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September, after an excited canvass, in which 

 leading men of both parties from various parts 

 of the country took an active part. The total 

 vote cast for Governor was 126,618, of which 

 Perham received 71,917, and Kimball, 54,701 ; 

 making the majority for Perham 17,216. Re- 

 publicans were chosen for representatives in 

 Congress from all of the five districts of the 

 State. At the presidential election in Novem- 

 ber, the whole vote cast was 90,509, of which 

 61,422 were in favor of Grant and Wilson, and 

 29,087 for Greeley and Brown majority for 

 Grant and Wilson, 32,335. The Legislature 

 now stands, 30 Republicans, and no Democrat, 

 in the Senate, and 128 Republicans, and 23 

 Democrats, in the House, with one vacant seat 

 in the Senate. The officers of the State gov- 

 ernment, with the exception of Governor, are 

 chosen by the two branches of the Legislature 

 in joint session. Those chosen at the begin- 

 ning of 1873 were as follows: Secretary of 

 State, George 0. Stacy ; Treasurer, William 

 Caldwell ; Attorney-General, II. M. Plaisted ; 

 Adjutant-General, Benjamin B. Murray ; Land 

 Agent, Parker T. Burleigh. 



The financial condition of the State is repre- 

 sented as highly satisfactory. The important 

 particulars appear in the following state- 

 ment : 



Receipts for the year $1,334,859 98 



Disbursements $1,147,544 41 



Debt January 1, 1S73 17,187,900 00 



Sinking fund in the Treasury 1,020,247 00 



Debt, deducting sinking fund $6,167,653 00 



Cash in Treasury above immediate liability, 189,000 00 

 Debt, deducting sinking fund, and cash iu 



Treasury $5,978,653 00 



Sinking fund January 1 , 1872 $798,295 CO 



Sinking fund January 1, 1873 J, 020,247 CO 



Increase of sinking fund in 1872 , ~$22f,95~2~00 



Trust funds held by the State exclusive of 



sinking fund $789,078 00 



The following is the statement of the public 

 debt January 1, 1873 : 



Due in 1873 $50,000 



Due in 1874 50,000 



Due in 1875 30,000 



Due in 1876 60,000 



Dne in 1877 50,000 



Due in 1878 30,000 



Due in 1880 (bounty loan) 475.000 



Due in 1883 (war loan) 525,000 



Due in 1889 (war loan) 2.832,500 



Due in 1889 (municipal war debt) 3^084,400 



Whole amount of debt .$7,187,900 



The sinking fund established by acts of 1865 

 and 1868, is rapidly accumulating, and will be 

 amply sufficient to meet the debt as it matures. 



There are 868.17 miles of railroad in the 

 State. The following is a complete state- 

 ment of the length of the different roads, with 

 their indebtedness and net earnings for the 

 year, so far as reported : 



The statistics of insurance for the year are 

 as follows: Amount of fire policies issued by 

 foreign companies, $48,063,332, on which $644,- 

 257 was received for premiums, and $221,253.55 

 paid for losses ; amount of fire policies of home 

 stock companies, $6,163,710; premiums re- 

 ceived, $89,748.18; losses paid, $49,859.81; 

 policies of mutual fire companies, $21,110,177 ; 

 losses, $41,501.07 ; policies of marine insurance 

 by foreign companies, $444,553; premiums, 

 $11,146.01 ; losses, $3,766.17 ; marine insur- 

 ance by home companies, $20,481,277; pre- 

 miums, $682,282.09 ; losses, $402,607.15 ; num- 

 ber of life insurance companies, 44 ; policies, 

 3,647, amounting to $4,820,356; premiums, 

 $1,142,084.93; losses, $216,680.70; accident in- 

 surance premiums,$12,561. 19; losses, $6,8] 4.55. 



There are 54 savings-banks doing business 

 in the State, of which five have been organized 

 during the year. The whole amount of de- 



posits is $26,184,333.03, being an increase of 

 $3,366,530.58 over the preceding year. 



The Insane Asylum of the State has been 

 overcrowded, having 400 inmates, while it is 

 calculated to accommodate only 350. The 

 whole number treated during the year was 

 570, of whom 299 were males and 271 females. 

 One hundred males and 77 females were dis- 

 charged, of whom 46 males and 33 females 

 had recovered ; 22 males and 23 females died. 

 Of the 202 admitted during the year, 52 men, 

 and 50 women were married ; 59 men and 29 

 women were single ; three were widowers, and 

 nine widows. The causes of insanity of those 

 admitted during the year are stated as follows : 

 ill-health, 36 ; intemperance, 26 ; domestic^ af- 

 fliction, 15 ; puerperal state, 13 ; masturbation, 

 12 ; over-exertion, 9 , critical period of life, 

 8; decay of old age, 7; disappointed affec- 

 tion, 7; epilepsy, 7; injury of head, 6; reli- 



