Georgia Central Railroad and Banking Company. Amount of property in the banking department, $239,233; banking liabilities for circulation and deposits, about $80,000; expended for Railroad to Dec. 2, 1845, $2,964,193. The number of passengers transported on this road in 1845, was 14,611. The amount of receipts from passengers, $60,000; from freight, chiefly cotton, and mail, $308,340; total earnings of the year, $368,450; do. of the preceding year, $328,424. The number of bales of cotton transported, was 114,641. The expenses of the year amounted to $186,886, of which $78,286 were for maintenance of way, $54,460 for motive power and maintenance of machinery, and $8,573 for maintenance of cars. The number of miles run by locomotives was 223,241. XVI. FLORIDA. GOVERNMENT. WILLIAM D. MOSELEY, of Mickossukie, Governor, (term expires Salary. $1,500 Fees & 600 800 800 500 $3 a day. Speaker of the House, 3 a day. Secretary of the Senate, 6 a day. 6 a day. Governor's Private Secretary, President of the Senate, The General Assembly, chosen on the 1st Monday of October, meets on the 1st Monday in November of each year. The Representatives are elected for one year, and the Senators for two years; the number of Representatives can never exceed sixty. Thomas Douglass, JUDICIARY. Circuit Courts. of Jacksonville, Chief Judge, Eastern Circuit, $2,000 Salary. John C. Smith, of Apalachicola, Solicitor, Western Circuit, Fees & 200 Thomas J. Heir, of Monticello, Felix G. Livingston, of Columbus, of Key West, do. Eastern do. 200 do. CC 200 Thomas F. King, The Judges of the Circuits are also Justices of the Supreme Court, and hold court in the several circuits alternately. The Circuit Courts have original common law jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal. They also have original equity jurisdiction, until a separate Chancery Court shall be established by the Legislature. The judges are elected by concurrent vote of a majority of both Houses, and are chosen at first for five years; after that term, during good behavior. They may be removed by impeachment, or by address of two thirds of each House. The Attorney General is elected by joint vote of the two Houses for four years; the Solicitor also for each circuit for the same term. XVII. ALABAMA. GOVERNMENT. JOSHUA L. MARTIN, of Tuscaloosa, Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Monday in December, 1847,) William Garrett, Jefferson C. Van Dyke, Secretary of State, Comptroller of Public Accounts, Salary. $2,500 Fees and 1,200 Fees and 1,000 Fees and 1,000 Fees and 425 200 of Tuscaloosa, Attorney General, 200 The Secretary of State, the Comptroller, and the Treasurer, are elected for two years, by a joint vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly. The Senate consists of 33 members, elected for four years, one half of them going out every two years. The House of Representatives consists of 100 members, elected for two years. The pay of the members of both Houses is $4 a day each. John A. Wington, Andrew B. Moore, The legislature changed the seat of government from Tuscaloosa to the city of Montgomery. The building of the new State House in Montgomery has been commenced. The corner stone was laid, with Masonic ceremonies, on the 4th of July, 1846. The following is an extract from one of the memorials deposited therein : "This city was founded by Andrew Dexter, a native of the city of Boston, Mass. * * * He died in the city of Mobile in the year 1837. The city was named after General Montgomery, who fell at the storming of Quebec. The county was named after Major Montgomery, who fell at the battle of the Horse Shoe." When the new State House shall be completed, the public offices of the State, its records and archives, are to be removed from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery. The judges of all the Courts, and the Chancellors, are elected by a joint vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly, for six years. The judges of the Supreme Court are the reporters of their own decisions, and the number of volumes published is now 26. The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction only, and only upon points of law, taken up from the Chancery, Circuit, County, and Criminal Courts, by appeal or writ of error. This Court sits at the seat of government, on the 1st Monday of June and the 2d Monday of December. Anderson Crenshaw, of Manningham, Chancellor of the Southern Div'n, $1,500 Wiley W. Mason, of Wetumpka, do. do. Middle do. 1,500 David G. Ligon, of Moulton, do. do. Northern do. 1,500 The Southern division includes the counties of Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, Clarke, Sumter, Marengo, Monroe, Conecuh, Covington, Butler, Dale, Coffee, Henry, Barbour, Pike, Montgomery, Lowndes, and Wilcox. The Middle division includes the counties of Russell, Chambers, Randolph, Macon, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Autauga, Dallas, Perry, Greene, Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Fayette, Marion, Walker, Jefferson, Bibb, and Shelby. The Northern division includes the counties of Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan, Blount, St. Clair, Marshall, Jackson, De Kalb, Cherokee, Benton, and Talladega. The State is divided into forty districts, and one session of the Court is held annually in each district, except in Mobile, Sumpter, and Montgomery districts, where two sessions are held. The Circuit Court has original jurisdiction in all civil and criminal causes in the State; and appellate jurisdiction in all appeals and certioraris brought up from inferior tribunals. Two sessions of this Court are held each year in every county in the State. The Solicitors receive $250 and fees, except the one in the 1st Circuit, who receives $350, and the Attorney General, who is Solicitor for the 3d Circuit. The Criminal Court for Mobile County holds three terms in each year, on the 1st Mondays of November, February, and June. Common School Fund. This fund arises from the sale of lands granted by Congress. It belongs, by the terms of the grant, to the several townships in the State, in proportion to the amount for which the lands lying in each township may have been sold. Much of the amount of sales is not collected, and much of the land remains unsold. The fund actually collected, as ascertained from a report to the last legislature, is $927,849 80. This amount includes the interest due, which in the same report is estimated at $68,238. The interest is applicable to the support of common schools in each township. annum. University Fund. The amount of this fund is $300,000. It yields an interest of $18,000 per Balances of former years, the receipts for tuition, and moneys derived from other sources, made the available funds subject to expenditure on 27th November, 1845, $33,820 01. The expenses for the year, paid from this amount, were at that date $25,517 84, leaving an unexpended balance of $8,302 17. Principal Items of Expenditure. Pay of members and other expenses of the Legislature, From a report of a committee of the legislature in January, 1846, it appears that the indebtedness of the State is Revenue fund, surplus revenue, and three per cent. fund, 1,517,970 43 $1,113,000 00 at 6 per cent. in 1850 $3,843,000 00 at 5 per cent. in 1863 300,000 00 at 5 per cent. in 1852 959,000 00 at 5 per cent. in 1865 1,043,555 55 at 5 per cent. in 1858 2,317,000 00 at 5 per cent. in 1866 600,000 00 at 5 per cent. in 1859 The interest on State bonds payable in England, $184,707 80 The interest has heretofore been punctually paid. The last legislature provided ample means for maintaining the future credit of the State. The aggregate of assets held by the banks is said by the same committee to be $14,023,113 08, from which, in their opinion, only $6,000,000 can be realized. The bank and branches are all in process of liquidation. From November, 1844, to Nov. 1845, the total collections amounted to $1,746,741 68. |