Amount of warrants unredeemed June 30, 1850, Amount drawn, to Dec. 15, Amount redeemed from July 1, to Dec. 15, Total outstanding, December 15, 1850, $ 55,574.82 96,769.87 $ 152,344.69 9.370 45 $142,974.24 The Estimates of the Comptroller for the year ending June 30, 1851, were as follows: State Debt. -The total indebtedness of the State, Dec. 15, 1850, was as follows: The Legislature at its last session passed an act funding the State debt. It will, when funded, amount to $700,000, bearing 7 per cent. interest, and provision was made to raise that sum by taxation. The proceeds of the tax, as they come in, are to be applied to the payment of the old debt, on which, from the time the Treasury is in funds, the 3 per cent. a month interest will cease to run. There is besides a debt of $500,000 bearing 12 per cent. interest, incurred by the State in wars with the Indians. It is expected that this will be paid by the General Government. 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. JOHN P. GAINES, of Oregon City, Governor and Superintend Term expires. Salary. Term ends. Salary. Brigham Yound, of Salt Lake City, Governor and Sup't of Broughton D. Harris, Indian Affairs, 1854, $2,500 Secretary, JUDICIARY. Samuel G. Brandebury, of Salt Lake City, Chief Justice, 66 1,800 1854. of XXXV. NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. This Territory was organized by the Act of Congress of Sept. 9, 1850, which took effect December, 1850, upon the receipt of official notice at Washington, that the Texas Boundary Act had been accepted by the people. JAMES S. CALHOUN, of Santa Fé, Governor, Government for the Year 1852. Term ends. Salary. 1855, $2,500 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. Russia Sweden and Norway July 4, 1799 Mar. 8, 1844 45 Lutheran Holland orNetherlands Feb. 19, 1817 Mar. 17, 1849 32 Reformed Belgium Dec. 16, 1790 July 21, 1831 40 Lutheran* Fred. Francis Grand Duke Mecklenburg-Schwer. Feb. 28, 1823 Mar. 7, 1842 19 Lutheran Mecklenburg-Strelitz Aug. 12, 1779 Nov. 6, 1816 37 Denmark Victoria Queen Great Britain William III. King Leopold Fred. Wm. IV. Duke Prussia Ch. Frederic Grand Duke Duchess Ferdinand Landgrave Louis III. Grand Duke Frederic Aloys William King Fran.Joseph.I. Emperor Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Saxe-Weimar-Eisen Feb. 2, 1783 June 14, 1828 45 Lutheran Anhalt-Cöthen Aug. 3, 1794 Nov. 23, 1847 53 Reformed Chas. Louis President France Apr. 20, 1808 Dec. 20, 1848 40 Maria II. 66 Portugal Sardinia Grand Duke Modena and Massa States of the Church ་་་་་ Oct. 10, 1830 Sept. 29, 1833 3 *The King of Belgium is a Protestant, though his subjects are mostly Catholics; the King of Saxony is a Catholic, though the greater part of his subjects are Protestants; and the King of Greece is a Catholic, though most of his subjects are of the Greek Church. |