The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-01-20
MESS A G. L
GOV. T. r. SKUNK.

/ To TIE Senate and H0;ase Of Representatives..
GENTLENEN:-The general health of
1 the people. tho rich rewards of husband
~, the quickening spirit that pervades
trade and industry, the enlarged prosperi-
" Of our country, and It's advance in mo-
raj and intellectual allainmenis-these,
under : Just sense OF our dependence,
swell our grateful acknowledgements, at
lhis time to IIu from whose benifcence
they ali proceed. Nothing has occurred
since the adjournment of the Legislature,
10 interrupt the harmony or check The
energies OF our Commonwealth. On the
contrary, intelligent enterprise has been
every where crowned with success.
The exeriions OF cur people to meet
/ the engagements OF the State, have thus
/ far been successful. The payment, by
number OF counties. of the whole amount
of their taxes for lS45, several months
/ before the time al which they have here
iofore been collected, added more than
/ 100000 to the effective revenues of the
year; and the last Legislature having ex-
clnded certain classes of debts from the
claims 10 be Immediately provided for by
the Treasury, we have been enabled 10
paw the interest which fell due on the
funded debt within the past fiscal year.-
On the first day of the present Session,
the balance remaining IN the Treasury
was about S625, 600, which. with the ac-
cruing revenues. viii be applicable to the
| demands of the first of next month. We
have thus the reasonable and gratifying
assurance, that the interest viii then also
be puncuallv paid.
The Public debt OF Pennsylvania, on
the Isl of December, ls45, as appears
from the report of the Auditor General,
was as follows:
Funded debt, S36,739.267 43
Relief Notes in circulation, l,25s, ,572 90
Interest Certificates out
Standing with interest
thereon, 2,ssS,S &c
Due 10 Domestic Creditors, 99,750 43
s4o,9s6,393 %
! The interest upon which,
according 10 the Auditor
| Generals computation
for 1876, is 2,023,996 09
The balance IN the Trea-
sury on the lst Decem-
Der. 1874, was 663,65l So
| The receipts into the same
during the wear ending
on the 30th November
last. as appears in detail
bv the reports of Audi
tor General and State
Treasurer. were 100000 81
Making an aggregate sum iS5.o|5,9i4 y
/ The payments from the
Treasury, during the
same period. were, accor-
ding to the reports Of the
same officers, 3.2s9,02o Is
Which being deductedfrom
the above. shows the ba-
lance in the Treasury,
on the lst December,
! Is45. 3S4,oS6 OS
/ Being less by S27S,965 20.
than il was on the lst
December, 1874.
/ The nett amount of availa-
BILE outstanding taxes on
real and personal estate,
after making allowances
for collections and exon
erations, on the Isl De-
cember, 1914, was esii-
mated BY the late State
/ Treasurer at $751;, ,30I
Il. Itappears. howev-
er, from subsequent es-
innate, founded upon
more full returns and
more accurate knowl-
edge of the extent of ex-
oneranons, that the a
mount actually outstan-
ding on that dav, was l,009,77S OS
The nett and available a..
mount outstanding on
the lst December, lS45,
Is estimated al e14, ,544 sc
The amount of outstanding
taxes on the lst Decem-
Der, lS45, is, therefore,
less than II was on the
1si December, 1874. by
the sum Of 1928 So
Adding TO this sum the DIFF
J ference between the bal
2nce IN the Treasury on