Whole amount of State debt, Annual interest on this debt, Principal Items of Expenditure. $3,254,416 66 172,348 74 Chief Sources of Income. Salaries of the Judiciary, $34,876.77 Direct taxes on property, $94,272.29 7,018.77 on privileges, 52,081.05 on banks, 15,375.00 9,064.06 Amount of School Fund distributed in July, 1846, $117,805 08. Number of scholastic population at that time, 256,098. Lunatic Asylum, at Nashville, opened for the reception of patients in 1840; Dr. John S. McNairy, Superintendent and Physician. The number of inmates in 1845 was 49, of whom 32 were males and 17 females; 13 were discharged perfectly restored, and 5 much improved; died, 5. Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, at Nashville; established in 1846. Number of pupils, 14. Deaf and Dumb School, at Knoxville; established in 1846. Number of pupils, 9. The Legislature at the last session appropriated $2,500, annually, to each of these Schools. State Prison, at Nashville. Earnings of convicts in two years ending Sept. 30, 1845, $51,345 47 Expenditures of prison 66 แ Number of prisoners in confinement Sept. 30, 1843, 194 since received, white males, 121; black males, 8 females, 4; Total, 327 Of these, 58 were discharged by expiration of their terms; 43 by pardon under law of 1836, and 6 by general pardon; escaped, 2; died, 29; now in confinement, 189. There were sentenced for murder in first degree, 9; murder in second degree, 17; assault with intent to murder, 7; manslaughter, 1; stabbing, 7; negro stealing, 7; harboring runaway slave, 1; rape, 7; incest, 2; grand larceny, 49; petit larceny, 30; horse stealing, 16; bigamy, 4; buggery, 1; counterfeiting, 9; forgery, 4; burglary, 4; arson, 3; perjury, 1; shooting, 2; robbery, 1; receiving stolen goods, 3; false pretences, 4. XXIII. KENTUCKY. GOVERNMENT. Salary. WILLIAM OWSLEY, of Boyle Co., Governor, (term of office expires in September, 1848, Pay, while presiding, Assist. Sec. of State and $2,500 Henderson Co., Lieutenant Governor and $6 a day. Joseph R. Underwood, of Bowling Green, Speaker of the House, $6 a day. 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. Pay, $3 a day, for the first sixty days, and $2 a day afterwards, besides mileage of 12 1-2 cents per mile. This Court has appellate jurisdiction only, in civil cases, both at law and in equity. In criminal cases, the judgments of the Circuit Courts are final, excepting only the power of the Governor to pardon, which is unlimited, except in cases of treason and impeachment. General Court. John L. Bridges, of Danville, Judge. A. H. Rennick, of Frankfort, Clerk. All the judges of the Circuit Courts are members of the General Court. But it is made the special duty of the judge of the 12th Circuit to hold the Court, and he is allowed $100 additional salary. The State is divided into nineteen 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, at Louisville, who receives $1,500, and the judge of the 12th, $1,300. These Courts have original jurisdiction, both at law and in equity, and over criminal cases arising in their respective Circuits. Each Circuit has an attorney, who receives $300 and fees. Estimating this as 5 per cent. income, it represents a capital of $1,354,869; and this sum also being deducted from the State debt leaves but $1,784,087 of actual 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; Harry J. Bodley, Auditor of Accounts; Thomas S. Page, 2d Auditor of the State; E. H. Taylor, and A. S. Mitchell, Secretary. Esq.; Revenue received for the fiscal year ending Oct. 10, 1845, including balance of $41,114 30; on hand Oct. 10, 1844, $395,808 46; ordinary expenses of government, same time, $255,643 71; paid to Sinking Fund in the same time, $106,720 39; balance in treasury, Oct. 10, 1845, $33,444 36. Valuation of property liable to taxation in the year 1845, $228,488,161 00; tax on the same, 15 cents on each $100; specific tax on carriages, &c., $17,031 79. One third of the net revenue is set apart by law for the use of the Sinking Fund, to pay interest on the State debt, contracted principally for turnpike roads, slackwatering rivers, &c. The charges on the Sinking Fund, for interest on public debt, exchange, interest, contingent expenses, salaries, &c., from Feb. 20, 1845, to Jan. 1, 1846, $282,766 59; the receipts in the same time, $310,227 58. The State debt amounts to $4,408,400 00, of which $3,793,400 at 6 per cent., and $615,000 at 5 per cent., makes annual interest $258,354. The State owns productive bank stock amounting to $1,270,500. "This sum deducted from the entire amount of debt, as above stated, leaves $3,138,956, which may be considered as the actual bur then of debt on the State. But when we consider that, to meet this indebtedness, the State has a very large amount of stock in the various turnpike roads, and owns the entire Kentucky and Green River navigation, which are yearly becoming more productive to the State, and therefore more valuable; and that the State also owns the Lexington and Ohio Railroad, which is in successful operation, and yielding a handsome rent to the State, —it will be seen that the indebtedness may be considered as greatly diminished by these vast assets, and all fears of oppression of the people, by reason of their State debt, dismissed as groundless and illusory." MORDECAI BARTLEY, Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Salary. $1,200 Commissioners of the Board of Public Works. 100 100 500 B. W. Brice, E. N. Slocum, John Greiner, Oran Follett, of Sandusky City, Samuel Forrer, Jacob Blickensderffer, of Dayton, of Tuscarawas Co., E. N. Sill, Acting Commissioner of the Canal Fund, The Auditor and Treasurer of State are advisory Commissioners of the $750 730 730 666 |