Amount of taxable property, and of taxes assessed during the year 1843. Of this, how The whole amount of the State debt is $18,668,321.61. ever, $1,406,267.46 are owned by the State itself, being a part of the permanent school fund. $14,345,212.50 bear interest at 6 per cent., $1,500,000 at 7 per cent., and $550,000 at 5 per cent. The annual interest on this debt is regularly paid, being provided for by the proceeds of the public works, and by a permanent tax imposed by law. Interest on special funds for common schools, Interest on proceeds of 16th section in every township, Total, $100,314.50 99,814.32 28,387.98 56,133.92 $284,521.91 The law requires minute and specific returns of the condition of the schools each year; but there are no means of enforcing this law, and it is quite generally neglected. The few returns received in 1843 are so incomplete as to be worthless. The Secretary of State remarks, that "not a few of the township superintendents lack the capacity to make a report with the form before them." *Including, in most cases, amount expended on construction during the year. The following tabular statement exhibits the amount received on the Ohio and Miami Canals, and the amount paid since December 1, 1826: * Until 1833, when the canal was finished, repairs were charged as construction. †This amount includes tolls refunded. This includes expenditures on the Warren County Canal. $33,741.26 50,470.63 1,975 5,668.83 71,853.49 50,040.99 2,225 7,940.37 16,927.57 28,768.77 46,556.91 32,657.25 44,991.19 Received at Cleveland via the Ohio Canal. Years. Barrels of Flour. Bush. of Wheat. Barrels of Pork. Bushels of Coal. INSANITY. In the Ohio Lunatic Asylum, there have been admitted, during the past year, 207 patients-number discharged, 69. During the five years that the institution has been in operation, 473 insane persons have been admitted, of whom 203 have been cured. The following are the causes of the insanity of all who have come under the care of the Institution since its foundation: Intemperance, Ill health, 25 78 Seduction, XXIII. MICHIGAN. GOVERNMENT. JOHN S. BARRY, of Constantine, Governor, (term expires 1st Monday of January, 1846,) Origen D. Richardson, of Pontiac, Lieut. Governor, Robert P. Eldredge, of Macomb Co. Secretary of State, Charles G. Hammond, of Branch Co. Auditor-General, John J. Adam, Isaac E. Crary, Peter Morey, do. Salary. $1,500 Pay, $6 a day. 1,000 1,000 of Lenawee Co. Treasurer, 1,000 Superintend. Public Instruc. 500 1,000 Com'r of Int. Improvement, 1,000 Jonas H. Titus, of Jackson, Agent of State Prison, 1,000 The Senate consists of 18 members, elected for two years; the House of Representatives, of 53 members, elected annually. Pay of each, $3 a day, during the session of the legislature. The seat of government is at Detroit, or wherever the legislature shall direct, till 1847, when it is to be permanently established. Edwin M. Cust, of Livingston Co., President pro tem. of the Senate. E. B. Harrington, of Detroit, Reporter of Supreme Court and Court There are 5 Chancery Circuits. The terms of the 1st Circuit are held annually at the city of Detroit, on the 3d Tuesday in July, and the 1st Tuesday in February; of the 2d Circuit, at Ann Arbor, on the 2d Tuesday in January and July; of the 3d Circuit at Kalamazoo, on the 3d Tuesday in January, and the Thursday next after the 4th Tuesday in June; of the 4th Circuit at Pontiac, on the 1st Tuesday in May, and the Tuesday after the 2d Monday in November; of the 5th Circuit, at Adrian, on the 1st Tuesday in January, and the 3d Tuesday in June. The Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the period of 7 years. The terms of this court are held at Detroit, on the 1st Tuesday in January and June; at Ann Arbor, on the last Tuesday in December; at Kalamazoo, on the 1st Tuesday in July; and at Pontiac, on the 4th Tuesday in June. Circuit Courts. - There are 4 judicial circuits, in each of which one of the Judges of the Supreme Court sits as presiding Judge. District Criminal Court, for Wayne, Washtenaw, Jackson, and Oakland. B. F. H. Witherell, of Detroit, Presiding Judge, Salary, $1,000. FINANCES. I. General Fund. Estimated annual current expenses of State Gov Miscellaneous appropriations, 2,500 Int. on $100,000, General Fund stock, and $60,000, Penitentiary do., 9,600 on about $20,000 delinquent tax stock, 1,400 on warrants, &c. payable from General Fund, 3,000 70,000 Estimated revenue for current expenses for 1844: State tax of two mills, for 1843, $55,336 Specific tax on banks, brokers, and pedlers, 1,500 3,000 12,000 $71,836 Interest collected on delinquent taxes, say II. Internal Improvement Debt.· The State has received, or acknowledges due, on her five million loan debt, including interest from July 2d, 1841, to July 1st, 1845, funded or proposed to be funded, the sum of $2,987,000, or nearly $3,000,000; the annual interest of which, at 6 per cent., will be about $180,000. The annual receipts on the Central and Southern Railroads, on which the State relies for the payment of the above interest, are estimated, when the former shall be completed to Kalamazoo, at from $350,000 to $400,000, one half of which or more, when the roads are fully stocked with locomotives and cars, will be net profits, amounting to $175,000 or $200,000. III. University Stock. The interest on this stock, $100,000 at 6 per cent, or $6,000 per annum, is met regularly from the income of the University Fund, which now averages about $8,000 a year. IV. Loans to Railroad Companies. The only other stocks of this State, not enumerated above, were issued in pursuance of two loans to Railroad Companies, for which the State is contingently liable; one of $100,000 to the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad Company, and one of $20,000 to the Palmyra and Jackson Railroad Company. For the principal of the latter loan, and $6,300 of back interest, the State sold the road in June, 1844, and bid it in at $22,000. Fifteen miles of it, from Palmyra to Clinton, had been finished for two years or more, except ironing, and had been used some on the wooden superstructure. It is supposed, that that part of the road lying north of the southern railroad of the State will be ironed by the State, and converted into a branch of that road. On the loan of $100,000 to the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad Company, it is expected that the State will receive pay before the close of the year 1846; if not, the lien which the State has on the road is deemed ample security. |