Brought over...

66

Add interest accrued to Jan. 1, 1863.... 66 "July 1, 1863..... Add outstanding warrants, Jan. 1, 1863....

Balance in Treasury, Jan. 1, 1863, $23,886
War Expenditures to be reim-
bursed by the United States... 12,621
Over-due Taxes of 1861...

Tax Levy of 1862..

35,772

102,363

$174,615

$54,861

Excess of Debt and Liabilities over Assets.. Expenditures for 1863.-The estimated amount of ordinary expenditures for 1863 was $61,975. LAWRENCE BANK.-This is the only banking establishment reported by the Auditor. Its condition on the 1st of January, 1863, was as follows:Securities deposited to redeem circulation, $14,700 Notes in circulation.... $8,800

COMMON SCHOOLS.-Statistics from the report of S. M. Thorp, Superintendent of Public Instruction, dated Jan. 1, 1863:-Whole number of school districts in the State as organized, 201; number of reports from District Clerk, 304; whole number of children between five and twenty-one years of age in the State (males, 7911, females, 6065), 14,766; number of such children enrolled in the schools during the year (males, 4721, females, 3872), 8593; average number of months the schools have been taught, 3; number of teachers employed in the State (males, 11, females, 199), 210; average salary of teachers per month (males, $16.25, females, $10.89), $13.57; total paid for teachere' wages, $14,000.67; total expenses for repairs, fuel, and other incidentals, $1747.23; amount of school money received from the County Treasurer, $4148.45; amount raised by district taxes for school purposes, $10,381.81; total value of the school-houses in the State, $10,432.50; total value of school apparatus in the State, $320.

School Fund and School Tar.-Although the State of Kansas, like every other new State of the West, is amply endowed with lands for the establishment of a fund for school purposes, the fund itself has not yet been realized. The lands granted as the basis of the School Fund number 1,371,280 acres. Very little or none at all of this land has yet been sold. The State taxes levied for school purposes for distribution in 1863 amounted to $19,289. Besides this State tax, the school districts are authorized to levy taxes for school purposes, amounting in the aggregate to 14 per cent. of the assessed value of property in said districts.

SURVEY OF THE STATE.-The whole number of townships in Kansas is 2273, of which there had been surveyed, to Dec. 20, 1862, 626 townships. There had also been surveyed 765 townships which include Indian lands. The whole number of townships unsurveyed in the State was, at that time, 1508.

STATE UNIVERSITY.—Under a clause in the Constitution of the State, which requires that provision shall be made by law for the establishment of a State University at some eligible and central point, the Legislature passed an act, Feb. 20, 1863, locating the University in or adjacent to the city of Lawrence. The building is to be erected upon a tract of not less than 40 acres of land.

The

NORMAL SCHOOL.-A State Normal School, to be established at Emporia, in Lyon county, was provided for by an act of the Legislature passed March 3, 1863. It is to be exclusively for the purpose of instructing persons, both male and female, in the art of teaching, in the various branches which pertain to a good common-school education, in the mechanic arts, in the arts of husbandry and agricultural chemistry, and in the fundamental laws of the United States in what regards the rights and duties of citizens. The act requires that a tract of land of not less than twenty acres adjacent to the town of Emporia shall be donated and secured to the State in "fee simple," as a site for said Normal School, within twelve months from the publication of the act. All the lands granted to the State of Kansas, adjoining or belonging to each of the salt springs owned by the State, and the sections of land upon which each of the said salt springs is located, and one additional section, are set apart and reserved as a perpetual endowment for the support and maintenance of the Normal School so established. The proceeds of the sale of said lands are to be invested in stocks of the United States, the State of Kansas, or some other safe stocks yielding not less than six per cent., and the interest is to be inviolably appropriated by the Legislature for the support of the Normal School.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.-At its January session in 1863, the Legislature of Kansas passed an act locating the Agricultural College established by the State in pursuance of the act of Congress donating public lands for such purposes. The college is to be situated in Riley county, on a tract of land at the time belonging to the Blue Mount Central College Association. The locating act is made conditional upon the transfer and delivery to the State by the said College Association of all its apparatus, library, &c. An act passed March 3, 1863, by the Kansas Legislature, provides for the organization of the Agricultural College. A Board of Regents is established, consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, the College President, and nine others, to be appointed by the Governor, not more than three of whom shall be members of the same religious denomination. This board constitutes the body corporate." The college is to consist of four departments:-1st, Agriculture; 2d, Mechanic Arts; 3d, Military Science and Tactics'; 4th, Literature and Science. It is to be opened to all persons, under regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Regents. The 90,000 acres of land granted to the State by Congress to endow a college for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, is to be used solely for the endowment of said Kansas State Agricultural College,--the principal to be invested according to law, and the interest arising to be used exclusively for salaries and other current expenses of the establishment.

DEAF AND DUMD, BLIND AND INSANE.-The State of Kansas thus far has no institution for the

education of the deaf and dumb, nor for the education of the blind and insane, although her Constitution requires that such benevolent institutions shall be fostered and supported. The Legislature, however, has made a beginning. $1500 were appropriated by that body, in 1863, for the purpose of assisting P. A. Emery as teacher of the deaf and dumb, allowing him $4 per week for board and tuition for every resident deaf-mute scholar between the ages of 8 and 21, receiving instructions from him or his assistants. At the same session the Legislature authorized the appointment of a Board of Commissioners to locate a State Insane Asylum in the township of Ossawattomie, in the county of Miami, within which they are to select a tract of land, of not less than 160 acres, affording practicable building-stone, water, and other facilities for the erection and convenience of suitable building for the asylum.

AGRICULTURAL AND OTHER STATISTICS-Kansas has made wise provision for collecting each year the agricultural and other important statistics of the State. It has recently been directed by law that every county assessor in the State shall, at the time of making lists of property for taxation each year, require every person in the county to make a statement, specifying the number of acres he may have had in wheat, rye, barley, corn, buckwheat, oats, potatoes, sorghum, flax, hemp, cotton, and tobacco, and also a statement of the quantities of each of said products raised by him in the preceding year; also a statement of the number of mules, horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs over six months old, owned by him. At the same time, the assessors are to ascertain and set down, in tables prepared for that purpose, lists of all persons in each county who are deaf and dumb, or blind, or idiots, setting forth their names and other particulars relating to their identity and condition. These statements are to be returned to the Auditor, who is to tabulate them for the information of the Legislature and the people

of the State.

KANSAS STATE PENITENTIARY.-No building exclusively devoted to the purposes of a State penitentiary has yet been erected. An act providing for the construction of such a building was passed by the Legislature in February, 1863. The commissioners authorized by this act are to make arrangements for the temporary confinement of the State convicts until the building is erected. The new penitentiary has been located near the

city of Leavenworth, where the commissioners have purchased a site containing 40 acres of land, paying for the same $660. In the mean time, the State convicts are confined and provided for in the Leavenworth county jail. During the year 1862, 32 prisoners were kept there on account of the State, 18 of whom were discharged before the end of the year, leaving 14 still in confinement on the 1st of January, 1863. The expense for the year on account of State convicts was $1271. John P. Mitchell, Deputy Sheriff and Jailer of Leavenworth county, has charge of the State convicts as Warden.

KANSAS AND THE WAR.-The official record of the military operations of the State of Kansas is not full enough to enable us to present as com plete an exhibit of her contributions of men to the army of the United States as we have in the case of nearly all the other States. Every fact, however, that can be eliminated from the Adjutant-General's report has been used, together with information from other sources, to make the subjoined table, exhibiting the particulars relating to the Kansas volunteers, approximate as nearly as possible to all the others. The numbers given in the column showing the strength of the several regiments are not the numbers at the original muster. They are of much later date, being from the reports returned to the AdjutantGeneral's office late in 1862, after the regiments had been reduced by service, battle, and disease. Including Colonel R. B. Mitchell's three-months regiment, Kansas had placed in the field to December, 1862, 12 regiments and 2 batteries, which, at an average of 900 for each regiment and 100 for each battery, would have made an original strength of 11,000. In addition to the troops named in the table, 2 regiments of Indians were organized in Kansas from the fugitives driven from their reservations in the Indian Territory.

Militia of the State.-Returns of an enrolment made in 1862 show the aggregate of men liable to military duty to be 10,605. There were 180 companies of volunteer militia organized in the State in 1861, and 37 more were organized in 1862. Many of these companies entered the service entire in 1861-62.

Adjutant-General's Report.-The report of Adjutant-General Charles Chadwick, dated Dec. 31, 1862, occupies 54 pages of the volume of Kansas Executive Documents. It contains rosters of the officers of the State militia and of the volunteers.

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney-General, Surveyor-General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, are chosen by the people for a term of four years, commencing on the first Monday in December succeeding their election. The general, election is held on the first Wednesday in September, but the Superintendent of Public Instruction is chosen at the elections held for judges. The State Printer, Clerk of the Supreme Court, and Harbor Commissioners, are also chosen by the people. Senators, 40 in number, elected for four years, and Representatives, 80 in number, elected

for two years, compose the Legislature. Under the amended Constitution, the Legislature now meets in regular session biennially, commencing on the first Monday in December, in the odd years 1863, 1: €5, &c. The number of Senators must be at least one-third the number of Representatives, and not more than one-half. Sessions of the Legislature are restricted to 120 days. The compensation of the members of the Legislature is $10 per day for the first 90 days of the session, and for the remainder of the session $5 per day. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Ilouse are each allowed $12 per day.

Under the amendments to the Constitution adopted in 1862, the judicial power of California is vested in a Supreme Court, District Courts, County Courts, Probate Courts, in justices of the peace, and in such other inferior courts as the Legislature may establish. The Supreme Court consists of a Chief-Justice and four Associate Justices, chosen by the qualified electors of the State at special elections, at which no other than judicial officers shall be elected, except the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The term of office for the justices of the Supreme Court is ten years, commencing with the first day of January next succeeding their election. The justices of the Supreme Court named in the foregoing table were elected at a special election held for the purpose in September, 1863. Their term of office commenced on the first day of January, 1864, on which day it was appointed that lots should be drawn so that the term of one justice shall expire every two years, commencing with January, 1866, in order that a justice may be chosen every second year. The justice having the shortest term to serve is ChiefJustice. No information of the allotment made in January, 1861, had been received when these sheets were sent to press. By the new Constitution, the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction in all cases in equity, in all cases at law involving the title or possession of real estate, or the legality of any tax, toll, fine, &c., or in which the matter in controversy amounts to $300; also in all cases arising in the Probate Courts; and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, on questions of law alone. It has power to issue writs of mandamus,

certiorari, prohibition, and habeas corpus, and all writs necessary and proper to the exercise of its appellate jurisdiction. Each justice may issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the State in Lehalf of any person held in custody, and may make the writ returnable before himself, the court, or any other judge of the Supreme, District, or County Courts. The Supreme Court holds four ressions every year at Sacramento, commencing respectively on the first Monday in January, April, July, and October.

For District Court purposes, the amendments to the Constitution direct the division of the State into fourteen judicial districts, subject to altera tion from time to time by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to both Houses of the Legislature. In each of said districts there must Le a District Court, the judge of which is chosen by the qualified electors of the district at the special judicial elections provided for the election of justices of the Supreme Court. The district judges hold their offices for six years from the first day of January next succeeding their elec tion. They have original jurisdiction in all the cases in equity and at law recited in the foregoing definition of the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. They also have criminal juris diction in criminal cases not otherwise provided for; and any district judge may issue his writ of habeas corpus in behalf of any person bed in custody in his district. The following table gires a list of the judges elected under these amend ments in September, 1863, and also a list of the counties embraced in each district.

Fees, &c. from State officers..........

62,374 93 18,600 35

The balance of $668,471.72 at the close of the fiscal year, as above stated, must have been simply a balance of accounts, as there are strong expressions of complaint through all the Stato reports of arrearages of pay, of heavy charges paid to get warrants discounted, &c. &c. All indicate an empty and embarrassed public treasury at that time. There was reason to believe that a better condition of affairs would prevail in 1863; but no accounts for that year are yet published down to the time when this is written (Dec. 1863).