The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-01-19
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Gentlemen ofthe Senate and Assembly,
The difficulties and embarrassments IN
der which the State has labored for SOM
years have been outgrown.
The Report Of the State Treasurer for tn,
flseal year ending on the 30th day of Sep
TENDER, 1859, shows balance in the Stat
treasurer at that time belonging to the gen
eral fund of $ll, 205,ll. .f'-e''.,.
1 :, Up to that time, after the receipt into tn,
Treasury of the preceding State tax, all de
mands, upon the General Fund had beer
promptly paid on presentation The Stat,
owes no floating debt Since the first day o
October all legal demands against the State
have also been paid on presentation, and OF
the first day of January, 1860, there remain
ed IN the Treasury belonging to the Genera
Fund the sum Of SIG, 910.47 to meet any ex
penses that may raise a2s ie2isy'. si9ii q,
There is a large demand made againstth
State byJames, Ross, State Printer, which
has been audited by the Secretary of State
the legality and correctness of which is deni
ed by the State Treasurer, and which, there
fore, he refuses to pay 'afio i.'" aosia' ~
The amount audited by the Secretary Of
State and paid to the State Printer during
the past year, including $l45 paid in Decern
Der, 1858, is $38, 34l. 81, ofwhich all but 81,
2O5 was from the General Fund The
amount audited and unpaid for reasons above
stated is $38, 1926 of which $l6,884 O6 i.
claimed from the General Fund.
1t is believed that the State Printer claims
large sum, for services performed by him
as such printer, beyond what he is entitled
to by his contract The contract and the
law should be closely scrutinized, and while
there is legal contract existing between
hoss and the State, both parties should b,
held strictly toit 81, i-g.a nasI7:I .5r9
| The aggregate receipts into aa'H 90.
the General Fund during the '.e . .l.
calendar year anding Dec 81, = ~
| So were '' .I...sl y ..-1.4'i-l ~ S534 052 %
Aggregate disbursements foi ,s,t val
same time, ..r g.Ersr - 4 49O,522. 81
VI the amount expended, the sum of SIG,
e4565 was for Charitable Institutions, CAPT
tol extension, and State Prison. ;V,5 -
And the sum of 1924, 76S. 85 for variou,
purposes, under appropriations, certified ac
counts, NC, belonging previous to January
Deducting this sum, to-wit: 1901, 644. so
from the aggregate expenditures Of the YEA
as above, we find the expenditures proper
OF carrying on the State Government, to hav,
been $l88, S36.46 ~ Ell
Inc Secretary of State estimates in detail
the expenditures to be betrayed from thu
General Fund of the State Treasury for the
current year, showing each item thereof, ant
distinguishing between those which are pro
vlded Tor by permanent appropriations, anC
such as require appropriations at the present
session of the Legislature, and showing alsC
the resources which are applicable to defral
such expenditures
Assuming the estimates of expenditures
and resources ofthe State as submitted by thu
Secretary to be correct, the indebtedness O
the State at the end Of the present fiscal yea
VIII De one thousand one hundred dollars anC
nifty cents But the Secretary estimates al
part OF the expenditures, an appropriation
of $45, 900 to the State Prison to be made a
the present session. when the amount requir
ed does not eNcoood $4,000 He also est
mates the printing for this Legislature il
English and Foreign languages at $45, 900
while the amount ought not to exceed $25,
600 1.-the taxes for A. D. 1859, are prompt
ly paid into the State Treasury, and reason
able economy is exercised by the Legislature
all liabilities against the Treasury can bt
promptly met, and it is believed surplus O
thousands of dollars will remain in the Treas
usy at the end of the fiscal year There be
ing no old obligations hanging over the State
for which the Treasury is now liable, it is be
leved that a state tax of the same amour
as that authorized by the last Legislature
will be ample to meet all the wants of the
State for the year ending Sept 80, 1861.
On the Both of September last there was
due from counties on state tax of last yeal
500, 494 IA, which has since been paid up.
1t is subject of congratulation that the fl
nances of the state are in so sound condi
ton. Unlike most new States, Wisconsin
has paid for her public improvements, sucl
as the erection Of prisons and charitable in
stitutions without creating permanent
State debt for such purposes. The expenses
OF our State government, and the amount O
our State taxes levied and collected last year
as well as the amount required for the mex
year, are less thau those of any other north
western State out of New England, with 6
single exception.
1t is the true policy of the State in the flu
ture, as it would have been in the past, Etc
pay as it goes" Liberal appropriations fol-
all useful and necessary purposes should bt
made while prudence in the demand, anC
economy in the expenditures of the bounties
appropriated. will enable the government O
the State to move smoothly on with degree
OF independence entirely unknown to othel
new States.