

ILLINOIS. 



The disbursements from October 1, 1878, to 

 September 30, 1880, inclusive, were as follows: 



General revenue fund $3,639,038 50 



State school fund 2,021,240 78 



Illinois Central Railroad fund 587,287 45 



Illinois River improvement fund 367 99 



Military fund 127,444 29 



Unknown and minor heirs' fund 78 57 



Local bond fund 2,220,478 02 



Total expenditures $8,595,935 69 



Balance of all funds in State Treasury October 

 1, 1380 2,468,606 89 



Which balance was made up as follows: 



General revenue fund 



Btate school fund 



Illinois Central Railroad fund. . . . 



Military fund 



Delinquent land-tax fund 



Unknown and minor heirs 1 fund. 

 Local bond fund 



$1,433,611 74 



316,902 22 



198,001 61 



17,987 21 



331 06 



7,453 47 



494,319 53 



Total balance. 



$2,463,606 89 



The balance in the Treasury on account of 

 the general revenue, the school fund, the Illi- 

 nois Central Railroad, and the military funds, 

 on October 1, 1878, was $2,112,223; the re- 

 ceipts for the two years on account of the same, 

 $6,183,541 ; total receipts, $8,295,765 ; expen- 

 ditures for two years from these funds, $6,365,- 

 989; balance, October 1, 1830, $1,929,775. 

 The $281,059 bonds outstanding, called in for 

 payment on January 1, 1881, by the proclama- 

 tion of the Governor, consisted of $103,000 re- 

 funded stock bonds, payable after 1877 ; $154,- 

 459 new internal improvement interest stock, 

 also payable in 1877 or thereafter ; and $23,- 

 600 in bonds previously called in for redemp- 

 tion, but not presented. The special fund de- 

 rived from the gross earnings of the Illinois 

 Central Railroad, which was reserved for the 

 payment of the State debt, is applicable under 

 the Constitution of 1870 to the payment of the 

 ordinary expenses of the State government 

 after the extinction of the debt. The $198,001 

 balance in the Treasury on account of this fund 

 was sufficient to meet the balance of the debt, 

 arid leave about $100,000 to be turned over to 

 the general revenue account. The amount paid 

 into the State Treasury by the Illinois Central 

 Railroad in accordance with the conditions of 

 its charter, being seven per cent, of the gross 

 earnings, in lieu of all other taxes, has been 

 from the date of its charter, March 24, 1855, to 

 April 30, 1880, in all $8,104.656. Of the bal- 

 ance in the Treasury on October 1, 1880, $502,- 

 104 consisted of trust funds, held for the pay- 

 ment of local bonds, etc., and $1,966,502 con- 

 sisted of State funds, $1,433,611 belonging to 

 the general revenue fund, and being applicable 

 for the expenses of the State government. 

 The different classes of expenses for which 

 warrants were drawn on the Treasury, and the 

 amounts of the same, for the two years, were 

 as follows : 



EXPENDITURES. Amount 



Legislative $295,0 10 27 



Executive 278,230 12 



Judicial 557.994 20 



Educational 2,273,05376 



Charitable 1,417,07272 



Penal and reformatory 568,917 28 



Agricultural and piscicultural 



Commerce 



Military 



State indebtedness 



Refunding and transfer warrants 



Monumental... 



373 



Amount. 

 |4>,296 50 



57,141 41 

 218,367 80 

 537,287 45 

 55,824 63 

 13,125 OJ 

 Local bond disbursements. ...... . . . . . . . . . ." ." ." ." 2,216,429 07 



Minor heirs 1 78 57 



Total $8,533,909 38 



The estimate of the expenses from October 

 1, 1880, to July 1, 1881, at which date the ap- 

 propriations made by the Legislature become 

 available, is as follows: For legislative, execu- 

 tive, and judicial expenses, $603,369 ; balance 

 of appropriations for educational and charita- 

 ble purposes, $741,952; State debt and inter- 

 est, $290,000 ; miscellaneous and special appro- 

 priations, $233,033; militia, $13,105; total, 

 $1,881,461. 



For a series of years back there has always 

 been at the meeting of the Legislature a sur- 

 plus in the Treasury to the credit of the reve- 

 nue fund above the amount required to meet 

 the appropriations made by the previous Legis- 

 lature. The appropriations made by the last 

 Legislature absorb this surplus and perhaps 

 leave instead a small deficit. To pay the per 

 diem of the members of the Assembly and the 

 salaries of State officers, $117,000 will have to 

 be appropriated, to cover the deficiency of the 

 appropriations available for these purposes up 

 to July 1st, by the next Legislature. The sur- 

 plus remaining from the Illinois Central Rail- 

 road fund, and the unexpended balances of 

 other appropriations, will probably cover all 

 deficits. 



The Governor's estimate of the amount re- 

 quired to be raised by taxation during the 

 coming two years is as follows : 



FOR GENERAL STATE PURPOSES. 



Legislative $272,000 



Executive 430.000 



Judicial 554,000 



Total departments $1,256,000 



Ordinary expenses and necessary repairs, and im- 

 provements of State charitable institutions 1,300,000 



Eastern Insane Asylum- construction 200,000 



Expenses of universities 125,000 



Joliet Prison working capital 50,000 



Chester Prison expenses and construction of Hos- 

 pital for Insane Convicts 300,000 



Canal con:ingent fund 60,000 



For conveying convicts and arresting fugitives 90,000 



Illinois National Guard 150,000 



Printine, binding stationery, and paper for Gen- 

 eral Assembly and executive departments 110,000 



Commission of Claims 5,000 



Total $3,646,000 



For State school purposes : 

 One million dollars per annum $2,000,000 



The total assessment of taxable property as 

 equalized by the State Board was $784,623,550 

 in 1879, and $786,616,394 in 1880, being con- 

 siderably less than the assessed State valuation 

 for the preceding two years, which was $931,- 

 199,308 in 1877, and $857,235,762 in 1878. 

 The returns of taxable property laid before the 

 Board of Equalization by the Auditor aggre- 

 gated $5,281,937 less in 1880 than in 1879. 



