This section is from the book "A Financial History Of Texas", by Edmund Thornton Miller. Also available from Amazon: A Financial History Of Texas.
Year | Transfers | Total Disbursements | Balance at end of year | ||
1847........... | $ 178,915 | $ 127,677 | ........... | $ 127,677 | $ 51,238 |
1848........... | 97,211 | 116,161 | ........... | 116,161 | 32,287 |
1849........... | 96,510 | 82,232 | ........... | 82,232 | 46,564 |
1850........... | 101,491 | 148,007 | $ 47 | 148,055 | 1 |
1851........... | 141,262 | 115,084 | 287 | 115,372 | 25,890 |
1852........... | Cash 1,273,365 | 674,542 | ........... | ........... | Cash 624,677 |
Bonds 5,000,000 | 608,000 | ........... | 1,282,580 | Bonds 3,575,000 | |
1853........... | 230,115 | 463,155 | 1,335 | 464,490 | Cash 390,301 |
........... | ........... | ........... | ........... | Bonds 3,575,000 | |
1854........... | 250,006 | Cash 474,245 | ........... | ........... | Cash 166,062 |
........... | Bonds 2,000,000 | ........... | 2,474,245 | Bonds 1,575,000 | |
1855........... | 118,565 | 244,879 | ........... | 244,879 | Cash 39,748 |
........... | ........... | ........... | ........... | Bonds 1,575,000 | |
1856........... | 595,275 | Cash 480,797 | ........... | ........... | Cash 154,226 |
........... | Bonds 115,000 | ........... | ........... | Bonds 1,263,000 | |
1857........... | 126,115 | 280,247 | ........... | ........... | Cash 16 |
........... | ........... | ........... | ........... | Bonds 1,230,000 | |
1858........... | 322,755 | Cash 321,529 | 285 | ........... | Cash 956 |
........... | Bonds 427,000 | ........... | 748,815 | Bonds 546,000 | |
1859........... | 280,660 | Cash 175,214 | ........... | ........... | Cash 106,402 |
........... | Bonds 205,000 | ........... | 380,214 | Bonds 305,000 | |
1860........... | Cash 338,439 | 366,907 | ........... | ........... | Cash 77,934 |
Bonds 104,000 | 359,000 | ........... | 725,907 | Bonds 50,000 | |
1861........... | 426,164 | 467,836 | ........... | 467,836 | 36,262 |
1862........... | Cash 490,975 | 419,154 | .............. | ........... | Specie 2,454 |
Bonds 579,655 | 579,655 | ........... | 998,809 | Confed. Notes 105,628 | |
1868........... | Cash 1,008,045 | 1,100,308 | ........... | ........... | Specie 659 |
Bonds 58,150 | 58,150 | ........... | 1,158,458 | Confed. Notes 15,160 | |
1864........... | 3,355,632 | 1,830,617 | ........... | 1,830,617 | Specie 1,496 |
........... | ........... | ........... | ........... | Confed. Notes 1,539,338 | |
1865........... | 1,567,204 | 674,978 | 9,774 | 684,753 | Specie 2,703 |
........... | ........... | ........... | ........... | Confed. Notes 2,420,582 | |
1866........... | 336,195 | 233,089 | ........... | 233,089 | 111,357 |
1867........... | 373,424 | 473,613 | 9,841 | 483.455 | 1,326 |
1868........... | 414,001 | 350,208 | ........... | 350,208 | 82,938 |
1869........... | 529,846 | 371,106 | 70 | 371,177 | 241,607 |
1870........... | 409,243 | 598,498 | 1,308 | 599,807 | 51,043 |
1871........... | 538,479 | 581,830 | ........... | 581,830 | 7,692 |
1872........... | 941,283 | 941,213 | ........... | 941,213 | 7,761 |
1873........... | 932,300 | 938,760 | ........... | 938,760 | 1,301 |
1874........... | 1,304,063 | 1,248,146 | 56,845 | 1,304,991 | 373 |
1875........... | 1,531,501 | 1,422,095 | ........... | 1,422,095 | 109,778 |
1876........... | 1,096,067 | 1,091,626 | 107,455 | 1,199,082 | 6,764 |
1877........... | 1,298,576 | 1,250,692 | 10,094 | 1,260,786 | 44,554 |
1878........... | 1,291,249 | 1,225,689 | ........... | 1,225,689 | 110,113 |
1879........... | 1,752,426 | 1,486,170 | 115,263 | 1,601,434 | 261,106 |
1880........... | 1,904,255 | 1,344,360 | 113,811 | 1,458,172 | 707,189 |
1881........... | 2,080,341 | 1,436,002 | 159,089 | 1,595,092 | 1,192,438 |
1882........... | 2,168,974 | 2,534,290 | 300,577 | 2,834,868 | 526,545 |
1883........... | 1,759,286 | 1,911,648 | 29,029 | 1,940,677 | 345 154 |
1884........... | 1,544,954 | 1,738,769 | 6,041 | 1,744,810 | 145,298 |
1885........... | 1,792,220 | 1,843,802 | 8,874 | 1,852,677 | 84 841 |
1886........... | 2,097,744 | 1,567,111 | 52,011 | 1,619,123 | 563 463 |
1887........... | 2,287,132 | 1,918,067 | 43,556 | 1,961,624 | 888 970 |
1888........... | 3,063,486 | 2,056,050 | 637,280 | 2,693 330 | 1 ,259,126 |
1889........... | 1,444,774 | 2,272,347 | 3,143 | 3,275,491 | 428, 410 |
1890........... | 2,125,254 | 1,908,727 | 26,311 | 1,935,039 | 618 622 |
1891........... | 2,561,666 | 2,167,498 | 5,596 | 2,173,095 | 1 007 193 |
1892........... | 2,069,826 | 2,555,927 | 70,760 | 2,626 688 | 450,332 |
1893........... | 2,192,728 | 2,428,219 | 27,415 | 2,455,634 | 187, 425 |
1894........... | 2,008,390 | 2,149,124 | 8,248 | 2 157 372 | 38,443 |
1895........... | 2,011,235 | 2,021,606 | ........... | 2 021 606 | 28, 972 |
1896........... | 2,966,380 | 2,884,700 | ........... | 2,844 700 | 109,753 |
1897........... | 2,235,945 | 2,295,910 | ........... | 2,295,910 | 49 787 |
1898........... | 2,916,253 | 2,153,766 | 994 | 2,154,761 | 811,279 |
1899........... | Cash 2,660,606 | 2,375,607 | 3,470 | 2,379,077 | Cash 1,092,807 |
Note 3,536 | ........ | ........... | ........... | Note 3,536 |
Year | Receipts | Expenditures | Transfers | Total Disbursements | Balance at end of year |
1900.......... | Cash $2,800,578 | $2,733,781 | $ 17 | $2,733,798 | Cash $1,159,587 |
Note 450 | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 3,40? | |
1901.......... | 2,865,238 | 2,851,455 | .......... | 2,851,455 | Cash 1,173,370 |
......... | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 2,77a | |
1902.......... | 3,148,468 | 3,187,382 | .......... | 3,187,382 | Cash 1,134,455 |
.......... | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 2,728 | |
1903.......... | 2,803,582 | 3,408,523 | 5 | 3,408,528 | Cash 529,510 |
.......... | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 1,515 | |
1904.......... | 3,099,756 | 3,566,401 | .......... | 3,566,401 | Cash 62,864 |
.......... | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 1,000 | |
1905.......... | 3,135,486 | 3,121,239 | .......... | 3,121,239 | Cash 77,111 |
.......... | .......... | .......... | .......... | Note 800 | |
1906.......... | 4,203,837 | 4,184,982 | 42 | 4,185,025 | 95,923 |
1907.......... | 4,161,587 | 3,564,898 | .......... | 3,564,898 | 692,612 |
1908.......... | 4,003,223 | 3,806,851 | .......... | 3,806,851 | 888,985 |
1909.......... | 5,013,272 | 4.159,011 | 45 | 4,159,056 | 1,743,208 |
1910.......... | 4,046,040 | 4,364,607 | .......... | 4,364,607 | 1,424,641 |
1911.......... | 3,624,208 | 4,528,450 | 107,274 | 4,635,725 | 413,124 |
1912.......... | 5,148,962 | 5,131,653 | .......... | 5,131,653 | 430,433 |
1913.......... | 5,269,531 | 5,366,348 | .......... | 5,366,348 | 333,615 |
1914.......... | 9,582,208 | 6,998,816 | 1,195,397 | 8,194,214 | 1,721,609 |
1915.......... | 6,028,990 | 7,195,506 | .......... | 7,195,506 | 555,103 |
Transfers to the school funds are excluded from both the credit and debit sides of the general fund as given in this table, because such transfers represent neither a net receipt to, nor a net expenditure of, the fund. An appropriation out of the general fund to the school fund as, for example, that of $2,000,000 of United States bonds in 1854, is counted among the expenditures of the general fund. Receipts in the form of the paper liabilities of the republic or of the state are also excluded. The following were the amounts of the paper liabilities of the republic which were received:
1847................ | $101,045.60 |
1849................ | 34,961.24 |
1850................ | 32,220.15 |
1851.................. | 7,750.74 |
1852................ | 34,771.90 |
1853 ................ | 9,042.16 |
1854 ................ | 1,122.49 |
1855 ................ | 1,047.47 |
1856 ............ | 89.01 |
1859 ................ | 20,187.05 |
The following were the amounts of state warrants:
1851................ | $ 1,604.54 |
1861................ | 604.01 |
1862................ | 11,493.87 |
1863................ | 289,769.66 |
1864................ | 138,254.51 |
1865................ | 66,990.25 |
1866................ | 122,944.82 |
1867 ................ | 9,348.25 |
1875 ................ | 25,284.54 |
1876 ................ | 2,077.47 |
1877 ............ | 611.98 |
1878 ................ | 28.60 |
1879 ................ | 95.75 |
1852. To the $572,000 of United States bonds expended in payment of the debt of the republic there is added $36,000 used in canceling state bonds held by the school fund.
1856. The report of the treasurer gives $290,000 as the amount received by the state from the United States as a refund for the revenue debt of the republic paid by Texas. It is ascertained from the biennial report of the comptroller that the refund amounted to $298,421.72 and that the $8,421.72 was expended in securing the refund. This amount is added to receipts and expenditures in this table. A transaction involving $115,000 of United States bonds is not shown in the condensed form of the report of the treasurer which is used, and this amount is added to expenditures.
1858. Because of the change from October 31 to August 31 as the end of the fiscal year, this fiscal year has only ten months.
1860. Included among receipts are $100,000 of United States bonds and $9,472.26 in specie transferred from the university fund.
1861. The biennial report of the comptroller for 1860-1861 gives $8,520 as the amount of debt paid in 1861, while the abstract of the treasurer's report in the Texas Almanac for 1861 states erroneously that $8,470 was the amount paid.
1862. The item bonds among receipts refers to United States bonds and interest coupons which were taken from the school fund for use for military purposes.
1865. The period covered is that from August 31, 1864, to June 8, 1865. The balance on hand on June 8, 1865, is stated by the comptroller to be $353,614.82, but this includes $3,375.33 of state warrants and excludes $2,073,046.76 of Confederate notes of old issues which had been sent to the treasury of the Confederate government to be exchanged for notes of new issues.
1866. The period covered is that from October 13, 1865, to August 13, 1866. Included among receipts is $7,683.67, which was the amount recovered from the treasury vault and broken safes after the robbery on the night of June 11, 1865.
1867. The period covered by the report is from August 14, 1866, to July 31, 1867.
1868. The report of the comptroller begins with September 1, 1867. '
1874. A typographical error in the report of the comptroller results in the total of the classified items of receipts being $2,000 less than the total given in the report.
1875. The report for this year gives as the balance on hand at the beginning of the year an amount which is fifty cents greater than the balance reported at the close of the preceding year.
1882. On account of a typographical error the total of the receipts is larger by $1,000 than the total given by the comptroller.
1911. There is a typographical error of ninety cents on the side of disbursements, and this amount is added to the amount disbursed in payment of warrants.
1912. A typographical error results in the omission of $600 from itemized receipts, but the total of the comptroller is followed in this table, and for classification purposes, $600 is added to miscellaneous.
 
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