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amount of the tax paly, the tax shall be sustained so 

 far as the same is just and legal. 



The provisions of the law are designed to 

 enforce and secure a more prompt and general 

 payment of taxes than heretofore, or, in de- 

 fault, to make tax-titles of some value. 



CONGRESSIONAL DISTBICTS. The act dividing 

 the State into eleven congressional districts 

 constituted them by counties, and in popula- 

 tion, as follow : 



1. Wayne 166,426. 



2. Hillsdale, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw 

 156,540. 



3. Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, and Jackson 

 164,966. 



4. Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van 

 Buren 150,563. 



5. Allegan, lona, Kent, and Ottawa 178,055. 



6. Clinton, Genesee, Imjham, Livingston, and Oak- 

 land-164,218. 



7. Huron, Lapeer, Macomb, St. Clair, and Sanilac 

 154392. 



8. Gratiot, Isabella, Midland, Montcalm, Saginaw, 

 and Shiawassee 160,292. 



9. Antrim, Charlevoix, Kalkaska, Lake, Manistee, 

 Mason, Mecosta, Missaukee, Muskegon, Newaygo, 

 Oceana, Osceola, and Wexford 125,308. 



10. Alcona, Alpena, Bay, Cheboygan, Clare, Craw- 

 ford, Emmet, Gladwin, losco, Montmorency, Ogemaw, 

 Oscoda, Otsego, Presque Isle, Koscommon, and Tus- 

 cola 111,152. 



11. Baraga, Benzie, Chippewa, Delta, Grand Trav- 



.eweenaw, Leelanaw, 

 Menominee, Ontona- 



FINANCES. The financial condition of the 

 State at the close of the fiscal year, September 

 30th, was as follows : 



Cash balance September 30, 1881 ... ... $1,793,362 OT 



Beceipts for fiscal year 2,916,084 45 



Total resources $4,709,446 52 



Disbursements for the year 2,951,513 81 



Balance in Treasury September 30, 1882. . . $1,757,933 21 

 Add United States bonds in sinking fund.. 300,000 00 



Total cash and bonds $2,057,933 21 



This sum stands to the credit of the follow- 

 ing funds : 



General fund to meet appropriations and cur- 

 rent expenses $650,920 91 



Normal School interest fund 925 88 



University interest fund 8,548 60 



Primary School in terest fund 423,394 03 



Sinking fund cash 588,00000 



Sinking fund United States bonds 800 000 00 



St. Mary's Falls Ship-Canal fund 68,924 12 



War fund 11,703 39 



Sundry deposits 5,516 28 



Total $2,057,983~21 



Balance due September 30th on specific ap- 

 propriations, $392,277.90. 



The bonded debt of the State was decreased 

 during the year in the sum of $5,000, leaving 

 the funded and fundable debt September 30, 

 1882, as follows: 



Interest-bearing bonds : 



Six per cent due January 1, 1883 $590,000 00 



Seven per cent due May 1, 1890 298,000 00 



Total interest-bearing debt. ... . $838,000 00 

 Non-interest-bearing bonds: 

 Part paid $5,000,000 loan adjusted at 12,149 97 



Total bonded debt $900,149 97 



After a transfer of $305,395.27 to the pri- 

 mary-school interest fund, and $16,875 to the 

 general fund, the cash and United States bonds 

 in hand September 30, 1882, and held for that 

 purpose, were sufficient to cancel the bonded 

 indebtedness. 



The trust-fund indebtedness was increased 

 during the year from $3,752,476.84 to $4,032,- 

 867.11. It is constituted as follows: 



Primary-School fund $2,924,325 17 



Five per cent Primary-School fund 837,996 54 



University fund 485,601 80 



Agricultural-College fund 224,868 15 



Normal-School fund 60,075 45 



Total avails of lands sold $4,032,867 11 



The State pays 5 per cent on the second item 

 above, 6 per cent on the last item, and 7 per 

 cent on the other bonds. 



The receipts on account of specific taxes 

 were: 



From railroad companies $532,215 17 



" street-railway companies 310 50 



palace and sleeping-car companies 1,058 94 



fire-insurance companies 68,628 10 



life-insurance companies 23,550 95 



plate-glass insurance companies 71 95 



mining companies 41,213 89 



telegraph companies 4,130 94 



telephone companies 1,073 48 



express companies 1,852 17 



plank and gravel road companies 1,298 84 



river-improvement companies 1,851 77 



boiler-inspection insurance companies 180 59 



cornet bands 450 



Total $676,941 29 



A decrease of $73,148 from receipts from 

 same sources in 1881. 



The State taxes for the year, as apportioned 

 to the several counties by the Auditor-General 

 in October, were for the following purposes : 



For the University $126,500 00 



" State Normal School 19,500 00 



" Agricultural College 16,194 50 



" State Public School 41,65000 



Michigan School for the Blind 29,800 00 



Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.. . 41,600 00 



State Reform School for Boys 110.500 00 



Michigan Eeform School for Girls.. . . 11,000 00 



State House of Correction 10,000 00 



new Asylum for the Insane 150,000 00 



Board of Fish Commissioners 7,500 00 



State Board of Health 2,000 00 



military purposes 67,271 73 



relief of sufferers by fire of 1881 125,000 00 



general purposes 272,575 00 



Total $1,021,091 23 



The apportionment was made on an equal- 

 ized valuation of $810,000,000, and the tax was 

 a slight fraction over $1.26 on each $1,000 of 

 such valuation, or much less than that rate on 

 the real valuation. 



The full reports of the thirteen State banks, 

 published as an appendix to the report of the 

 State Treasurer, show their condition July 3, 

 1882, as follows : 



RESOURCES. 



Loans and discounts $3,840.083 49 



Bonds and mortgages 108,693 77 



Cash and cash items 548,145 47 



Real estate and fixtures 66,184 95 



Due from banks and bankers . . . , 696,768 97 



Expenses 21,622 71 



Overdrafts 14,167 03 



Total $4,795,666 39 



