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+ FINANCIAL STATISTICS ARIZONA
FOR YEAR 1892

Washington, D. c., Aug. 26-
The Bureau of the Census an
nounces . summary of the fnan.
cial statistics of the State Of
Arizona for the fiscal year end.
ing June 80, 1881. The per cap
ita figures for 1881 are based on
an estimated population of AL.
600. These statistics were com
| piled by Ana Frohmiller, State
Auditor.
The payments for operation
and maintenance of the general
departments of Arizona amount.
ed to $7.O66,O42, or $l8 O6 per
capita. This includes 81, 266. 452
apportionments for education to
the minor civil divisions of the
State. In 1880 the per capita for
operation and maintenance of
general departments was $17 u
and 1918, $1002. The interest
on debt in 1891 amounted to
$780, and outlays for perman
ent improvements, Sc, 1856. 756
The total payments, therefore,
| for operation and maintenance
Of general departments. interest
and outlays. were $14, 442, ,O78.
The totals include all payments
for the year. whether made from
current revenues or from the
! proceeds Of bond issues.
The total revenue receipts
were $l3, 547. 724. or $50 u per
sapits. This was S., 491, ,402 more
than the total payments of the
year, exclusive of the payments
for permanent improvements, but
1896. 1854 less than the total pay.
ments including those for per
manent improvements. Prop
erty and special taxes represent
ed 43 3 per cent of the total
revenue for 1881, 547 per cent
for 1880, and rs 3 per cent for
1918. the increase in the amount
of property and special taxes
collected was 81 per cent from
1913 to 1881 but there was de
crease Of Is 4 per cent from 1880
to 1881. The per capita of prop
erty and special taxes collected
was $l3 81 10 1881. $16.O2 in
1880, aud $11.42 in 1918.
Earnings of general depart
ments, or compensation for ser
vices rendered bs State officials,
represented 3 5 per cent Of the
total revenue for 1881, 42 per
cent for 1880. and 82 per cent
for 1918.
Business and non business Ii
censes constituted 21.6 per cent
of the total revenue for 1881.
2l.6 per cent for 1880, and 5.3
per cent for 1918
Receipts from business license
consist chiefly of taxes exacted
from insurance and other ia
corporated companies aud of
sales tax on gasoline. while those
from non business licenses com
prise chiefly taxes on motor We
hicles and amounts paid for
hunting aud fishing privileges.
The sales tax on gasoline
amounted to $1,878, $50 in 1881
and 1862, 739 in 1880. an in,
crease of 13 per cent.
The total funded or fixed debt
outstanding June 30, 1881 was
$3Ol, ,157.
The net Indebtedness funded
or fixed debt less sinking fund
! assets) was $269, $50, or So. 81 per
capita. In 1880 the per capita
net debt was $0.68 The con
tingent debt is not included in
the net bebt of the State. This
contingent debt represents the
territorial debt of the counties
and cities assumed by the State
on its admission to statehood.
The assessed valuation of pro.
perty in Arizona subject to ad
valorem taxation was $718. $40,
1871; the amount of State taxes
levied was IS, ,83O,O21; aud the
per capita levy, $13 %. In 1880
the per capita levy was 1881
and in 1918, $14 OF.
PhOenix-Max A. Stark and
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