The weekly Columbian., 1857-03-14
Report of the Controller Of the State.

This report occupies, with the tables,
some forty pages. The expenditures
and resources of the Government are
fully shown. The report says:
"The idea seems to have prevailed,
not only in the Convention that framed
the Constitution, but with succeeding
| Legislatures, that the sources Of wealth
to the State were commensurate with
the extraordinary rewards that have re-
suited to individual enterprise. From
this seeming idea system of govern
ment has been instituted, the ordinary
cost of which even, when frugally ad-
ministered must, for many years to come,
greatly exceed revenue the collection
of which would be at all tolerable to our
people, and has likewise stimulated
plan of extravagant and reckless expen-
diture, the consequence of which has
been to involve the State in large debt
and seriously to impair her credit"
The funded debt ofthe State, exclus-
i've of fthe Indian war debt, is placed at
S3,239,4SS, upon which we pay an an
nual interest of 226,764. On the gross
amount of this debt it is estimated that
the State has only realized seventy cents
on the dollar.
The expenditures for the fiscal year
ending the 30th of June last, it is stated
to have been S1,36S,6S4, while the re-
ceipts only amounted to 723,2S9. show
ing deficiency of S645,394! For the
year 1855, the total expenditure for the
ordinary expenses of the State Govern
ment of Ohio only amounted to $685.
$50! The public printing of California,
from July 1855 to January 31st, 1856, a
period of nineteen months, cost the sum
of 240,469! The salaries of County
Judges and the incidental expense of the
Courts of Sessions and the County
Courts, are given in the aggregate at
$4,000 annually. Although poll tax
is levied which should bring into the
treasury ofthe State a net revenue of
s16s,300, but $4,000 is paid in. The
report suggests the abolishing of the of
fee of Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton, Office of Quarter Master General,
office of County Judge. enactment of
law taxing sales at auction, restricting
sessions of the Legislature to sixty days,
taxing all lands claimed against the gov
ernment &c. 1t contains no arguments
but few brief suggestions, all of which
are found in four pamphlet pages, and
then we come to the tables. The first is
receipts for the fiscal year, showing that
San Francisco Co. paid S13O,s46 OF the
S723,000 collected.
The expenditures are next; the Ex-
ecuiiye Department amounts to S114,-
600; the Judicial, to SlO5, 1000; the Leg
islative, to 292 900; for Hospital purpo-
ses, S141,163 for Schools, S52 ,255; for
State Prison purposes, s37O,174; for
Printing, s17l,77s; Miscellaneous ex-
penses, including transportation of pris-
oners, prosecuting delinquents, Supreme
Court reports, State Agricultural Socie-
ty, &c, S12O,706.
The amount Of real and personal prop
erty assessed for 1856. is given at $780,
COZ ,440, on which State tax of seventy
cents on the S100, amounts to S655.315.
The taxable property of San Francisco
county, is nearly one-third of the entire
amount of the State, being s3O,36S, 900,
with State taxes of S212,577. The as
sessments of 1866 nearly doubles that of
1850, and 1851 is the same as 1853, S16,-
100000 less than 1854, and 100000
less than 1855.
The War debt of the State is 1,O61,-
IT'S. The receipts of the present fiscal
year, are estimated at s753,O0O, and ex-
penditures $727, 900. This, if reliable,
indicates change for the better, the pre-
vious year showing large deficit How
far the facts will sustain the estimates, re-
mains to be seen.-Daily Globe.