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aggregate, from all sources, is $3,808,494.22. 

 Deducting the cash disbursements, $3,110,424.- 

 74, there is left, making a cash balance charge- 

 able to the Treasury, at the date of the report, 

 $698,069.48. 



The foreign and domestic debt of the State, 

 as it now stands, is as follows : Foreign five 

 per cent stock outstanding, $16,469.99 ; 2|per 

 cent stocks outstanding, $2,355.13 ; 5 per cent 

 bonds due December 1, 1889, $200,000 ; 5 per 

 cent bonds, $385,000 ; 5 per cent non-negotia- 

 ble bonds, due April 1, 1901, $340,000; twen- 

 ty-four internal improvement bonds, past due, 

 $24,000 ; six 5 per cent internal revenue bonds, 

 due July 1, 1886, $6,000. Domestic debt six 

 per cent non-negotiable bonds, due the common- 

 school fund, $3,904,783.22. Total debt of the 

 State, $4,876,608.34. 



The Auditor estimates that the expenses of 

 the executive and administrative government 

 in 1884 will be $68,170, and in 1885 $68,770. 

 The judiciary expenses are estimated at $187,- 

 200 for each year. Other expenses are esti- 

 mated as follow, for each of the two years: 

 Educational, $28,500 ; benevolent, $317,000 ; 

 penal and reformatory, $211,500 ; public print- 

 ing and advertising, $12,000 for 1884 and $24,- 

 000 for 1885 ; interest on non-negotiable school- 

 fund bonds and temporary loan, $281,000 ; gen- 

 eral expenses, $8,500 ; legislative expenses for 

 1885, $120,000. Total for 1884, $1,113,870. To- 

 tal for 1885, $1,246,470. 



The value of the real and personal property 

 of Indiana in 1881 amounted to $805,202,792, 

 of which $261,775,350 was personal. The to- 

 tal amount of taxes on the different county 

 duplicates of the counties of the State for all 

 purposes was $10,627,014.75. 



The aggregate of county expenditures was 

 $4,070,589.07. 



The table in the next column shows the 

 number of miles of railroad operated in the 

 State by each company named, together with 

 the rate of assessment per mile, and the total 

 assessment fixed by the State Board of Equal- 

 ization. The total assessment given includes 

 the main and side tracks, improvements, and 

 rolling-stock of each company ; but only the 

 miles of main track are given. The whole 

 number of miles of side-track in operation is 

 802*09, and the assessment upon it reaches $2,- 

 256,713. The rolling-stock includes 4,764-26 

 miles, assessed at $9,179,082, and the improve- 

 ments on the right of way in daily use by all 

 railroads are taxed at $1,073,781. 



EDUCATION. The number of persons in the 

 State of school age, viz., between the ages of 

 six and twenty-one years, is 709,424. The 

 number admitted to the schools was, in 1882, 

 498,792. The average Jaily attendance of 

 pupils last year was 305,513. The number 

 of school-teachers is 13,259. The number of 

 school-houses in the State is 9,556, of which 

 48 are log, 83 are stone, 2,481 are brick, and 

 6,944 are frame. 



The amount of the public-school fund is 



$9,138,408.31. The addition made to it an- 

 nually, taking as a basis an average of the past 

 five years, exceeds $54,000. This sum does 

 not include the large sum (about $260,000 a 

 year) received from particular licenses and 

 other sources, and applied each year to tuition. 



The amount of tuition-money derived from 

 interest on the school funds in 1882 was $650,- 

 173.41. The whole amount received from State 

 and local tuition taxes was $2,059,616.44. The 

 proportion of the entire expense of tuition paid 

 from taxes, State and local, was 75 per cent. 



During the year ending October 31, 1882, 



