FINANCIAL — TREASURER'S REPORT — REGISTRY OF DEEDS
In this chapter are given a number of
tables relating more particularly to the financial status
of Winnebago county in the past and present. These tables
of values and properties will prove valuable for future
reference.
FINANCIAL.
The following items show the value of taxable property, and tax levied each year, from 1863 to
1883, inclusive:
1863 |
Total value of all property
Total tax levied |
$465,500
8,328 |
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1864 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$485,500
10,498 |
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1865 |
Value of all property
Tax levied |
$487,859
16,938 |
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1866 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$491,174
18,766 |
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1867 |
Value of all property
Tax levied |
$498,500
19,906 |
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1868 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$501,250
20,550 |
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1869 |
Assessed value of all property
Total tax levied |
$529,250
21,621 |
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1870 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$618,510
26,702 |
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1871 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$639,436
23,415 |
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1872 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$636,898
35,225 |
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1873 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$790,837
31,055 |
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1874 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$794,981
51,252 |
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1875 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$912,651
35,591 |
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876 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$930,580
44,690 |
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1877 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$983,711
40,859 |
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1878 |
Value of all property
Tax levied |
$998,198
32,823 |
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1879 |
Value of properties, approximated
Total tax levied |
$990,500
30,500 |
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1880 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$995,094
31,866 |
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1881 |
Value of all properties
Total tax levied |
$1,133,102
37,089 |
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1882 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$1,129,183
37,244 |
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1883 |
Value of all property
Total tax levied |
$1,021,470
37,786 |
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The following shows the
total valuation of all property in the different
townships and incorporated villages for the year 1883:
Forest
City, incorporation
Lake Mills
Center township
Mount Valley township
Newton township
Logan township
Linden township
Norway township
Forest township |
$48,788
20,807
82,980
71,234
270,766
208,232
154,995
72,666
91,001 |
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Tax
for 1883 by Townships |
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Center
township
Mount Valley township
Newton township
Logan township
Linden township
Norway township
Forest township
Forest City, incorporation
Lake Mills, incorporation |
$3,028
2,564
10,289
6,975
6,354
2,725
3,240
2,049
759 |
TREASURER'S REPORT
From the report of the county treasurer,
B.A. Plumer, dated June 1, 1883, the following statement
of the cash on hand for the county is taken:
Summary
of Cash on Hand |
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State
revenue
County schools funds
Bonded debt fund
Bridge
Poor
Insane
Penal fines
Institute
Permanent school fund
Road
Teachers
Contingent
Schooll house
Forest independent school dist. bond debt fund |
$2,374.22
799.83
2,763.99
907.67
42.40
739.26
3.11
56.64
17.56
1,018.47
1,465.20
972.02
496.68
153.94 |
Total cash on hand
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$11,817.79 |
REGISTRY OF DEEDS
The first entry affecting land in
Winnebago county was filed May 25, 1857, and conveyed
from C.H. Day to C.W. Campbell the northwest quarter of
section 34, township 98, range 24.
There are now twenty-two books of deed
records, the recorder at present using No. 22, having run
through the alphabet to "I" then then taken
numbers.
During the year 1882 there were 521
deeds, and 1,030 other instruments recorded.
The following is a list of the various
plats that have been recorded in the plat books of the
office:
Forest City, Rebecca A. Clark's addition; Lake Mills,
C.D. Smith's addition; Benson and Norman. These are
treated of in their proper places.
1History of Kossuth, Hancock and Winnebago Counties, Iowa. Springfield, Illinois: Union Publishing Company, 1884. 788-89.
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