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CALIFORNIA. 



The decrease of the deht since 1875 amounts 

 to $356,214.29. The increase of assets during 

 the same period amounts to $1,099,371.57. 



Receipts from all sources for the 29th fiscal year $4,071,294 45 

 Receipts from all sources for the 30th fiscal year 8,709,8TO T7 



Total... . $7,781,16522 

 Balance on hand July 1, 1877 1,408,177 43 



Grand total $9,189,282 65 



Disbursements for the 29th fiscal year $3,878,687 12 



Disbursements for the 30th fiscal year. . 8,312,144 98 



Total $7,690,832 10 



Balance in Treasury June 80, 1879 1,498,450 55 



Grand total $9,189,282 65 



The tax levy for the 30th fiscal year (ending 

 June 30, 1879) was, for the general fund (from 

 which is paid the current expenses of the State 

 government), $1,320,000, or a rate of 25-6 cents 

 on each $100 valuation of property, which was 

 the smallest tax levied for said current expenes 

 since the year 1871 ; and yet, at the end of said 

 year, June 30, 1879, there was in the general 

 fund a halance of over $384,000. The amount 

 levied for the general fund for the 31st fiscal 

 year, commencing July 1, 1879, is $1,450,000, 

 or a rate of 30 cents on each $100 valuation of 

 property. This is the smallest levy for general 

 purposes since the year 1871, except that of 

 1878-'79. The rate for said general fund for the 

 31st fiscal year is 4-4 cents on each $100 greater 

 than it was for the preceding year ; the most 

 of this increase is due to the fact that the as- 

 sessment roll upon which the tax was levied 

 is less by nearly $37,000,000 iu 1879-'80 than 

 it was in 1878-'79. There has been a greater 

 amount of fees of office and commissions paid 

 into the State Treasury by the Harbor Commis- 

 sioners, Surveyor-General, Secretary of State, 

 and Clerk of the Supreme Court during the last 

 three years and a half than was paid in dur- 

 ing the same length of time by their predeces- 

 sors, and the taxes have been more closely and 

 cheaply collected than ever before. There has 

 been a material reduction in the running ex- 

 penses of the State government during the past 

 three and a half years, and the financial condi- 

 tion of the State is sound and healthy. The 

 State also holds a claim against the United 

 States Government of $241,625 for sums ad- 

 vanced in the suppression of Indian hostil- 

 ities. 



The progress of the public schools of the 

 State during the last twenty -five years has 

 been very rapid. In 1855 the State had but 227 

 schools, with an attendance of 13,000, and 26,- 

 077 census children. In 1865 it had 947 schools, 

 with an attendance of 50,089, and 95,067 cen- 

 BUS children. In 1875 it had 2,190 schools, with 

 130,930 scholars in attendance, and 171,563 

 census children. In 1879 it had 2,743 schools, 

 with an attendance of 144,806, and 216,404 

 census children. In 1855 teachers were paid 

 $181,906 ; in 1879, $2,285,732.39. Up to the 

 present time the people of California have de- 

 voted to the cause of public education for pub- 



lic schools $33,743,819.84; for State Normal 

 School, about $566,600 ; for State University, 

 about $4,150,000. In percentage of average at- 

 tendage on school population California stands 

 ninth among the States. The following details 

 belong to the year 1879 : 



White boys between 5 and 17 108,285 



White girls between 5 and 17 105,818 



Negro boys between 5 and 17 647 



Negro girls between 5 and 17 625 



Indian boys between 5 and 17 591 



Indian girls between 5 and 17 498 



Total census children between 5 and 17 ... 216,404 

 Increase over 1877 16,837 



White children under five years, 85,870 ; av- 

 erage number of census children belonging to 

 public schools, 105,837; average daily attend- 

 ance, 98,468. From July 1, 1878, to June 

 30, 1879, 144,806 were enrolled in the public 

 schools, while the average number belonging, 

 the actual pupils of the schools, were 105,837, 

 and only 98,468 were in daily attendance during 

 the whole time school was maintained. Cen- 

 sus children attending private schools at any 

 time during school year, 15,432 ; percentage 

 of census children enrolled in public schools, 

 66-91 ; percentage in private schools, 7'04; per- 

 centage attending no schools, 26-05 ; per cent, 

 of children of native-born parents, 46'15; per 

 cent, of children who had one foreign parent, 

 12-68; per cent, of children who are of for- 

 eign parents, 41-17; school districts, 1,999; in- 

 crease over 1877, 171 ; first-grade schools, 999 ; 

 increase, 85 ; second grade, 1,081 ; increase, 98; 

 third grade, ; 663 ; increase, 36. Total number 

 of schools, 2,743 ; increase, 258. By the first 

 grade are meant high, grammar, and first-grade 

 schools; by second grade are meant interme- 

 diate and third grade ; and by third grade are 

 meant primary and third-grade schools. Num- 

 ber enrolled in high schools or the advanced 

 grade, 4,871 ; number enrolled in grammar or 

 first-grade schools, 20,197; number enrolled in 

 intermediate or second-grade schools, 38,693; 

 number enrolled in primary or third-grade 

 schools, 91,788; number of male teachers, 1,- 

 236; number of female teachers, 2,217; aver- 

 age monthly salary paid male teachers, $82.13; 

 average paid female teachers, $66.37 ; decrease 

 in monthly salary paid male teachers, com- 

 pared with 1877, $1.65; decrease in monthly 

 salary paid female teachers, compared with 

 1877, $3.31 ; new schoolhouses erected, 122 ; 

 institutes held, 34 ; cost of institutes, $2,988.22. 

 Total receipts of the school department from 

 all sources, State and county apportionments, 

 city and district taxes, etc., for 1878, $3,820,- 

 661.26; for 1879, $3,653,798.96; State appor- 

 tionments per census child 1878, $7.67; 1879, 

 $6.60 ; decrease since 1877, 77 cents ; county 

 apportionments per census child 1878, $3.54; 

 1879, $3.59 ; total receipts of all kinds per cen- 

 sus child 1878, $18.59; 1879, $16.84; de- 

 crease since 1877, $1.20. 



The expenditures for teachers' salaries, school 

 libraries, school apparatus, rents, repairs, etc., 

 have been as follows : 



