Message of Governor James S. Hogg to the twenty-fourth legislature of Texas Page: 17 of 48
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MESSACE OF GOVERNOR HOGG.
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any one time of $200,000. If this amount should be borrowed from the
permanent school fund, in obedience to precedent, the relief would be
quite inadequate. If the Legislature fails to pass laws to take effect immediately,
by which the collection of back taxes may be promptly enforced,
then there is no possible temporary relief, except to pass a bill that
all warrants not paid within a given time from presentation at the Treasury
shall bear a reasonable stated rate of interest until called in for payment
by the State. This would keep the warrants at par, and place upon the
tax payers the burdens they should legitimately bear. By the reduction
of the tax rate they have retained in their pockets over $1,300,000 during
a severe financial depression. To them the interest saved on this
amount will much more than offset the interest that would accumulate on
the registered warrants until they are paid.
TABULATED STATISTICS.
Under proper heads, in tabulated form, your attention is hereby called
to the several departments and to the charitable, educational, and penal
institutions, showing respectively their operation and condition for each
of the past four years, as follows:
Statistics in Relation to the Several Departments.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE.Appropria
Receipts. Expenditures.
tions. .O
I 1
:~ sm1891
.............................. $37,464 88 ............. $26,084 98 3
1892 ......... ............... 26,005 00 *$180,886 72 18,229 98 3
1893 .......................... 37,520 00.. 22,690 72 3
1894 ............................. 36,770 00 *24,285 83 14,147 95 3
*Direct tax received from the Federal Government.
The expenses include repairs, etc., on executive mansion and grounds, and
$15,000 each year for rewards and enforcement of the laws. The appropriations
for 1891, 1893, 1894 include $10,000 each for fees of counsel in the Greer county
ease.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
Appropria
Receipts. Expenditures. |
tions. .
1891 ............................. *$29,828 87 $70,341 56 $29,572 72 6
1892 .............................. 9,560 00 45,977 60 8,738 50 5
1893 .............................. 11.320 00 49,091 71 10,277 61 7
1894 .....11,020 00. 47,555 20 5.455 72 6
*$20,000 appropriated for publishing constitutional amendments.
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Hogg, J.S. (James S.). Message of Governor James S. Hogg to the twenty-fourth legislature of Texas, book, 1895; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5862/m1/17/?rotate=270: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .