August 31, 1851, returns were received from all but three counties in the State. Of the 342 towns in the counties heard from, all but 4 made reports. The number of school-districts in the State was 2,300. 79,869 out of the 111,431 children residing in the State, between the ages of 4 and 20, attended school. 1,318 children under 4 years of age, and 986 over 20, attended school. Average monthly wages of male teachers, $17.15; of female, $9.07. $96,636.06 were expended for teachers' wages, $3,939.20 for libraries, and $5,863.01 for other purposes. There are 53 school-houses of brick, 55 of stone, 704 of logs, and 697 framed, and all are valued at $228,506.61. The highest valuation of any school-house is $6,848, and the lowest 3 cents. There were 129 private or select schools, and the number of pupils attending the same was 2,850. FINANCES. Total receipts for the year ending December 31, 1851, Chief Sources of Revenue. Printing, $ 10,614.03 State taxes, $ 60,566.01 State convicts (there being no prison), 4,024.71 Sales of land and interest on sales make up Miscellaneous, including repairs on the balance. Chief Items of Expenditure. State Capitol, . Salaries of Executive and Judiciary, $ 15,008.57 Territorial debts, Legislature, 36,215.52 Additions to State Library, 9,732.80 5,000.00 11,893.06 2,330.01 The aggregate value of the real and personal property of the State subject to taxation, for the year 1851, was $ 27,647,264.66. The three-mill tax upon this amounted to $82,941.80. By the act of March 5, 1851, the question of "Banks" or "No Banks" was submitted to the people of Wisconsin. The ballots upon the question were,— for "Banks," 31,219; for "No Banks," 9,126; being a majority of 22,093 in favor of banks. JOHN BIGLER, Samuel Purdy, Government for the Year 1853.* Term expires. Salary. of Sacramento City, Governor, Jan. 1854, $10,000 of Stockton, Lieut.-Gov. & Pres. of Senate, $20 a [day during session of Legislature. Jan. 1854, 3,500 The Supreme Court consists of a Chief Justice and two Associate Justices. It has appellate jurisdiction where the matter in dispute exceeds $200, and where the legality of certain acts is questioned, and in certain * The capital of the State is at Vallejo for the present, but the question of its future locality is still unsettled. criminal cases. The justices are elected by the people for six years, and are so classified that one goes out of office every two years. The senior judge in office is the chief justice. Hugh C. Murray, of San Francisco, Alexander Wells, of Calaveras Co., 66 District Courts. The District Courts have jurisdiction in law and equity, where the amount in dispute, exclusive of interest, exceeds $200. The Constitution provided that at the first election the judges should be chosen by the Legislature, but afterwards by the people, and for a term of six years. A county judge is elected in each county for four years, to act as judge of probate, to hold the County Court, and with two justices of the peace to hold courts of sessions for criminal business. Clerks of courts, district attorneys, sheriffs, coroners, &c. are elected by the people. EN Delos Lake, Charles M. Creaner, Stockton, Lewis Aldrich, 7,500 W. S. Sherwood, 7,500 7,500 Sacramento City, 7,500 Barbour, Nevada, Superior Court of San Francisco, John Saterlee, Justice. FINANCES. 7,500 From the Reports of the Comptroller and Treasurer of the State, there were outstanding on the 1st of March, 1852, of the three per cent. bonds, $175,000, of which about $75,000 have been since redeemed. Amount of Comptroller's warrants outstanding, December 31, 1851, The amount of warrants issued since the 31st of December, 1851, will not be known till the next report of the Comptroller, in January, 1853. It is presumed that there are not more than $100,000 outstanding, as some $250,000 have been taken in by the land-warrant bill, which provides for the entry of any public land at $2.00 per acre, payable in State warrants, and nearly the same amount ($250,000) has been funded under the act funding the State debt. Common Schools. The Constitution provides for the election of a Superintendent of Public Instruction, to hold office for three years, and that the Legislature shall establish a system of common schools, to be taught at least three months in each year. By the same instrument, the proceeds of the public lands granted to the State for schools, the 500,000 acres granted to new States under the act of Congress of 1841, estates of persons dying without heirs, and such per cent. as Congress shall grant on the sale of lands in this State, shall be a fund, the interest of which and the rents of unsold lands are to be inviolably appropriated to the support of common schools. A Superintendent of Public Instruction has been elected, but there are as yet but few schools. XXXII. OREGON TERRITORY. Government for the Year 1853. Term expires. Salary. JOHN P. GAINES, of Oregon City, Governor and Superintend ALEXANDER RAMSEY, of St. Paul, Governor and Superintendent of BRIGHAM YOUNG, of Salt Lake City, Governor and Sup't of Indian Affairs, 1854, $2,500 Secretary, 66 Broughton D. Harris, 1,800 Term ends. Salary. WILLIAM CARR LANE, of Santa Fé, Governor, William S. Allen, 1855, $2,500 Secretary of State, 1855, 1,800 XXXVI. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The District of Columbia is under the immediate government of Congress. The city of Washington became the seat of the government of the United States in 1800, and it is the residence of the President, and the other chief executive officers of the national government. By an act of Congress, in 1846, which was subsequently accepted by the people of Alexandria, the city and county of Alexandria were retroceded to the State of Virginia, and the District is now confined to the Maryland side of the Potomac. JUDICIARY. |