, 1872-12-10


Bonds receivable, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 510.05
Tax on National Banks. 5,1I7-e7
Miscellaneous, Vee=, Ecenscs penalties, sale
of arms and ammunition, etc) .-..-.... S5,s35.54
GENERAL FUND DISBURSEMENTS.
The disbursements we're 81 ,075, 1926: for the
following purposes:
l. s:laz5es Of State officers, Supreme and
circuit Courts, State Historical Society, aud
ssate Lt5rary-. 92SS. 3S .so 90
spa esri:Ic nstitntens
1. Interest S.te debt. lGu,03s,i5
s. Miscellaneous. ze,1o'.as
/. This includes $4,000 for Circuit Courts
e13.15S for Supreme Court; sG,c00 for Exeeu-
tive Office, the Governors salary being 5000;
$500 for State Historical Society; $3.50 for
State School Superintendcnt's Office.
2. This includes S24. .o94 900 for salary, mileage,
and employees .(Sl2, ,62D Of Senate, numbering
53; S53, 1865 for ealarlea, mileage, employees
(14,46O), and contesting seats Of Assembly OF
100; $40, $3.50 ior printing; S6,433.64 for Leg
Committee 81 127. As for postage S2:751.78 for
newsrapera s2,A77. 90 for gas.
8. This is divided as follows:
fssae oatai foa &c Insane, Madison.
Northern Hospital for t,e l73 ssl s.
Institute for the Blind % 80 2v
Industrial School for Boys 4s106.oO
Bold:crs' Orphans Home 15,466.72
4. Hero are included 81, ,9o4.64 for printing,
under contract with the lowest bidder :; S35,-
e66.75 ior clerk hire in the seeretarys, Treas
u7ec'E. and Land Offices; $4,000 for stationery;
517,303.76 to the State University; 912155.10
for publishing, annually, laws in the news
Papers !: sic, ,25832 for janitors, messengers, en-
g:Iee-e, flrernen, and an la6orers ss,e6l.25 19r
institutions; S52s6.9 81 for gas 8, ,293 for pro-
tectiug State lands; S4315.83 for State Imui-
grstioa Commission; s5,411 bounties for wild
animals killed; 81. CTS for school-houses in
barnt district; $1,000 for County Agricultural
Societies.
The valuation of the property OF the state BY
the assessment for 1879 WIS $3.50, 454,9 ,975; the
lax levied on which, to be raised in January,
1873, was @765. .291. IS. The Legislature Of 1872
appropriated 253, $40 in excess Of the revenues
On hand in the General Fuud, making appropria-
lions for ths Payment OF which no proV!slo II had
been made in tie tax levy OF the previous year,
from which the funds we're to come. The bal
aace Of S2o lC9 80 at the close Of the fiscal year.
Sept. so last has been entirely absorbed by the
payment OF salaries and other claims on the
State, leaving 10 means TO- meet the
legitimate demands against the State for tho
1e:i1,de1 Of the current year. including the largo
sum Of S201 579. SO for the State penal and char
table institutions remaining undraWn FIN, 9zt
for the Northern InEane Asylum at Oshkosh,
now b1ilding). The only way Of maintaining 6
the credit Of the State in the meantime is by
temporary transfers Of other funds, Tor winch
there is really no authority IN law. Both the
Secretary and Treasurer emphatically protest
agaiust such reckless appropriations, regardless
of the estimates Of O year on adTauce, on winch
the taxes for the year were levied; and tho
Treasurer makes the following pertinent suGges-
tons:
FIrst-Au regular appro prations should be kept
within the limits Of the established estimates.
scond-n case untoFseen I'm 11:1 fease n
made payable in the year following the next levy OF
7HfrdIThst contingent fund be provided for,
sufficiently a1ge to meet al such additional expend-
tr1es. ..-
Ill appropriations involving the expenditure Of large
should be made payable after means have oeen
TTM@EnouEh taxes should be levied to seen 3
fair balance in the General Fund at the end Of the
ESTIMATED REVENUES AND ExPESsEs.
For 1873, the Secretary estimated the revenues
as 81. .Os7 .291, of which 9765,291 is from tai,
s322, ,009 from other sources; and the expendl-
tures 81 OFT s7a55, of which s247 SOC is is dSs to-
for interest on the public debt, and sppropria-
tions for the State University; &102, 400 for
Legislative expenses, s,-v7hich Wonld leaTe
surplus OF s5e,s19 if taore was no app1opria..
tons beyond thosa calculated on. One OF
$4,000, however will have to be 1nado for
rebuilding tl,e laundry and engine-house
at the Insane Hospital here, destroyed by TIRE
and already Reconstructed; and the amount left
viii hardly more than suffice to meet other con-
t;ngcnt liabilities. Hence, there will ba no
fnals a-siiable for the next Legislature to ap-
n-opr;ate fer erecting buildings or buying lands
for State institutions, or other extraordinary
rer 1s7A, the funds to be expended in which
hsre 10 be provided for by this next Legislature,
Secretary sssses nat m hs sos stafe Prse1
20. fa institutions md the resources
l rs aSSs ooo, including s256, 600 from rsil5osi
c,1n;,.;sies,-1eaying 3493,5s2 to be ra1seo @ ?: ?:
tx, ot which $172, ,0s2 is now provided 1of Q.
l.N.
The norded and irreducible debt Of the stat'
il s. o55 600, OF which S18 100 Is IN the form O
bonds there having been a5olo4 funded n n fhe
tehtslness to the several Trust Funds OF tht
ate, as follows: School, 81 ,259, 200; Uniyer sa
Eity, 4l11, 900; Agricultural College, s5o,6oo
Normal School, $512, Geo.
DELINQUENT CORPORATIONS.
The Treasurer makes complaint that the She
bovrsn h Fond du Lac Railroad Company has