acres. The Auditor's Report shows that the lands assessed for taxes of 1850 amounted to 17,025,109 These lands, for the purposes of taxation, were valued at $ 59,314,861; improvements at $25,414,851; town lots and buildings at $ 16,140,540; corporation stock at $286,516; personal property, $36,276,797. Total of taxable property, $137,443,565. Polls assessed for 1850, 149,936. There is a poll-tax of 75 cents, and an ad valorem tax upon property of 25 cents on the $100, for State purposes. State tax for year 1850, $571,512.74; county tax, $453,809.24; road tax, $147,500.02; school tax, $127,641.33; other taxes, $32,239.24; delinquent taxes, $186,540.99; total taxes, $ 1,519,243.56. State Debt. Prior to 1847, the State owed on her foreign debt, principal, $11,048,000; interest, $3,326,640; total, $14,374,640. By the acts of the Legislature of 19th January, 1846, and 27th January, 1847, proposals were made to the holders of bonds that they should complete the Wabash and Erie Canal, and take the State's interest in it for one half of this debt, and the State would issue new certificates for the other half, upon which she would pay interest at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum until January, 1853, and after that time at 5 per cent., and issue certificates for one half of the arrears of interest, upon which she would pay interest at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum after January, 1853. In this 24 per cent. stock is also included 1 per cent. per annum upon the principal, which gives the holder of the old bond, when surrendered, 5 per cent. per annum upon the new 5 per cent. stock from the dividend day next preceding his surrender of the old bonds. August 5, 1850, there had been surrendered of the old bonds, and new certificates taken under this proposition by the State, of principal, $9,563,000, leaving then outstanding of her old bonds, of principal, $1,485,000. The State has issued of the new certificates of stock, paying 4 per cent. until 1853, and after that time 5 per cent., $4,781,500; of 24 per cent. stock, she has issued $1,736,727.50. The State keeps an agency in the city of New York for the surrender of the old stock, issuing the new, and receiving transfers of the new. The State in 1839-40 authorized the issue of one and a half millions of treasury-notes to pay off her internal improvement liabilities. These notes were made receivable for all State dues, and have been annually returning into the treasury, and are now nearly all withdrawn from circulation. The State also issued bonds for the bank capital, and treasury-notes to pay the bank a debt which the State owed it. But these treasury-notes were based upon a sinking fund belonging to the State and held by the bank. The bank attends to the bonds issued for its capital, and also to the redemption of the notes based upon the sinking fund. The means held by the bank are considered ample for these purposes. The liabilities of the State and Canal, August 5, 1850, may be thus stated: State's half interest on bonds with 1 per cent. of principal, with half of coupons added, . Total foreign debt, . Add domestic debt, . Total foreign and domestic debt, State Stock. $4,781,500.00 1,736,727 50 6,518,227.50 257,295.00 6,775,522.50 The amount of the several stocks issued under the act for liquidating the public debt, up to August 5, 1850, is as follows: 5 per cent. preferred Canal stock, 4,079,500.00 Total stocks issued to August 5, $207,400.00 702,000.00 1850, Deduct for 24 per cent. State 1,216,250.00 stock redeemed, Total outstanding, Aug. 5, 1850, 12,703,377.50 12,723,377.50 20,000.00 The State is paying interest only on her 5 per cent. State stock, at the rate of 4 per cent. After the year 1853, the rate of interest on this will be 5 per cent. After 1853, the 24 per cent. State stock will draw interest at that rate. The remaining stocks are thrown upon the Canal, and their redemption, principal and interest, depends upon the receipts from the Canal, in accordance with the provisions of the act above referred to. Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Indianapolis. -James S. Brown, A. M., Principal. All the deaf and dumb of the State between the ages of 10 and 30 are entitled to an education, without charge for board or tuition. Institute for the Blind, Indianapolis. —The boarding and tuition of pupils who are children of residents in the State are free. Generally, applicants over 21 years of age are not admitted. Hospital for the Insane, Indianapolis.—R. J. Patterson, Superintendent. During the year ending October 30, 1850, 58 were admitted (31 males, 27 females); 54 were discharged (26 males, 28 females); leaving in hospital at the end of the year, 80 (40 males and 40 females). This institution was opened (part of its buildings only being completed) in December, 1848. From that time to November 1, 1849, 104 were admitted; of whom there have been discharged, 20 restored, 4 improved, and 4 have died, leaving 76 in the hospital. Of the 104, 53 were males and 51 females; 25 were natives of Indiana, 20 of Ohio, 11 of Virginia, and 13 were foreigners. State Prison, Jeffersonville.—David W. Miller, Warden. Number in prison, November 30, 1849, 131; received since, 93; discharged during the year by expiration of sentence, 28; by escape, 3; by pardon, 16; by order of court, 1; by death, 35; in all, 83. In prison, November 30, 1850, 142. Of these, 12 are less than 20 years old; from 20 to 30, 69; from 30 to 40, 35; from 40 to 50, 16; from 50 to 60, 10. 8 prisoners are committed for life, 1 for 36 years, and 67 for terms of 2 years or less. 35 have no education, 25 can read only, 81 can read and write, and 1 has a good English education. 54 are married, 13 are widowers, and 75 are single. 61 are intemperate, 25 moderate drinkers, and 56 temperate. 23 are natives of Indiana, 26 of foreign countries, and the remainder of other States. 128 are whites, and 14 are Africans. 114 are committed for offences against property, and 28 for offences against the person. Common Schools. By act of January 19, 1849, the common school fund was constituted of the following funds, whose estimated value is as follows: In the 34 counties that made returns, there were 114,990 scholars between the ages of 5 and 21. If the remaining counties have the same average, there were in 1850 about 300,000 scholars between the ages of 5 and 21 in the State. For the present elements of the school fund see the Abstract of the Constitution. XXVII. ILLINOIS. Government for the Year 1852. AUGUSTUS C. FRENCH, of Palestine, Governor, and ex officio Fund Salary. $1,500 William M'Murtry, of Knoxville, Lieutenant-Governor, $3 a day during [session, and 10 cents a mile travel. D. L. Gregg, of Ottawa, Secretary of State, Fees and 800 Thomas H. Campbell, of Pinckneyville, Auditor (excl. of clerk hire), 1,000 This court holds one session in each Division of the State each year. The terms are, 1st Division, at Mt. Vernon, Jefferson Co., on the 2d Monday in November; 2d Division, at Springfield, on the 3d Monday in December; 3d Division, at Ottawa, La Salle Co., on the 1st Monday of February. Cook County, Common Pleas, Mark Skinner, Judge. Interest paid from mill-and-half tax, bonds surrendered, and sale of lands, &c., 789.941 40 $9,346,270.21 561,788.73 $8,781,481.48 The canal debt on the 1st of January, 1851, may be stated as follows, to wit:- $ 7,079,117.08 1.038.000.00 $8,112,117.08 From which deduct : Interest paid from mill-and-half tax, Bonds and scrip redeemed and interest, Total canal debt, Add principal debt as above, Aggregate amount of State debt, $255,818.51 269,088.65 $7,843,028.43 8,784,481.48 $ 16,627,509.91 AUSTIN A. KING, Thomas L. Price, Wilson Brown, Richardson, XXVIII. MISSOURI. Government for the Year 1852. of Richmond, of Jefferson City, of Richmond, Governor, Term ends. Salary. Dec. 1852, $2,000 [and a furnished house. Lieut.-Governor, 1852, Sup't of Public Schools, April, 1853, 1,300 of Cape Girardeau, Aud. of Accounts, 1853, 1,600 A. P. of Ray County, Andrew M. Elston, of Jefferson City, The Lieutenant-Governor is, ex officio, President of the Senate, and re The pay of the Speaker of the ceives $4.50 a day while presiding. House of Representatives is the same. and Representatives every second, year. first sixty days, and after that time $1 per day, except at a revising session, when they may receive $3 per day for 100 days, and $ 1 for the remainder of the session. The Legislature meets at the city of Jefferson, biennially, on the last Monday in December. The judges of this court are now elected for the term of six years by the qualified voters of the State. They are reëligible at the expiration of their present term. Two sessions of the Supreme Court are held annually, one at Jefferson City, and one at St. Louis. 1,000 John R. Woodside, 250 66 Daniel M. Leet, 14th 66 A Circuit Court is held twice a year in each county. Its jurisdiction extends to all matters of tort and contract over $90 where the demand is liquidated, and over $50 where the agreement is parol. It has exclusive criminal jurisdiction, and a supervision over the County Courts and justices of the peace, subject to the correction of the Supreme Court. The judges of the Circuit Court are elected by the qualified voters of their respective districts, and for the term of six years. In addition to the Circuit and County Courts, St. Louis has a Court of Common Pleas, with a jurisdiction very similar to the Circuit Court, a Criminal Court, a distinct Court of Probate, and a Recorder's Court. The judges of the Circuit and Criminal Court are elected in the same manner and for the same term as the circuit judges. These are local tribunals, exercising jurisdiction only in their counties, except the Recorder's Court, whose jurisdiction is confined to small offences and within the limits of the city. From the Court of Common Pleas and Criminal Court, an appeal lies to the Supreme Court, — and the judges of the Common Pleas are appointed like the circuit judges, with like tenures. The probate judge is elected by the people of the county for four years, and the Recorder by the people of the City of St. Louis, for two years. County Courts. The jurisdiction of these courts is limited to matters of probate and local county affairs, as roads, &c. A County Court sits in each county, and is composed of three justices, who are elected by the people, and hold their offices for four years. An appeal lies to the Circuit Court The County Court of St. Louis County is composed of seven judges. They are relieved from probate duties by the separate court above mentioned. |