Download or read book Biennial Report of the State Treasurer of the State of Oregon, to the Legislative Assembly, Nineteenth Regular Session, 1897 (Classic Reprint) written by Oregon Treasury Department and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biennial Report of the State Treasurer of the State of Oregon, to the Legislative Assembly, Nineteenth Regular Session, 1897 Dear sir: I have the honor to herewith transmit to you, and through you to his excellency, the governor, my report of the transactions of the treasury department for the biennial term ending December 31, 1896, showing, in detail, the receipts and disbursements of the department, the balances remaining in the various funds, the present indebtedness of the state, the amount of taxes due from the several counties, deposits made by foreign insurance companies doing business in the state, ah stracts of loans made from the various trust funds, and other matters pertaining to the finances of the state. Under the act approved February 25, 1895, providing for a two per cent tax on net premiums collected by insurance com panies doing business in this state, I have, during the past two years, collected the\sum of The act provides that these collections should be paid into the common school fund principal. I would most respectfully suggest that the act be so amended as to provide that this tax shall be paid into the general fund, thus making it available to meet the current ex penses of the state government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.