The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year Volume 26

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...of State House, New Lunatic Hospital, . State Almshouse, 546,800.00Attomey for Suffolk County, . 4,709.70 250,268.05 Alien passengers, ... 31,008.51 49,872.17 Alien estates, .... 2,515.82 194,400.00 Hawker-' and peddlers' licenses, . 542 00 154,184.82 Interest on deposits, .. 1,861.82 5,119.37 Western Railroad dividends, . 65,000.00 2,131.63 Temporary loans, ... 546,800.00 7,086.27 School fund, .... 239,659.07 48,361.19 Interest on school fund, .. 49,078.22 5S.228.45 Scrip lent to railroads, .. 52,500.00 94,255.37 Western Railroad stock and loan sinking fund, &c. Five per cent. scrip, 1853, 198,978.34 175,000 00 4,172 50 286,605.00 $1,804,17500 5,049.555 56 Chief Sources of Income. Bank tax, 8443,340.00Premiums on ditto, Insurance tax, .... 5,082.54State tax, 1853, The deht of Massachusetts, on its own account, was, on the 1st January, 1854, Liahility of the Commonwealth for scrip loaned to the various railroads, Total ahsolute and contingent deht, .... The value of the productive property of the Commonwealth, January 1st, 1854, consisting of notes, mortgages, stocks and scrip, the Western Railroad sinking fund, School fund, 4.C $ 3,965,105.98 Real estate, &c., unproductive, 2,077,796.07 Mortgages on the various railroads, 5,049,555.56 Total property of the Commonwealth $ 11,092,457.61 Total liahilities 6,853,730.56 Excess of resources over liahilities, $4,238,727,05 The lands in Maine last year estimated at 8616,000 have heen sold, and the proceeds ($ 546,196.19) have heen divided hetween the School and the Sinking Funds. Receipts and Expenditures, and Kinds of Expenditure, on Account of ordinary Revenue, from 1834 to lb53 inclusive. Institutions for Savings in 1853.--In the 60 institutions that made returns, there were 117,405 depositors, and $ 23,416,392.73 d...