Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-01-28

we give below a condensed statement OF
the. prominent features of the report OF the
Secretary of State, Hon Charles D. Robin
son.
The general fund for the year amounts to
S135,I55
OF the above amount, there was raised by
ray $82, POS
Raised on State loans, authoriz-
ed last winter $4,000
The expenditures for. the year ....
chargable to the general fund a.
mount to l36,096
Being an excess. on the receipts
of $40
The princi pie items of expenditure during
he past year are as follows;
Legislative expenses 49,. $45,406
Salaries. 12,O50
PRINTING. 10907
CONTINGENT expenses $4,000
Institute for blind, 1900
State prisoners, 4,340
Emigrant Agency, l,5O0
The JUDICIARY Fund which consists of
tax of one dollar on each suit commence
in the Circuit Courts, and goes to pay the
salary of the Judges amounted, for the year,
TO S2.l24, and, with the balance on hand,
Jan. Ist 1852, to S2,749. Ofthis sum- 81,
588 has been paid to the Judges, leaving 81, )
I6I unaccounted for in the hands of Clerks
of Court.
The School Fund has capital Of s8l9,-
200. all of which, with the exception Of 81 :
III in the Treasury, is drawing interest at
the rate Of per cent per annum. The IN
come of the fund for 1852, was :59,877; Of
which $53,6l3 was apportioned among the
different counties and 1886 expended on
pats, &c The income for the current year,
subject to apportioument for the support OF
schools, will be *e8,l99.
The capital of the UNIVERSITY Fun IS
&45,44l, and the income applicable to tho
University, for current year, s3,04l.
The FUND FOR THE BLIND is made up Of
tax of lis Of mill on the taxable prop
ertv of the State; amounting fer the year, to
$l,S23. OF this sum Sl,4l7 has been re-
ceiyed and paid over to the Trustees, loaving
4O5 still due from different counties.
The account Of the State Treasurer shows
that the total receipts, on account Of the diff
ferent funds for the year just past, were $500
O03 and that the cash on land, Jan. lst.
1853, on account of all funds was, $l3, l68.
The estimated expenses for the current
wear 1853, are as follows:
Salaries S22,5OO
Legislative $4,000
State Departments $3.50
Miscellaneous 1925
Total S99,275
To meet this the Secretary estimates the
receipts at $ll8,557, yielding a probable sur
plus to the Treasury, ut the close of the year
Of 10000.
The report next touches upon the some
what difficult question of ASSESSMENT, and
urges very strongly the justice and proprle-
" Of some legislation which shall eluallZc
,4e burthens of taxation. BY comparing the
returns of the census of 1880, with those of
the seyerm town assessors, ar the same year,
the secretary shows a very wide discrepancy
between those two different valuations, and
consequently great difference in the propor-
tionS Of the public expense which the oeve~
raj counties bear 1t would seem from this
comparison that Grant county bears the high
-; percentage of property to wit 81 per cent;
while Kenosha county pays the lowest, namely
- per cent. Milwaukee, it appears pays on
81 per cent Racine ON 40, Waukesha on II,
and Dane on 40,
TIL amount of taxable property in the
State Is $27,OI7,522 The amount Of State
tax, 3! mills on the dollar, i, $9479l, and
the amount Of arrearages due from >lndry
counties, SS,296