Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-07
The Governors Message.

The Governors Message. GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: With cordial salutations to you, and to
 each of you, proceed to discharge the spec
 ial duty now imposed upon me by the con | stitution.
 The fiscal year formerly ended on the thir- | tleth day Of November, and the reports of | the various departments and officers of the | government were not required to be made l before the following January. Consequently | 1t was possible and customary for those re- | ports to present detailed statements of the | operations of the several departments and in | stitutions of the State for the period of one | year, ending the last day of November | immediately preceding the January session of the General Assembly, while at the same 1 time they disclosed the condition of those departments and institutions respectively on | that date.
 1 At the last session act vas passed pro- viding that the fiscal year for all departments should end on the thirtieth day of June, and requiring that all the reports which had pre- viously been made annually on or before the first day of the January session should here after be made, returned and printed on or 1 before the first day of November" This change in the law confines most of | the reports which you will receive at this | session to statements of the operations of the | respective departments and institutions dur
 
 | on the thirtieth day of June last and to a disclosure of the condition of each of them, not as it stands now, but it stood more than six months ago.
 Referring you to those reports for the limi- ted information which they contain, I will at the same time endeavor to state substantially, so far may now be necessary, what the different departments and public institu tions have done during the year ending the tlIirtieth day ot November, 1885, and what was the condition of each of them on that day. Such a statement will derive val ue from the fact that it can be compared with the corresponding statement made to the General Assembly at the opening of it's last session.
 On the first day of last October bonds of the State amounting to one million seven hundred and forty zone thousand and hundred dollars ($1, Al 100), bearing interest at six per cent, became payable. To pro- vide for their payment the treasurer, avail ing himself at the right time and in the ight way of the largely discretionary powers giv en him for that purpose, issued, and sold at q premium of eight hundred and seventy six one-t -thousandths (S76-1000) of one per cent, new bonds amounting to one million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars ($1, TAO, ,0OO) payable at the end of twenty-five years from the first day of October, 1885, and bearing interest at the rate of three per cent. per annum.
 It is believed, upon authority apparently reliable, that at that time no other State in this country (and probably nc foreign coun- try) had ever negotiated similar loan on terms as favorable to itself. The result re- fleets the highest honor upon the financial credit of the State, while it has reduced the interest-c arge upon the funded debt to the extent of fifty-two thousand and two hun dred dollars (S52, 900 per annum.
 ny,4 4h1 E,-,H T of ha, %h1 funded debt Exclusive of eight thousand and one hundred dollars of the matured bonds which had not then been presented for pay ment) amounted to four millions two hun dred and seyenty-one thousand dollars ($4, 271 ,000)
 The balance of cash then in the treasury belonging to the civil list was seven hundred and seventy seven thousand five hundred and twenty-nine dollars and seven cents (S777,- 529 0O as against a corresponding balance on the first day of December, 1884, of five hun dred and twenty four thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars an1 thirty eight cents (S524, ,5S3 38) A part of the increase of cash in the treasury during the year, as shown by this comparison, is only apparent being caused by the transfer to the credit of the civil list, by order of the General As 1 sembly, of sundry old accounts amounting to eighty-niae thousand and sixty-four dol lars and seventy-seven cents (S99, ,O64.77) The rest of the increase, however, is real amounting to one hundred and sixty three thousand eight hundred and eighty one dol lars and two cents (S163, ,961.O2) The prin- | cipal part of it came from the collection of | railroad taxes, overdue and unpaid on the l first day of December, 1884, amounting to one hundred and fifty-nine thousand nine | hundred and twenty dollars and thirty-seyen | cents (S159, ,920. 37)-of which amount the i sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dol 1 lars was received in full settlement, by au- | thority of the General Assembly, of the l States claim for taxes due from the New York and New England railroad company.
 The total resources of the treasury during | the year ending November 30, 1SS5-inclu- | ding million seven hundred and hfty-hve i thousand two hundred and forty-two dollars | and forty cents (S1, ,755, ,242.40) received from the sale of bonds already mentioned, and in | cluding also the balance of five hundred and | twenty-four thousand five hundred and l eighty-tnree dollars and thirty-eight cents | (S24, 5S3. 3S) on hand at the beginning of the | year-amounted to four millions one hun dred and fifty-fve thousand seven hundred | and sixty-ive dollars and thirty-six cents ($4, 155, 765. .36)
 The principal sources of ordinary revenue during the same period were as follows: Taxes received from towns, five hundred and l twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and 1 twenty-eight dollars and thirty cents (s529,- | S2S 30); taxes on railroads (not including the |
 
 taxes) four hundred and seventy-one thou sand six hundred and seventy-fou dollars and forty nine cents [s471, ,674 49); taxes on mutual insurance companies, two hundred and twenty thousand eight hundred and two r dollars and fifty-six cents (S220, ,S02. .56); tax es on savings banks, one hundred and ninety eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars and forty five cents (S19S, 761.45); and taxes on stocks owned by non-residents, l seventy-one thousand five hundred and fifty nine dollars and six cents (S71 ,559. .06)
 The principal items of expenditure, other than the payment of State bonds, were as follows: Expenses of session of General one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and thirty five cents (S10S, ,274.35); judicial ex- penses, two hundred and sixty-three thou sand eight hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-four cents !$s63, Slo:s :s4; board of prisoners in county jails, eighty-three thou sand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and ffty-one cents (Ss3, ,S62. 51) on account ,f common schools (not including the amount paid by the school fund.-, two hundred and thirty thousand four hundred and three dol ars and fifty cents (S230, ,403 50l; on account ,f State Reform school, ffty-fve thousand seven hundred and nine dollars and twenty ,ix cents 1855, 709 26); on account of humane one hundred and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven dol ars and fifty cents (S1S7 967 50; interest on $ State bonds, two hundred and twenty-s ( housand seven hundred and ninety-two dol ars ($226, 792); and amount charged as on t National Guard account, one hundred and , orty thousand six hundred and fifty dollars z nd sixty-six cents ($140, $50 66); which last l tenn in cludes, as will presently appear, a l f considerable sum not properly to be consid s red as part of the ordinary annual expenses T f the National Guard. s
 EDUCATION.
  ng the past year in the public schools, mum ering now sixteen hundred and thirty three 1 ,633). s The census of January, 1885, showed the i umber of children between four and sixteen D ears old to be one hundred and fifty-one il bousaud and sixtv-nira f151 04N pinetv- |