lies the future, these recommendations will receive little attention from the Legislature or from the people. By and by, however, when a continuous funding system will have saddled upon the people a rate of taxation of European character, and that too merely to pay interest, without one or scarcely one visible monument of value in return; there will, when too late, be some waking up from this prosperous dream. Not a building save the Insane Asylum and the Prison-not a place where a State officer can leave a paper with safety, belongs to the State. After an expenditure of more than three millions of dollars, and after seven removals of the archives of State, they are subject to be burned or stolen by any one sufficiently industrious to take the trouble. All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) BENICIA, October 31, 1853. APPENDIX "A." Cash Receipts, July 1st, 1851, to April 1st, 1852, into State Treasury. Sept. 9. Santa Cruz county, city, 20. San Joaquin county, 315 40 1851. CR. 381 17 Sept. 15. Paid to Sacramento State Hospital, 4,680 66 817 67 Divers dates paid Sacramento and Stockton 9,258 62 11. to 19. E. D. Hammond, Clerk to Treasurer, 1,814 50 19. San Francisco county, 30,000 00 Nov. 11. J. S. Houston, 600, 2,000, 2,600 00 11. W. M. Smith, Clerk to Comptroller, 600, 100, |
