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Of our expenses it is equally difficult to give an exact 

 state, anfl for the same reason. They are mostly stated 

 in j)af)er money, wJiich varying continually, the legis- 

 lature endeavours at everv session, by new corrections, 

 to adapt the nominal sums to the value it is wished 

 they would bear. I will state them therefore in real 

 coin, at the point at which they endeavour to keep 

 them. 



Dollars. 

 The annual expenses of the general assembly 



are about , 20,000 



The governor 3,333J 



The council of state 10,666| 



Their clerks 1,1 66| 



Eleven judges 11,000 



The clerk of the chancery 66<^| 



The attorney general 1,000 



Three auditors and a solicitor 5,333J 



Their clerks 2,000 



The treasurer 2,000 



His clerks 2,000 



The keei)er of the public jail 1,000 



The public printer 1,666| 



Clerks of the inferior courts 43,333^ 



Public levy : this is chiefly for the expenses of 



criminal justice 40,000 



County levy, for bridges, court-houses, prisons, 



&c. 40,000 



Members of Congress 7,000 



Quota of the federal civil list, supposed one sixth 



of about 78,000 dollars 13,000 



Expenses of collecting, six per cent on the 



above 12,310 



The clergy receive only voluntary contributions: 

 suppose them on an average one eighth of a 

 dollar a tythe on 200,000 tythes 25,000 



Contingencies, to make round numbers not far 



froni truth 7,523i 



250,000 

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