540 



MICHIGAN. 



The purposes of the ahove expenditures 



were the following : 



Salaries of State officers, depu- 

 ties, and principal clerks $33,657 86 



Salaries of extra clerks 25,091 12 



Awards of Board of State Audi- 

 tors 118,957 86 



Salaries and expenses of Judiciary 



Expenses Bureau of Insurance, $5,042 45 



Trustees of Asylums 431 49 



Inspectors of State-Pris- 

 ons 1,11120 



Coroners' fees 1,416 11 



Wolf bounties 88 00 



Advertising State salt- 

 spring lands 1450 



$182,706 84 

 45,788 94 



8,103 75 



Military expenses $9,189 97 



Relief to Soldiers 4,000 00 



Bounties to Soldiers 750 00 



13,939 97 



Interest upon Bonded Debt $137,666 20 



Interest upon Trust Funds 193,363 00 



331,029 20 



Paid principal of bonded Debt 112,000 00 



General Fund Appropriations.. $173,771 95 

 Asylum Fund Appropriations. . . 134,976 74 

 State Building Fund Appropria- 

 tions 11,293 82 



University Aid Appropriation. . . 15,000 00 



! 335,042 51 



Aggregate, as above $1,028,611 21 



The cash expenditures, in trust, were through 

 the several funds as follows : 



Through the General Fund $495,481 53 



Through the Internal Improvement Fund.. 16.971 82 



Through the Canal Fund 6,619 83 



Through the Swamp-land Fund 5,635 25 



Through the Swamp-land Interest Fund 52 88 



Through the Educational Funds 574 54 



Mr. Cortlandt B. Stebbins? Deputy Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, gives the fol- 

 lowing statistics from that office: Number of 

 organized 'counties in the State, TO ; number 

 of townships and cities, 902 ; number of school 

 districts, 5,375 ; districts having no school, 50 ; 

 children between the age of five and twenty, 

 404,972; children between the age of eight 

 and fourteen subject to the law for compul- 

 sory attendance, 174,934; average time public 

 schools were taught, seven and a half months ; 

 number of male teachers, 3,035 ; number of 

 female teachers, 8,624 such of these as taught 

 in two different districts are counted twice ; 

 the number teaching at any one time was a 

 little over 7,000. Average monthly wages of 

 male teachers, $49.11 ; of female, $26.72. 

 Total wages paid male teachers, $639,282; 

 female, $1,020,944; total to both, $1,660,226. 

 Number of school-houses, 5,418 ; value, $7,- 

 470,339. Number of volumes in school libra- 

 ries, 158,025. The primary-school receipts 

 were as follows : 



On hand at beginning of year 



Received from two-mill State tax " 421,971 29 



Received from primary school fund 187,352 64 



Received from foreign scholars 28,580 47 



Received from district taxes 1,977,759 93 



Received from tax on dogs 23,673 65 



Received from fines 20,323 77 



Received from all other sources 485,717 17 



Total resources for the year $3,675,639 20 



Total expenditures 3,115,417 20 



On hand at end of year $560,222 00 



Indebtedness of districts $1,234,686 35 



^'iSs 01 Tlie cost ^ scno l s P er month for each child 



1_ between the ages of five and twenty, was, for 



Total $603,559 89 teachers, 55 cents ; for all expenses, 99 cents. 



The bonded State debt, September 30, 1871, The educational funds are as follows : Pri- 



Ofwhiciuhere was paid prior to September ' mary-school fund, mostly drawing interest at 



30,1872 112,00000 7 per cent., $2,775,561.16 ; University fund, 



Of this amount there becomes due, January School fund, drawing 6 per cent., $69,284.54; 



mi?' 1873 j-'; ; i'lu* : A,V : $370,000 00 Agricultural College fund, drawing 7 per cent., 



1 HO CFGCllt Ofl.l<inOC OI tllG tWO-milllOn lOtlll <h~tt? 4 n /"r r-i rr*i TT i -KT 



sinking fund, September 30, 1871, was.... $608,31578 $154,968.21. Ihe University and Normal 



To which was added, during the fiscal period, 322,45745 School funds have reached their maximum; 



Available during period ""$930^73^3 the primary-school fund will probably be in- 



From which there was expended in the pur- Creased $1,500,000, and the Agricultural Col- 



chase of bonds of this State ..j^^ lege fund will reach $700,000. 



Leaving a credit balance, September 30, The following are statistics of the higher in- 



1872, of $818,773 23 stitutions of learning : State University Pro- 



I^addition to the above indebtedness is the fessors and teachers, 38 ; students in academic 

 anteedby the^aSS? . $81,00000 department, 517; in medical, 354; in law, 

 Pledged to the redemption of this"loa'n 353; total (64 ladies), 1,224; degrees con- 

 stands the surplus earnings of the canal, fprrPf! 341 A o-rinnlf iirol Prtlloo-o Pfoccnrei 



amounting, on September 30th, to 64,654 99 lei > **- A 8 l Cultural College Profess* 



! and teachers, 10; students (4 ladies), 131. 



Leaving unprovided for but $16,34501 State Normal School Instructors, 10; stu- 



The canal loan matures July 1, 1879. dentS) 446> Hillsdale College-Professors and 



The State tax for the year was of amounts teachers, 15 ; students, 606. Kalamazoo Col- 



and for purposes as set forth in the following : lege Professors and teachers, 10; students, 



Military Fund $27,976 05 247 ; Olivet College Professors and teachers, 



Reform School .'..!"".!.!.."! 35,'ooo oo Albion College reports have not been received. 



Asylum for theinsane.. ............. 152,00000 The earnings of the State-prison for the 



year were $89,396.01. Current expenses, 

 lic'School (charitable)....... " 15^000 00 $89,122.57. Convicts in prison at beginning 



New Capitol 800,00000 o f JQ ^ 627 . rece ived, 222 ; discharged by ex- 

 Total $829,976 05 piration of sentence, 230 ; by reversal of sen- 



