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"Government and Administration of the United States"

#_[2]--The gross receipts into the treasury for the year
ending December 31, 1887, were $8,446,439, and were chiefly from the
following sources:
Taxes, $4,210,112
Public schools, tuition fees, etc., 6,766
Market houses, rent of stalls, 58,287
Wharfage and rent of wharves, 33,561
General licenses, 44,609
Auction duties, 7,431
Dividends on stock in B. & O. R.R., 130,000
Water rents, 745,446
Passenger railway companies, 132,167
From the State for public schools, 147,403
Temporary loan, 1,510,000
Receipts to pay interest on loans, 896,704
Sale of stock, 243,285
The total disbursements were $8,403,930. Of this $4,541,357 was spent on
account of expenses of city government, the following being the
principal items of expense:
Interest on the public debt, $915,987
Expenses of law courts, 118,906
Expenses of jail, magistrates, &c., . . 103,587
Public schools (less amount paid by State), 594,089
Expenses of poor, 210,739
Police department, 702,882
Street-cleaning department, 263,934
Fire department, 214,226
Street lighting, 221,203
Parks, &c.


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