NOTE. The navy spirit ration was totally abolished July 1, 1870, and in lieu thereof the navy ration is 30 cents per day.

OFFICIAL STATISTICS OF THE STATES.

NOTE.-For State capitals and Governors, see p. 408. For meeting of Legislatures and time of elections, p. 409. For State valuations and taxes, p. 410. For population, areas, and admission to the Union, pp. 24, 84, and 411.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Robert C. Brickell, Chief-Justice; Geo. W. Stone, Amos R. Manning, Associate Justices. Term, 6 years. Elected by people. Salary, $4,000 each.

Amount of State Debt, Sept. 30th, 1878, $9,452,669; interest, 5 per cent.
State Receipts for last year, ending Sept. 30th, 1878, $718,228.36.

State Expenditures for last year, $648,097.23.

Amount raised by Taxation last year, $827,398.90.

Amount of Taxable Property, as assessed, real and personal, $117,486,580.97. Rate of State Tax, 70 cents on $100.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-John R. Eakin, Chief Justice, 8 years. W. M. Harrison, 6 years; Jesse Turner, 4 years, Associate Justices. Elected by the people. Salary, $3,500 each.

Amount of State Debt, Sept. 30, 1877: Funded, $4,153,035; unfunded, $13,967,012. General Statement of State Bonds issued: $22,000 thirty year State Bank, 5 per cent; $108,000 thirty year State Bank, 6 per cent; $538,000 thirty year Real Estate Bank, 6 per cent; $45,000 thirty year Real Estate Bank, 6 per cent; $927,000 thirty year Funding, 1869, 6 per cent; $2,231,000 thirty year Funding, 1870. 6 per cent; $360,000 thirty year bonds, 1875, 6 per cent; $362,300 ten year bonds, 1874 and 1875, 10 per cent; $1,986,773 thirty year Levee bonds, 7 per cent; $5,350,000 thirty year Railroad Aid Bonds, 7 per cent.

NOTE.-$1,298,000 of the Funding Bonds of 1870 are of doubtful validity. The Supreme Court of Arkansas in 1878 decided that all the Levee bonds are unconstitutional and invalid. All of the Railroad Aid bonds have been declared by the Supreme Court to have been illegally issued.

State Receipts for year ending Sept. 30, 1877, $639,383.

State Expenditures for year, $528,429.

Amount raised by Taxation, $457,450.

Amount of Taxable Property, as assessed: Real, $61,960,452; personal, $32,692.425.

Rate of State Tax, 10 mills on the dollar.

Governor

William Irwin.... 4 yrs. Dec. 6, 1875. Dec. 1, 1879. $7,000

*The Lieutenant-Governor receives $12 per day during sessions of the Legislature as President of the Senate. He is Warden of State Prison, and receives for that a salary of $10 per day.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Wm. T. Wallace, Chief-Justice; A. L. Rhodes, A. C. Niles, E. W. McKinstry, J. B. Crockett, Associate Justices. Term, 10 years. Elected by the people. Salary, $6,000 each.

Amount of State Debt, Oct. 81st, 1878: Funded, $3,403,000; Unfunded, none. General Statement of State Bonds issued: Civil Bonds of 1873, 6 per cent interest, $2,801,000; State Capital Bonds of 1870, 7 per cent interest, $250,000; ditto, of 1872, 7 per cent interest, $250,000; Soldier Relief Bonds, 7 per cent interest, $95,500; Civil Bonds of 1857, 7 per cent interest, $5,000; ditto of 1860, 7 per cent interest, $1,500. Total, $3,403,000.

State Receipts for year ending June 30th, 1878, $3,913,494.45.

State Expenditures for last year, $3,797,864.08.

Amount of Taxable Property, as assessed, real and personal, $584,583,651.
Rate of State Tax, year ending June 30th, 1879, 55 cents on $100.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Henry C. Thatcher, Chief Justice; term, 9 years; elected by the people; salary $3,250. Samuel II. Elbert, Wilbur F. Stone, Associ ates; salary of each, $3,250. After short terms expire, Thatcher, 3 years; Elbert, 6 years; Stone, 9 years.

Amount of State Debt on Nov. 30th, 1878, $123,803.10; consisting only of State warrants issued in anticipation of taxes accruing.

Colorado has no bonded debt, the State Constitution expressly prohibiting the Legislature from creating any debt beyond the amount actually provided for by taxation, in advance of appropriations.

State Receipts for two years, ending Nov. 30th, 1878, $307,893.53.

State Expenditures for two years, $385,688.29.

Amount raised by taxation last year, $155,506.15.

Amount of taxable property as assessed: Real, $25,804,345; personal, $17,268,303. Rate of State tax, 33 mills on $1, besides 50 cents per capita for military purposes.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-John D. Park, Chief Justice, 8 years; Elisha Carpenter, Dwight W. Pardee, Dwight Loomis, Miles T. Granger, Edward I. Sanford, Roland Hitchcock, Earl Martin, Sidney B. Beardsley, Moses Culver, James A. Hovey, Associate Justices; term of all, 8 years. Elected by the General Assembly. Salary of each, $1,000.

Amount of State Debt Dec. 1, 1877, $4,967,600, viz.: Bonds of 1863, redeemable 1883, 6 per cent., $877,000; bonds of 1864, redeemable 1884, 6 per cent., $1,318,500; bonds of 1865, redeemable 1885, 6 per cent.. $1,741,100; bonds of 1877, redeemable 1887, 5 per cent., $1,081,000. Total, $4,967,650.

State Receipts for year ending Dec. 1, 1878, $1,652,570.31.

State Expenditures for last year, $1,542,612.53.
Amount raised by taxation last year, $2,246,490.

Amount of taxable property as assessed: Real, $238,027,032; personal, $106,379,905. Rate of State Tax, 11⁄2 mills on the dollar.

The State Tax on property produced $602,465, while no less than $1,644,025 was derived from taxes on railroad companies, savings banks, insurance companies, telegraph and express companies, and non-resident stockholders.

A State law requires the Comptroller to collect and publish annually a statement of the total indebtedness, rate of tax, receipts from taxation, and actual expenditures of every town, city and county in Connecticut. This return, Oct. 1, 1877, exhibited the following interesting statistics:

Total debts of towns, cities and counties, $17,151,327; total amount raised by taxation during the year, $4,628,164; total expenditure for interest during the year, $1,089,979; total expenditure for schools during the year, $1,017,237; total expenditure for roads during the year, $832,453; total expenditure for paupers during the year, $551,728; total expenditure for police during the year, $215,146; to:al expenditure for salaries during the year, $190,202; total expenditure for Fire Department during the year, $184,441.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Jos. P. Comegys, Chief-Justice; L. E. Wales, John W. Houston, Edw. Wootton, Associate Justices; Willard Saulsbury, Chancellor. Term, for life. Appointed by Governor. Salary, Chief-Justice and Chancellor, $2,500 each; Associate Justices, $2,000.

Amount of State Debt, Dec. 12, 1878, $953,000, all funded.

The State holds interest-paying securities (railroad, etc.) to the amount of $1,120,799, and is virtually out of debt. The annual receipts were about $195,000, and the annual expenditures $105,000, at the date of the last Governor's message. Of the tax receipts, no less than $49,590 was from licenses, $33,812 from tax on railroads and passengers, and only $30,956 from taxes on real and personal property, in the whole State.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Edwin M. Randall, Chief-Justice; term of office for life; appointed_by_Governor, with consent of Senate; salary, $3,000. James D. Westcott, Jr., R. B. Van Valkenburgh, Associates; term, for life; appointed by Governor, with consent of Senate; salary of each, $3,000.

Amount of State Debt, Jan. 1st, 1878: Funded, $1,284,700; unfunded, $65,572.81. General Statement of State Bonds issued, $1,500 Convention Bonds of 1868, 8 per cent.; $6,800 bonds of 1857, 7 per cent.; $350,000 bonds of 1871, 7 per cent. ; $925,000 bonds of 1873, 6 per cent., gold.

Amount in Sinking Fund, $143,900.

State Receipts for year ending Jan. 1st, 1878, $315,488.

State Expenditures for year, $133,970.36.

Amount raised by taxation, $225,000.

Amount of taxable property as assessed: Real, $19,713,462; personal, $10,197,991. Rate of State tax, 90 cents on every $100, of which 35 cents were remitted in 1878, owing to reduced expenditure.

JUDICIARY, SUPREME COURT.-Hiram Warner, Chief Justice; Logan E. Bleckley, James Jackson, Associate Justices. Term, 8 years. Elected by the Legislature. Salary, $3,500 each.

N. B.-Future judges of the Supreme Court are to receive $3,000 per annum. Amount of State Debt, Jan. 1, 1878, $10,644,500. funded at 6 per cent., 7 per cent. and 8 per cent. interest. Railroad bonds indorsed by the State, $2,688,000. The new State Constitution, adopted 1877, declared void sundry bonds and State indorsements issued in aid of railroads.

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State Receipts for year 1878, $1,998,346.84.
Sate Expenditures for year, $1,728,910.

Amount raised by Taxation, $1,129,990.51.

Amount of Taxable Property, as assessed: Real, $140,153,250; personal, $95,506,Rate of State Tax, 5 mills on the dollar.