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Report of the Comptroller General to the Legislature of South Carolina. 1835 1 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactssc0275 and id is 1 raw text is: OMPTROLLER GEYIV & liEGISlT- IE O# SOuTLH CAROLINA.. NOVEMBER, 1835. To the Honorable, the Speaker, and other members of the House of Representa- tives of the State of South Carolina. The Comptroller General respectfully submits the following Report and Exhibits. No. 1-Is an Exhibit of the cash transactions. at the Lower Treasury, betweei the 30th September, 1834, and the lst October, 1835. No. 2-Is a like Exhibit of the transactions at the Upper Treasury, for the same period. No. 3-Isa tabular Exhibit of the Taxes of the Lower Division. No. 4. I a similar one of the Upper Division. No. 5 and 6-Cover the Monthly Reports, (and Vouchers) from the Treasurers of the two Divisions of the State for the past fiscal year. No. 7.-Is a Report on the Sinking Fund. No. 8-Is a statement in detail of the Debts and Credits of the State, by which it will be seen that there is a balance in favor of the State of four hundred and thirty thousand, eight hundred and eighty-seven dollars eighteen cents, $430,887 18, of this sum it may be proper to remark that a portion, about thirty thousand dollars con- sisting of old debts, will probably not be collected, seeing that the parties have either removed, or are dead, or insolvent. On the first day of October, 1834, there was a balance of cash remaining in the Treasury, (as shown in No's. I and 2,) amounting to two hundred and three thou- sand and twelve dollars seventy cents, $203,012 70. The Receipts into the Trea- sury b tween that time and the first of October 1835, have amounted to three hun- dred and ninety-two tousand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars and eigh- teen cents, $392,975 18; making the sum of five hundred and ninety-five thou- sand nine hundred and eighty-seven dollars eighty-eight cents, 595,987 88.- The Expenditures during the same period have been two hundred and fifty-three thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars eighty-three cents, $253,424 83; leaving a balance of cash in the Treasury on the first day of October 1835, of three hundred and forty-two thousand five-hundred and sixty-three dollars and fie cents; about one hundred thousand dollars of this amount will be required to meet the current demands of the State until the receipt of the Taxes in May next; the. remainder, say two hundred and forty thousand, may be applied to the account of the Siziking Fund, or to such other purposes as the Legislature may direct, with- out affecting the ordinarY transactions of the Treasury Department. The Legisla. ture will perceive, by referring to No's. 1 and 2 of the accompanying documents, tmat more than one fourth of the income of the past year was derived from a source purly incidental; the Incorporations of which were required to pay to that. amount in consideration of their Charters; independently of this item in the receipts.of the year just closed, the income has exceeded the expenditure by nearly forty thousand. dollars, to whieh,,if the extra charge for repairs to the College be added, the surplus receipts may hereafter be estimated at fifty or sixty thousand dolass,. without any

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