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State Sinking Fund Has Paid $548,328.83 Here Cerro Gordo County Leads State in Amount of Dividends Paid by Bank Receiverships. The state sinking fund has paid total of $548,328.83 in Cerro Gordo county since August, 1925, on public deposits tied in closed banks, up according to figures in the office of the county treasurer, Miss Joy Ridgeway. As against this the bank receiverships in the county have paid total of in dividends, the large est amount of any county in the state, and a total of in diverted interest on public funds, as provided in the act. celved from the office of the state treasurer, Ray R. Johnson. To offset this Kossuth has paid only $132,984.17 in diverted and $258,344.22 in dividend from the banks. Paid Most Interest. The diverted interest was the most in Polk county, totaling $384,194.27, while the dividend of banks totaled $140,764.12. The claims paid in Polk county amounted to only The total claims paid to all the counties by the state sinking fund is close to $15,000,000 according to Mr. Johnson's report. More than $6,000,000 this amount was returned in dividends as the banks were able to liquidate, according to the state treasurer. The remainder. totaling $7,536,000, was obtained from diverted interest paid by school districts and local governmental units. Had Most Claims. Nearly half of the fund, $7,778,000 went to counties, from which there were 386 claims. School districts submitted three times as many claims, but they aggregated $4,000.000. Cities or towns were paid $1.940,000, townships $683,000 and the state $463,500. Anticipatory warrants were issued totaling $12,600,000, of which all but about $1,500,000 have been paid. There was a balance Jan. of $884,176.17 to deposit claims. pay From All Units. The $129,066.39 includes the deposits of the county, townships, as well as cities and towns and other governmental units. For the county alone the figure is $76,582.44. This money, had it not been diverted to the sinking fund, would have gone into the general fund of the county. From these figures will be seen that Cerro Gordo county is still approximately $24,000 ahead, having received that amount more than has paid out. Miss Ridgway states, that she has received notice to divert the interest for another full year. The interest amounts to about $2,000 month. At Head of List. Cerro Gordo county stands at the head of the list in the amount of dividend paid by its closed banks despite the fact that only one, the State Savings bank of Ventura has completed liquidation. Further dividends will be forthcoming on the others. The largest amount of claims, $815,000 has been paid in Kossuth county, according to the report Among the counties the following: reporting were County Claims Paid Diverted Interest Dividends Black Hawk $105,183.45 $160,252.73 71,214.74 Boone 23,059.65 70,691.88 10,892.65 Carroll 13,493.11 55,462.55 12,925.30 Cerro Gordo 548,328.83 129,066.39 395,709.17 Cherokee 19,627.38 61,730.95 4,904.48 Clinton 65,146.96 114,050.71 32,872.44 Dallas 121,635.19 60,364.70 30,869.12 Des Moines 25,453.82 75,370.23 4,454.42 Dubuque 27,991.11 155,337.48 10,018.82 Emmet 610,755.49 45,081.35 182,351.27 Hamilton 80,150.85 Jasper 4,042.70 110,471.73 Johnson 31,629.82 3,218.05 Lee 161,531.71 64,939.07 45,146.25 Linn 214,882.55 221,372.02 97,331.30 Marshall 229,173.14 85,926.00 163,421.50 Muscatine 9,130.52 75,200.15 7,228.35 Polk 289,804.10 384,194.27 140,764.12 65,426.65 170,366.06 28,560.75 Scott 26,341.32 231,567.64 2,781.93 Union 52,757.11 51,158.64 42,719.12 Wapello 35,984.13 73,721.47 7,574.51 Webster 171,298.29 125,176.63 62,415.77 Woodbury 168,589.27 205,154.74 34,452.45