MICHIGAN. 



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April for Justice of the Supreme Court and two 

 Regents of the University, with four party tick- 

 ets in the field. There was nothing noteworthy 

 in the platform of either party, no animation 

 in the campaign, and the total vote polled was 

 106,008 short of that given for presidential 

 electors at the preceding November election. 

 The result was as follows : 



FOR JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT. 



For Isaac Marston, Republican 127,536 



" Augustus C. Baldwin, Democrat 78,869 



" John B. Shipman, National Greenbacker 88,289 



" Charles B. Hyde, Prohibitionist 12,825 



Scattering and defective 57 



Total 247,076 



Marston over Baldwin, 64,167; over all, 

 8,003. 



FOR REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



For James F. Joy. Republican 127,532 



" Austin Blair, Republican 126,617 



" eorge O. N. Lothrop, Democrat 73,7SO 



" Henry Fralick. Democrat 74,198 



" Charles J. Willett, National Greenbacker 32,614 



" David Parsons, National Greenbaeker 32,480 



" Isaac W. McKeever, Prohibitionist 13,260 



" Edward C. Newell, Prohibitionist 12,850 



Scattering and defective 582 



At the same election judges were chosen for 

 the full term of six years in twenty-six of the 

 twenty-eight judicial circuits. Party lines were 

 loosely drawn in the larger number of circuits, 

 and in eight circuits only a single candidate 

 was placed in nomination. The judges elected 

 are, with their majorities: 1. Andrew Ho well, 

 no opposition ; 2. Andrew J. Smith, no oppo- 

 sition ; 3. F. II. Chambers, 816 ; 4. G. Thomp- 

 son Gridley, 1,481 plurality, with 3,269 votes 

 for a third candidate; 5. Frank A. Hooker, 

 2,036; 6. William W. Stickney, 988; 7. Will- 

 iam Newton, 1,321 ; 8. Vernon H. Smith, 

 2,589 ; 9. Alfred J. Mills, 230 plurality, with 

 1,447 for a third candidate; 10. Chauncey H. 

 Gage, 761; 11. Joseph H. Steere, 469; 12. 

 William D. Williams, no opposition; 13. Reu- 

 ben Hatch, 111; 14. Frederick J. Russell, no 

 opposition; 15. Russell H. Pealer, 913; 16. 

 Herman W. Stevens, 624 plurality, with 703 

 for a third candidate; 17. Robert M. Mont- 

 gomery, 872 plurality, with 1,248 for a third 

 candidate ; 18. Sanford M. Green, no opposi- 

 tion; 19. J. Byron Judkins, 1,788; 20. Dan- 

 iel J. Arnold, no opposition; 21. Henry Hart, 

 4,146; 22. Chauncey Joslin, 257; 23. Jona- 

 than B. Tuttle, 543; 24. Levi L. Wixon, no 

 opposition ; 25. Claudius B. Grant, 492 ; 28. 

 John M. Rice, no opposition. 



Three constitutional amendments were also 

 voted upon and adopted. The first, amendatory 

 of section 12, Article XIII, so that penal fines, 

 heretofore devoted to library purposes exclu- 

 sively, may be in whole or in part applied to 

 the support of schools, when so ordered by the 

 township board of any township or the board 

 of education of any city. Vote for, 51,471 ; 

 against, 8,370. The other two amendments 

 (see a preceding paragraph) were adopted the 

 first by a vote of 53,840 to 6,628, and the sec- 

 ond by a vote of 62,593 to 6,640. Each of the 

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amendments became a part of the Constitution 

 January 1, 1882. 



The annual report of the State Treasurer for 

 the fiscal year ending September 30th shows the 

 financial condition of the State at that date as 

 follows: 



Cash balance, September 80, 1880 $1,578,648 01 



Receipts for fiscal year 2,607,288 07 



Total $4,185,981 OS 



Payments during the year 2,892,569 01 



Balance, September 30, 1881 $1,798,862 07 



The demands against the Treasury then due 

 or to mature before the 31st day of December, 

 1881, were $581,208.68. To this amount add 

 the indebtedness to the trust funds as follows: 



To sinking fund $589,000 00 



" canal fund 66,848 62 



" primary-school interest fund 605,852 45 



Total $1,161,696 07 



Combining this last amount with that stated 

 due and to become due for current expenses, 

 the demands upon the Treasury aggregate $1,- 

 742,904.75, leaving a net surplus of $50,457.32, 

 or $215,474.22 short of the net surplus of the 

 preceding year. 



Of the interest -bearing bonded debt but 

 $1,000 have been paid during the year, leaving 

 due: 



Two-million loan, 6s, due January 1, 1883 $590,000 00 



War-bounty loan, 7s, due May 1, 1690 299,000 00 



$889,000 00 



Add non -interest -bearing bonds : 

 Adjusted bonds due Jan. 1, ISfS... $3,000 00 

 Part-paid bonds, adjusted at $578 57 

 per$l,000 12,14997 15,14997 



Total bonded debt $804,149 97 



Sufficient funds are held in the Treasury, 

 and applicable for that purpose, to extinguish 

 this debt. During the year the State has re- 

 ceived interest on surplus funds, specific taxes, 

 United States bonds, and tax-sales, to the 

 amount of $63,475.78, and paid interest on 

 bonded debt, $55,920. Surplus of interest re- 

 ceived, $7,535.78. 



The trust-fund indebtedness has increased 

 during the year from $3,564,556.02 to $3,752,- 

 476.84, and the interest paid on the same from 

 $226,889 to $247,946.86. This interest was 

 paid as follows : 



Primary -school interest fund $188,550 48 



Primary-school five per cent fund 16,481 01 



University interest fund 88,088 77 



Agricultural College interest fund 11,426 93 



Normal School interest fund 8,454 CO 



The primary- school fund was increased from 

 the above amount in the sum of $305,395.27, 

 transferred from the sinking fund pursuant to 

 the decision of the Supremu Court made in 

 .!;mu;iry, 1881, and the amount disbursed to 

 the school districts of the State in May, 1881, 

 was increased from 47 cents per capita allow- 

 ance to each child of school age (the rate for 

 1880) to $1.20 per capita. The transfer from 

 the specific tax fund to the same fund made for 

 distribution in May, 1882, aggregates $406,675.- 

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