Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1909 — NO CHANGE MADE IN THE TAX LEVY. [ARTICLE]

NO CHANGE MADE IN THE TAX LEVY.

.Total Fixed By County Council Same As Last Year. RATE IS 52.65 CENTS ON SIOO Of Which 50 Cents Is For County Purposes Proper, Including Gravel Road Repairs, and 2.65 Is For Interest On Court House Bonds— Budget Carries Total of $60,596.80—Council Also Appropriates $9,061.54 Additional for 1909 ex* penses. -* The County Council finished its labors Wednesday and adjourned. The total appropriations made for expenditures for the year 1910 is 160,596.80, practically the precise amount asked for. The tax levy for 1909 was fixed at 52.65 cents on the SIOO, the same as last year. Of this amount 2.65 is for paying interest on court house bonds, the balance being for regular county expenditures, gravel road repairs, etc. Additional appropriations were made for 1909 aggregating $9,061.54, and were for the following purposes: Pullins bridge, Marion tp.51,000.00 Bridge in Barkley 800.00 Repairs two bridges, Barkley 200.00 Two bridges in Milroy 1,400 Rep. and mov. bdg. Milroy. . 200.00 Bridge repair, Newfon 89.94 Bal.-brg. Demotte-Hebron g. 1,008.41 Removal bridge Wheatfield 103.20 Bridge in Kankakee tp 913.00 Bridge repair, Carpenter tp..150.00 Bridge Wheatfield tp 800.00 Balance assessing Marion tp.. 6.00 Same, same Union tp 8 00 Same, same Keener tp 5.00 Sprinkling about public square 45.00 Expense Board of Charities. . 2.00 Emergency Board Health.... 4.00 Repair court house clock. .. . 50.00 Co. assmt. Grove Smith dch. . 34.00 Same, Tyler ditch .. .126.00 Same, Ringeisen ditch 91.89 Same, Heilscher ditch 26.90 W. L. Wood. cor. inquest 1899 .85 Geo. A. Ogle Co., Co. Atlasses 10.00 Railroad election Carpt. tp...123-40 Burial inmates Co. farm 90.00 Burial sold, wives and wid ..100.00 Insanity inquests. .253.00 Half ct costs, S. F. Iliff highw 90.73 Burk’s bridge, new 800.00 Bldg. gr. and low. n. end samesoo 00 Salary County C0unci1...... 70.00 Wolf scalp bounty, 1908.... 10.00 Total . 9,061.54