Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1874 — Auditor’s Report. [ARTICLE]

Auditor’s Report.

Auditor of State, Wildman, one of the best and hardest working State officers Indiana ever had, has completed a table showing the totals upon the assessment lists of each county in the State for 1873, from official sources. We. have uot room for the report by counties, but give the grand totals as follows: Acres, 22,320,803,094-; value of lands, $413,111,192; value of improvements, $83,918,657 ; value of lands ard improvements, $497,029,849; value of lots and improvements, $166,073,191 ; value of personal property, $261,958,707 ; total value of taxable6*, including SB,519,320 for railroads, $933,581,067; polls, §264,853; state tax, $1,561,426.55 ; school tax, $1,656,633.45 ; county tax, $4,282,862.98; road tax, $754,552.02; township tax, $384,655.42 ; special school tax, $1,736,522 03; township tuition tax, $877,625 79; dog tax, $196,501 ; court house tax, $158,875.75 ; railroad tar, $249,252.47; bridge tax, §44,993.90; all other taxes, $279,322.29 ; total taxes for 1873, $12,177,519.92; delinquent taxes for 1872 and previous years, $1,624,721.70; total, including delinquents, §13,802,241.02. ■

We give the totals of our own and a few counties right around us. Cass, $219,071.58; Carroll, $l4B, 772.65; Fulton, $61,860.58; Lake, $102,845.61 ; LaPorte, $166,944.92; Marshall, $129,276.45 ; Newton, $59,239.52 ; Pulaski, $70,130.26 ; Starke, $74,071.80 ; St. Joseph, $196,147.78 ; White, $130,906.28. # The school tax collected amounts to more than the State tax by a hundred thousand dollars, while the county taxes are three times as much as the State tax.— Winamac Republican. -