REPORT. AUDITOR OF STATE'S OFFICE, Columbus, Ohio, December 6th, 1837. To the Honorable the General Assembly of Ohio: GENTLEMEN: Another fiscal year has just closed. The present condition of the revenue and the public finances, will be found embodied in the following Exhibit, embracing the several funds constituting our system. They bear no evidence of unusual enlargement, except in the instances to which I shall hereafter particularly refer, and to which the attention of the representatives of the people is respectfully invited. It is by a practical knowledge of our resources, that those entrusted with the making of the laws, and with the guardianship of the public funds, are enabled to place the means of the country in a condition from which the greatest possible good may be derived, and the administration of the government most successfully sustained. GENERAL REvenue. The amount of revenue remaining in the treasury, November 15, The amount of revenue collected and paid by county The amount paid by lawyers and physicians................ The amount of arrears of taxes..... The amount paid by foreign insurance companies..... The amount of interest paid on a note given by Jarvis The amount paid by Samuel Quinby, treasurer of The amount paid by Charles Chaney, treasurer of The amount paid by Benjamin N. Robbins, treasurer 210,846 68 1 12,485 41 0 64,931 53 0 1,910 59 4 1,086 08 2 427 30 1 334 09 9 648 74 0 16 00 0 681 54 0 87 67 6 12 35 0 34 50 O The amount paid by Samuel Quinby, treasurer of The amount paid by the United States for the support The amount paid by Barker and Silvey of unexpended money drawn from the treasury for the improvement of the Muskingum river............... .... The amount received from a late member, and drawn by him while absent on leave........................ Total.. 129 39 Q 588 30 0 2,252 33 0 50 00 0 $327,868 43 3 GENERAL DISBURSEMENTS. By bills redeemed at the treasury, from the 15th November, 1836, to the 15th November, 1837.... By the amount of interest which accrued on the Con- The following drafts have been returned for nonpayment, to wit: The Commercial Bank of Cincinnati.. The Urbana Banking Company.. $10,000 00 200 00 2,125 14 2,000 00 1,978 32 250 00 By amount paid P. B. Wilcox, the balance between two thousand dollars, an appropriation to meet the current expenses of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, to be charged to the literary fund, and the amount of said fund in the treasury.. Total. Balance remaining in the treasury Nov. 15, 1837..... $192,014 34 5 15,023 71 9 33,634 43 7 6,930 66 0 5,944 90 0 16,871 25 0 16,553 46 0 587 76 2 287,560 53 3 $40,307 90 0 The excess of moneys remaining in the treasury over the amount, at the close of the last fiscal year, is the small sum of eight thousand dollars, as may be seen by a reference to my report for 1836, including a deficit of thaty ear of $33,599 07 9. The treasury bills redeemed |