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A large majority of the voters voted, at the elections of August, 1847, and August, 1848, in favor of a convention to change the present constitution, and members of the convention for that purpose were elected in August, 1849, and the convention met October 1st, 1849.

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John L. Bridges, of Danville, Judge; salary, $1,300. A. H. Rennick, of Frankfort, Clerk. Joseph Gray, of Frankfort, Sergeant. The clerk and sergeant are paid by fees.

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The salaries of the circuit judges are as follows: - No. 5, $1,500; No. 12, $1,300; all others, $1,200 per annum. Attorneys receive each $300 per annum.

Board of Internal Improvement.· Owen G. Cates, of Frankfort, President (salary, $1,000). John B. Helm, of Bowling Green, and Austin P. Cox, of Frankfort, members; the latter acting as Secretary; salary, $500.

State Institutions for the Relief of the Unfortunate. — Lunatic Asylum, at Lexington, founded in 1822, number of inmates Jan 1, 1849, 271. Deaf and Dumb Asylum, at Danville, founded in 1822, number of pupils, Jan. 1, 1849, 50. School for the Blind, at Louisville, founded in 1842, number of pupils in 1849, 38. Marine Hospital, at Smithland, established in 1827. Penitentiary, established in 1798, number of prisoners at the close of 1849, 61. Louisville Marine Hospital, established in 1835. A new Lunatic Asylum is now building at Hopkinsville, in the southern part of the State, and will be completed in 1849.

FINANCES.

Sinking Fund. Certain resources are provided for the payment of the interest and principal of the public debt of the State. It is under the control and management of the following persons as Commissioners: -John J. Crittenden, Governor, and Chairman ex officio; John Tilfourd, President of Northern Bank of Kentucky; Virgil M'Knight, President of the Bank of Kentucky; J. B. Bowles, President of the Bank of Louisville; John B. Temple, Auditor; John F. Bell, Secretary of State; and E. H. Taylor, Cashier of Frankfort Branch Bank, Secretary ex officio. The receipts of the Fund during the year 1848 were $ 404,824.37; the expenditures for the same time, $363,943.15; leaving a balance of $ 40,881.22. The interest on the debt has been promptly paid.

Ordinary Revenue. - Receipts into the treasury for the year ending October 10, 1848, $419,567.42. Ordinary expenses of the government for the same time, $428,118.41, leaving a deficit of $8,550.99. Valuation of property liable to taxation in 1848, $272,847,696; increase since 1847, $18,131.513. A tax of 17 cents is collected on each $ 100 worth of property, 5 cents of which are appropriated to the payment of interest on the public debt, two cents for the support of common schools, and 10 cents to pay the ordinary expenses of government. Number of acres of land in the State liable to taxation, 425,063; value, $127,631,871; average value per acre, $6.57. Number of slaves liable to taxation, 192,470; value, $ 60,820,378. Number of horses, 353,249; mules, 41,081. Total number of white males over 21 years old in 1848, 142,976, of whom 139,612 vote at the various elections.

State Debt. The entire funded debt of the State is $4,532,913.81, to pay which the State owns $1,270,500 of bank stock, about 400 miles of turnpike-road stocks, 29 miles of railroad, and 290 miles of slack-water navigation, all of which yield upwards of $100,000 per annum; this, with a portion of the annual taxes, pays the interest on the public debt.

XXIV. OHIO.

Government for the Year 1850.

SEABURY FORD, of Geauga Co., Governor (term of office expires

on the 1st Monday in December, 1850),

Salary. $1,200

Salary.

John Woods,

Samuel Galloway, of Ross Co., Sec. of State and Sup't of Schools, $900

of Butler Co., Auditor of State,

1,200

Albert A. Bliss,

of Elyria,

Treasurer of State,

1,000

L. Dewey,

O. M. Mitchell,
E. Gale,

of Ravenna, Warden of the State Penitentiary,
of Cincinnati, Adjutant-General,

800

200

300

500

Samuel F. Carey,
John Greiner,

of Franklin Co., Quartermaster-General,
of Cincinnati, Paymaster-General.

of Zanesville, Librarian of the State Library,
Commissioners of the Board of Public Works.
E. S. Hamlin, of Columbus, Franklin Co., President,
Samuel Forrer, of Dayton, Montgomery Co., Act. Commis.,
J. Blickensderfer, of Tuscarawas, Tuscar. Co.,
E. N. Sill,
Richard Howe,
Samuel Carpenter, of Lancaster,

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The Auditor and Treasurer of State are advisory Commissioners of the

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The judges of the Supreme Court, of the Courts of Common Pleas, and of the courts of the cities, are elected by the Legislature for seven years. Of the judges of the Supreme Court, the oldest in commission is chief judge, if the chief judge is not reëlected. Two of the four judges hold a court in each county once every year. The several Courts of Common Pleas are held three times a year, by a resident judge and three associate judges in most of the counties; but in the counties very recently organized, only twice a year. The judges who receive but $1,000 salary were elected after the law of January, 1844, reducing the salaries of public officers, was passed. The associate judges receive $ 2.50 a day.

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Rufus P. Spalding, of Akron, Summit Co.,

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1,500

Wm. B. Caldwell, of Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., “

1,500

Lewis Heyl, of Columbus, Clerk of Court in Bank, and Sup. Ct. Franklin Co.

Salary.

Isaac G. Burnet, of Cincinnati, Clerk of Supreme Court, Hamilton Co.
Henry Stanberry, of Columbus, Attorney-General,
Hiram Griswold, of Canton, Stark Co., Reporter,

$1,300

300

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William Johnson,

66

66 Cincinnati,

1,000

Thomas M. Key,

* Commercial Court of Cincinnati, 1,000

The Superior Court of Cincinnati has original civil jurisdiction with the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton Co., at common law and in chancery. The Commercial Court of Cincinnati has original concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton Co., in all cases founded on matter of contract, both at law and in chancery. It is held by a single judge, appointed by the Legislature for the term of seven years. It has also a jury, in all respects like the Common Pleas. Suits are reviewed by the Supreme Court upon appeal and writs of error.

FINANCES

For the Fiscal Year ending November 15th, 1848. The total amount of receipts for the year ending Nov. 15th, 1848, was Balance in Treasury, Nov. 15th, 1847,

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$2,473,702.31 494,698.64

$2,968,400.85 2,541,948.97

$426,451.88

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Total State debt and annual interest, Nov. 15th, 1848, $19,173,223.22

1,022,358.95

$1,159,893.39

During the year a temporary debt of $259,418 has been paid, and $107,818.08 of the foreign and domestic debt has been redeemed and cancelled. The irreducible stock, upon which the State pays six per cent. interest to the townships and districts from which the funds were received, forms a part of the State debt which is not to be repaid. The surplus revenue repaid by the counties, and now in the treasury and in the hands of the commissioners, amounts to $1,653,084.06, and is pledged to the redemption of $1,500,000, 7 per cent. stock, payable in 1851. Of the domestic bonds, the canal bonds are pledged to the redemption of $270,661.51, and the railroad, canal, and turnpike stocks held by the State are fairly worth $1,000,000. Deducting these several sums from the present amount of the State debt, and there remains $14,835,630.84 to be provided for out of the ordinary revenues of the State. These are derived from the tolls, &c., of the public works, and from taxation. The gross income of the public works for the year was $879,389.39. The total value of taxable property, real and personal, in the State, for the year 1848, was $421,067,991; upon which the State tax was $ 1,265,769.26. The following table exhibits the present revenue of the State as compared with former tax laws.

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The number and value of the domestic animals in the State, by the assessors' returns for 1848, were as follows:- Number of horses, 492,509, -value, $ 16,856.84; number of mules, 2,098, -value, $78,955; number of cattle, 983,822, → value, $9,729,929; number of sheep, 3,677,171,- value, $1,988,316; number of hogs, 1,879,689, — value, $2,341,106. The whole value of personal property, upon the duplicates, was $ 90,072,718.

Common Schools.- Amount of School Fund owned by the State, $1,566,930.87. Amount apportioned for school purposes to the several counties for the year 1848, $291,796.09. The number of whole school-districts in the State is 6,826; of fractional districts, 835; of common schools, 5,062; of teachers, male, 2,799, female, 2,412; of scholars enrolled, males, 50,211, females, 44,219; average daily attendance, males, 50,442, females, 40,253. The amount of wages paid to teachers from public funds was, to males, $116,812.82, to females, $32,392.62; from other sources, males, $25,154.81, females, $50,442. Number of months common

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