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Show ffl iLLS FIXED" nS GiTYTAX LEW Commissioners Claim Increase In-crease Necessary Because Drain on Treeasury. The expenditure of GS,700 in paying-returned paying-returned soldiers hired as laborers on road construction work so drained the city '5 treasury as to make increase of the tax levy by one-fourth of a, mill un- j avoidable, according to the unanimous, coiK'Uinsion of the city com missi oners after three days of "wrestling ivith the cify budget. ' Tli e 1 e y 1 a s f y ea r w;i s 6.75 mill s. I Last evening-, after a full day of juggling jug-gling figures, the commission passed u I resolution fixing it at 7 mills this year. The additional one-fourth nrHI will result, re-sult, it is estimated, in $-1-8,500 increase of revenue, $10, "00 loss than the actual amount paid to to the soldiers. In addition, ad-dition, it: was necessary to take info consideration the demand of laborers for the raising of the maximum wage scale to M, for which $20,000 was appropriated. ap-propriated. Appropriations made during the revision re-vision of the budget, in addition to those made at the time of the milking up of the budget at the beginning of the year, include -H? 1 S.42o.04 to 1 he street department, $1-1, Olio. ol) to the waterworks water-works department, $1100 to the city attorney's at-torney's budget, $2.jOU lo the recorder's record-er's office and $0o0 to the city treasurer treas-urer s office. Tho street department's request was for $-P2,49o.4 1 and was trimmed in effort ef-fort to avoid nn increase in the levy. The request of the waterworks department depart-ment for $36,-)lo.o0 ,'ilso was sheared to where it was generally conceded Hint it was safely within the probable limit of the department's own revenues for the year. As readjusted and under the increased levy, it is estimated that t he city now has an unappropriated surplus of $22,474 with which to finish out the yen r. |