From the Logansport office there is no return except for the month of October, 1848, when the receipts were $3,652 52. 21 08 000 00 000.00 000 00 1,741 52 1,535 81 1,115 09 497 44 425 39 1,063 95 $9,585 26 VII. EXPLANATION OF TABULAR STATEMENTS. Tabular Statement No. 1 exhibits, in a brief form, the settlements with the Treasurers of the respective counties, on account of the revenue of 1848. It was estimated, in the last annual report, that $424,765 43 would be realized from the County Treasurers, arising from the revenue of 1848 and previous delinquencies. It will be seen that the amount due from them, according to their settlement sheets, is $432,283 78, which exceeds the estimate $7,518 34; and it affords me very great pleasure to state further, that the entire amount due has been paid into the Treasury. This promptitude on the part of the citizens of Indiana in meeting the impositions upon them, and the fidelity with which the officers entrusted with the collections have discharged their duties, cannot fail to be a source of high gratificacation to all who feel an interest in the welfare and character of the State; especially when it is remembered that a very large proportion of the revenue collected is applied to the payment of the interest on money borrowed from which but little benefit is derived, and several millions of which were in fact never received at all. The late Treasurer of the County of Adams-with whom, in consequence of a difficulty between him and the county authorities, no settlement had been made of the amount due from him for 1847, and from whom at the date of the last annual report no part of the revenue of Adams county for that year had been paid-came forward, in July last, and paid to the State Treasury the sum of $1,445. To what amount he may still be indebted on account of the revenue of 1847, and previous delinquencies, there is no means at this office of ascertaining. In my last report reference was made to the difficulties which occurred between him and the County Board, and the suit which grew out of them. It is not apprehended that the State will ultimately sustain any loss. The trifling balances reported last year as due from two or three Treasurers in consequence of inaccuracy in the settlements, have been all adjusted. The Tabular Statement above mentioned exhibits the following collections for State purposes, viz: Payments at State Treasury, 185 94 27,800 46 $432,283 78 432,288 04 Leaving due to the Treasury the sum of, The amount paid by the Treasurers was Tabular Statement No. 2 shows the amount charged on the duplicates for 1848 in each county, for State, county, road, and township purposes, and the amount returned delinquent on each account.The taxes assessed for 1848 were as follows, viz: Amount of State Tax, Amount of School Tax, Amount of Township and other Taxes, Total amount for 1848, Delinquencies of former years, Total charged on duplicates of 1848, $493,518 34 395,511 08 150,564 82 20,675 56 21,106 88 $1,081,376 68 143,510 25 $1,224,886 93 $75,487 23 Of this assessment the following amounts have been returned delinquent, viz: Amount of State Tax delinquent, Amount of former delinquencies still delinquent, 63,222 41 4,005 56 Total amount returned delinquent, 169,322 23 Amount collected for all purposes on the duplicates of 1848, Amount collected in 1847 for all purposes, Increase in last year's collections, 54,125 14 223,447 37 1,001,439 56 952,050 87 $49,388 69 The rate of delinquency in the assessments of 1848 is $15 65 on the hundred dollars, and on the entire amount charged on the duplicates of 1848 $18 24. The average rate of delinquency is much increased by a very large delinquency in a few counties. One county shows a delinquency of $15,597 72, another shows a delinquency of $10,838 14, another of $7,938 82, three others show each a delin-. quency exceeding $5,000, and fifteen others show respectively a de linquency of over $3,000. These large sums returned in a portion of the counties-much of which will in all probability never be collected, and therefore might better be struck off the duplicate-very much increase the average rate of delinquency, and, unexplained, do injustice to those counties whose delinquencies are very small. The average rate of delinquency in the counties of Union, Gibson, Warrick, Rush, Henry, Fayette, and Washington, is $4 07 on the hundred; and in several other counties the delinquency is from $5 to $8 on the hundred. Tabular Statement No. 3 will show the amount of taxes placed on the duplicates for 1849, in the several counties of the State, with the exception of Cass, Fountain, Jackson, Lake, Pulaski, Spencer, and Whitley, from which no returns have been received. Estimating those counties as they were last year, (which is no doubt considerably below the amount the returns of this year would have shown if they could have been obtained,) and the taxes assessed for 1849 and the delinquencies of former years placed on the duplicates of the present year, would be as follows, viz: Amount assessed for State purposes, Amount assessed for Township and other purposes, To which add delinquencies of former years placed on the duplicates of 1849, Total charge on duplicates of 1849, $508,537 81 433,520 77 121,461 47 52,516 54 23,072 12 $1,139,108 71 163,093 38 $1,302,202 09 The amount of State revenue which will probably be paid into the State Treasury, on account of collections on the duplicates of 1849, may be estimated as follows: Amount of delinquencies which will be collected, 5,000 00 Total estimated receipts from revenue of 1849, $444,675 81 $399,675 81 40,000 00 Tabular Statement No. 4 shows the number of acres, the value of lands, improvements, town lots and buildings, corporation stock, personal property, the total value of all taxables, and the number of polls returned for 1849; with the increase and decrease on personal property, on the total value of taxables, and in the number of polls, in all the counties, except the seven previously mentioned, from which returns have not been received. Taking the counties not returned as they were last year, (which is much below what a return for this year would have shown,) and the taxables for 1849 compared with those of 1848 will be as follows, viz: |