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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 -                                                           12675                                                            -

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