$800,000; costs in criminal cases, $500,000; 

 maintenance of public schools, $950,000; pay 

 and contingent expenses of the General As- 

 sembly, $145,060 ; sundry small appropriations, 

 $3 10,080 total, $5,262,750. The revenues un- 

 der the present levy of 40 cents on the $100 

 will largely exceed that sum; but as the sur- 

 plus can nil be profitably used in retiring 6-per- 

 cent, bonds at par, the Governor does not deem 

 it wise to alter that levy. 



On Jan. 1, 1885, the outstanding bonded 

 debt of the State was $11,803,000, bearing 6 

 per cent, interest, of which $3,000 matured 

 and was paid in 1885. After advertising for 

 offers of bonds to absorb the sinking-fund, the 

 board, on May 4, 1885, purchased 441 bonds 

 at a cost of $549,781.30, including interest; 

 and on Oct. 2, 1885, they purchased 53 bonds 

 for $65,235.03, including interest. The bonds 

 maturing in 1886 amounted to $2,129,000, 

 which sum was largely in excess of the re- 

 sources of the sinking-fund. To provide for 

 this excess, the General Assembly passed a bill 

 authorizing the Fund Commissioners to issue 

 5-20 funding bonds from time to time, as the 

 necessity arose. On March 17, 1886, Pacific 

 Railroad bonds matured amounting to $1,081,- 



000. To meet this demand the board sold and 

 issued, under the funding act, 650 of the new 

 5-20 funding bonds, bearing 3^ per cent, in- 

 terest, and dated March 15, 1886. On this 

 sale they realized a premium of $12,538.50, 

 making the proceeds $662,538.50. The bal- 

 ance of the $1,081,000 was paid out of the 

 sinking-fund. On June 13 the commissioners 

 paid $75,000 North Missouri Railroad bonds 

 maturing on that day, and on August 22, $120,- 

 000 North Missouri Railroad bonds maturing 

 on that day, both out of the sinking-fund. On 

 September 5, $391.000 North Missouri Railroad 

 bonds matured, and on November 10, $462,- 

 000 Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad bonds 

 matured. To meet these demands the board 

 sold and issued 300 of the 5-20 bonds bearing 

 3 per cent, interest, dated Sept. 1, 1886, for 

 $308,703.69, and 400 similar bonds dated Nov. 



1, 1886, for $410,520. The balance of the de- 

 mand was paid out of the sinking-fund. The 

 total amount of 3 per cent, funding bonds 

 solil is 1,350, on which premiums amounting 

 to $31,762.19 have been realized. Of the $11,- 

 803,000 of 6-per-cent. bonds outstanding Jan. 

 1, 1885, $1,276,000 have been paid out of the 

 sinking-fund; $1,350,000 have been funded at 

 3J per cent., and $9,177,000 still bear 6 per 

 cent. Provision has been made for funding 

 $928,000 Hanibal and St. Joseph Railroad 

 bonds falling due Feb. 28, 1887, and $649,000 

 Pacific Railroad bonds maturing March 10, 

 1887, by the issue of 1,577 bonds bearing 3^ 

 per cent, dated March 1, 1887. 



The interest on the entire State debt has 

 been promptly paid, including the January, 

 1887, interest. 



The school fund indebtedness consists of one 

 certificate of $2,909,000 bearing 6 per per cent. 



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interest, payable annually, January 1, and three 

 certificates aggregating $225,000 bearing 5 per 

 cent, interest, payable semi-annually January 1 

 and July 1. The seminary fund consists of one 

 6-per-cent. certificate of $122,000, interest pay- 

 able annually, and one of $100,000 bearing 

 5-per-cent. interest payable semi-annually. The 

 Agricultural College fund consists of three cer- 

 tificates aggregating $297,000, bearing 5-per- 

 cent, interest payable semi-annually. 



A large part of the State debt falls due in 

 the next two years ($6,652,000). The public 

 schools are maintained at the cost of $5,000,000 

 a year. 



Penitentiary. The following statement cov- 

 ers the whole of the two years 1885 and 

 1886 : Earnings from contract-labor, $235,- 

 044.71 ; earnings from sale of brick, stone, etc., 

 $17,143.34; daily average earning of each in- 

 mate, 21 '36 cents; daily average cost of each 

 inmate, after deducting earnings, 13-09. 



Costs in Criminal Cases. On this subject, the 

 Governor, in his message to the Legislature of 

 1887, says: "The costs in criminal cases are 

 rapidly becoming enormous, and threaten to 

 become burdensome. Although the appropria- 

 tion for 1885 and 1886 was $400,000, it was 

 exhausted in August, and there have since been 

 incurred costs amounting to more than $100,- 

 000. It is estimated they will amount to 

 $500,000 in 1887 and 1888.". 



High License. Prior to the enactment and en- 

 forcement of the law providing what is known 

 as " high license " for dram-shops, there were 

 in the State 3,601 dram-shops and other places 

 where ardent spirits were sold to be used as a 

 beverage, yielding a revenue of $547,320.30. 

 There were on the 4th of July last 2,880 such 

 dram-shops, yielding a revenue of $1 ,842,208.26. 

 "These figures," says the Governor, "clearly 

 indicate that the law referred to is accom- 

 plishing the good result that was anticipated, 

 and, I think, prove the wisdom of it. There 

 are imperfections in the present law which 

 ought to be corrected. I am of the opinion 

 that the traffic in whisky is not sufficiently 

 limited ; that it ought to be restricted to those 

 who have paid the * high license " of a dram- 

 shop keeper, and that druggists and merchants 

 should not be allowed to sell it in any quanti- 

 ties whatever, except upon the prescription of 

 a reputable physician for medicinal purposes. 

 What are known as ' gallon - houses ' should 

 be abolished. Every one who desires whisky 

 or other ardent spirits as a beverage should 

 be compelled to purchase it at those establish- 

 ments which, under our high-license law, are 

 placed within competent police regulations." 



State military. On this subject the Governor 

 says : " The military law now on our statutes 

 is utterly inadequate to the purposes intended 

 in its enactment the organization and main- 

 tenance of a well-ordered citizen soldiery. I 

 have already, in a different connection, stated 

 that 'I think this State should make ample 

 provision for the care and protection of her 



