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in the same office further show that 20,438 

 colored troops were mustered into the Federal 

 service from the State. In addition, about 

 6,000 were enlisted preparatory to being mus- 

 tered in ; making the aggregate of colored troops 

 25,438. The increase in the colored troops 

 above the enrolment was attributed to the dis- 

 i regard of age in their enlistment. Color was 

 considered a sufficient qualification. 



Thus, with a white and black population, 

 between eighteen and forty-five years of age, 

 amounting to 133,742, the State contributed to 

 the Federal armies 89,413. Apart from this 

 force, there were employed in the service of the 

 State for various periods 13,526 militia, or State 

 troops. 



During the progress of the war, Kentucky 

 expended in aid of the Federal Government, 

 $3,268,224. Of this sum there had been re- 

 funded to the State by the close of 1865, the 

 amount of $1,109,230. Leaving a balance in 

 favor of the State of $2,159,994. From this 

 amount there is to be deducted the sum of 

 $713,695, being the State's proportion of the 

 direct tax laid by act of Congress in 1861. 

 Thus making the final balance against the 

 United States $1,553,353. In addition to these 

 sums, the State expended nearly one million of 

 dollars in maintaining home troops for local and 

 State defence. 



Notwithstanding these extraordinary expen- 

 ditures, the public debt of the State on October 

 3.0, 1865, was smaller than on the same date 

 in 1859, as appears by the following statement: 



and property, and to the immense amount 

 swept away by the movement of armies in the 

 State. This steady decline in the value of tax- 

 able property is strikingly shown by the fol- 

 lowing statement from the Tax Commissioners' 

 books : 



Amount, October 16th, 1859, of 



original State debt 



Amount of military debt 



Making 



Amount of original State debt 

 redeemed $861,010 00 



Amount of military debt re- 

 deemed 1,795,000 00 



$5,693,356 SO 

 2.212,000 00 



$7,910,356 80 



Making. 



Leaving State debt outstanding 

 and uiipaid 10th October, 1 SOS, 

 Of this there is military debt. . . $417,000 00 

 Original State debt 4,837,846 80 



Military debt as above $417,000 00 



Military loan from Sinking 



Fund 200,000 00 



Military loan from Enrolled 



Militia 20,000 00 



Military loan from Farmers' 1 and 



Bank of Kentucky . . , 140,000 00 



Total military debt, 23d 

 November, 1865 



2,656,010 00 



$5,254,346 SO 



6,254,346 80 



$777,000 00 



To meet this indebtedness, the resources of 

 the Sinking Fund are estimated by the Auditor 

 at $7,510,487. 



The assessment of taxable property in the 

 State has steadily declined from 1861 to 1866, 

 until the aggregate depreciation reaches $109,- 

 046,461. This decline has been ascribed to the 

 destruction of slave property, to the reduced 

 rates at which property was held at the date 

 of assessment, owing to the insecurity of person 



A system of measures for the reorganization 

 of the militia was commenced during the year. 

 It was intended that each county shall organize 

 a company of good men who would be ever 

 ready to support the civil authorities when any 

 occasion might require their services. 



