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AKKANSAS. 



Sinking Fund. 



RECEIPTS. 



In State scrip $75,304 12 



In United States currency 58,278 17 



Amount transferred from general revenue in 

 United States currency -,..-. 4,678 22 



Total $138,260 51 



EXPENDITURES. 



Paid interest on public debt in United States 



currency $34,980 00 



Transferred to general revenue in State scrip 4,678 22 



Total... $39,65822 



Balance in the Treasury, October 1, 1870 $98,602 29 



Which is composed of United States cur- 

 rency $27,976 39 



Slate ecrip 70,62590 



School Fund. 



EECEIPTS. 



In United States currency $135,031 37 



In State scrip 286,363 69 



In Auditor's warrants 8,054 84 



Number of children of school ago, 1869 176,910 



Number of children of school ago. 1870 180,274 



Increase 3,364 



Number of children attending school in 1869 67,412 



Number of children attending school in 1870 107,908 



Increase 40,496 



Number of teachers employed in 1809 1.335 



Number of teachers employed in 1870 2,302 



Increase 967 



Number of teachers' institutes held in 1869 12 



Number of teachers' institutes held in 1870 41 



Amount paid to teachers in 1869 $188.397 00 



Amount paid to teachers in 1870 405,748 00 



Increase $217,351 00 



Number of school-houses built in and prior 



to 1868 632 



Number of school-houses built in 1869 and 



1870 657 



Total $429,449 90 



EXPENDITURES. 



In United Slates currency $132,339 39 



In State scrip 230.060 72 



In Auditor's warrants 8,054 84 



Total 1,289 



Number of persons subject to per capita tax, 



1868 71,891 



Number of persons subject to per capita tax, 



1869 79,454 



Total $370,454 95 



Balance in the Treasury. October 1, 1870 58,994 95 



Of which there is in United States currency.. $2,691 98 

 scrip 56,30297 



Increase 7,563 



Amount of tax collected from this source in 



1868 $52,090 00 



Amount of tax collected from this source in, 



1869 $61,465 00 



Increase .............................. $9,37500 



Apportionment of school tax in 1869 .......... $190,492 86 



Apportionment of school tax in 1869 ......... 187,427 08 



District tax in 1868 ........................... $105,23500 



Dietrict tex in 1869 ' 



Increase 



Permanent School Fund. 

 Amount m the Treasury October 1, 1870: 



In United States currency .................... $22,201 37 



Instate scrip ................................ 12,991 13 



Total .................................... $35,19269 There is an efficient Board of Education 



The following is an exhibit of the State debt : which has been actively engaged in carrying 



Amount of indebtedness on account of the into full effect the school law, which provides 



Eeal Estate Bank, after deducting the f ar better for popular education than any pro- 



oSXXK^*^** U8 enactment. At the annual meeting of 



account of the State Bank ................. 1,199,942 00 the board in January the consolidation of the 



Total indebtedness on account of the State ~ ' Bch ]? established by the Freedmen's Bureau 



and Real Estate Banks ................. $4,487,73721 with those under the charge of the commis- 



Defiucting the amount retained by the Treas- sioners was recommended, an offer to assist in 



ri870, f from U mS te dul^Tthe StotoS the matter having been made by General How- 



Arkansas, to pay interest on the state ard. An important movement in the cause of 



bonds held in trust by the Smithsonian rwmnlnr prhipntirm wn<* nlsn spt nn font hv tho 



Institution and Chickasaw Indians ........ 169,714 47 1 )ot D ^ tj 



-- lollo wing resolution: 



B Stet C e e Ba U n e k n aCC Unt f *** E<>Me "^ $4 318 022 74 ^solved, That a committee of three be appointed 



Deducting the"amount"of ' old'bonds'ei- * devise means by which a lecturer of acknowl- 



changed for new ones under the provision edged ability may be secured to visit the different 



of the Funding BUI ........................ 2,624,72500 parts of the State, to aid in constructing institutes 



--- and otherwise promoting the efficiency ot teachers. 

 Amount of the principal and interest of old 

 bonds outstanding ......................... $1,693,297 74 The charitable and penal institutions of the 



Of this amount, the United States hold, in Srntp Tiavn not vpt IIPPTI pstnhlkliprl nn n vprv 



trust for the Smithsonian institution and e nave not yet been estaDiisnea on a veiy 



Chickasaw Indians ....................... 1,562,225 00 solid basis, though interest is shown for their 



-- improvement, and measures for their better 



October, 1870, amount of principal and inter- -. -. , ., 



est remaining iu the hands of individuals, management were recommended to the Legis- 



notfunded ................................. $131,07274 lature of 1871. In December, 1869, an agent 



An act has been passed, providing for the was appointed by government to examine in- 



funding of the debt, and 3,000 bonds were to the condition of the penitentiary and re- 



issued for this purpose, of which 2,612 have port the changes called for in the management. 



already been exchanged for the old evidences The number of persons under the charge of 



of indebtedness. the institution in the course of the year was 



Under the new system of public education 346 ; of these, 165 were United .States prison- 



very encouraging progress has been made in ers ; 66 were released on the expiration of 



the establishment and support of common their term of confinement ; 23 were pardoned ; 



schools, as is shown in the following table of 45 escaped, and 13 died; leaving 199 within 



comparisons : its walls at the end of the year. The support 



