Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — UNIVERSITY FUND. [ARTICLE]

UNIVERSITY FUND.

AUDITOR HART MAKES SEMIANNUAL APPORTIONMENT. Permanent Endowment Belonging to, the State University Amonnt Apportioned Ie $18,800.33-Number of Voters and Amount Received. State Auditor Hart haj made the semiannual apportionment to county auditors of the permanent endowment fund belonging to Indiana University. The State auditor was required to care for this fund until the Legislature of 1897 passed a law directing that it be apportioned to county auditors as fast as it could be collected, to be in turn loaned by them. The last apportionment was made Nov. 1, 1900, after which the State auditor had remaining a balance of the fund amounting to $75.48. When each county’s allotment' of the endowment fund is loaned by the county auditor the interest is paid over to the university through the State treasurer, the amount being entered on «the regular settlement sheet filed by the county auditor with the State treasurer. The fund was originally created by a levy of Yt cent on every SIOO, continuing for thirteen years. The apportionment of the fund to be made on this occasion is on the basis of 8 cents per capita, based on the enumeration of voters made in 1895. This enumeration shows (520,985 voters in the State. A brief statement of the fund is as follows:

Amount on hand Nov. 1, 1900 *75.48 Amount collected 18,789.07 Amount received from land sales 100X0 Amount on hand May 1, 1901 *18,985.45 Amount apportioned 18,809.55 Balance May l. 1901.. *l^9o A detailed statement, showing the number of voters in each county and the amount of the fund allowed the county, has been prepared by Deputy Auditor Frank Martin as follows: ApportlonCounty. Voters. meat. Adams 5,147 *154.41 Allen 18,435 553.05 Bartholomew 6,726 201.78 Benton 3.c39 106.17 Blackford 4,004 1 22.82 Boone 7,423 222.69 Brown 2,1.00 69.00 Carroll 5.312 159.36 Cass ...: 9,356 280.68 Clark 7,681 230.43 Clay 8,598 ~ 251.94 Crawford 3,173 95.19 Daviess 6,933 207.99 Dearborn 5,974 179.22 Decatur 5,546 166.38 De Ka!b 6,475 194.23 Delaware 11,377 841.31 Dubois 4.39! 131.79 Elkhart 11,657 849.71 Fayette 3,*3t 114.93 Floyd 7,496 224.88 Fountain s,Mid 176.88 Franklin 4,610 13C30 Fultou 4,679 140.37 Gibson 7,299 218.97 Grant 13,765 412.93 Greene 6,610 19-.30 Hamilton 7,282 218.46 Hancock 4,9>4 148.02 Harrison 5,358 160.74 Hendricks , 5,848 175.44 Henry ....... 6,943 208.29 Howard 7.521 22’>.63 Huntington 7,233 216.99 Jaeksou 6,366 190.98 Jasper 3,450 10:1.50 Jay 7,247 217.41 Jefferson 6,246 187.38 Jennings ....: 4,(27 120.81 Johnson .... 5,375 1 61.23 Knox 7.4 5 223.65 Kosciusko 7.732 2312.56 Lagrange 4,'281 128.43 Lake 8,216 2:648 Laporte 9,182 284.46 Lawrence 5,363 160 95 Madison 14,9*3 448 89 Marlon 46,021 1,380 63 Marshall 6.479 194.37 Martin 3 08*) 92.58 Miami 7,138 214.14 Monroe 4,866 145.98 Montgomery 8,432 . 233.36 Morgan 5,009 130.27 Newton 2.619 78.57 Noble 6,824 201.72 0h0..., 1,286 38.58 Orange 74,724 111.72 Owen ... 3.821 114.67* Darke, 5.704 171.12 Perry 4.1*11 124.83 Pike .. 4,745 142.35 Porter * 5,17*0 153.90 Posey 5,928 177.84 Pulaski 3.220 96.60 Putnam 5,*99 • 170.97 Randolph 7,604 228.12 Ulpley 5,328 159.84 ltu*h .5.454 163.62 Scott 1,989 59.67 Shelby 7,* 73 212.25 Spencer 5.584 167.52 Starke 2,463 73.95 Steuben 4.7>!3 137.94 St. Joseph 12.584 277.52 Sullivan fi.SilO 174.0*) Switzerland 3,182 95.40 Tippecanoe 10,772 323.16 Tipton .... 4,837 145 11 Union 1,987 76.61 Vauderburg 16,440 493.20 Vermilllqn 3,717 111.51 Vigo 15,97.7 478.71 NVabnsh 7.352 220.56 Warren 2,947 88.41 Warrick 5,5740 166.08 Washington 4,758 142.74 Wayne 10,819 824.57 Wells 5,687 170.61 " bite 4,783 143.49 Whitley 4,564 13(5.92 Total 626,085 *18,809.55