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CALIFOKNIA. 



$1,165,711.04 in all. The amount of State 

 tax collected for the last fiscal year was $3,- 

 243,581.34 and the cost of assessment and 

 collection was $201,926.04, or about 6 per 

 cent. The percentage of delinquency and cost 

 of assessment and collection was over 20 per 

 cent. 



The estimated expenditures of the govern- 

 ment for the two years ending June 30, 1877, 

 amount to $4,987,765. The rate of taxation 

 to meet this estimate, based on a valuation of 

 $611,500,000, and allowing 18 per cent, for 

 delinquencies and cost of collection, is placed 

 at 46 T >$) cents on each $ 100 for 1875-'76, and 

 51_7 j 6_ cen ts for!876-'77. The balances in the 

 several funds of the State on the 30th of June 

 amounted to $917,994.43 ; balance in the Treas- 

 ury, $1,105,878.97. 



The aggregate of the funded debt of the 

 counties of the State on the 30th of June was 

 $7,780,773.83 ; floating debt of counties, $3,- 

 302,283.33 ; value of property owned by coun- 

 ties, $10,704,240 ; cash in hands of county 

 treasurers, $1.862,013.09. 



The State Capitol at Sacramento is substan- 

 tially completed, though a bronze statue, after 

 Powers's "California," which was to surmount 

 the dome and to cost $15,000, and a flight of 

 stone steps for the main entrance, which was to 

 cost$40,000, have not been added in accordance 

 with the original design. The total cost of 

 the structure thus far has been $2,449,429.31. 

 In the building designed for the Executive 

 mansion a State armory has been completed 

 at a cost of $8,000, and a State printing-office, 

 to cost $12,000, is nearly finished. The cost 

 of supporting the printing-office for the next 

 two years is estimated at $124,800, which is 

 $15,674.97 less than was paid for the State 

 printing in the single year ending with the 

 30th of last June. 



The number of fire and marine insurance 

 companies doing business in the State is 

 eighty : 



Amount of cash capital represented $40,861,089 



Amount of insurance written during the year 258,544,359 



Amount of premiums received 4.448,033 



Amount of losses paid 1,098,306 



Amount of insurance in force at the end of the 



year 178,675,950 



Seventeen of the life-insurance companies, 

 including those which did the largest business, 

 withdrew their agencies from the State shortly 

 after the session of the last Legislature. Elev- 

 en remain, only four of which do a general 

 business, the others being authorized to collect 

 renewal premiums only. 



At the beginning of the year the savings- 

 banks of the State held $69,023,603 in deposits 

 belonging to 84,284 depositors, or an average 

 of $818 each, all in gold. In the savings-banks 

 of San Francisco alone there were 60,660 ac- 

 counts, aggregating $55,021,177, or $907 for 

 each depositor ; and in the institutions of the 

 rest of the State there were 23,194 accounts, 

 aggregating $14,002,426, or $593 each. The 

 increase in six months in San Francisco had 



been 4,949 depositors and $4,178,018 in de- 

 posits, and in the rest of the State 1,391 de- 

 positors and $1,912,531 in deposits. These 

 banks all paid dividends varying from 6 to 10 

 per cent. 



The cost of supporting the State-prison at San 

 Quentin for the two years ending June 30th 

 was $348,523,27, or, exclusive of discount, in- 

 terest, and expenditures for permanent im- 

 provements, $318,288.79. The receipts from 

 labor and for the board of United States pris- 

 oners were $155,490.23 ; expenses in excess 

 of receipts, $162,798,56; cost of supporting 

 each prisoner per day, 44 cents, or 22 cents 

 greater than income for each prisoner per day. 

 There were in the prison on the 1st of July,. 

 1873, 931 convicts, and 951 were received and 

 802 discharged during the two years, leaving 

 the number at 1,088. Of these San Francisco 

 County furnished 431, Sacramento 86, Los An- 

 geles 46, Almeda 45, and other counties smaller 

 numbers. Two hundred and twenty-three were 

 incarcerated for grand larceny, 188 for burglary, 

 135 for robbery, 100 for murder in the second 

 degree, 20 for murder in the first degree. The 

 ages of the prisoners ranged from fourteeen 

 to seventy-eight, the 'largest number being 

 from twenty-two to forty-two. Of the whole 

 number 148 were natives of California, 137 

 of New York ; 568 were natives of the 

 United States, 181 of China, 109 of Ireland, 

 47 of Germany, 36 of England, 31 of Mexico, 

 19 of Canada, 14 of France, 11 of Scotland, 

 10 of Sweden and Norway, 6 of Spain ; 108 

 were Indians and Mexicans born in Califor- 

 nia ; 290 could neither read nor write. In 



1874 49 J per cent, of the prisoners, and in 



1875 42 per cent., were let out to contractors; 

 201 were employed in the prison and 69 out- 

 side, and 250 were wholly unemployed. The 

 accommodations of the prison are reported to 

 be altogether insufficient. Forty-five men are 

 assigned to each four of the rooms. An ap- 

 propriation of $175,000 has been made for a 

 branch prison at Folsom, but it has not yet 

 furnished any relief for the crowded institu- 

 tion at San Quentin. The subject of a reform- 

 atory institution for the younger criminals has 

 been discussed. 



Work was begun on the branch prison at 

 Folsom in November, 1874, but it was aban- 

 doned by the contractor in September last. 

 Of the $175,000 appropriated for this struct- 

 ure, $88,583.36 has been expended, and fur- 

 ther liabilities incurred amounting to $19,- 

 782.03. It is estimated that a further appro- 

 priation of $350,000 will be needed to finish it. 



Since the law of 1874 took effect, giving 

 juries the right to affix the penalty of death 

 or imprisonment for life at their discretion in 

 cases of capital crimes, there have been twenty- 

 nine convictions for murder. In eighteen of 

 these cases, sentences of imprisonment for life ; 

 in eleven, sentences of death, were passed. 



The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum con- 

 tained 94 inmates on the 1st of July, an in- 



