Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — FINANCIAL REPORT OF YEAR [ARTICLE]

FINANCIAL REPORT OF YEAR

Jasper County Paid Out $748,630.01 During Fiscal Year 1917 On another page of today’s Democrat appears the annual statement of the county auditor and county treasurer, which should be of interest to all taxpayers of the county, as it shows how much was collected during 1917 in the various funds and how it'was spent. On January 1, 1917, there was a balance in the county treasury of $18,396.95, and in all (funds a balance of $159,479.44. During the year 1917 there was collected $105,473.97 of county revenue, but only $76,236.59 was from taxation, the remainder being made up from receipts from the various pounty Offices, poor farm, county hospital, interest on county funds, etc., which, added to the balance on hand at the beginning of the year made a total df $123,870.92. The disbursements during the year from county revenue were $98,148.61, leaving a balance at the end of the year in this fund of $25,722.31. There was collected from other various sources, however, including county revenue, $913,481.01, making a grand total of balance and receipts of $1,072,960.45, and expended $748,630.01. There was collected about $3,450 between the time of the November settlement and December 31, which left a grand total in the county treasury at the end off- the year of $327,765.06. -Considerable of the money recedlved during the year was from the sale of bonds for improved roads and ditch construction; in fact, $325,000 of the total receipts given above came from this source, and about $170,000 was received from taxation for the redemption of road and ditch bonds. Of the $327,765.06 on hand January 1 about $240,000 was unexpended balances received from the sale of such bonds, there being SIBO,OOO in round numbers in road construction and $60,000 in ditch construction.

A comparatively small part of the taxes paid in goes to the state, it being the local taxes that always hit the taxpayer hardest. Fees are received back from some of the county offices and of these the clerk paid in $ 1,148.23 and was paid $2,332.54; the auditor sl,148.23, and was paid $2,843.06; the treasurer $1,775.47, and was paid $4,458.85; the recorder $2,093.05, and was paid $1,945.43 — $147.62 net gain for the county; sheriff $1,146.31, and was paid $2,158.10. The county poor Harm receipts were but $3,697.21 and the expend-, itures were $7,387,37 —a net deficit of $3,690.16. The county hospital paid in $7.989.54 while the expenditures were $1 4,487.22, leaving a net deficit of $6,497.68. (These figures, understand, are official, and prove conclusively that The Democrat's reports from month to month of the receipts and expenditures of this institution as taken from the figures In the countytreasurer’s office have been correct.) ' At the beginning of 1917 there was a balance of $4,533.51 in the gravel road repair fund and there was received during the year $32,-