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whose duty it shall be to preside at such meeting, appoint a clerk, open and keep the polls, and exercise the same powers as the inspectors of election at any township meeting, as the law provides.

State of Michigan, County of Tuscola, ss.:

I, John Johnson, clerk of the county aforesaid, [and of the board of supervisors thereof, do hereby certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing copy of an order of said board with the record thereof in my office, as clerk of said board, and the copy thereto attached of the map or survey of the new township of Elkland, in my office, and furnished said board on the application for the erection and organization of said township, and that said copies are true copies. And I further certify that the foregoing order of said board was passed by them at their meeting held at Vassar, in said county, on the 14th day of October, 1857, as appears by their record.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my [L. S. ] hand and affixed the seal of the circuit court of said county, this 1st day of December, A. D..

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ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

STATE TREASURER FOR 1856.

Lansing, Nov. 30, 1857.

To His Excellency, KINSLEY S. BINGHAM, Governor of the State of Michigan:

In obedience to the requirements of law, I have the honor to submit to you my Annual Report, showing the condition of the finances of the State at the close of the present fiscal year.

Accompanying this Report, will be found the Ledger Balances, and the table of accounts of the several trust funds.

The Report will also contain a tabular statement of the receipts and disbursements for the years 1855, 1856 and 1857, as well as an estimate of the probable receipts and disbursements for the ensuing fiscal year. I have deemed it proper to make these tables in order that you may fully understand the present condition of the finances of the State, and the probable demands upon the Treasury for the ensuing year.

Comparison of the Receipts and Disbursements for the fiscal years 1855, 1856 and 1857.

The amount in the Treasury at the close of

the fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1854, was $553,004 08 Receipts during the fiscal year 1855, . . . . . .

588,396 93

Total,..

1,141,401 01

Disbursements for the same period,.

Leaving on hand at the close of the fiscal year

624,777 88

1855, and at the commencement of 1856, 516,623 13 Amount received during the fiscal year of

1856, was.

Total,..

Disbursements for same period,.!

Leaving on hand at the close of the fiscal year of 1856, and at the commencement of

1857,

Receipts for the fiscal year 1857,...

Total,.

Disbursements for same period,..

511,271 70

1,027,894 83

639,879 06

388,015 77

450,653 85

838,669 62

679,979 19

Leaving on hand at close of fiscal year 1857,

and commencement of next,.

$158,690 43

This table, it will be observed, commences with the balance in the treasury at the close of the fiscal year of 1854. The amount on hand at the time, as shown by the Report of my predecessor, was $553,004.08. It is proper for me to observe in this relation, that the administration Iwith which he was connected did not close its official functions until the 31st of December, one month after his Report was made; the disbursements from the Treasury during this period, amounted in the aggregate to the sum $83,962 71, leaving actually in the Treasury at the close of his official term, the sum of $469,041 37.

I have been thus explicit in this matter, that erroneous impressions on this point may be corrected.

You will observe by the inspection of these tables, that the surplus funds have been reduced during these years as follows:

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This has been caused by the disbursements above mentioned the payment of a large amount of State indebtedness-the increase of the payment of interest on State bonds, growing out of the adjustment of the "Five Million Loan"-by the payment of appropriations made by the Legislatures of 1855 and 1857, for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and Insane Asylum, House of Correction, Agricultural College, erection of new buildings at State Prison, University, Normal School, the increased expenses of the State Prison, and the steady diminution of receipts for the same period, which will be found in the following table: Comparison of the amounts received into the Treasury from all sources during 1854, 1855, 1856 and 1857.

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The funds were largely increased in the Treasury during the fiscal year of 1854, by the proceeds of the sales of State Lands. Since that period the sales of lands have rapidly

$160,046 12

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