The initiated law wa:
responsible for 80 1-3 per cent Of this
decrease.
A 800 mill levy for general expense
of the state government was fixed tc
bring $2,2l3,354, one-tenth mill fol
the capitol building fund levy to raise
$56,753, and 2.83 mills to pay 81 $685.
100 in interest on the state debt.
Valuation Forces Change
The state rate of $50 mills COM
pares with rate of 3.78 mills last
year when the tax base was IS pei
cent of the assessed valuation.
The amount levied for the general
expense of the state government de-
creased $3.50, 1886 as compared with the
1891 levy: the capitol building levy de-
creased $3l ,299 while the levy to pay
interest on the state debt increased
81 .227,512.
The levy of $1,6O6,100 for interest
on the state debt compares with $685.
1888 a year ago.
The levy of $2,213,354 for general
expenses of the state government COM
pares with $2,865,362 in 1881. It is
1851 900 short of the amounts appro-
priated after taking into considera-
ton an estimated reduction in 1888
legislative appropriations and a cut
of 100000 made by the board OF adj
ministration in the budgets Of state
educational. penal and charitable in
situations for the current fiscal year,
starting July l, 1882.
State Tax Commissioner 1ver
A. Acker estimated that legis-
lative appropriations for the bien-
NAL period. July l, 1888, to June
30, 1885, with present sources Of state
revenue, cannot exceed $6,33O 900 with
out requiring a levy exceeding the
constitutional limitation Of four mills
for general state expense.
The 1881 legislative assembly ap-
propriated $780, 34 from the gen.
eral fund, consequently, reduction in
appropriations of $2,238.434 for the
biennium will be required, Acker said.
Changing the tax base from rs per
cent to so per cent Of the assessed
valuation has made 1t mandatory to
reduce general state expenses about
$1,l20,000 per year or approximately
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