Taxable Property and Taxation from 1838 to 1846, under the old Revenue Law. On which the annual accruing interest is $90,131.80. Internal Improvements. —There are none in the State. 500,000 acres of land, given for purposes of internal improvement, were, by the Legislature of 1849, distributed among the counties. Colleges and Common Schools. the State. There are no colleges, and but few common schools in The State Penitentiary at Little Rock was consumed by fire, March 28th, 1850. WM. B. CAMPBELL, W. B. A. Ramsey, XXII. TENNESSEE. Government for the Year 1852. of Carthage, Governor (term expires Octo- Salary. 66 $2,000 of Nashville, Sec. of St. & Int. Imp. Comm'r, 800 & f. The judges of the Supreme Court are elected by a joint vote of the two houses of the General Assembly, for the term of 12 years. The judges of the inferior courts are elected in the same manner, for 8 years. There are 14 Circuit Courts. Salary of each judge, $1,500. Each circuit has an attorney, paid by fees. Calvin Jones, Salary. Court of Chancery. of Sommerville, Chancellor, Western Division, $1,500 Thomas L. Williams, of Knoxville, of Columbia, S. D. Frierson, Bromfield L. Ridley, of Jefferson, Judges. Circuit Courts. Residence. 1. Seth J. W. Lucky, Jonesboro'. Attorneys. D. H. Cummings, 5. Samuel Anderson, Murfreesboro'. Wm. L. Martin, 6. Thomas Maney, 7. Cave Johnson, 8. Edm. Dillahunty, Columbia. 9. Wm. Fitzgerald, Paris. 10. John Read, Jackson. 11. J. C. Humphreys, Sommerville. 12. R. M. Anderson, New Market. John D. Goodall, Residence. Rogersville. Knoxville. Athens. Smithville. Lebanon. Nashville. Clarksville. Memphis. Russelville. Criminal Court of Davidson County. William K. Turner, of Nashville, Judge, Excess of disbursements, The amount of productive property held by the State in 1850 is $4,894,922.56. The State debt amounts to $3,352,856.66, and the annual interest on it is $179,176.37. The amount of school fund owned by the State, $1,321.655.00. Ordinary annual expenditure, exclusive of debts and schools, $290,000. XXIII. KENTUCKY. Government for the Year 1852. LAZARUS W. POWELL, of Henderson Co., Governor (term of office The salary of each circuit judge is $1,400; attorneys, $300, besides perquisites and fees. These officers were elected by popular vote in May, 1851. FINANCES. Sinking Fund. Certain resources are provided by law for the payment of the interest and principal of the public debt of the State. It is under the management of the following officers: The Governor, ex officio, Chairman; the Presidents of the Bank of Kentucky, and the Northern Bank of Kentucky, Auditor, Secretary of State, and Cashier of the Frankfort Branch Bank. The Auditor is Secretary, ex officio. The receipts of the fund during the year 1850 were $363,057.64; the expenditures for the same time were $333,226.72; excess of receipts, $29,830.92. Ordinary Revenue. - Receipts into the treasury, for the year ending October 10, 1850, $598,602 29; expenditures for the same time, $522,754.78; excess (including balance in the treasury in 1849, $21,009.55), $ 96,857.06. Value of taxable property in 1850, $ 299,381,809; increase since 1849, $14,296,431. A tax of 17 cents on every $100 worth of property (10 cents for ordinary expenses, 5 cents for the Sinking Fund, and 2 cents for the School Fund) was collected in 1850. There was reported for taxation for 1850, 3,395 carriages and barouches, upon which there is a tax of $1 each; 4,258 buggies, tax 50 cents each; 1,718 pianos, tax $1 each; 1,354 gold spectacles, tax 50 cents each; 6,657 gold watches, tax $1 each; 2,962 silver lever watches, tax 50 cents each; 20,156,040 acres of land were listed for taxation by resident citizens, valued at $141,720,591, which is an average of $7.03 per acre. Number of slaves 196,841, valued at $65,190,835; horses, 339,790; mules, 49,788; whites over 21 years old 157,353. State Debt. -- The entire funded debt, January 1, 1850, was $4,497,637.81. Since that time there has been $250,000 of it redeemed, and $150,000 bonds issued to the Southern Bank of Kentucky, and the State has that amount of stock in said bank, leaving the present debt $4,397,637.81. To pay this debt, the State owns $1,270 500 of bank stock, $2,694,239.98 invested in turnpike roads, $1,761,059.49 invested in slack-water navigation, $150,000 in the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company, and $76,420 in the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad. The income from these investments, and the annual taxes, pay the interest on the State debt, and leaves a surplus each year to be applied towards the reduction of the principal of the debt. Common Schools. - The School Fund of the State amounted in December, 1850, to $1,400,270.01, namely, State bonds and bank stock, and the Legislature is bound by the constitution to provide for the payment of the interest. The interest and dividends on this fund amount to about $75,513.50. The following are the school statistics for the year 1850: ---98 counties, and 4 cities and towns made reports. Number of children reported, 178,559; average number at school 73,110. Money distributed among such counties, cities, and towns, $144,006, the same being paid from the permanent school fund and two cent tax. These statistics embrace only the district schools connected with the State system. The number of children in the State between the ages of 5 and 16 is 202,840. These children and their parents, taken for the year 1850, and estimated with reference to their worldly condition, stand as follows: Board of Internal Improvement. - David R. Haggard, of Burksville, President; salary, $1,000. John B. Helm, of Bowling Green, and Thos. S. Page, of Frankfort (Auditor of Public Accounts), members, the latter, ex officio, Secretary. There are 95 miles of railroad in actual use from Lexington to Louisville. A railroad is now building from Covington, opposite Cincinnati, to Lexington, and, also, one from Maysville to Lexington, and several other surveys have been made, and the making of the roads will soon be put under contract. State Institutions for the Relief of the Unfortunate. — Lunatic Asylum at Lexington: number of inmates, January 1, 1851, 203. Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Danville: pupils, January 1, 1851, 60. Institution for the Blind at Louisville: pupils, January 1, 1851, 43. Penitentiary: number of prisoners, December 1, 1850, 159. There is also the second Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville, now under contract, and will be ready to receive inmates during the year 1852. XXIV. OHIO. ABSTRACT OF THE CONSTITUtion, Done in Convention, March 10, 1851. Ratified by the People, June 17, 1851. Went into operation, September 1, 1851. Senators and Representatives shall be chosen biennially, in districts, on the 2d Tuesday of October, and their term shall commence on the 1st of January following. They must be residents of their respective districts, one year next preceding the election, unless absent on the public business of the State, or of the United States. No person convicted of embez zling public funds, or who shall be in any way concerned in a duel, shall hold office, nor shall any person holding public money have a seat in the Assembly until he has paid the same into the Treasury. Any two members may call for the yeas and nays, and on the passage of every bill, in either house, the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on the journal, and no law shall be passed in either house, without a majority vote of all the members elected thereto. Members shall have the usual privileges of speech, and from arrest. No member shall, during his term and for one year after, be eligible to any office which is created, or the pay of which is increased during his term. No money shall be paid by special act, or any claim, unless by a two thirds vote of the members elected No new county shall contain less than 400 square miles, and no county shall be reduced below that amount. No new county shall be made, or county line or county seat changed, but by a vote of the county. In all elections, the vote of the Assembly shall be viva voce. Lotteries and the sale of lotterytickets shall be for ever prohibited. A bureau of statistics may be established. Imprisonment for debt, except in cases of fraud, shall be abolished. When private property is taken for public use, compensation therefor shall be first made in money, the amount to be assessed by a jury, without deduction for benefits to any property of the owners. A Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, and an AttorneyGeneral shall be elected on the 2d Tuesday of October, biennially, by a plurality of votes, the Auditor for four years, and the others for two years, whose terms shall commence on the 2d Monday of January following, and continue until their successors are elected and qualified. The Governor shall have power to grant pardons, &c., for all crimes and offences, except treason and cases of impeachment, but shall report each case to the Assembly, and his reasons therefor. In case of the death or removal of the Governor, the duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant-Governor; after him, upon the President of the Senate, and after him, upon the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Lieutenant-Governor shall be President of the Senate. If the office of Auditor, Treasurer, Secretary, or AttorneyGeneral becomes vacant, from disability, death, or removal, the Governor shall fill the vacancy until the disability is removed or a successor is elected and qualified. But the vacancy shall be filled at the first general election that occurs more than thirty days after it happens, and the person then elected shall hold office for the full term. There shall be a Supreme Court consisting of five judges, chosen by the people at large, a majority of whom shall form a quorum, or pronounce a decision. It shall have original jurisdiction in quo warranto, 1 mandamus, habeas corpus, and procedendo, and such appellate jurisdiction as may be provided by law. It shall hold at least one term in each year, at the seat of government, and such other terms as may be provided by law. After the first election under the new constitution, the judges shall be classified by lot, so that one shall hold for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years; and at all subsequent elections, the term of each of the judges shall be for five years. The State shall be divided into nine Common Pleas districts, of which the county of Hamilton shall form one, to be subdivided into three parts, from each of which one judge, to reside while in office in his district, shall be chosen by the electors of each subdivision for five years. Courts of Common Pleas shall be held by one or more of the judges, in every county, as often as may be provided by law, and more than one |