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Burchett Douglass,

William Davis,

Abram McClellan.

Theodoric F. Bradford, Duncan McIvor,

Pay of the senators and representatives, $4 a day each.

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Chancellors. Nathan Green, and W. A. Cook.— Salary $1,500 each.

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JOHN BREATHITT, Governor ; term of office expires in Septem

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James S. Morehead, Lieut. Governor and Speaker of the Senate a day, while presiding over the Senate.

Salary.

$2,000

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Circuit Courts.

The state is divided into 16 circuits; salary of Judges, $1000.

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Amount of taxable property in the state, in lands, town lots, slaves, and carriages, according to returns made by commissioners to the auditor,

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A tax of 62 cents on the $100, yields the sum of

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$111,756,438

$69,847.80

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on 352 taverns, $10 each,

3,520.00

$78,124.05

Receipts for 1831.

For payment on Head-right Land and Land Warrants,

$2,817.28

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Clerks for Records, Copying Tax-Books, furnishing Presses, &c. 9,098.30

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Louisville and Portland Canal. Company incorporated in 1825. Completed in 1831. It is about 2 miles in length; 200 feet wide at the top of the banks, and 50 at the bottom of the water. Lockage, 24 feet, being overcome by 3 lifts, and 1 guard-lock. [For a more full description of this Canal, see American Almanac for 1832.]

The Lexington and Ohio Rail-road. Length, 66 miles. Company incorporated in 1830. Commenced in 1831. Capital, $1,000,000. It is to extend from Lexington to Frankfort, and thence to Ohio river, near Shippingport, about 2 miles below Louisville. The first division of this railroad, 6 miles in length, was put under contract in October, 1831, and commenced the December following. The second division, of 20 miles, was let in May, 1832; the earth-grading of which, is to be finished by the 1st of January, 1833, and the rock-excavations in the following May. The first division to be fully completed during the autumn of 1832, and the second during the next autumn. The portion lying between Frankfort and Ohio river (between 50 and 60 miles) has not yet been put under contract. The cost of the first 6 miles will not exceed $45,600, or an average of $7,600 a mile, The cost of the next 20, estimated at $11,000 per mile.

The maximum grade of this rail-road is 30 feet a mile; the minimum curvature, 1,000 feet radius, which will admit of the use of steam power, and a high degree of velocity. The superstructure consists of a continuous line (single track) of hard, gray limestone sills, the cube of which may be estimated at 200 inches, varying in length from 4 to 20 feet. These sills are embedded, 16 inches below the surface, in broken stone of the same description, 5 perches of which to a rod of road, reduced to a size not exceeding 4 ounces in weight, are used in bedding the sills and in macad. amizing the horse-path; horse-power in the first instance being intended. At the high embankments, cedar sills and locust posts are used in the superstructure. Between Lexington and Frankfort there will be one bridge of 81 feet span. The distance between the two towns will be increased 16 hundredths,

Maysville and Lexington Turnpike. Length about 64 miles; 44 of which are to be completed before the beginning of the year 1833, and the remainder in the course of the following year. Average cost per mile, including bridges, $5,000. The maximum grade is 2 degrees. The width of the road-way is 60 feet, 20 feet of which are to be covered with macadamized lime-stone to the depth of 9 inches.

The Louisville and Bardstown macadamized road has been commenced, and about 5 miles of it are to be completed before the end of the year 1832.

XXI. OHIO.

GOVERNMENT.

DUNCAN MCARTHUR, Governor; term of office expires on the 1st Monday in December, 1832; salary, $1,000.

Moses H. Kirby, Secretary of State,

Henry Brown, Treasurer.

Ralph Osborn, Auditor of State.

Canal Commissioners; Benjamin Tappan, N. Beasly, John Johnstone, Alexander Bourne, Alfred Kelley, and Micajah T. Williams.

The Senate consists of 36 members, elected biennially; Samuel R. Miller, Speaker.

The House of Representatives consists of 72 members, elected annually; James M. Bell, Speaker.

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For holding the Courts of Common Pleas, the state is divided into 9 districts or circuits, in each of which there is a presiding judge, whose salary is $1,000. These judges are severally assisted by three associate judges in each county, who receive $2,50 a day during their attendance at court. The names of the present presiding judges are as follows.

George B. Holt,

1st Circuit.

George I. Smith,

6th Circuit.

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J. H. Hallock,

5th do.

All the judges of the Supreme Court and the Courts of Common Pleas, are elected by the General Assembly for the term of 7 years The Supreme Court sits once a year in each county, and the Court of Common Pleas, three times.

For other information concerning the Courts of Ohio, see the American Almanac for 1832.

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE.

The aggregate amount paid into the Treasury for State and Canal purposes, during the year ending November 15th, 1831, including interest on School Funds,

$235,985.75

Balance in the Treasury Nov. 15, 1839,

6,280.42

Available aggregate for 1831,

$242,266.17

The amount disbursed for State and Canal purposes, includ

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Add sum drawn for repairs of the United-States Road,

2,000.00

$8,075.36

Peculiar Laws.

Except in case of the absconding of debtors, creditors are required to obtain judgment against them before they can have any recourse upon their property. The property of debtors cannot, in other cases, be attached.

Aliens can hold real estate as well as citizens.

A poll-tax is prohibited by the Constitution.

Lotteries, and gaming of every description, are prohibited under severe penalties.

The legal rate of interest is six per cent; but there is no law against usury, and the rate usually paid is not less than ten per cent.

Commercial capital, bank and insurance stock, and money lent, are liable to taxation.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.

CANALS. The Ohio State Canals are the Ohio Canal which connects Lake Erie, at Cleveland, with the Ohio river at Portsmouth, and the Miami Canal which connects the town of Dayton, situated on the Great Miami river, with the Ohio river, at Cincinnati.

Ohio Canal. Main trunk,

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Navigable feeder from main trunk to Columbus,

Navigable feeder from main trunk to Granville,

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