XXI. KENTUCKY. GOVERNMENT. Salary. WILLIAM OWSLEY, of Boyle Co., Governor, (term of office The Senate consists of 38 members, elected for four years, one fourth being elected every year. The House of Representatives consists of 100, elected annually on the 1st Monday in August. Pay, $3 a day, besides mileage. The Speaker receives $6 a day, and the Clerks $10 a day each. JUDICIARY. Quartermaster General, 100 State Librarian, 250 Sup. of Public Instruction, 750 The State is divided into eighteen Circuits or Districts, and the following are the Circuit Judges, who have each a salary of $1,200, except the Judge of the 5th Circuit, who receives $1,500, and the Judge of the 12th, $1,300. Each Circuit has an attorney, who receives $300 and fees. The Governor is authorized to make such temporary appointments of Engineers, as may be deemed expedient by the Board. FINANCES. The State debt is $4,064,500, of which $615,000 is at the rate of 5 per cent., and the balance at 6 per cent. interest. The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund have promptly paid the interest on the debt. The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund are W. Owsley, Governor and Chairman ex officio; John Tilford, President of the Northern Bank of Kentucky; Virgil McKnight, President of the Bank of Kentucky; Joshua B. Bowles, President of the Bank of Louisville; Ben. Hardin, Secretary and Treasurer. Banks. There are three principal Banks. (1.) The Bank of Kentucky, at Louisville; capital, $3,700,000, of which the State owns 7,239 shares, of $100 each. It has branches at Lexington, Maysville, Danville, Greensburgh, Hopkinsville, and Frankfort. Virgil McKnight, President, and Geo. C. Gwathmey, Cashier. (2.) Northern Bank of Kentucky, at Lexington; capital, $2,237,000. John Tilford, President; M. T. Scott, Cashier. It has branches at Paris, Richmond, Covington, and Louisville. The State owns 2,540 shares, at $100 each. The usual dividend is 7 per cent. per annum. (3.) Bank of Louisville; capital, $1,083,800, branches at Paducah and Flemingsburgh. The State owns 406 shares. The usual dividend is 6 per cent. Value of taxable property, in 1843, $196,729,033; white males over 21, in 1843, 124,700. Total revenue, $312,235.86, exclusive of Bank stocks, tolls on rivers and roads, and profits of the Penitentiary. Surplus in the Treasury, Oct. 10, 1843, $64,614.10 Board of Education. Ryland T. Dillard, of Lexington, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Chairman ex officio. Salary, $750 and expenses. Ben. Hardin, Secretary of State, and Owen G. Cates, Attorney General, members ex officio. STATE INSTITUTIONS. - Lunatic Asylum, at Lexington, founded in 1822. Average number of inmates during 1843, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Danville, founded in 1822. Pupils, Penitentiary, established in 1798. Number of convicts in 1843, 66 Average annual profits for four preceding years, $28,000. Number of Boats that have passed, and amount of Tolls received, on the 170 24 19 166 XXII. OHIO. GOVERNMENT. THOMAS W. BARTLEY, of Mansfield, Acting Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Monday in December, 1844,) Samuel Galloway, of Ross Co., Salary. $1,000 Secretary of State, 500 of Mansfield, of Springfield, The Auditor and Treasurer of State are advisory Commissioners of the Canal Fund. Thomas W. Bartley, The Judges of the Supreme Court, the President and Associate Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, and the Judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, are elected by the legislature, for seven years. Of the Judges of the Supreme Court, the oldest in commission is Chief Judge. Two of the four Judges form a quorum, who hold a court in each county once every year. Superior Court of Cincinnati. David K. Esté, of Cincinnati, Judge, Salary, $1,200 This Court has concurrent jurisdiction, with the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hamilton, at common law and in chancery. The several Courts of Common Pleas are held, three times a year, by a President Judge and three Associate Judges, in most of the counties; but in the counties very recently organized, only twice a year. Three of the above-mentioned Judges receive but $730 per annum, because they were elected after the law of January, 1844, reducing the salaries of public officers, was passed. The Associate Judges receive $2.50 a day. FINANCES. Balance remaining in the Treasury, November 15th, 1842, $64,361.25 Amount collected and paid by County Treasurers, in the year ending November 15th, 1843, Miscellaneous items of revenue, 199,468.72 Total receipts, Expenditure during the year, Balance in Treasury, November 15, 1843, State officers, Judges and Reporter, 64,440.31 $328,270.28 233,462.36 94,807.92 $19,000.00 The following are some of the chief items of expenditure: 25,800.00 Institution for the Blind, 10,300.00 $7,600.00 Lunatic Asylum, |