514 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



ments. The following statement shows the 

 condition of the sinking funds and other re- 

 sources pledged thereto by existing laws : 



Troy and Greenfield Railroad Sinking Fund... $5,620,769 61 



Bounty Loan Sinking Fund 5,538,056 49 



Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad Sinking 



Fund 8,059,242 87 



War Loan Sinking Fund 1,000,00000 



Coast- Defense Sinking Fund 867,827 99 



858.366 09 

 500,000 00 



Add market value in excess of cost. 



Total sinking funds $17,444,263 05 



Estimated value of salable Back Bay lands. . . . 300,000 00 

 Unsettled claim against the United States, es- 

 timated 250,00000 



Claim against the Boston and Albany Eailroad 



Company 100,000 00 



Land in Boston Harbor, cost about 800,000 00 



Total resources for payment of the debt . . . $18,894,263 05 



Total debt of the Commonwealth 32,511,6*0 90 



Eesources pledged for its payment 18,894,263 05 



Total debt, less resources pledged for its 

 payment $13,617,417 85 



TRUST FUNDS. 



Harbor Compensation Funds $149,630 92 



Massachusetts School Fund 2,711,263 26 



Technical Educational Fund, Commonwealth 



Grant 141,575 25 



Technical Educational Fund, United States 



Grant 219,000 00 



Todd Normal School Fund 12,100 00 



Rogers Book Fund 1,000 00 



OTHER FUNDS. 



Commonwealth Flats Improvement Funds 



Commissioners' Public Lands Fund 



Unclaimed dividends of insolvent insurance 



companies 



Savings-Bank Trust Fund 



Reform School Fund in hands of treasurer of 



the institution. . . 



The valuation of the twenty-one cities of 

 the State was as follows : 



$294.659 76 

 81,868 23 



6,221 72 

 943 28 



50 



$421,255 49 



The total valuation of the State in 1882 was 

 $1,684,213,423, of which $1,189,524,370 was 

 real estate, and $491,689,053 personal property. 



The following table shows the total valua- 

 tion by counties in 1881 and 1882 : 



The total tax levied for State, county, and 

 city or town purposes in 1882 was $26,090,914. 



The 166 savings-banks of the State report the 

 following for the years ending October 31, 

 1881 and 1882 : 



