VIRGINIA. 



799 



For ordinary expenses of the gorarnment 1975,882 8B 



MWDM* i:- 



44.-J,""" INI 



Forliit.n-.it (in ilrlit 1,105,8U6 80 



Tin- payments on account of public institu- 

 ti'Hi-, iiii-liuled in "ordinary expenses," wero 

 as follow s : 



.tnil (colored) Lunatic Aylnm f 58,749 98 



U-rn (white) Lunatic /.syluin (io.tWO 00 



Tli,' U. ^t, in (\vluti-) Lunatic A*y.uui 00,000 00 



Th, D,.i|- liiiiiili, ami l.liml 40,00000 



Th,. Viix'inb Military Institute 25,000 00 



Th.- I'niv.-rsltvof Virginia, appropriation $-'SO,Ol)0, 



puiil lit part 27,500 00 



Making a total of. $'266,249 96 



The revenues from taxation for the year 

 amounted to $2,679,339.66, which exceeded 

 tin- average of the previous six years by $201,- 

 276.28, while the ordinary expenses were less 

 by $108,906.44 than the average for six years. 

 The estimated expenses for ordinary purposes 

 for the year ending September 30, 1877, are 

 $1,068,199. 



On the 80th of September the number of 

 convicts in the penitentiary was 1,099, of 

 whom 202 were employed at the works of the 



Old Dominion Granite Company, 67 on the 



railroad, and 729 were in the mule department 

 of the prison, and 111 in the female <! 

 nieiit. The average number of inmates during 

 the year waa 1,021, maintained at a total cost 

 of $26,265.44, or $25.72 per capita. The in- 

 stitution was greatly overcrowded, 171 cells 

 being occupied on the 80th of September by 

 729 men. 



The Fish Commissioners of the State have 

 been engaged in stocking the James and Ro- 

 anoke Rivers with California salmon, and 

 placing other varieties of salmon, bass, and 

 trout, in different ponds and streams of the 

 State. About 800,000 shad were also hatched 

 and turned into the Rnppahannock, and a large 

 amount of herring- spawn was deposited in 

 streams near tide-water. 



There was no election for State officers this 

 year. The Republicans held a convention at 

 Lynchburg on the 12th of April for the purpose 

 of selecting delegates to the National Conven- 

 tion of the party, at which the following plat- 

 form was adopted : 



STATE SEAL OF VIRGINIA. 



The Republicans of Virginia, reaffirming their 

 allegiance to the national Republican party in this 

 c.i-ntcnnial year as an event which calls for the ex- 

 pression of gratitude to Almighty God that our civil 

 and religious liberties have been preserved through 

 all the vicissitudes of the country, that the Ameri- 

 can people have successfully maintained before the 

 world their capacity for self-government, and that 

 the Union remains unbroken either by foreign ag- 

 gression, civil discord, or domestic violence. The 

 past of our national history is seen, but its future 

 depends upon the preservation of the great funda- 

 mental principles which the past has conseeriti-il, 

 !in<l which are expressed in the Declaration of Inde- 

 pendence and in the Constitution of the United 

 States with its several amendments. To these the 

 Republican pnrty has always been devoted nml 

 faithful. It has carried the Government forward 

 into the front rank among the nations ; it has granted 

 amnesty with unexampled liberality ; it bos gradu- 

 ally diminished the public debt; it has furnished 

 the country with a national currency. Tt has main- 

 tained an economical standard of public expendi- 

 tures. It has required a faithful collection and dis- 

 bursement of the public revenues, and it has de- 



veloped the material resources of the country by 

 increasing the facilities of intercommunication be- 

 tween the different sections of the country: There- 

 fore, 



Jtesolved, 1. That we will remain faithful to the 

 principles of the national Republican party in 

 things concerning the administration of the national 

 affairs, until every right guaranteed by the Constitu- 

 tion shall be fully secured and enjoyed, and all 

 existing laws faithfully executed. 



2. We favor honesty and economy in the admin- 

 istration of the Government, and recommend such 

 retrenchment in the civil service as can be made 

 without impairing the efficiency of the different de- 

 partments of public business ; and at the same tim- 

 favor liberality, just compensation in the pay of 

 public servants, believing it to be the means to 

 secure the honest and faithful discharge of duty, 

 private or public. 



8. We are in favor of the quick and condign pun- 

 ishment of all dishonest and corrupt officers ot the 

 Government, no matter what their station, and 

 pledge our support to secure that result. 



4. That the nonor and credit of this nation must 

 be maintained inviolate ; and, to put this beyond dU- 



