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amount $607,925 was held by the permanent 

 school fund, $192,075 by the sinking fund, 

 $9,800 by the State University, and $1,600 by 

 the State Normal School, leaving $370,575 held 

 by private individuals and corporations. 



The State debt is all bonded, and bears in- 

 terest at the rates of 6 and 7 per cent. No 

 additions are being made to the debt, which 

 remains at about the same amount as in 1878. 

 These bonds are to be paid, according to pres- 

 ent arrangements, as they mature. Since 1870 

 the debt has been reduced $160,100. 



The municipal debts amount in the aggre- 

 gate to $13,998,504, against $13,473,197 in 

 1878; an increase of $425,407. Of the total 

 amount, county bonds and warrants make $7,- 

 679,894, township bonds and warrants $2,260,- 

 055, city bonds and warrants $2,016,797, and 

 school district bonds and warrants $2,041,858. 



The total amount of taxes required to pay 

 State, county, and municipal expenses is stated 

 by Auditor Bonebrake to be $5,699,409 per 

 annum about $5.72& per head of the popula- 

 tion, or If per cent, of the estimated property 

 in the State. These taxes are divided as fol- 

 lows: 



For State purposes 



For county purposes 2,061,078 



For city purposes 863,600 



For township purposes 564,829 



For school purposes 1,822,216 



Total for all purposes $5,699,409 



"While the assessed value of the taxable prop- 

 erty of the State was reported by the Auditor, 

 July 1, 1880, as $160,570,761, or per capita of 

 the population $161.11, the true value is reck- 

 oned at about double this amount, or $321,- 

 141,513, being $322.23 per capita, taking the 

 population to be 996,616. The area of taxable 

 land is 22,386,435 acres; the number of acres 

 of taxable land under cultivation, 6,697,861 ; 

 leaving 15,688,574 acres not under cultivation ; 

 this makes the amount of cultivated land per 

 capita, 6*72 acres ; of uncultivated, 15*74 acres. 

 The amount of State debt per capita of the 

 population is $1.18. The municipal debts vary 

 in the different counties from 82 cents in 

 Hodgeman, $1.08 in Nemeha, and $1.51 in 

 Stafford, to $28.79 in Doniphan, $29.39 in At- 

 chison, $39.35 in Leavenvvorth, and $50.55 in 

 Douglas Counties, the average burden being 

 $14.04 per capita throughout the State. The 

 State and municipal debts together form 4| 

 per cent, of the estimated actual value of all 

 the property in the State. The counties as- 

 sessed for the greatest amounts of property 

 are Shawnee, $6,497,997; Leavenworth, $6,- 

 375,878; Atchison, $4,986,853; Lyon, $4,326,- 

 855; Miami, $4,162,945; and Douglas, $4,138,- 

 290. 



The population of Kansas, as reported in 

 the enumerators' returns, was on March 1, 

 1878, 708,497 ; the returns of 1880 make the 

 population 996,616, an increase of over 40 per 

 cent. The unofficial report of the decennial 

 census gives the total population as 995,335, 



divided as follows: male, 536,077; female, 459,- 

 258; native, 885,707; foreign, 199,628; white, 

 951,546 ; colored, 43,789, including 693 Indians, 

 104 half-breeds, 19 Chinese, and 3 Siamese. 



The assessed value of taxable property has 

 increased from about $92,000,000 in 1870 and 

 from $138,968,810 in 1878 to $160,570,761 in 

 1880, the increase in the last two years being 

 over 15| per cent. The assessed value of rail- 

 roads makes about one eighth of the total val- 

 uation. There were on March 1, 1878, 2,- 

 302-07 miles of railroad operated in the State, 

 and on the same date in 1880 there were 3,- 

 104'21 miles, an increase in the mileage of 35 

 per cent. The assessed value of this species of 

 property increased in the two years 33 per 

 cent. 



The insurance report of Superintendent 

 "Welch for 1879 states the amount of fire-risks 

 written as $34,022,868; the premiums paid, 

 $509,324 about $1.50 on $100 of risk, or 

 nearly double the average rate for the United 

 States; the losses paid, $158,211, or 31*06 per 

 cent, of the premium receipts. The premium 

 rate charged was less than the average for the 

 preceding eight years ; the losses are only one- 

 half the general average, and two thirds of the 

 average for the country in 1878. The receipts 

 of the department for the calendar year 1879 

 were $15,354; expenses, $6,349; receipts for 

 1880, $19,000; expenses, $6,522. 



The number of convicts in the Penitentiary 

 on July 1, 1878, was 500. There were 310 re- 

 ceived and 1 recaptured in 1878-'79, 296 re- 

 ceived and 1 recaptured in 1879-'80, and 141 

 received in the six months closing December 

 31, 1880. During the entire period 400 have 

 been discharged on expiration of sentence, 62 

 by pardon, 25 by commutation of sentence, 8 

 by the United States authorities, 11 on order 

 for new trials, 10 transferred to Insane Asylum, 

 17 lost by death, and 3 escaped, leaving in 

 confinement 713 652 under sentence of State 

 courts, and 61 sentenced by United States 

 courts. Of this number 597 were white and 

 109 colored males, and 3 white and 4 colored 

 females. Of the 1,249 received since June 

 30, 1878, 374 were boys between the ages of 

 fourteen and twenty-one. The establishment 

 of a separate institution for young criminals is 

 recommended by the Governor. The current 

 expenses, including ordinary repairs, were 

 $83,125 in 1879, and $99,100 in 1880. The 

 earnings for the two years amounted to $116,- 

 916. The estimated expenses for 1881-'82 are 

 $150,802, and for 1882-'83 $143,342. A coal- 

 shaft has been sunk by the convicts 695 feet, 

 and has nearly reached the bed. For this work 

 $25,000 was appropriated by the Legislature, 

 and $62,500 more is required during the next 

 two years, which it is believed will be more 

 than repaid within that time by the product of 

 the mine. 



The Insane Asylum at Ossawattomie con- 

 tained 230 inmates on July 1, 1878; received 

 163, and discharged 71 restored, 37 improved, 27 



