MISSOURI. 



531 



Balance brought forward $1,012,328 32 



Keceipts and transfers, lsb4 4,300,642 77 



Total $5,312,871 09 



Disbursements and transfers, 1884 3,898,y75 72 



Balance, Jan. 1, 1885 $1,413,895 37 



With reference to the bonded debt, the re- 

 tiring Governor, in his message to the Legis- 

 lature of 1885, says : 



This General Assembly must provide for the pay- 

 ment or funding of the following portions, which ma- 

 ture before the Thirty- fourth General Assembly 

 shall convene : 



1885 



1887 



Total $5,852,000 



There will be in the Treasury on Jan. 1, 1885, $1,- 

 413,895.37 ; of this sum $1,200,000 can be safely used 

 in a further reduction of the debt, leaving upon that 

 calculation an existing debt of $932,000 to be provided 

 for in 1885 and 1886. I think the incoming revenues 

 during the year 1885 will meet that sum, leaving only 

 the bonded debt maturing in 1887 to be provided for 

 in some way. 



On the controversy with the Hannibal and 

 St. Joseph Railroad, he says : 



In addition to the $3,090,000 originally paid by the 

 railroad company to the State, which was claimed by 

 the railroad to be all that was due to the State on 

 account of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Eailroad aid 

 bonds, the litigation has so far resulted in a judgment 

 in favor of the State for $566 ; 049.27 more, $90,000 of 

 which has already been paid into the State Treasury, 

 and for the balance of which, to wit, $476,049.27, the 

 State has a lien upon the property of the railroad 

 company if the judgment of the United States Circuit 

 Court should be affirmed by the Supreme Court of 

 the United States. 



The bonded indebtedness of counties is $11,- 

 028,105.25; of townships, $3,291,600; of cities 

 and incorporated towns, $26,434,826.25, in- 

 cluding $22,196,000 for St. Louis. 



Railroads. Since May 1, 1883, there have 

 been constructed 236 miles of railroad in the 

 State 113 miles in 1883 and 123 miles in 1884 

 making 4,738 miles of railroad now in op- 

 eration in Missouri. 



Gross earnings for 18S3 $28,754,334 96 



Gross earnings for 1884 (estimated) 29,000,000 00 



Gross earnings per mile for 1883 6,343 00 



Gross earnings per mile for 1884 (estimated). . 6,131 00 

 Total stock chargeable to number of miles up 



to Jan. 1, 1885 117,766,238 00 



Being equal to. per mile 26,429 00 



Total bonded debt Jan. 1, 1885 106,958,557 00 



Equal to, per mile 24,106 00 



Penitentiary. The earnings and receipts for 

 1883 and 1884 (December, 1884, estimated) 

 were $266,897.82, and there was expended for 

 maintenance during those years (December, 

 1884, estimated) $238,486.10, leaving $28,411.- 

 72 upon the credit side of the prison, which 

 was expended upon it. The last Legislature 

 appropriated $155,000 to replace certain build- 

 ings or workshops that were destroyed by fire 

 Feb. 23, 1882, and to extend the walls of the 

 penitentiary and do certain other specific work 

 detailed in the bill. These demands exhausted 

 the appropriation before the work was com- 

 pleted. Under the direction of the prison in- 



spectors the warden expended $18,543.30 for 

 materials purchased and used in the construc- 

 tion of the buildings and wall. In addition 

 to this sum, he expended $14,000 for brick, 

 rock, labor, etc. if credit is given for those 

 amounts, there is a surplus of $40,000 in 

 favor of the prison, which surplus accrued dur- 

 ing the year 1884. The new buildings have 

 been completed. 



The following tables show the number of 

 prisoners confined in the Penitentiary during 

 the years 1883-'84: 



Prisoners on hand Dec. 31, 1882 1,348 



Prisoners received in 1883 690 



Prisoners received in 1884 680 



Total 2,618 



Prisoners discharged in 1883 525 



Prisoners discharged in 1884 565 



1,080 



On hand Dec. 81, 1884 1,588 



In 1881 the daily average was 1,205 ; in 

 1882 the daily average was 1,318, showing an 

 increase of 113 in 1882 over 1881, 125 in 1883 

 over 1882, and 95 more in 1884 than 1883. 

 The daily cost per capita for maintenance for 

 1883-'84 was 22-j^ cents ; guarding, 8 T 7 7 cents; 

 total, 31| cents. 



Public Schools. The amounts to the credit of 

 the permanent State school fund are : 



Certificate at 6 per cent $2,909,000 00 



Certificate at 5 per cent 222,00ft 00 



In treasury 1,881 65 



$8,132,831 P5 



509,000 00 



Total public-school fund 

 University or seminary fund 



Total $3,640,831 65 



County public-school fund $2.934,253 28 



Township public-school fund 8,347,260 11 



Special public-school fund 130.487 87 



* ines, penalties, forfeitures, etc 125,522 98 



Total school funds of Missouri $10,178,805 89 



The statistics reported by county clerks for 

 the year ending June 30, 1884, are : 



The statistics reported by county commis- 

 sioners include these : 



Number of white children of school age 734,624 



Number of colored children of school age 48,954 



Number of white children enrolled 501.821 



Number of colored children enrolled 26,181 



Average attendance 898.031 



Number of teachers employed 18,2$ 6 



Average salary of teachers $47 75 



In the State University there were during the 

 year ending June, 1884, 563 students in attend- 

 ance and 65 graduations. Up to December, 

 1884, about 500 entered. The average age is 

 nineteen years and ten months, and it ranges 

 from fifteen to thirty-five. Admissions are by 

 examinations, regardless of age, and it is sel- 

 dom that any one as young as fifteen can pass. 

 The university is at Columbia, and has an agri- 

 cultural and mechanical department. The 

 School of Mines, at Holla, is connected with it. 



