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 -Governor Milliman, presided over the Senate. Leslie M. Shaw was inaugurated Governor for a second term. In his message to the General Assembly the Governor made the following statement as to the improved financial condition of the State:

“The receipts of general revenue from July 1st, 1897, to the same date in 1899 were $5,079,403.29. There was a balance in the treasury July 1st, 1897, of $36,672.96, making the total revenue for the term of two years, $5,116,076.25.

“Against this sum warrants were drawn during the term, together with outstanding warrants to the amount of $4,165,786.58. The treasury is in better condition than it was two years ago by $1,008,580.50.”

The Governor continues:

Speaking of the Board of Control provided for by the last General Assembly, the Governor says:

Among the more important acts of the Twenty-eighth General Assembly may be enumerated the following:

Regulating the taxation of telephone, telegraph, insurance and express companies; providing for the assessment and collection of taxes not found by the assessors;