County Is In Good Shape

COUNTY IS IN GOOD SHAPE

A Cash Balance Has Replaced the Overdraft.

STATE TAX WAS LARGE

No Room For Insane Women at Pontiac - County Forced to Make Contract with Private Asylum.

The board of supervisors Wednesday afternoon unanimously elected M. J. Cavanaugh county school examiner. 

The county treasurer's report was received also. It showed that the county had a balance on hand Oct. 1 of $6,779.30, while last year the overdraft was $4,806.57. In other words the county is in better financial condition by $11,585.87. The total receipts of the year from all sources were $228,694.47. This included the state tax, the county tax, the liquor tax, fine money and primary school interest money. The total expenditures were $217,397.06. This includes $54,803.11 liquor tax, school and library monies paid out to the cities, villages and townships, and $91,685.24 state tax.

The county has been much more economically run than the state, for while the county has paid up its over-drafts last year Ann Arbor city raised $11,826.11 county tax and $25.254.83 state tax.

The Soldiers Relief Commission Report showed an expenditure of $1,513. Forty-nine families had been assisted of whom 26 lived in Ypsilanti, 8 in Scio, 7 in Ann Arbor, 3 in Manchester, 2  in Augusta and 1 each in Bridgewater and Sylvan.

Supervisors Harriman, Schumacher and Hutzel were appointed a committee to make a contract with some private insane asylum for the keeping of female patients as there was no room in the Pontiac asylum. 

The board meets again at 10:30 tomorrow.