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FINANCES.

The receipts into the Treasury for the two years, 30th September, 1850, were $787,088.71 Add balance in Treasury, October 1, 1848,

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405,404.90 $1,192,493.61 532,585.82 $ 659,907.79

The income of the State is derived from taxation, from granting licenses, and from divi. dends of Bank Stock owned by the State in the Bank of Missouri. The dividends of the Bank Stock were, in 1849, $28,541.92; and in 1850, $16,972.18; in all, $45,514.10. The amount received for licenses to merchants, professional men, foreign insurance companies, &c., in 1849 and 1850, was $169,889.22. The list of taxables for the two years was as follows:

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State Debt.

The State debt, exclusive of the surplus revenue deposited with the State, is $922,261, which is the exact amount of the State Bonds sold and now outstanding. $34,000 of the bonds have been redeemed and cancelled during the year.

State debt,

Deduct Stock in Bank of Missouri owned by State,

Sinking Fund,

Which would give for the debt of the State,

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231,658.38 $640,602.62

124,026.47 $764,629.09

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The State owns Bank Stocks in the Bank of Missouri, as follows:The Seminary Fund,

State School Fund,

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Sinking Fund,

In her own right,

$ 100.000.00 575,667.96

6,273.66

272,263,60

$954,205.22

To the Sinking Fund should be added $3,497.54 dividends not reinvested. Lunatic Asylum. -The Lunatic Asylum at Fulton is now finished and ready for the reception of patients. Superintendent, Dr. T. R. H. Smith.

Deaf and Dumb Asylum. — Provision was made by the last Legislature for the erection of an institution of this character at Fulton. It will probably be in operation during this year (1852).

Railroads. The St. Louis and Pacific Railroad is in a state of rapid progress. 45 miles of it have been contracted for, and about 1,000 hands are now employed on it. The State aids the company with $2,000,000 whenever the company shall raise a similar amount by private subscription. It is expected that this will be done at an early period.

XXIX. IOWA.

Government for the Year 1852.

STEPHEN HEMPSTEAD, of Dubuque Co.,

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Israel Kister,
Enos Lowe,
George Temple,
P. P. Bradley,
C. C. Rockwell,

Wm. Patterson, Pres.,

V. P. Van Antwerp,
George Gillaspy,

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Warden of Penitentiary, 400

Sup't of Public Instruction, 1,200
Librarian,

150

of Des Moines Co., Pres't of the Senate, $4 a day. of Des Moines Co., Speaker of the H. of Rep.,

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Ch. Clerk of H. of Rep.,

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The Legislature meets biennially, on the first Monday in December. The pay of the members is $2 a day for the first fifty days, and $1 a day for the rest of the session, with $2 for every twenty miles' travel.

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George Greene (Judge), of Dubuque Co., Reporter,

The judges of the Supreme Court are elected, by joint vote of the General Assembly, for six years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The Supreme Court now holds five sessions, the State being divided into

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The judges of the District Court are elected, by the voters in their district, for five years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

FINANCES.

The funded debt of the State is $79,442, on which the interest is $5,324. To this should be added unpaid auditor's warrants, $10,771. The revenue is derived from taxes upon real

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and personal property. The expenditures are the salaries of State officers and court expenses, and for the two years ending November 30, 1850, were, for the Legislature, $7,458; Executive, $11,200; Judiciary, $18,978.70; public buildings at Iowa City, $3,200; interest, 11,691.81; public printing, $ 8,027.75. Total, 75,409.90. As the sessions of the Legislature are biennial, the ordinary annual expenditure, exclusive of debts and schools, is about $25,000. The aggregate valuation of taxable property (according to the assessors' returns for 1850) is $22,623,334, being $4,114,567 more than in 1849. The following are the various items: Number of polls, 32,289; acres of land, 3,752,168, value, with improvements, $ 13,277,483; value of town lots and improvements, $3,640,546; value of capital employed in merchandise, $ 887,237; value of mills, manufactories, distilleries, carding machines, and tan-yards, with the stock employed, $432,238; horses over two years old, 38,585, value, $1,460,475; mules and asses over one year old, 305, value, $ 15,591; neat cattle over two years old, 99,406, value, $1,106,055; sheep over six months old, 140,599, value, $155,765; hogs six months old, 206,452, value, $202,897; pleasure carriages, 3,922, value, $151,904; watches, 3,577, value, $43,702; piano-fortes, 55, value, $8,135; value of capital stocks and profits in any company incorporated or unincorporated, 13,107; property in boats or vessels, $15,089; all other personal property over $ 100, $ 207,554 ; value of gold and silver coin and bank-notes in actual possession, $238,371; claims for money or other consideration, $ 470,858; value of annuities, $981; amount of notes, mortgages, &c., $105,956; miscellaneous property, $90,809. Total valuation, $22,623,334. Levy for State purposes, 2 mills on $1. The State tax in 1849 was $ 47,295.86, and in 1850 was $56,558.33, being an increase of $9,916.18. Common Schools. It is provided by the constitution, that a Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be chosen by the people for three years, and that all lands granted by Congress to this State, all escheated estates, and such per cent. as may be granted by Congress on the sale of the public lands in Iowa, shall constitute a perpetual fund, the interest of which, and the rents of the unsold lands, shall be applied to the support of common schools. The Assembly shall provide for a school in each school-district, for at least three months in each year; and all moneys received for exemption from military duty, and for fines imposed by the courts, shall be appropriated to support such schools, or the establishment of school libraries. The money arising from the lease or sale of public lands granted for the support of a university shall remain a perpetual fund to maintain such an institution. Permanent School Fund, Nov. 1st, 1848, $132,908.52.

XXX. WISCONSIN.
*Government for the Year 1852.

NELSON DEWEY, of Lancaster, Governor,

William A.Barstow,of Waukesha, Sec'y of State, & Auditor, “

Jairus C. Fairchild, of Madison, Treasurer,

of Milwaukee, Attorney-General,

Term expires.
Dec. 31, 1851, $1,250

Salary.

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S. Park Coon,
Eleazer Root,

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Levi Hubbell,

Mortimer M. Jackson,

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Edward V. Whiton,
Charles H. Larrabee,
Hirom Knowlton,
Timothy D. Howe,
Daniel H. Chandler,
Jerome R. Brigham,

* If returns of the election for State officers in November are received in time, they will be found in the Additions and Corrections at the end of the volume.

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Reporter.
Clerk.

Judge Hubbell belongs to the 2d circuit; and Judges Jackson, Whiton, Larrabee, Knowlton, and Howe, to the 5th, 1st, 3d, 6th, and 4th respectively. The judicial power of this State is vested in a Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, County Courts, and justices of the peace. Justices of the peace are elected in the several towns, hold office for two years, and have jurisdiction throughout their counties in civil matters when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed $100.

A County Court is established in each county. The judge is elected by the voters of the county, and holds office for four years. This court has jurisdiction concurrent with the Circuit Courts in all civil actions arising within the county, and in civil actions arising out of the county when the debt or damages claimed do not exceed $500, and exclusive appellate jurisdiction in all cases of appeal or certiorari, from justices of the peace. Also probate powers and jurisdiction.

A judge is elected by the
The Circuit Courts have

The State is divided into six judicial circuits. voters of each circuit, whose term is six years. general original jurisdiction in actions civil and criminal, at law and equity, within their circuits.

The Supreme Court is composed of the judges of the circuits, one of whom is elected by the other judges Chief Justice. Except the power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, and the like, this court has appellate jurisdiction only, and is the court of last resort. There can be no trial by jury in this court.

An institution for the education of the blind was organized in 1850, at Janesville. A tax of one fifteenth of a mill on every dollar of taxable property in the State is levied for its aid.

Internal Improvements. - The principal improvement of magnitude undertaken in this State is that of the navigation of the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, under a grant from Congress of about half a million acres of land. This work is under the immediate direction of a Board of Public Works, consisting of five persons, the Governor of the State having the general control and supervision of the whole work. The construction of the Canal, and the improvement of the Fox River, to Lake Winnebago, was under contract to be completed the 1st of June, 1850. But there has been a delay in the completion of the work, because the land granted by Congress did not meet with a ready sale. When the work is completed, it will open steamboat navigation between Lake Michigan, by the way of Green Bay, and the Mississippi River, nearly through the centre of the State. The first 20 miles of the railroad from Milwaukee to the Mississippi are completed and in operation, yielding a fair return for the capital invested. The next 30 miles are nearly completed. The length of the whole road as now contemplated is 200 miles. The plank roads completed are about as follows:- From Milwaukee, 100 miles; Racine, 30 miles; Kenosha, 15 miles; Sheboygan, 9 miles; and from Manitowoc, 5 miles. They have been found exceedingly useful and profitable the past season, when the heavy rains made all other roads almost impassable.

Common Schools. - - By the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction it appears that the capital of the School Fund, January 1, 1851, was $538,094.41, the interest of which at 7 per cent. is $37,666.61. This is derived from sales of the school lands in the years 1849 and 1850, from the 5 per cents, and from fines. The Superintendent states that the prospec tive fund to arise from sales of lands devoted to school purposes will amount to $5,301,943.44. The sum of $47,416.77 was, January 1, 1851, in the Treasury to be apportioned among the several towns in the State, which would give about 50 cents for each child attending school. For the year ending August 31, 1850, 1,700 out of 2,105 districts, and 650 parts of districts out

of 764, in the State made reports. In the districts reported, each school was taught on an average 4 96 months and all received $65,604.26 of public money. 61,597 out of the 92,047 children residing in the county between the ages of 4 and 20 attended school. 1,020 children under 4 years of age, and 688 over 20, attended school. Average monthly wages of male teachers, $17.14; of female, $9,02. $59,714 59 were expended for teachers' wages, $ 70.83 for libraries, and $3,678.61 for other purposes. There are 38 school-houses of brick, 51 of stone, 568 of logs, and 540 framed, and all are valued at $ 173,246.67. The highest valuation of any school-house is $5,000, and the lowest 5 cents. There were 87 private or select schools with an average of 39 pupils, and two incorporated academies, with an average of 75 pupils. FINANCES.

There is a Territorial debt of $ 12,892.75, which was due in June, 1851.

Total receipts for the year,

Total expenditures,

Total receipts since the organization of the State government,

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$93,889.88
62,746.20

$ 160,218.53 152.969.61

$7,248.92

14,309.58

8,793.44

[Legislature,
Printing,
State convicts (there being no prison), 3,093.52
Miscellaneous, including Revised

Salaries of Executive and Judiciary, $ 13,592.33) Statutes of 1849,

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JOHN BIGLER,
Jan. 1854).
Samuel Purdy,
Wm. Van Voorhies,
W. S. Pearce,
Richard Roman,
S. C. Hastings,

of Sacramento City, Governor (term expires Salary.†

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Wm. M. Eddy,

James H. Noony,

of San Francisco,

Surveyor-General,

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The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices. It has appellate jurisdiction where the matter in dispute exceeds $ 200, and where the legality of certain acts is questioned, and in certain criminal cases. The justices are elected by the people for six years, and are so classified that one goes out of office every two years. The senior judge in office is the chief justice.

* The capital of the State was for a while transferred to Vallejo, but the donor not comply. ing with his offer, the seat of government has been retransferred to San José.

↑ The "Salary Bill" reducing the expenses of the State to $100,000 per annum, was not signed by the Governor until two days after the adjournment of the legislature. It is doubt. ful whether it became a law.

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