Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-08

The to the free banks amount to ST 056
being So 052 than December l. 1851 and al
the banks the LIST December $685. $780, 1885, agans
$27, 254, ass in September, 1851.
The annual report Of the superintendent of the banking
department viii call the attention Of the Legislature to
the evils attending the establishment Of banks merely for
the purpose Of getting notes into circulation and will
commend further legislative restraints the subject.
Returns have been received from twenty-seven Of the
thirty railroads which reported last year Forty-one adj
dtona corporations have filed articles Of association
Some of them known to be completed and upon 9TH
large expenditures have been made but Of them
have transmitted their annual reports required by law
The number Of miles in the twentyseven roads
which have reported is 1871 Add the length Of the three
roads not reported given last year and it makes
total Of 027 miles, being increase Of 297 miles on
the number included in the previous annual report The
total cost Of the twenty roads the st Of Janu
airy last is $780, The total expenditure all the
roads constructed and commenced in the State is proba
bly, about one hundred million dollars.
The number Of passengers carried twenty roads
061 900 miles travelled with passengers 1872 S47
667. The increase eighteen roads was: Passengers
487 087; miles travelled 90 1858 860 Tons Of freight
carried on twenty-one roads 206Q,379. Increase on
seventeen oads 82l 100 tons Persons injured in life
and limb BY accident twentysix roads, 256 of whom
were killed 1853. Increase last year on twenty-five
roads, SO killed. A injured.
The Governor then goes into long review of the en-
barrassed condition Of the public works Of the State
sequent upon the constitutional restrictions relative to
expenditures upon them the decision that the nine mil
lions enlargement loan law unconstitutional and the
decrease in the of the canals from the reductions
Of tolls last year Nearly one-ha Of the message is de-
voted to these subjects.
We have not time to-day prepare an analysis Of this
portion Of the document The policy which the Governor
advocates is the gradual completion of the canals by
additional expenditure Of about million Of dollars
portion Of which he proposes to raise by the imposition
Of State tax, which, with that imposed for the sup
port Of Government shall be equal to about mill
the dollar on the assessed valuations Of 1851.
The repayment of the 81 800 900 borrowed under the
canal enlargement law and the payment for work per-
formed on contracts under It, recommended the
cessary amount to be raised by tax under law sub
med to the people to authorize the contraction of debt
for the purpose
Il is recommended that immediate provision be also
made for the payment Of the 1926 900 due contractors
for work done, relative to which have previously had
report from the canal auditor
The finances Of the State not satisfactory
don In 1914 the State had fund for the support Of
its Government Of 81 1885, 943 This has been spent and
on the LIST June 1896 debt was owing Of 992 $40 81
and the debt is increasing by the accumulation Of
interest.
The expenses Of the State Government for the fiscal
year ending September 80 1882 exceeded its
by about two hundred thousand dollars II is believed
that many charges upon the treasury be cut of
diminished Ii they cannot, the State must withhold its
benefacons from institutions of learning and asyums,
must increase the amount Of imposed for the sup
port Of Government