NOTES ON DISBURSEMENTS. (Note 1.) The expenses of the legislature from its first meeting in December 1848, to its final adjournment at the Fauquier springs, amounted within a small fraction to $171,000. At the session preceding, the expenditure on the same account was nearly $109,000. I have supposed, however, the revision of the Code being completed, the session of 1849-50 would not require a larger sum than $100,000, which is much greater than the previous average expenditure. (Note 2.)—The annual charge on the treasury of officers' salaries, is increased by the additional allowance to the special court of appeals and the addition to the salary of one of the judges of the general court. (Note 3.)-This estimate is less than the sum expended the last fiscal year, but much more than the amount of the year previous. It is altogether contingent and uncertain. (Note 4.)-About the expenditure of last year; amount conjectural. (Note 5.)-A slight increase over the expenditure of the last two years. (Note 6.)-These appropriations have generally been made, subject to deduction for clothing manufactured at the penitentiary for the two asylums. It would be less troublesome, and in many respects expedient, if the two hospitals were unrestricted as to the place of purchasing clothing, and that if they purchase penitentiary goods they should account for them to that institution as in other cases. (Note 7.)-This expenditure is less by $500 than the expense of the last fiscal year. I have before had occasion to remark that the cost of maintaining lunatics in the county jails does not appear to be much lessened by the enlarged accommodations furnished the two hospitals. The increasing population of the state and the great improvements in the methods of treating the insane, (making these institutions more attractive than otherwise to all classes,) will furnish some explanation of a fact otherwise rather curious. (Note 8.)-The annual appropriation has been increased to this amount. (Note 9.)-The expenditure last year being double the usual appropriation, was occasioned by the payment of arrears to a pensioner now living out of the state. (Note 10.)—This estimate is considerably less than the amount expended last year. The fund itself is placed under executive control, and the occasion for its expenditure being uncertain, what may, or may not be a sufficient sum, is matter of conjecture. (Note 11.)-A little less than the expenditure of the two last years. (Note 12.)-The sum of $7000 has been advanced on account of the printing of the new Revised Code, within the past fiscal year, leaving $23,000 to be paid on the completion of the Code, if the contract price to be agreed on should reach the maximum of $3 per copy. If less be fixed, this estimate will of course be reduced. (Note 13.)-One of the gentlemen received his allowance for services rendered in the revisal since the 1st of October last. Both of them are now engaged in superintending the publication of the new Code. It is of course conjectural, but I have supposed that $3000 additional would probably be divided between them for the services last referred to. (Note 14.)-This sum is made up as follows: 1. One year's interest on old military six per cent. debt, held by the Literary fund, 1,442 35 2. One year's interest on five per cent. debt, created to pay state's subscription to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company, 12,509 00 3. One year's interest on $450,107, borrowed to pay state's subscrip- 27,006 00 4. One year's interest on old military seven per cent. debt, held by the Literary fund, 22,330 00 63,278 35 As the five per cent. debt, mentioned in the second item of the above (Note 15.)-Founded on the estimate of the second auditor. 1,250 00 $64,478 35 [F.] A STATEMENT OF THE WHITE, SLAVE AND FREE COLOURED POPULATION OF VIRGINIA, AND OF THE FEDERAL POPULATION, AS EXHIBITED IN THE CENSUS OF 1830 AND 1840; ALSO OF THE LAND AND PROPERTY TAX, FOR THE YEARS 1830, 1840 AND 1848; ALSO OF THE WHITE TITHEABLES FOR 1830, 1840 AND 1848. AND OF THE BLACK TITHEABLES FOR 1848, ARRANGED INTO COUNTIES AND DISTRICTS, AND PREPARED BY THE FIRST AUDITOR, IN COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES, ADOPTED 3D OF APRIL 1848. |