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l)cficil Keen In p'-onr: :ng the arldit’< nal leva's, sdperviso's -stated they n'T neces s"rv 1 ' tv'f u'rrt p-menses and to "provide for the payment of a dp'teU inctfri'd during the past sev oal yc-i-s due to failure earlier to fix a Irpher inie.” Pres-eijilv. Prince Edward citizens pav $2,9o per $]00 valuation on real estate and tangible personal prop erty 'in! To ren's on merchant’s capital The addition, which the sup ervisors say is required to keep the county income- i-q-u-.l to outlays, would mak" tie m- S3 i • on- real and persona! property and 00 cents on merchant's capital. The proposed budget is approxi mately $29,000 higher than that for the y< : - ,-udine Jura 30. Ii provide ■ $724,301 for schools: $81,885 for wel fare. and about Son. >00 for general county government These t aals. which incorporate funds to he reccited from the Com monwealth and federal sources, are up as f-'llew- ■- -Iiools by $8,100; welfare $10,330 and county govern ment. $3.33; Those represent an inert for 10.77-58 of aivut $31,000 and must be added to a defied i xoected on June 30 of about $23,000. The supervisors foresee a 'eta! jddiMonal need, to finance the county in the next 12 months andsprovide for the deficit, about $50,000. Last ri'-e- iu tax s in the county Wfls in 1052 when personal and real property levies were raised from $2.40 to the present $2.90. In the 17 years since 1940 ancT the beginning of the gradual rise In the cost of tilling business, tlie• lews have been raised four times start!))!: from the 1940 levy of $1.70. I,oca! Fund Totals In that portion of the financing to come from local sources the tax levies imposed here the board estimates 1957-58 r e v e n u e s of $384,505. From that is to come: For schools $348,276. a slight drop over the school board's asking of a year ago: for welfare $18,426. leav ing about $30,000 for operation of general county government These are supplemented in state and federal funds by .about $483,505 for all sources of need, schools, wel fare and county government.
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