g from the sales of Miami
canal lands up to the 15th of Nov., 1835, is $310,178. This sum has been
expended in the extension of the canal north of Dayton.
_Ohio Canal._--The amount of taxes collected for canal purposes for the
year 1835, including tolls, sales of canal lands, school lands, balance
remaining in the treasury of last year, &c., is $509,322. Only $38,242
of the general revenue were appropriated to canal purposes, of which
$35,507 went to pay interest on the school funds borrowed by the State.
The foreign debt is $4,400,000;--the legal interest of which is $260,000
per annum. The domestic debt of the State, arising from investing the
different school funds, is $579,287;--the interest of which amounts to
$34,757,--making an aggregate annual interest paid by the State on
loans, $294,757. The canal tolls for the year 1835, amount to $242,357,
and the receipts from the sale of Ohio canal lands, $64,549,--making an
aggregate income to the canal fund of $306,906 per annum;--a sum more
than sufficient to pay the interest on all loans for canal purposes.
_Items of Expenditure._--Under this head the principal items of the
expenditures of the State government are given.
Members, and officers of the General Assembly, per annum, $43,987
Officers of government, 20,828
Keeper of the Penitentiary, 1,909
For new Penitentiary buildings, 46,050
State printing, 12,243
Paper and Stationary for use of the State, 4,478
Certificates for wolf scalps, 2,824
Adjutant, and Quarter Master Generals, and Brigade Inspectors, 2,276
Treasurer's mileage on settlement with the Auditor of State, 1,027
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 5,700
Periodical works, &c. 400
Postage on documents, 545
Reporter to Court in Bank, 300
Members and clerks of the Board of Equalization, and
articles furnished, 1,960
Paymaster General,--Ohio Militia, 2,000
The extra session of the legislature on the boundary line, in June,
1835, was $6,823.
_Land Taxes._--The amount of lands taxed,
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