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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12675
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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 11,701-90-1/2/100 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 4991-34/100
dollars.
It is worthy of notice, that among the objects of taxation quoted, that on bank stock is by the act limited to
