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could bestow. But his atlas was not the only 

 great geographical work which Dr. Keith 

 Johnston produced. In 1850 he published his 

 "Dictionary of Geography," a work upon 

 which he expended three years' arduous labor. 

 This work has gone through ten editions, of 

 1,000 copies each. Dr. Johnston also con- 

 structed the first physical globe of the earth 

 ever drawn, which was exhibited at the Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1851, and for which he 

 received the medal. After 1851 Dr. Johnston 

 devoted much of his time to the production 

 of four atlases of general, classical, physical, 

 and astronomical geography, as well as a small 

 elementary atlas. Of these works from five 

 to thirty editions, of 1,000 volumes each, have 

 been published. These works were con- 

 structed for the purpose of popularizing phys- 

 ical and other geography. In 1852 Dr. John- 

 ston completed his chart of the geographical 

 distribution of health and disease, in the con- 

 struction of which the knowlege gained by his 



early medical studies greatly assisted him. 

 For this work the Epidemiological Society of 

 London elected him a corresponding member. 

 In 1855 he commenced his " Eoyal Atlas of 

 Modern Geography," in which he may be said 

 to have embodied the results of the arduous 

 studies which he had prosecuted for a quarter 

 of a century. The late Prince-Consort took a 

 deep interest in this splendid work, the prog- 

 ress of which he carefully watched, and every 

 sheet of which he criticised as it came out. 

 During recent years Dr. Keith Johnston de- 

 voted himself mainly to the publication of 

 maps and other works for educational pur- 

 poses. Only seven weeks before his death he 

 received from the Eoyal Geographical Society 

 of London the Patron's Gold Medal, the 

 highest honor they could bestow, "for his dis- 

 tinguished services in the promotion of phys- 

 . ical geography ; " but the intense devotion 

 which won him the honor cut short his life 

 soon after the reward was given. 



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KANSAS. During the year the floating 

 debt of Kansas was reduced $182,481.02, leav- 

 ing but $59,164.42 of State warrants out- 

 standing, which are to be redeemed before 

 the end of January, 1872; the funded debt 

 was also slightly reduced ; and the total lia- 

 bilities were $190,237.54 less than those of the 

 preceding year. During the fiscal year the 

 Treasurer received $1,107,745.21, and dis- 

 bursed $964,228.01, leaving a balance in the 

 Treasury of $143,517.20, belonging to the sev- 

 eral funds. The following is an exhibit of the 

 liabilities and resources of the State at the 

 close of the year : 



LIABILITIES. 



6 per cent, bonds, funding Territorial debt. . $61,500 00 



6 per cent, bonds, refunding taxes 39,675 00 



7 per cent, bonds, current expenses for 1861 



and 1803 204,090 00 



7 per cent, bonds, internal improvement .... 70,000 00 



7 per cent, bonds, capitol building 320,000 00 



7 per cent, bonds, penitentiary building 260,000 00 



7 per cent, bonds, Deaf and Dumb Asylum. . 15,500 00 



7 per cent, bonds, Insane Asylum 20,000 00 



7 per cent, bonds, military 346,000 00 



Outstanding State Avarrants 57,164 42 



Outstanding Territorial warrants 7.142 73 



Amount overpaid by counties, 1870 2,086 85 



Total liabilities $1,403,069 00 



RESOURCES. 



Tax levy for 1871 $435,014 19 



Taxlevyfor 1870 66,778 07 



Tax levy for 18(59 36,336 23 



Tax levy for 186S 84,051 84 



Tax levy for 1867 82,772 89 



Tax levy for 1866 4,014 02 



Tax levy for 1865 13,806 47 



Tax levy for 1864 9,081 73 



Tax levy for 1863 10,381 05 



Tax levy for 1862 13,930 86 



Tax levy for 1861 8,361 07 



Amount in Treasury 967 76 



Amount in Treasury, military fund 7,918 10 



Sinking fund (invested in bonds) 100,500 00 



Sinking fund, cash balance 9,747 20 



Total resources. 



The counties of Wallace and Cherokee have 

 neglected or refused to pay their share of 

 revenue to the State for several years, and 

 asserting that the delinquency is the result of 

 dishonesty or inefficiency, the Governor, in his 

 annual message, at the opening of the Legis- 

 lature of 1872, recommended the passage of a 

 law providing means for a speedy removal 

 from office of any or all county officers who 

 fail to do their duty in the execution of the 

 laws, and to supply their places by the appoint- 

 ment of proper persons to serve until the next 

 election. Under the present law, a dishonest 

 or incompetent official can postpone a trial 

 instituted for his removal, from time to time, 

 until his term expires. Provision for a more 

 summary proceeding, the Governor believes, 

 would have a salutary effect in preventing un- 

 lawful combinations and malfeasance, or ineffi- 

 ciency, in office. 



The annual session of the Legislature began 

 on the second Tuesday in January, and ended 

 on March 7th. The legislation was mostly of a 

 local character. The bills passed numbered 

 160. The most important ones of a general 

 nature amended the act " to establish a code 

 of criminal procedure " so as to allow all per- 

 sons accused of crime to testify in their own 

 behalf; and amended the "dram-shop" law 

 by providing for the allowance of damages 

 against liquor-sellers for injuries caused by the 

 intoxication of parties to whom they sold 

 liquor, and also for holding the owners of 

 buildings, in which liquors are sold, jointly 

 responsible with the seller for damages, 

 whether sold in violation of law or under 

 license. Eesolutions proposing amendments 

 to the constitution, providing that no county, 

 city, town, or municipal corporation, shall in- 



