REPORT.

AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Lansing, Michigan, June 29, 1889.

Hon. CYRUS G. LUCE, Governor :

SIR-I herewith respectfully submit the following as my report for the fiscal year closing June 30:

The receipts to the State Treasury from all sources during the year were.

a$3,062,551 48 And the disbursements for all purposes.--

3,134,929 99

Disbursements exceed receipts by.
Which deducted from the balance June 30, 1888...

$71,378 51 1,188,567 70

Gives for the balance in the Treasury Jane 29, 1889.

$1,116,189 19

83,062,551 48

If from the receipts as stated above....
The amounts covered by credits to contractors
for building Swamp Land State Roads....... b$13,929 92

b And the amount of refunding and reimbursements during the year..

35,669 22

49,599 14

$3,012,952 34

Be deducted, there is left for net cash receipts...
The receipts from various sources, which form

no part of the revenue of the State, amount to. c$351,892 94
While the portion of the receipts gathered into

the State Treasury during the year for purposes of revenue is...

.c2,661,059 40

3,012,952 34

• See Appendix, page 4.

Nee Table No. 4, page 22. • See Table No. 6, page 10.

The gross disbursements, as before stated, amount to....... $3,134.929.9 But from this amount should be deducted the

warrants drawn upon the Swamp Land Fund and paid in swamp land....

a $13,929 92 And the refundings and reimbursements

b35,669 22

49,599 14 To obtain the net cash disbursements, which for the year were...

83,085,330 85 The disbursements for non-revenue were b*344,143 39 And the revenue disbursements were.. 52,741,187 46

3.085,330 85

The bonded State indebtedness, June 30, 1888, was as follows:
Past due bonds, interest stopped, not yet presented for pay-

ment ...
Unmatured bonds, interest-bearing

$10,992 83 229,000 00

Total bonded debt June 30, 1888..

....

$239,992 83

There being no change during the year, the indebtedness, by classes, is as follows:

The war-bounty-loan bonds are the only interest-bearing bonds now ontstanding. These bonds become due May 1, 1890, and upon them the annually accruing interest amounts to $16,030.00. The amount of specific tax from future receipts required to pay the entire interest on the outstanding bonds is $16,030.00.

1 See Statement“E," Table No. 1.
a See Table No. 24, page 22.
b See Table No. 6, page 10.
c See Table No. 27, page 23.

929 49

TWO MILLION LOAN SINKING FUND.

During the year the Board of Fund Commissioners turned into the State Treasury the sum of $17,461.25, as premium on United States 41% bonds sold by them. There remains in their treasury funds sufficient to pay the war bounty bonds which mature May 1, 1890.

199 11

INSPECTION OF ILLUMINATING OILS.

30 85

Under Sec. 7, Act 127, Laws of 1879, the State Oil Inspector paid into the
State treasury, in February, $8,828.31.

30 85

SUPPORT OF INSANE.

Under Act 194, Laws of 1877, and amendments, there was paid from the State treasury during the year, for the support of the insane, $295,567.01. Of this amount $257,347.30 was paid for the support of permanent insane, $8,999.29 for the support of non-resident insane, $4,534.09 for the support of insane soldiers, and $24,686.33 for the support of criminal insane.

The amount paid during the year for the above purpose was $1,910.38.

RETURNING CHILDREN FROM STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL.

During the year there was paid for returning children from the State public school $9.70.

CONVEYING CHILDREN TO REFORM SCHOOL.

The amount paid during the year for the above purpose was $2,729.55.

CONVEYING CHILDREN TO STATE INDUSTRIAL HOME. The amount paid during the year for conveying children to the State industrial home was $1,541.97.

CONVEYING CONVICTS TO STATE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

During the year the State has paid for the above purpose $6,751.96,

and for

CONVEYING CONVICTS TO STATE PRISON, the cost to the State was $4,210.62.

CORONERS' FEES. The amount paid during the year, under Sec. 9593, Howell's Ann. Stat., as amended by Act 103, Laws of 1885, was $3,221.81.

The amount paid for the support of permanent and non-resident insane, the amount paid for transportation of children to State public school, etc., the amount paid for the care of juvenile offenders, the amount paid for conveying convicts to the State house of correction, the amount paid for conveying convicts to State prison, and the amount paid as coroners' fees, are stated by counties in Table No. 46,

pages 52 to 55, where the several amounts that

each county pays in State taxation are also shown, and from which the following summary is obtained :

ACCOUNTS WITH VARIOUS STATE INSTITUTIONS,

as summarized in Table No. 163, pages 244 and 245, show their receipts to have been as follows: From State Treasury..

$1,282,788 30 Earnings of Institutions, etc., 539,663 43

$1,822,451 73 Loans..

31,143 72

$1,853,595 45

Their disbursements:
For current expenses.

$1,436,431 11
Building and special pur-
poses

377,007 12

$1,813,438 23 Payment of loans..

40,143 72

1,853,581 95

By classes of institutions, the receipts for the year were: