NEW YORK. 



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any citizens thereof, unless by the law of the land or 

 the judgment of his peers." " The law of the land" 

 does not mean a statute passed for the purpose of 

 working the wrong, but the law which existed at the 

 time when the alleged offence was perpetrated. The 

 provision was intended to restrict the power of 

 the Legislature (Wynehammer agt. The People, 13 

 N. Y., 393, 394, and 416, and cases cited). The 

 section in question pronounces a judgment and 

 disfranchises the elector without judge or jury, or 

 any of the forms required by the ordinary course of 

 legal proceedings. 



It also violates section six of article one, which de- 

 clares that no person shall be held to answer for a 

 crime, except on presentment of a grand jury ; and 

 the second section of the same article, which secures 

 the right of trial by jury in all cases in which it has 

 heretofore been held inviolate. 



At the beginning of the fiscal year, October 

 1, 1867, there was a deficiency in the revenues of 

 the State of $2,860,586.38. The payments made 

 during the year amounted to $10,208,198.46, 

 thus giving $13,068,784.84 to be provided for 

 by taxation, while the receipts from that source 

 were $10,112,331.30, leaving a deficiency of 

 $2,956,453.54. This was afterward made up 

 by the payment of $4,000,000 due from the city 

 of New York. The receipts of the year on ac- 

 count of all the funds of the State, with the excep- 

 tion of the canal and free-school funds, amounted 

 to $16,003,178.53, and the payments on the 

 same account were upward of $15,000,000, 

 which left a balance of $748,521.41. The State 

 tax levied in 1868 was 5 mills on each dollar 

 of taxable property, and was distributed as fol- 

 lows: For schools, 1J mills; for general pur- 

 poses, 1 J mills ; for canals, |^ mill ; for bounty 

 debt, 2 mills; and for the Whitehall and 

 Plattsburgh work, -$ mill ; all of which yield- 

 ed a total revenue of $10,243,317.01. 



The State debt, on the 30th of September, 



1867, was $48,367,682.22, classified as follows: 



General Fund Debt... . $5,642,62222 



Contingent 130,000 00 



Canal 15,733,06000 



Bounty 26,862,60000 



Total $48,367^68222 



On the 30th of September, 1868, the total 

 funded debt was reduced to $44,968,786.40, 

 classified as follows : 



General Fund... . $4,707,82640 



Contingent 68,000 00 



Canal , 14,249,960 00 



Bounty 25,943,000 00 



Total $44,968,786 40 



The following statement shows the amount 

 of the State debt on the 30th of September, 



1868, after deducting the unapplied balances 

 of the sinking funds of that date : 



The following statement exhibits the finan- 

 cial condition of the canals : 

 Canal Fund. 

 Balance on hand October 7, 1867 ............ $3,840,935 60 



Keceived during the year .................... 5,681,226 11 



Total ............................. $9,522~161 77 



Paid during the year ........................ 4,823,239 33 



Balance September 30, 1868 ................. $4,698,922 44 



Revenues and Expenditures. 

 Eeceipts from tolls ......................... $4,417,559 50 



Receipts from rent of surplus water ........ 750 00 



Interest on current revenues ............... 32,791 69 



Miscellaneous receipts ..... ................. 26,444 98 



Total ............................. $4,477,546 17 



Payments to commissioners for repairs ..... $241,647 18 



To contractors for repairs ....... , .......... 775,118 74 



To superintendents for repairs ............. 291 02 



To collectors for salaries, etc ................ 76,761 11 



To weighmasters ........................... 13,347 70 



Miscellaneous ............................... 77,079 29 



Total ............................. $1,184,245 04 



Surplus revenues, mostly applied to the sink- 



ing funds ......................... ...... $3,293,301 13 



The produce of the State salt springs of On- 

 ondaga for the year was 8,793,514 bushels, 

 yielding a revenue of $88,049.47 obtained at 

 an expense of $49,238, which leaves the net 

 profit to the State at $38,811.47. 



The earnings and expenses of the State Pris- 

 ons are as follows : 



Earnings. 



$135,363 78 

 Auburn ................................. 125,334 89 



Clinton .................................. 238,428 55 



Total ............................ $499,127 55 



Sing Sing 

 burn 



Sing Sing $303,364 36 



Auburn 208,a39 53 



Clinton 420,008 31 



Total $932,212 20 



The following figures relate to the Public 

 Schools : 



Amount reported on hand, Oct. 1, 1867 $1,197,924 70 



Apportioned to districts 3,315,166 80 



Proceeds of Gospel and School Lands 22,843 46 



Eaised by Local Taxation 6,311,186 12 



From all other sources 633,346 58 



Total $10,480,467 66 



Expenditures. 



For teachers 1 wages $5.586,546 42 



For libraries 26,926 48 



Forapparatus 234,382 34 



For colored schools 64,765 58 



For school-houses, sites, repairs, furniture, 



etc 2,166,566 23 



For all other incidental expenses 930,640 61 



Amount reported on hand, Oct. 1, 1868 1,470,640 01 



Total... ..$10,480,46766 



* Includes $350,000 due October 1, 1868, and since paid, 

 t Deducting interest accrued to October 1, 1868, payable 

 January 1, 1869. 



Number of children of school age 1,464,424 



Number of children attending school some por- 

 tion of the year 971,512 



Number of teachers employed in common 



schools for 28 weeks or more 16,580 



Number of male teachers 5,883 



Number of female teachers 21,870 



Number of school districts 11,731 



Number of school-houses 11,673 



Number of volumes in district libraries 1,064,229 



Amount of public money to be appropriated 



during current fiscal year $2,520,000 



NORTH CAROLINA. The convention, 

 which was called to frame a new constitution 



