The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-01-16
COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA, THURSDAY, JANUARY .l6 1851.

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OF patients. This work oil charity, worthy
OF the best care of the philanthropist, from
lis admirable construction and healthful loc;
tion, cannot fail to answer the ends of 1T
benevolent founders, II deserves the foste
ing care Of the Legislature.
In the performance of your duties, alter
tion is most earnestly directed to the revi.
ion of the laws in relation 10 taverns, res
taurants, beer houses and ten.pin alleys. /
is alleged that in many instances they are
made the common resort of the young, the
idle, apd the worthless, 10 the great detrimen
of the moral well-being of the rising genera
ton.
The suggestions and recommendations oil
former messages in reference to the equaliza
ton of Tax laws, payment of portions Of the
public debt overdue, the currency, and pub
l'c improvements, are again pressed on your
attention.-The loan authorized at the last
session to redeem the over due public debt,
has not been negotiated,J
The financial condition of the Common
wealth is exhibited in the following state
ments:
Amount of funded debt, including amount
IN the bands of Commissioners of Sinking
Fund, and also special loan to avoid Inclined
Plane at the Schuylkill, on the 30th of No
vember, 1850, was $39,S52 ,914 rs
Amt of unfunded debt 1850 9l2, $40 81
Total sum of debt, 40,775,4s5 "a
In this gross sum is included the loan to
avoid the Plane at tha Schuylkil as above
siated-the avoidance of the Plane authori
sed the sale of that portion of the Columbia
Railroad and Viaduct over the Schuylkil,
rendered useless by the cons truction of the
new road. A part of the road and bridge
was sold for $243, 200, which amount is to
be applied as directed by the 18th Section of
the Act of 10th April, 1s49, towards the per
manent improvement of the Columbia rail
way. The actual cost OF this great improve
ment, whereby the Plane has been avoided,
the use of the public works much facilitated
and an annual saving of thirty one thousand
dollars secured to the Treasury, in the disuse
of the machinery and labor necessarily con
nected with the plane, is shown as follows
Amt of cost OF new road, say 100000 90
Deduct price ofold road sold, 243.OoO 90
The SinkingFun operation is exhibited
thus:
Amt of funds reed during year S197, 1913 "a
Amt of stocks purchas'd .' g 343, ,622 98
Amt IN hands of Commissioners
on 3oth Nov, 1850, 5,967 60
Whole amt reed since commen.
cement of system, 1855 rs
Whole amount Of stocks purchas
ed, 45s, 1922 %
Ami of mon ey in hands on 3Oth
Nov, 1850, 5,967 90
FURTHER EXPOsITIoNs OF THE Pu BLlC DEBT. {.
Amt of debt on Both Novem
Der 1850, 4o,75,4s5 10
Amt of stocks and cash in
hands of Com'rs. of Sinking
Fund, S465,09O So
Deduct amount of special loan
the interest thereof saved
in the disconlnuance of the
Plane, 100000 90 865,O9O So
s3s,sio,s9 81
Amt of debt on 3oth Nov.'4s
Funded, S39,393, $50 "a
Unfunded, 1.0S1,3 1856 SO
Canal, Railroad,
and Motive
Power debts re.
turned in 1S49
and $50, being
debts contract
ed prior TO lst
Dec. 1913, 373,S6i 4S
Total indebtedness, S40,s4s,5 ,59s Al
Actual Indebtedness, including
Inclined Plane Loan on 30th
Nov, 1850, and excluding
amt, in hards of sinking
fund Commissioner, S40,3l0,394 81
Actual decrease of public debt
since soth Nov, 1s4s, S438,203 81
Within the same period, there has been
paid from the treasury appropriations that
may be called extraordinary, as follows:
Towards completion oil North
Branch Canal, SI4s. 500 90
To avoid Inclined Plane, 3OQ.446 02
If these sums, from the payment whereof
the Treasury will be relieved by the compile.
ton OF the Improvements above stated, be
added to the. actual reduction of publc debt
above exhibiedth the conclusion is clear, tha,
at very early date, an annual appropra.
ton of nearly one million dollars may be
made towards the reduction Of the public
debt.
Annexed is an estimate of the receipts
and expenditures of the present, with the
estimate of last year, and the actual receipts
atihe Treasury.
Estimate Receipts Estimates
for 1850 for 1850 for 1851
Lands, $4,000 S16,37s 5s $4,000
Auction Com. 90, 900 1868 rs 10000
duties, $4,000 44,s9S 90 $4,000
Tax on bank
div'ds, 10000 1887 IA 100, 900
Tax on Corp'n
stocks, 100000 1se,51o IA Iso, 900
Tax on Real
and Personal
Estate, 1,3sO,Ooo 1917, ,s2i 55 !, 1880, 900
Licenses, Idv'rnssO, 900 iO7, ,427 SO 100000
Retailers, 100000 174,062 SO 175,0O5
Pedlars, 5000 2bQ5 O5 1000