History of Orange County

For the fiscal year 1841-42 county officers cost $574.64, and jurors $822. Merchants’ licenses brought $83.98, caravans $40. For the fiscal year 1843-44 the total receipts were $2,954.29, the county revenue being $1,691.14, and license receipts $93.33. County officers cost $912.71; jurors. $467.25; total expenditures, $2,325. For the fiscal year 1846-47 the total receipts were $3,527.14, and the total expenses $1,667.85; county revenue was $2,363.40; merchants’, show and clock licenses, $288.08; county officers cost, $513.58; jurors, $291.50. There was in the treasury at this time $1,859.29. For the fiscal year 1851-52 the total receipts were $6,673.54, and the total expenses $7,576.44, leaving a bal. ance against the treasury of $902.90. The county revenue was $5,059.44; store. etc., license, $335.35; county officers cost, $580.91; juries cost, $208. For the fiscal year 1859-60 the total receipts were $8,583.21; total expenses, $7,167.12; county revenue, $6,654.09; county officers Cost, $1,169.50; agricultural society, $50. For the fiscal year 1863-64 the total receipts were $11,188.96, and the total expenses $7,566.59; county revenue was $5,106.85; jury fees, $605.59; prisoners, $334.95; county officers, $1,944.52; soldiers’ families, $207.30. For the fiscal year 1869-70 the total receipts were $22,056.88; total expenses, $21,462.20: county revenue, $18,829.67; county officers, $3,026.63; juries, $972.37; criminals, $585.60; bridges, $6,327.58; interest on county bonds, $996.37; teachers’ institute, $50. The following are the receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1883-84:

Balance in treasury at last report	$2,978.58
December, 1883, distribution of tax	7,403.45
May, 1884, distribution of tax	8,985.31
May, 1884, bridge tax	1,938.23
Advertising lands for tax	87.65
School interest refunded to county	185.85
County asylum	9.95

Total receipts	$21,589.02

Jurors	$1,182.60
Poor	1,650.23
County Asylum	234.57
Roads and highways	253.70
County officers	3,319.85
Printing and stationery	1,597.32
Specific	936.10
Public buildings	370.10
Bridges	485.78
Assessing revenue	944.00
Insane	832.63
Bailiffs	251.00
Coroner’s inquests	93.25
Elections	50.85
County Superintendent and institutes	355.50
County Attorney	92.50
County Physicians	838.75
Criminals	220.85
Commissioner’s Court	511.00
Fuel and gas	335.45
Circuit Court	197.60
Change of venue	552.60
State benevolent	110.17
Fox bounty	801.40
Interest on county bonds	486.00
Enumeration	176.60

Total disbursements	$16,940.20
May 31, 1884, balance in treasury at present date	$4,648.82

Respectfully submitted,
GEORGE W. CAMPBELL,
Treasurer Orange County.
Examined and approved June 9, 1884.
AARON SPEER,
HUGH SHEEKS,
JAMES M. SUMMERS.
Commissioners.