692 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



cent .......................... $486,82462 



Interest certificates .................... 2,OOS 64 



Domestic creditors ..................... 578 00 



The total debt on December 1, 1864, was 

 $39,379,003.94. The amount redeemed during 

 the 'fiscal year ending November 30th was as 

 follows : 



Five per cent stocks ................. $1,703,517 88 



Four and a half per cent stocks ....... 20,060 00 



Domestic creditor certificates ......... 57S 00 



Military loan, act of May 15, 1861 ..... 179,250 00 



Total ............................ $1,908,846 88 



Making the total public debt on the 1st of De- 

 cember, 1865, $37,476,258.06. The assets and 

 liabilities of the .State Treasury were as follows : 



Bonds Pennsylvania Railroad Company ...... $6,700,000 00 



Bonds Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Co ..... 3,500,000 00 



Interest on bonds Philadelphia and Erie Kail- 



road Co ........................ : ......... l,060i,000 00 



Cash in Treasury ........................... 2,878,668 14 



Total ................................. $18,628,668 14 



Liabilities in excess of assets ................. $23,852,539 92 



Liabilities in excess of assets, Nov. 80, I860.. .$26,408,168 94 

 Liabilities in excess of assets, Nov. 30, 1665. . . 23,852,589 92 



Improvement in condition of Treasury since 



Nov.80, I860 $2,555,57902 



The extraordinary State expenditures growing 

 out of the war, not refunded by the General 

 Government, amounted to the sum of $4,028,- 

 627.21. This included the direct tax not re- 

 imbursable, and the sum of $671,476.43 paid 

 to the militia called out on the 27th of June, 

 1863, which Gov. Curtin claimed as clearly due 

 to the State from the General Government. 

 The Governor gives the following history of 

 this claim in his message of January 31, 1866 : 



At the time of the invasion of the North, in 18fi3, 

 by the rebel army, the President made a requisition 

 on me for militia to serve during the emergency. The 

 men came forward promptly, to the number of 36,588, 

 of whom upward of 25,000 refused to be mustered 

 into the service of the United States, in consequence 

 of circumstances of prior occurrence not necessary 

 to be here stated. 



In this embarrassment, the emergency being very 

 pressing, after consultation with the President, he 

 authorized and requested me to call them on behalf 

 of the State, and for the defence of the State, the 

 United States paying all the expenses of their cloth- 

 ing, equipment, subsistence, etc. It was, however, 

 alleged that there was no appropriation for their pay. 

 To remove this difficulty the General Government 

 applied to banks and other moneyed corporations in 

 Philadelphia, to advance the amount of the pay, on a 

 pledge that, when Congress met, the passage of a bill 

 to reimburse them should be recommended. These 

 institutions declined this proposition, but expressed 

 their willingness to make the advance if I would 

 pledge myself to recommend to the Legislature the 

 passage of such an act in case Congress should not 

 provide for reimbursing them. Under these circum- 

 stances, I received from the Executive of the United 

 States the pledge which he bad proposed to give to 

 the banks, etc., and upon that 1 gave the necessary 

 pledge to them, and thsy advanced the required 

 funds accordingly. 



When Congress met, the Executive of the United 

 States did not recommend the passage of the neces- 

 sary act. I have understood that the subject was 

 called to the attention of the proper committee by 

 the Secretary of War, but, as the President did not 



send a message explaining the circumstances of the 

 case, the appropriation failed, as the members of 

 Congress had thus no means of explaining to their 

 constituents the difference between this case (which 

 was in substance a loan to the United States, upon 

 the pledge of the Executive for its repayment), and 

 the case of the voluntary expenditure of money for 

 military purposes by Pennsylvania and most of the 

 other States. 



I will add, that the men came into the service for 

 the emergency only, and on the faith that they should 

 be discharged as soon as, in my judgment, the emer- 

 gency should have ceased. The emergency ceased 

 immediately after the battle of Gettysburg, which 

 commenced on the 1st of July, 1863 ; yet the men, 

 against my urgent and repeated remonstrances, were 

 kept in the service long afterwards, and used by the 

 United States for various purposes. The last of them 

 were not discharged till in September. 



I recommend that the Legislature adopt measures 

 to bring the subject again before Congress, and ob- 

 tain repayment of this sum, amounting to $671 r - 

 476.43, with interest on the same, which the General 

 Government has thus far so unwarrantably withheld. 



The total number of common schools in the 

 State was 12,960. The whole number of teach- 

 ers was 15,593, and of pupils of 703,930, at an 

 average cost for each pupil per month of 68 

 cents. The total cost of the common school 

 system in the State, including taxes levied, the 

 amount paid by the city of Philadelphia, and 

 the State appropriation, was $3,614,239. In 

 Philadelphia there were 376 free schools, 74,343 

 pupils, with an average attendance of 86J per 

 cent., 84 male teachers and 1,194 female teach- 

 ers. The State Superintendent, in his annual 

 report, expresses the opinion that it would pro- 

 mote the cause of general education to have all 

 the educational interests in the State, including 

 colleges, seminaries, and academies, brought 

 within the scope of legislative authority, and to 

 have all the chartered institutions placed u to a 

 certain extent " under the control of the School 

 Department. He also urged the propriety of 

 lessening the number of the higher institutions, 

 and thereby increasing the endowments and 

 income of those that remains. He says that by 

 their multiplicity they are crippled in their 

 operations, many of them being in want of 

 adequate apparatus, furniture, libraries, and 

 cabinets, while some of them suffer for lack of 

 patronage. He recommends also that more 

 ground should be allotted to schools, so as to 

 afford abundant room for exercise and play, and 

 that the location of schools should, if possible, 

 be where the scenery would attract the eye and 

 favor the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful. 



The Union State Convention assembled at 

 Harrisburg on the 17th of August, and adopted 

 a series of resolutions recognizing the services 

 of the soldiers and sailors who had shown that 

 the war for the restoration of the Union was 

 not a " failure ; " expressive of reverence for 

 the memory of Abraham Lincoln, and of a 

 determination to support "his fellow-patriot 

 and successor " Andrew Johnson ; asserting 

 " that the mild and generous method of recon- 

 struction offered by the President to the people 

 lately in rebellion, in the judgment of tins con- 

 vention, has not been accepted in the spirit of 



