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>\v : (leneral fund, balance on July 1, 1888, 

 . -ipt-, f<>r year ensuing, $8,005,- 

 pendituivs $3,000,515.02; balance on 

 July l,lss<, *.-|iM..js-j.. t n ; receipts for year end- 

 :!y 1. isiH), $5,081,484.01; expenditures, $8,- 

 l.alancc (.11 July 1, iMio, > I .*: 50,080.- 

 1 fund, balanceon July 1, 1888, $277,- 

 i; receipts for year ensuing, $2,582,- 

 : expenditures, $2,501,108.39; balance on 

 <558,847.07 ; receipts for year 

 ending July 1, 1890, $2,719,743.71 ; expenditures, 

 -(,480.14; balance, on July 1, 1890, $420,- 

 U'.n.t;.J. Interest and sinking fund, balance on 

 July 1, isss, $243,505.49; receipts for year 

 awning, *^(U.7:;s.i:, ; expenditures, $212,080; 

 l.alanc-e on July 1, 1889, $235,503.04; receipts 

 ar ending July 1, 1890, $205,404.03; ex- 

 ].. -nditurcs. $246,900.83 ; balance on July 1, 1890, 

 $194,120.84. State School Land fund, balance 

 en July 1, 1888, $115,970.52; receipts for year 

 ensuing, $275,970.07; expenditures, $189,6*09.- 

 <)!: balance on July 1, 1889, $252,150.00; re- 

 ceipts for vear ending July 1, 1890, $255,602.- 

 68; expenditures, $459,019.11 ; balance on July 



I, 1890, $48,140.17. 



The bonded State debt amounts to $2,642,- 

 000, all except $5,000 of which is represent o<l 

 by the funded-debt bonds of 1873. These bonds 

 are held as follow: By individuals, $278,000; by 

 the State School fund, $1,541,500; by the Uni- 

 versity fund, $817,500. 



The high rate of State taxation during the 

 past few years has provoked frequent com- 

 plaints, and the subject of taxation became one 

 of the most important local topics discussed in 

 the canvass of 1890. Both of the leading parties 

 promised to keep the rate below 50 cents on each 

 $100 of valuation. As a result, the rate fixed 

 by the State Board of Equalization this year was 

 23.4 cents for the general fund and 17.6 cents 

 for the School fund, a total of 41 cents, as against 

 a total of 58 cents in 1890 and 72.2 cents in 

 1889. 



Legislative Session. TJie twenty-ninth ses- 

 sion of the Legislature began on Jan. 5, and 

 ended on March 25. On Jan. 13, United States 

 Senator Leland Stanford, who was the unani- 

 mous choice of the Republican caucus, was re- 

 elected for the full senatorial term by the fol- 

 lowing vote : Senate, Stanford 27, Stephen M. 

 White, the Democratic nominee, 12 ; Assembly, 

 Stanford 59, White 18, Benjamin Morgan 1, 

 On Feb. 28, Senator Stanford's colleague. United 

 States Senator George Hearst, died in Washing- 

 ton, and numerous Kepublican candidates for 

 the office appeared. Without an attempt at 

 settlement in the Republican caucus, the con- 

 test between them was carried directly into the 

 Legislature. On the first ballot in each House, 

 on March 10, the following vote was cast : Senate 

 M. M. Estee 12, M. II. De Young 4, Charles N. 

 Felton 7, George G. Blanchard 3, William John- 

 ston 2, D. A. Ostrom (Democrat) 10, scattering 2, 

 Assembly Estee 13, De Young 18, Felton 8, 

 Blanchard 9, Johnston 4, Ostrom 15, scattering 



II. Eight ballots were taken, Estee leading in 

 all except the last. The eighth ballot, on March 

 19, resulted in the election of Charles N. Felton, 

 by the following vote : Felton 78, Estee 15, 

 Stephen M. White (Democrat) 28, scattering 2. 



An Australian or secret-ballot law was enacted 



at this session. It provides that all ballots cast 

 in elections for public officers shall be printed mid 

 distributed at county expense, except that ballots 

 for municipal officers shall be printed and distrib- 

 uted at the expense of the city or town. Candi- 

 dates whose names are entitled toap(>car on the 

 official ballots must 1x5 nominated cither \>y the 

 convention of a political party that polled at the 

 last preceding election 3 per cent, at least of the 

 entire vote cast in the State or other political di- 

 vision for which the nomination is made, or by 

 nomination papers signed by electors equal in 

 number to at least 5 per cent, of the entire vote 

 cast in the last preceding election in the State or 

 other political division for which the nomination 

 is made. The duty of preparing the ballots for 

 city and town elections is imposed on the town 

 or city clerk, and for all other elections on the 

 county clerk. Tinted blank paper for the bal- 

 lots shall be furnished to these officers by the 

 Secretary of the State on payment of the cost. 

 Such paper shall be water marked with a design 

 to be furnished by the Secretary of State, so that 

 it shall be plainly discernible on the outside of 

 the ballot when folded. Such design shall be 

 kept secret until the election, and shall be 

 changed for each general election. The paper 

 for ballots for municipal officers shall be of a 

 different tint from the paper used for other bal- 

 lots. The names of all candidates for city or 

 town officers shall be placed on the municipal 

 ballots and the names of all other candidates on 

 the general ballots. They shall be arranged un- 

 der the designation of the office in alphabetical 

 order according to surname, except that the . 

 names of candidates for presidential and vice- 

 presidential electors shall be arranged in groups 

 as presented in the several certificates of nomi- 

 nation, and the elector may vote for the whole of 

 such group by making a mark after such group. 

 There shall be added to the names of all candi- 

 dates their party or political designation. Blank 

 spaces shall be left in which the elector may 

 write the names of other candidates. At the 

 head of each ballot shall be printed the names 

 of all political parties that have filed certificates 

 of nomination, and the elector, by placing a 

 mark opposite the party name shall be consid- 

 ered to nave voted for all the party candidates, 

 but a ballot so marked shall not be counted if 

 marked in any other place, except to indicate a 

 vote on any question submitted on the ballot. 



At each polling place a sufficient number of 

 booths or compartments shall be provided in 

 which Toters may conveniently mark their bal- 

 lots screened from observation. Each elector 

 shall receive but one general ticket and but one 

 municipal ticket from the ballot clerk, who shall 

 note the number on the ticket and write it in 

 his register opposite the name of the elector. 

 The marking shall be done only with a stamp 

 furnished for that purpose. On election days 

 employes shall be allowed two hours without loss 

 of pay for the purpose of voting. The act took 

 effact on July 1, 1891. 



An act to prevent Chinese immigration pro- 

 hibits any Chinese person, except certain officials 

 of the Chinese Government and their retinue, 

 from coming to or within, or landing at or re- 

 maining in. any port or place within the State, 

 whether for the purpose of transit only or oth- 



