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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
they are not paid because they are not presented. They have been 
called for, and the interest stopped. 
Since the payment of the debt, the amount received from the 
Central railroad—7 per cent, of its gross earnings—goes into the; 
State Treasury to be used in payment of current expenses of the* 
State government. The last Legislature appropriated $6,140,272. 
for the fiscal years 1881 and 1882, which were for the following pur¬ 
poses : 
At the very outset two million one hundred and seventy-five thou- 1 
sand dollars of the six millions go to the support ol the common schoolsl 
and normal schools of the State. Next come the charitable institu-' 
tions—nine of them—four insane hospitals, one mute, one blind, one* 
feeble-minded, one eye and ear infirmary, and one soldiers’ orphans 
home. The legislature appropriated for their current expenses and 
repairs, etc., $1,643,522—this includes the amount for carrying on the 
construction of the Kankakee hospital. The average number ot per- 1 
sons in these institutions, including those in the reform school, is 3,135 
—the cost of taking care of these persons, per capita, has been gradu 4 
ally reduced from year to year. In 1876 the cost per capita was 
$237.16 per annum, this year it is $209.21—leaving out Kankakee, 
where there are but few patients, it has been reduced to $201.28; 
There has been a strong effort by all the local boards and by the* 
Board of Charities to reduce the expense, Irom year to year, ot taking 
care of the unfortunates of the State, so that burdens would not bear 
so heavily upon' the tax-payers, and so that the State could come 
nearer than it yet has to taking care of all the unlortunates, instead ot 
less than half. 
From information which I deem reliable, there are over 90,00c 1 
insane persons in the United States, and over six thousand in Illinois; 
There are about 1,500 mutes and 1,000 blind persons in the State : 
this being so, the State is yet to determine what can and shall be done 
in reference to this great number of persons not provided for by the 
State ; but I will not stop to discuss that question now. 
I feel sure these institutions are honestly and economically man¬ 
aged. For six years there has not been a dollar of deficit in any one 
of them, but they have had a substantial surplus saved of the money 
appropriated. 
The legislature appropriated $440,340 for the penitentiaries ancj 
the reform school. Much the larger part of this was for the construc¬ 
tion of the Chester penitentiary and for the subsistence of the convicts' 
while engaged in construction, a part of it for land and improvements 
of the Joliet prison, and a part for subsistence and repairs of the reform 
school at Pontiac. 
Three hundred and eighty-two thousand three hundred and sixty- 
six dollars was appropriated by the Legislature for the legislative dej 
partment, and the sum of $594,150 for the judiciary. This sum main-j 
ly goes to the judges and State’s attorneys in the several counties--) 
over $40,000 a year is paid to the State’s attorneys. $438,882 wa^ 
appropriated for the executive department proper, which includes al 
the State officers—Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, 
Superintendent of Schools, Attorney General, and all the expenses at- ; 
