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seller of the liquor, but execution is to be 

 levied on the property of the former only 

 when that of the latter is insufficient to satisfy 

 the judgment. 



A case was very soon brought for violation 

 of this law which was carried to the Supreme 

 Court for the purpose of testing its validity. 

 A decision was rendered in October, which 

 sustained the validity of the act. The objec- 

 tions made to the law were that it gave legis- 

 lative power to the people, that it vested ad- 

 ministrative power in the people, and that it 

 was local and not general in its application. 

 These were all overruled by the court. 



A Temperance Convention was held at In- 

 dianapolis on the 2d of April, at -which the 

 following resolutions were adopted : 



Whereat, An organized association has been 

 formed in the State for the avowed purpose of re- 

 sisting or evading the law enacted at the last session 

 of the Legislature, regulating the sale of intoxicat- 

 ing liquors ; and 



Whereat, We, the men and women of Indiana, 

 have for years past endured and peaceably submit- 

 ted to the reign of drunkenness, even in com- 

 munities where dram-shops were forced upon us, 

 regardless of an overwhelming public sentiment 

 opposed to them, we all the while nopefully waiting 

 for and patiently laboring to the attainment of a 

 better state of society : therefore 



Retained, That we recognize the late enactment 

 of our Legislature as the dawn of the better day, 

 and we hail it as a grand advance in the right di- 

 rection, and well adapted to the present emergency ; 

 and we hereby tender our thanks to the Senators and 

 Representatives who, without regard to party affili- 

 ation, carried the measure triumphantly through the 

 Legislature, and to his Excellency the Governor, who 

 gave it his official sanction. 



Ketolaal, That we do not recognize in that provision 

 of the law which permits the keeping of a tipplinz- 

 house where a majority demands it an acknowl- 

 edgment of any natural right to maintain such a 

 place of drunken resort, but rather a liberal conces- 

 sion to the spirit of our American institutions, which 

 demand the popular support in order to the enforce- 

 ment ef the law. 



Retained, That we accept the challenge of the liquor 

 dealers to make this dram-shop question an issue 

 before the people at the next election ; and we 

 thank them for taking the initiative in this move- 

 ment, and pledge them that, sinking all minor con- 

 siderationsj we will be glad to meet them at the 

 polls on this issue alone. 



Retained. That, as the good effect of law depends 

 on its faithful execution, we now, and here, pledge 

 ourselves to aid the proper authorities by all lawful 

 means in our power in the enforcement of this 

 statute against all offenders, and we earnestly solicit 

 the cooperation of all the temperance organizations 

 in the State in a united effort to sustain the law. 



Retolved, That we are greatly encouraged by the 

 hearty support which this law has met throughout 

 the State from all good men and women, without dis- 

 tinction of political parties or religious peculiarities. 



Retained, That we invoke the aid of all law-abid- 

 ing citizens in our efforts to defeat the machination 

 of a moneyed organization which seeks to sacrifice 

 the public good to promote private interests. 



Retched, That we recommend a thorough organi- 

 zation of all the friends of law and order in each 

 county in the State, and a general cooperation of 

 these several organizations so as to secure unity and 

 concert of action in the good work. 



The receipts of the State Treasury, for the 

 fiscal year ending October 31st, amounted to 



$4,300,653.02, including a surplus of $755,- 

 024.87. The various items were as follows : 



Balance on hand, November 1, 1872. $755,024 87 



General revenue 438,191 14 



Common-school revenue 1,372,993 30 



Collegefnnd 16,123 06 



Saline fund a 035 &5 



Bank-tax fund 389 14 



Surplus-revenue rand 726 60 



Public institutions 190603 59 



Miscellaneous 1,524,545 22 



Total receipts, including balance.. $4,300,633 02 



The disbursements of the year amounted to 

 $4,115,457.55, and there was a balance on hand, 

 at the close, of $185,175.47. The various items 

 of the expenditures were the following: 



Ordinary expenditures $289.93477 



Office expenses 13,619 02 



Benevolent institutions 852,576 81 



College fund 10,96342 



Saline rand 7,103 11 



Bank-tax fund 1,737 43 



Surplus-revenue fund (cost*) 6 00 



Common-school fund 1,361,841 22 



General revenue 120,158 69 



Reformatory institutions 296,180 43 



Educational institutions 87,410 88 



Industrial Interests 12,675 00 



Public Indebtedness 1,193,442 87 



Military expenditures 1,626 60 



Legislative expenditures 878,873 74 



Miscellaneous 88,309 86 



Total amount audited $4,118,457 65 



Of the receipts, $610,159.09 consisted of 

 transfers from the sinking fund. There were 

 three unusual sources of expenditure : first, the 

 redemption of the unsurrendered bonds of 

 1836, in obedience to a decision of the courts ; 

 second, the reimbursement of over $90,000 of 

 illegal taxes ; and third, the payment of a large 

 portion of the expenses of the Legislature of 

 1871. There is a temporary loan of $710,000. 

 There was a large number of railroad, man- 

 ufacturing, mining, and other organizations 

 formed during the year, the aggregate being 

 as follows : 



ORGANIZATIONS. 



Railroads 



Manufacturing. . 



Mining 



Building 



Banking 



Benevolent 



Miscellaneous.. . 



Grand total . 



Numfcer. 



57 

 14 

 22 

 14 

 S 

 18 



CpIUI. 



$102,550,000 



5,889,000 



2,706,500 



1,780,000 



352,000 



40,000 



1,360,000 



152 $114,677,500 



The State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

 at Indianapolis is in a flourishing condition. 

 It can accommodate 280 pupils, and there 

 were 278 in attendance on the 1st of Novem- 

 ber. The number received during the year 

 was 331, of whom 192 were boys and 139 girls. 

 The institution has been in operation thirteen 

 years, and the total number admitted in that 

 time is 943, of whom 538 have been males and 

 405 females. The number of families repre- 

 sented is 796 ; families with one deaf mute, 

 694 ; with two, 142 ; with three, 28 ; with 

 fonr, 3 ; with five, 5 ; with six, 1. One pupil 

 is the offspring of parents both of whom are 

 deaf mutes, and five of parents one of whom in 

 each case is deaf and dumb, while the other 



