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ILLINOIS. 



ing with that of Hungary upon the question of 

 union. On March 8th tbe Diet adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution : 



Resolved, That the Diet, while regretting that the 

 emperor does not wish that Croatia should continue 

 to maintain her separate administration, resolves to 

 send a deputation of twelve of its members to the 

 Hungarian Diet at Pesth, which will then represent 

 Hungary, Croatia, and Transylvania, and will settle 

 all questions common to them and the other Austrian 

 provinces. 



On March llth the deputation was elected. 

 On their arrival at Pesth, the Hungarian Diet 

 appointed a committee to confer with them. 

 The negotiations lasted until June 18th, when 

 the deputation returned to Agram. The joint 

 committee agreed upon a hasis of union accord- 

 ing to which Croatia is to maintain her auton- 

 omy, hut to form, in questions relative to the 



other provinces of the empire, one common 

 body with Hungary. On the reopening of the 

 Croatian Diet in November, a report of the nego- 

 tions was laid before it. On December 18th 

 the Diet agreed to the proposals contained in 

 the draft of the address that the autonomy 

 and separate administration of Hungary, Croa- 

 tia, and Transylvania, ought to remain the un- 

 changeable basis of the constitution of those 

 provinces ; that Croatia is under no obligation 

 to send representatives to the Hungarian Diet, 

 and that she has a right to treat independently 

 with the emperor respecting the future consti- 

 tutional position. 



In March the Croatian Diet had adopted a 

 resolution proposing that freedom of worship 

 be accorded to the Protestants of Croatia and 

 Slavonia. 



ILLINOIS. Such is the growth of this State, 

 that in a few years, by judicious taxation, it 

 will be free from debt. In 1860, with the ex- 

 ception o'f a few bonds, the debt amounted to 

 $10,277,161, and in 1861 it was increased by the 

 issue of bonds, principally for war purposes, to 

 $12,574,171. It has been reduced by subse- 

 quent payments, until, on December 1, 1866, 

 it amounted to $8,638,252. The principal 

 source of revenue to the State, apart from 

 taxation, is the Central Eailroad, seven per 

 cent, of the gross earnings of which are paid 

 into the State treasury, to be applied to the in- 

 terest-paying portion of the State debt. The 

 amount received in 1865 was $496,489 ; do. in 

 1866, $427,075 ; total, $923,565. 



The total taxable property in the State, as 

 assessed in the year 1864, was $359,878,837; 

 do. in 1865, $392,327,906. The amount of rev- 

 enue tax received into the treasury from these 

 assessments was, in 1865-'66, $645,317. By 

 the transfer of the war fund to the revenue 

 fund, amounting to $465,476, the aggregate re- 

 ceipts for the two last years, with those from 

 miscellaneous sources, amount to $1,351,789. 

 The expenditures for ordinary and special pur- 

 poses, during the same period, amount to $1,- 

 290,858, leaving a balance, on December 1, 1866, 

 of $66,523, which, deducted from the receipts 

 from extraordinary sources, show that a deficit 

 of $533,383 would have existed without such 

 receipts. The estimate of the receipts from 

 ordinary sources for the two years, ending De- 

 cember 1, 1867, amount to $800,000, and the 

 expenditures for the same time to $950,000, 

 without regard to special appropriations of the 

 Legislature. Nevertheless it is believed that the 

 present rate of taxation of twelve cents on the 

 hundred dollars, under a fair valuation, in which 

 all the property of the State should be made 

 to pay taxes, would yield sufficient to meet all 

 prudent demands. 



The entire taxable pir>perty of the State, for 



1864, was returned at $356,878,837, and for 

 1865 at $392,327,906. The census of the 

 United States in 1860, which did not include 

 all the taxable property, shows the value of 

 real estate and personal property at that time 

 to have been $904,182,020. The Governor 

 says: "It is confidently believed the real 

 wealth of the State, at the present time, is 

 not less than $1,200,000,000. The unequal 

 method of assessment has resulted in great in- 

 equality and injustice to tax-payers. Taxes on 

 the same kind of property vary twenty-five, 

 fifty, and one hundred per cent, in different 

 counties." 



According to the census taken in the State in 



1865, the number of manufacturing establish- 

 ments is 3,500, and by the Federal census, in 

 1860, it was 3,268. While the value of the 

 product for those of 1860 amounted to $57,- 

 586,886, the value of the products of manufac- 

 ture in 1865 was $63,356,013. Whole value of 

 live stock in the State in 1860 was $70,000, 000 ; 

 in 1865, $123,770,554. Value of agricultural 

 products of 1865 amounted to $83,280,848. 

 Number of coal mines in 1865, 380; product of 

 the same for 1865, $1,078,495 tons. Total popu- 

 lation of the State in' 1860, 1,711,951. Popula- 

 tion of the State in 1865 : 



"White males 1,093.111 



White females 1,083,059 



Colored males . . , 

 Colored females . 



9,112 

 8,223 



17,340 

 Aggregate population in 1SC3 2,141,510 



The increase of population advances the num- 

 ber of members in the assembly of the Legis- 

 lature from eighty-five to ninety. 



The number of common schools of the State, 

 scholars, etc., as reported by the superintendent 

 of public instruction, on September 30, I860. 

 was as follows : 



