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ceived from marriage licenses during the past year
amounted to only $4,491.86.

There was a falling off also in the receipts from the
tax on collateral inheritances, and commissions of
executors and administrators, when compared with
the fiscal year 1886, amounting to $31,617.81.

The tax arising from these last-mentioned sources
frequently amounts to nearly $200,000.00 ; the receipts
from those sources for the year just closed were only
$96,452.11.

When we take these matters which I have just
mentioned into consideration, the receipts of the
treasury for the fiscal year 1887, are above the average,
and only in a few instances during the past ten years
have they been excelled.

DISBURSEMENTS.

The disbursements for the fiscal year ending 30th
September, 1887, as shown by Statement B, amounted
to the sum of $2,374,916.67.

Of this amount, the sum of $329,744.00 was expended
in the redemption of State stock. The sum of $301,826.87,
was transferred from the treasury for the purchase of
stock for the sinking fund. The further sum of
$34,069.36 surplus revenue was transferred to the Free
School Fund, and the sum of $20,313.40 was expended
in enlarging the State House. Deducting these items,
it will be seen that the ordinary expenses of the gov-
ernment for the fiscal year ending on the 30th Septem-
ber, 1887, were $1,689,063.04.

This is a small increase over expenses of the two
previous years. It was occasioned by the increase in
appropriations by the Legislature, amounting in the
aggregate to nearly one hundred thousand dollars.

The ordinary disbursements for the fiscal year 1886
were $1,640,943.01. If the expenditures of the State
for the fiscal year just closed are compared with those
of 1886, omitting the additions which the Legislature
of 1886 made to the appropriations for the various