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MUST RAISE TAXES' SOUTH CAROLINA ESTIMATES FOR RUNNING EXPENSES EXCEEDS REVENUE. CONSIDER THE TAX QUESTION 1f All Estimates Asked For Are Allowed Taxes Will Have to Be Raised Two Mills to Prevent Deficit in the Treasury. Columbia. ? South Carolina faces a grave problem, acording to the estimates of expenses made by the various state officials and heads of departments in the matter of appropriations and income for the year 1914. According to the comptroler general if the general assembly makes j all the appropriations asked for, the . tax levy will have to be seven and threetenths mills as against five and I one-fourth last year. Comptoller General Jones says that the state's revenue for 1914 from taxes estimated and based upon the ' present assesment of $296,441,120, at a rate of five and one-fourth mills on the dollar would be $1,556,315.88. To this he adds the estimated income J from sources other than taxes such as insurance license fees, fees of the secretary of state, corporation license j fees, income tax, support of the rail-1 road comissioner, etc., to the amount of $310,925. Mr. Jones says: "And we have a total estimated revenue for ordinary expenses for 1914 of $1,867,-, 240.8. "The estimated levy of five and ' one-fourth mills is the same as last year. It will be seen by reference to ! the amounts of appropriations asked ; for, $2,47S,440.32, that they will exceed the estimated revenue of the state under a levy of five and onefourth mills by $611,299.44. If you made all the apprQpriations asked for, it would be necessary to make a rate of seven and three-tenths mills on the dollar to raise them. This does not take into consideration the onek mill state tax, which will raise $296,The amounts asked for in the vaTious state departments for 1914 are folows: ^Hp>ven?or'? office $ 10,830.00 ^. i 7,570 0",. roller general 10,200.00 Insurance commissioner.. 10,765.00 State treasurer 8.S50.00 :Supt. of education 10,170.00 m Adjutant general 41,020.00 I Attorney general 8,095.00 Railroad commission .... 14,636.78 -Chief game warden 2,900.00 O?ofn T 4Hrnr5?in 2.020.00 Public buildings 10,965.S9 State electrician 19,005.00 State Geologist 5,000.00 Department of agriculture 15,920.00 Judicial department 100,895.00 Board medical examiners 3,000.00 Health department 31,720.00 'Tax department 88,319.82 University of S. C 183,582.19 "Winthrop College 193.S46.00 The Citade 37,600.00 Institution Deaf, Dumb and Blind 75,046.98 S. C. Industrial and Mechanical College .... 15,000.00 Hospital for Insane 386,424.28 S. C. Industrial school.... 68,000.00 State penitentiary 6,750.00 Other charitable and penal purposes 2,805.00 T^noinne 250 000 00 A CUOIVUO Historical commission ... 5,270.00 Interest on bonded debt.. 266,658.38 Elections 45,785.00 Catwaba Indians 9,750.00 Expenses general asembly 61,814.73 Confederate Infirmary .. 25,000.00 Board of fisheries 9,400.00 State hospital commission 125,000.00 State house and grounds commission 6,350.00 Medical College of South Caroina 36,300.00 Miscellaneous . . 259,175.19 Total $2,47S,440.31 Very Apropos. Grandma sez: "I sometimes thinfe ther a washboard would be a good present fer some wimmin thet spend their time doin' rollin' exercises."? [Washington Times. Police Dogs Do Good Work. Tho breeding and use of dogs as auxiliaries of the police service has for many years been practiced with marked success in Belgium. For Biblical Students. 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