Montgomery County, Iowa

 Tax Ledger

 

 

First Report of County Finances

 

Exhibit of the Receipts and Expenditures of Montgomery County, Iowa, since being organized, up to the second day of July 1855.
 

 

1853
Ordinary count revenue

$44.80
Amount Paid Wells Sager, Assessor

$4.50
Amount paid A. G. Lowe, County Judge

$9.40
Amount expended for books, ink, and paper for the use of the county

$6.70
Amount paid John W. Patterson, Treasurer $10.00
Amount paid Samuel Dunn, County Clerk $10.00
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Total expenditures to July 1854

 $40.60

Amount of Delinquent tax, 1853

 $4.40
  ___________
  $44.80
   

ROAD FUND, 1853.

  
   
Amount of Assessment $28.60
Amount collected and remaining in the hands of the Treasurer $25.90
Amount on delinquent list $2.70
  ___________
  $28.60
   

 

1854
Ordinary count revenue

$110.52
Amount Paid G. D. Connelly, Assessor

$13.50
Amount paid Wells Sager, as Constable

$3.05
Amount paid John Gilmore, Treasure

$20.00
Amount paid Samuel Dunn, Clerk $25.00
Amount paid A. G. Lowe, County Judge $40.60
  ___________

Total expenditures to July 1854

 $102.15

Amount of Delinquent tax, 1853

 $8.37
  ___________
  $110.52
   
   
Amount of fees received by county judge, treasure, recorder and district clerk --- outstanding warrants:  
   

ROAD FUND, 1853.

  
   
Amount of Assessment $82.75
Amount expended in road district No. 1, Jackson township $9.00
Balance collected and remaining in the hands of Treasurer for disbursement $60.25
Delinquent tax $13.50
  ___________
  $82.75
   
Amount of road fund, 1853, brought down $25.90
Amount brought down, 1854 $60.25
Amount in Treasurer's hands, 1853-4 $86.15

The foregoing statement is correct.

 

A. G. Lowe,
 

County Judge of Montgomery County, Iowa
 
   

~ source: History of Montgomery County, Iowa, Illustrated. Publisher, Iowa Historical and Biographical Co., Des Moines, Iowa, 1881. Page 339 - 340.