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Mohammedans assembled on that set apart for 

 the Hindoos. The latter were persuaded by 

 the magistrate to take another route, while the 

 Mohammedans were dispersed by some English 

 and native troops. The Hindoos, however, 

 cherished feelings of resentment, and some of 

 them took revenge by murdering a Moham- 

 medan boy, and by defiling a mosque with a 

 dead pig. 



Proposed Mission to Thibet. The English in In- 

 dia have long looked toward Thibet as a prom- 

 ising market, and have been inclined to blame 

 the Chinese Government for the policy of se- 

 clusion and non-intercourse that has prevented 

 foreigners from penetrating that conntry. The 

 authorities at Pekin have, since the extension 

 of Russia to the borders of China, shown no 

 dislike to the establishment of communications 

 between India and China. After Prejevalski's 

 attempt to visit Lhassa, when the British ap- 

 plied for permission to send a political and 

 commercial mission to the Dalia Lama under 

 Mr. Macaulay, who had visited Shigatsze, on 

 the border of Thibet, the Pekin Government 

 gave its sanction to the undertaking, sent him 

 letters to the Arnban at Lhassa, and promised 

 him every assistance. Magnificent presents for 

 the Lama were sent from London, and prepa- 

 rations were made for an expedition on a grand 

 scale, in which all the sciences were represent- 

 ed. While the members were gathering with 

 their instruments and equipments at Darjeeling, 

 the Thibetans took alarm at the extensive prepa- 

 rations. The Chinese, when they heard of the 

 distrust and excitement created by the mission, 

 advised the British Government to postpone 

 the dispatch of the mission, to which Lord Rose- 

 bery and Lord Dufferin agreed. The recall of 

 the expedition was construed by the people on 

 the borders of Thibet as an evidence of timid- 

 ity. A considerable force of Thibetans invaded 

 the state of Sikkim, which is tributary to the 

 Indian Government, built a number of forts, 

 and took possession of a road that had been 

 constructed by the British authorities from Dar- 

 jeeling to the Jelapla Pass. The convention 

 with China in relation to Burmah, signed in 

 July, 1886, contains a stipulation by which 

 Great Britain agreed to countermand the Ma- 

 caulay mission on the ground that the Chinese 

 ministers feared local disturbances, while the 

 Chinese Government promised to encourage 

 trade between India and Thibet. China bound 

 herself not to interfere with the British ar- 

 rangements for the internal administration of 

 Burmah, and to provide trade facilities between 

 Burmah and Yunnan, while England admitted 

 the Chinese claim to suzerainty, and agreed to 

 continue the decennial tribute mission from 

 Mandalay to Pekin. 



INDIANA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year : Gov- 

 ernor, Isaac P. Gray, Democrat ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Mahlon D. Munson, who resigned; 

 Secretary of State, William R. Myers ; Treas- 

 urer, John J. Cooper ; Auditor, James H. Rice ; 



Attorney-General, Francis T. Hord ; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, John W. Hoi- 

 combe. Supreme Court: William E. Niblack, 

 George V. Howk, Byron K. Elliott, Allen Zol- 

 lars, and Joseph A. S. Mitchell, Justices. 



Finances. For the past ten years the tax levy 

 for State purposes has been fixed by law at 12 

 cents on $100 ; at the time such levy was fixed 

 it was only deemed sufficient to meet the usual 

 and ordinary expenses of the State and its 

 institutions. In addition to such expenses, 

 there have been from time to time, as each 

 General Assembly convened, appropriated from 

 the general fund, from which all the expenses 

 of the State government and institutions are 

 paid, large sums for unusual or extraordinary 

 expenses. The State has in part been enabled 

 to pay the large amount of extraordinary ap- 

 propriations by anticipating the revenue of each 

 ensuing year in the way of advances by the 

 several county treasurers as provided by law. 

 The amount of the advances has increased 

 from year to year, as the pressure upon the 

 treasury for funds has grown, until such ad- 

 vances for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1886, 

 amounted to $440,804.65. The appropriations 

 from the general fund for extraordinary ex- 

 penses from Nov. 1, 1883, until Nov. 1, 1886, 

 amount to $1,208,852.02. During the past two 

 years there has been refunded $600,000 of the 

 State's temporary loan indebtedness, and the 

 negotiation of an additional loan of $585,000, 

 authorized by the last General Assembly, has 

 been made. The credit of the State has so 

 improved that these loans were negotiated at a 

 rate of interest, with the premiums received, 

 that will make them average about 3 per 

 cent., and the refunding of said temporary 

 loan of April 1, 1879, will make an annual 

 saving of $8,775 in interest. The total amount 

 borrowed for the benefit of the general fund 

 was $660,000, and, deducting such amount 

 from the amount of the said extraordinary 

 expenses, $1,208,852.02, it appears that during 

 said years 1883, 1884, 1885, and 1886, the sum 

 of $548,852.02 has been paid from the reve- 

 nues of the State, over and above the ordinary 

 expenses. 



The net receipts to the general fund from 

 all sources, exclusive of $257,936.75 advanced 

 by counties and $679,215.75 received on loans, 

 for the'fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 1885, were 

 $1,424,249.10, while the expenditures from the 

 same fund, exclusive of advances returned to 

 counties during such year, pursuant to appro- 

 priations, were $2,083,085.61. The net re- 

 ceipts to the same fund, exclusive of advances 

 by counties, for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, 

 1886, were $1,421,350.84, while the expendi- 

 tures from the same fund, exclusive of advances 

 returned by counties, during such year, pursu- 

 ant to appropriations, were $1,019,537.78. The 

 expenditures of the last year are not equal to 

 those of the former year, because the revenue 

 of the State were not sufficient to meet the 

 appropriations. 



