Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-01-28
Governors Message.

| The difficulties and embellishments M
der which the State has labored for sons
years have been outgrown.
| The Report OF the State Treasurer iol
The fiscal year ending on the 3oth day d
,ISeptember, 1859, shows balance in the
State Treasury at that time belonging t.
THE general fund Of $ll,eo5.l1.
Il Up 10 that time, after the receipt into
1.-The Treasury of the preceding State tax,
,tall demands upon The General Fund has
been promptly paid on rosenfailon. The
'IState owes no floating deGt. Since the
first day Of October all legal demands
against The State have also been paid on
presentation, and on tho first day Of Janu.
AIRY, 1850, there remained ID the Treasury
Ibelopging 10 The General Fund the sum Of
$l6,9lo.47 TO meet any expenses that
may arise.
There is large demand made against
the State BY James Rose, State Printer,
which has been audited by the Secretary
of State the legality aud correctness of
which is denied by the State Treasurer, and
which, therefore, he refuses to pay.
The amount audited by The Secretary Of
State and paid 10 the State Printer during
the past year, including Si45 paid ia De-
cember, 1865, is SSs, S4ls7, Of which all
but So, 2o5 was from the General Fund.
1 The amount audited and iapAid for reasons
above stated IS $9S, 1e, If which SIC,
eS406 is claimed from the General Fund.
II is believed that the State Printer
tclaims a large sum, for services performed
by him as such printer, beyond what be Is
entitled to BY his contract. The contract
and the law should be closely scrutinized;
and while there is legal contract existing
between Ross and the State, both parties
should be held strictly TO it.
! The aggregate receipts into
the General Fund during the
calendar year ending Dec. 81,
SO, were. $534,05128
Aggregate disbursements
fer same time, 400, 522. 80
OF the amount expended, the sum Of
$l76,875.65 was for Charitable Institu
tlcns Capitol extension, and State Prison.
4 And tue sum of 1924, 768.s5 for various
purposes, under appropriations, certified &C
counts, &c., belonging previous 70 January
II, 1859. ~
Deducting this sum, to wit: $3OL644
so, from the aggregate expenditures Of
the year as above, we find the expendi-
/ lures proper of carrying on the State Gov
IIernment, to have been sl8S, 836.46.
Tie Secretary Of State estimates in de-
tail the expenditures to be betrayed from
the General Fund OF the State Treasury
for tie current year, showing each item
thereof and distinguishing between those
which are provided for BY permanent ap-
4 preparations, and such as require approprl
atoms At the present session Of the Legis-
Ilalure: and showing also the resources
which are applicable to defray such expen-
,lditures.
I Assuming the estimates Of expenditure
! and resources Of the State as submitted b
! the Secresery 10 be correct, the indebted
ness of the State at the end Of the pfeseDt
fiscal year will be one thousand one hund-
red dollars and fifty cents. But the Sec
rotary estimates as part of the expendi
Z
lures, ali appropriation of $4,000 to the
/ State Prison TO be made at the present
session, when the amount required does
not exceed $4,000. He also estimates
Ithe printing for this Legislature in English
and Foreign languages at $4,000, while
the amount ought not TO exceed $4,000
If the taxes for A. D. 1850, are promptly
4 paid iuto The State Treasury, and teasohai
\ Ie economy is exercised by the Legisla-
i iure, all liabilities against the Treasury
lean be promptly met, and it is belieged B
surplus Of thousands Of dollars will remain
in The Treasury at the end Of the fiscal
year There being no old obligations
hanging over The State for which the
Treasury is now liable, it is believed that
a State Tax The same amount as that au-
thorized BY the last Legislature, will be
ample TO meet all the warts of the State
for the year ending Sept. 80, 1861.
i On the 3oth of September last there
was due from counties on State tax oil last
year s66,494.l4, which has since been
lpaid up.
Its subject of coDgratulation that
the finances Of the State are 10 so sound a
condition. Unlike most new States, Wis
consin has paid for her public improve.
ments, such as the erection of prisons and
charitable institutions, without creating a
permanent State debt For such purposes.
The expenses of our State government,
and the amount of our State taxes levied
and collected last year, as we'll as the a.
mount required for the next year, are less
than those Of AIRY other northwestern
State out ofNew England, with 4 single
exception.
1t Is the true policy Of the State in the
future, as it would have been in the past,
ITO pay as it goes Liberal appropria-
tions for all useful and necessary purposes
should be made; while prudence in the
demand, and economy in the expenditures
of the bounties appropriated, will enable
The government of the State to move
smoothly on with degree Of independence
entirely unknown to other new States.
SCHOOL FUND.
II The School Fund on the lsa Oct last nn,aprt