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Powers ; Secretary of State, By.ron Boyd : Treas- 

 urer, F. M. Simpson; Attorney-General, Win. T. 

 Haines; Adjutant General, John T. Richards; 

 Superintendent of Public Schools, W. W. Stetson ; 

 Insurance Commissioner, S. W. Carr; Bank Exam- 

 iner, F. E. Titnberlake; Superintendent of Public 

 Buildings, E. C. Stevens; Liquor Commissioner, 

 James W. Wakefield ; Commissioner of Labor, 

 Samuel W. Matthews ; Inspectors of Prisons, Whit- 

 man Sawyer, A. W. Gilman, Augustus Bailey; Sec- 

 retary of Board of Agriculture, B. W. McKeen ; 

 State Librarian, Leonard B. Carver; Railroad Com- 

 missioners, J. B. Peaks, Frederick Danforth, Ben- 

 jamin F. Chadbourne ; Commissioner of Sea and 

 Shore Fisheries. 0. B. Whitten; Commissioners of 

 Inland Fisheries and Game, Leroy T. Carleton, 

 Henry 0. Stanley, Charles E. Oak ; Cattle Commis- 

 sioners, George H. Bailey, F. O. Beal, John M. 

 Deering ; State Assessors, William C. Marshall, 

 Otis Hay ford, George Pottle ; Chief Justice of 

 Supreme Judicial Court, John A. Peters; Associate 

 Justices, Albert R. Savage, Sewell C. Strout, Lucil- 

 ius A. Emery. Enoch Foster, Thomas A. Haskell, 

 William P. Whitehouse, Andrew P. Wiswell ; Clerk, 

 W. S. Choat ; State Reporter, Charles Hamlin ; 

 State Detective, Dennis Tracy all Republicans. 



Finances. During the past two years $247,074 

 have been paid in principal and interest on the 

 bonded indebtedness of the State, leaving $2,205,- 

 000 still due. The receipts from all sources in 

 1898 were $1,854,304.66 ; cash in treasury, Jan. 1, 

 1898, $150,352.22 ; amount of warrants drawn and 

 id, $1.851,931.15; cash balance, Dec. 31, 1898, 

 154,723.73 ; excess of expenditures over receipts 

 in the past two years, $198,776^5 ; rate of taxation 

 or 1898. 2f m'ills : total liabilities of the State, 

 >ec. 31,' 1898, $4,100.826.67. All taxes against 

 ities, towns, and organized plantations have been 

 paid in full. 



Banks. The number of banking institutions in 

 the State was reported to be 182 ; entire banking 

 Capital, $116,284,620.04, an increase of $1,673,796.84 

 ver 1897. The number of banks under the super- 

 ision of the Bank Examiner was 100 51 savings 

 >anks, 17 trust and banking companies, and 32 

 .oan and building associations an increase of 1 in 

 ;he number of trust and banking companies and a 

 decrease of 1 in the number of loan and building 

 associations during the year ; total assets, $76,375,- 

 538.69 ; number of depositors, 192.625 ; amount paid 

 in interest and dividends, $2.535,863.66 ; amount 

 that would accrue to each person in the State by 

 an equal distribution of these assets, $115.53, 

 against $110.81 in 1897. 



The number of national banks doing business in 

 he State was 182; assets, $39,909,081.35; amount 

 on deposit in the 51 savings banks, Oct. 29, 1898, 

 $60,852,557.34, an increase of $1.254,208.66 from 

 Nov. 6, 1897, to Oct. 29, 1898 ; number of deposi- 

 tors, 169,714, an increase of 1.835 ; average amount 

 to each depositor, $358.56 as against $355.01 in 

 1897 ; average amount for each person in the State, 

 $92.05 ; average rate of dividends, 3.53 ; total 

 mount deposited during the year, including divi- 

 dends, $12,081,579.42 ; aggregate of reserve and un- 

 livided profits. $3,282,079.98 ; amount of State tax 

 >n savings banks for 1898, $394,016.12. 



The 17 trust and banking companies on Oct. 29, 



898, had a capital stock of $1.586,400; surplus. 



$324,000 : total liabilities, $9.182.997.50 ; number of 



"epositors, 14,755, an increase of 1,750 during the 



ear ; amount of deposits, $6,201,118.28 ; amount of 



nterest paid during the year on all deposits, $125.- 



'42.13; on savings deposits alone, $101,680.70: 



mount of dividends paid stockholders, $91,752, an 



crease of $6.000 over 1897 ; average rate of divi- 



ends paid stockholders, 5.78. The total liabilities 



of the 32 loan and building associations were re- 

 ported as $8,009,998.77 : number of shareholders, 

 8,156 ; number of shares outstanding. 44,758-J, a de- 

 crease of 711 since 1M)7: dividends paid, $173,744.- 

 81, a decrease of $39,650.93, owing to the fact that 

 one association in 1897 charged off all dividends 

 previously paid, in 

 readjusting its ac- 

 counts.and declared 

 anewdividendupon 

 all its outstanding 

 shares ; average rate 

 of dividends paid 

 shareholders, 6.5 per 

 cent. 



Valuation. The 

 valuation of the 

 cities, towns, and 

 plantations for 1898, 

 as returned by the 

 assessors, was as fol- 

 lows : Real estate, 

 $221,355,754 ; per- 

 sonal estate, $63,- 

 144.504; total valua- 

 tion, including wild 



lands. $329,516,244, LLEWELLYN POWERS, 



an increase of $1,- GOVERNOR OF MAINE. 



015,250 over 1896 ; amount of money at interest in 

 the several coftnties for 1898, $9,758.662 ; stock in 

 trade, $16,500,158 ; bank stock, $7,914,261 ; trust 

 companies' stock, $728,085 ; stock of other com- 

 panies, $638,151; shipping. $2.372,999: logs and 

 lumber, $1,429,849; wood and bark, $271,322 ; rail- 

 road property, $2,753,918 ; street railways, $331 .550 : 

 value of bicycles, $324,420; carriages," $1,249,055 ; 

 musical instruments, $1.847,313; furniture, $1,152,- 

 782 ; taxes assessed upon telegraph, telephone, and 

 express companies, $13.649; taxes assessed semi- 

 annually upon loan and building associations, 

 $336.05 ; total amount on savings banks. $394,016.- 

 12; on railroads, $179,952.83; total number of polls 

 in the State paying State tax for 1898, 190,219; 

 receipts from stumpage sold by the land agent for 

 the year, $11,838. About $500,000 of the gain in 

 the valuation of real and personal property for the 

 year was on account of property heretofore ex- 

 empted from taxation. 



Insurance. The number of companies' licenses 

 issued in 1898 was 164 ; value of them, $3,285 ; 

 number of agents' licenses, 3,796 ; value, $7,592 ; 

 number of brokers' licenses, 116; value, $1,160; 

 number of companies examined, 5 ; number of life 

 policies in force on Dec. 31, 1897, 56,114; amount 

 of insurance in force, $52,853,970.12 ; increase in 

 number of policies issued during the year. 4,372 ; 

 in amount of insurance written, $1,829,638.75; in- 

 crease in the number of policies in force, 5,669 ; 

 increase in the amount of insurance in force, $4,- 

 313.689.12 ; in the amount of premiums received, 

 $154,439.03. There were 245 fire and marine insur- 

 ance companies, fraternal beneficiary organizations, 

 etc., doing business in the State on Dec. 31, 1897: 

 156 companies' licenses were issued ; value of 

 licenses, $3,165 ; number of agents' licenses issued, 

 3,632; value, $7,592; number of brokers' licenses, 

 141; value, $1,365; number of companies ex- 

 amined, 6. 



Railroads. On June 30. 1898, there were 1,748.- 

 95 miles of steam railroads in operation ; on Nov. 

 30, 1898, 1,872.80 ; total mileage, 1,723.80 of broad 

 gauge and 148.92 of narrow gauge : gross transpor- 

 tation earnings, $8.231,018.63, against $8.237.971.15 

 in 1897 ; number of tons of freight carried. 5,646.376. 

 against 5,445,524 in 1897; total passenger-train 

 mileage in the State. 3,270.128 ; total freight-train 

 mileage, 3,049,226; gross assets, $102,336,272.56, a 



