Nov. 6 Weed & Eberhard, binding, &c., EXPENSES. The expenses of the State on account of the General Fund by virtue of permanent provisions of law for appropriations of the Legislature, and accounts audited during the fiscal year ending this day, are as follows. The first column shows the amount of such liabilities for 1854. The second for other years, and the third the total amount thereof. The expenses of the State Government for each year from its organization to the present time are shown in the Statement herewith marked "B." EXPENDITURES. The expenditures from the State Treasury during the fiscal year, on account of all of the funds have already been shown in the statements of the different funds. Herewith, marked "D," will be found detailed estimates of expenses to be defrayed from the treasury during the ensuing year, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $253,059 52, which may be embraced under the following heads, to wit: The revenues of the State applicable to the payment of liabili ties and expenses during the ensuing year are as follows: By reference to the estimated expense of the State for the year 1855 as before shown, it will be seen that the above estimate of Revenue exceeds that of Expenses, by the sum of $35,767 39. EQUALIZATION OF STATE TAX. In pursuance of the Act of the Legislature approved April 1 1854, the State Board of Equalization assembled at the Capitol on the third Monday of September: Present, the Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Attorney General, and State Superintendent. On the 21st an equalization was established, a statement of which will be found in tabular form in the document annexed" marked "F". The board were somewhat embarrassed in their efforts to arrive at an equitable apportionment of the tax to the several counties, from a failure on the part of about one half of them to make the returns required by the Act. Taking the imperfect returns of previous years, and such as were made for the present year, (the latter not all made in conformity with law,) as the basis of their action, they were obliged to draw more largely than they desired upon the discretion allowed them; and from these and "the best sources of information within their reach," an apportionment was determined which if not strictly just to all the counties, they hope is as nearly so as circumstances would permit. |