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    I V i g g | 11 I ? ;•? ? ;. - , V Federal income taxes paid during the same years were $1,622.00; #5,293.00; $2,622.00; and #6,366.00, respectively. The net operating income, after deducting federal in­come taxes, was #3,761.66 in 1944; $12,655*95 In 1945; $5,437*02 in 1946; and $10,624.97 for the year 1947* The water department was acquired on July 31, 1944, at a cost of #127,311.94. Additions and betterments from August, 1944* to December 31, 1947, amounted to $36,144.16. Property retired during the same period totalled $19,626.16. Depreciation taken, included in total operating ex­penses, was as follows! $1,699*60 in 1944; $3,412.27 in 1945; $3*672.06 in 1946; and $3,610.60 in 1947. According to respondent’s computations* the rate of return on investment was 6.44$ in 1944; 6.66$ in 1945; 3.45$ in 1946 and 6 .6I56 in 1947. In computing the net rate base, the company has deducted from the retirement reserve account the sums of $7,120.64 for the year 1945; #6,914*76 in 1946; and #4,416.31 for the year 1947 as book value of fixed capital withdrawn. The only amounts credited to the depreciation or retirement reserve account for depreciation on all of the property, (property which is kept in service, as well as proper­ty to be retired, or is being retired), were #1,699.60 in 1944; #3,412.27 in 1945; and $3,672.06 in 1946. In Exhibit "F", respondent shows the sum of $3 2 ,001.49 as being the credit to the retirement re­serve account on December 31, 1947* This total is arrived at by adding to the credit balance of #30,131.69 on December 31, 1946, (Exhibit «F"), the depreciation taken for the year 1947, (Exbibit «Q*), plus a credit transfer of #1,195.74 as net salvage and removal, (taken from annual report filed with the Commission), then deducting the sum of $4*416.31 as book value of fixed capital withdrawn during the year. According to the figures submitted in Exhibit " 1 % the gross retirements of property of the water department during the year 1947 totalled #2,392.07, and not $4,416.31 as claimed. The Commission has disallowed the sums of $7,120.64 and $6,914.76 debited to the retirement reserve account for the years 1945 and 1946 and has reduced the 1947 debit from $4,416.31 to $2*392.07 for the same reason as noted previously in this opinion, -7-