Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820Flint, James, active 19th century
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Flint's Letters from America, 1818-1820
Flint, James, active 19th century
Ohio River Valley -- Description and travel; United States -- Description and travel
SEC. I. _Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Indiana_, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated
for the following purposes; to wit, for defraying the expenses of
the present General Assembly, including pay to the members thereof,
secretaries, clerks, door-keepers, sergeants at arms, stationary, ink,
ink-stands, fuel, printing, binding, and distributing the laws and
journals, making marginal notes and indices to the same, together with
all other just and necessary expenses, the sum of eight thousand five
hundred dollars.
_Dollars_
For the executive department, 2200
For the judiciary department, 4900
For the interest on the public debt, 3000
For defraying the contingent expenses of the government,
for the year 1820, 800
For the military department, including the salary of the
adjutant-general, 400
For defraying the premiums on wolf scalps unsatisfied, 500
For defraying warrants not yet presented in the judiciary
department, 875
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To make up the deficiency between the above expenses and the sum
appropriated, a separate act authorizes the governor to borrow four
thousand {204} dollars on the credit of the State. The following
extract from an act, shows the sources of revenue.
_Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana._ That
there shall be levied a tax for State purposes, on the following
objects of taxation, and after the following rates, to wit, For every
hundred acres of first rate land subject to taxation, the sum of
one dollar. On every hundred acres of second rate land, the sum of
eighty-seven and a half cents. On every hundred acres of third rate
land, the sum of sixty-two and a half cents; and in that proportion
for a greater or less quantity. And on all Bank Stock actually paid in
at the rate, twenty-five cents for every hundred dollars.
The expenses of the government of the State for last year was
11,701-90¹⁄₂/100 dollars. Receipts of bad money prevented payment
of the interest of the debt. On the 4th day of December, 1819, there
were arrears of taxes due for the years 1817 and 1818, amounting to
4991³⁴⁄₁₀₀ dollars.
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