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A $9,000 Increase

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The reform republican oouuty adrninitration start out in the regular república fashion, by showiug an inorease in the county expenses. The increase is shown froiu the books of the county trensurer and is given in the table be: low fully itemized, so that the increase and decrease rnay be seen in each departinonc of the connty governinent and it may be seen just what the expenses are foi1. The list is made up to correspond in time with the annual report oi ,he supervisors' oommittee, fonnd at,ached to the supervisors' annual projoediugs, aud runs froni October 1, of Dne year to September 30 of the next pear, botli dates inclusive, and shows ihe actual amounts paid out of the sounty treasury for county expenses aud th '. items for which it was paid. Froin these figures it will be seen that the oounty expeuses from October 1, 1893, to September 30. 1894, were $33,412.91 aud from October 1, 1894, to September 30, 1895 they were $42,364.07, an increase of $8,951.16. An analysis of these figures show that ono of the main causes of the iucrease is in the sherififs office, where tbe increase has been as follows: sheriff, $iU6. ö6; deputy sheriffs,!i()00.22; board of prisoners, $1,368.33; couveying prisouers,$118; conveyiug insaue,$195.40, total increase of the expenses of the sheriff 's office of $2,898.51. The figures speak for themselvos and are here given without commeut so that eacb voter may read, thiuk, aud draw bis own conclusions. The doublé oolurnn table given below shows the county expeuditures for two years and the increase or deorease for eacb. item.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News