The amount of revenue which accrued under existing laws

in the fiscal year 1855, was - - - -. $1,618,171 79

"          1856,               .... 1,609,323 74

1857,               .... 1,010,524 96

The receipts into the Treasury from the revenue accrued in the

fiscal year 1855, were - .... $948,617 92

" 1856,             - - - - - 1,003,160 00

1857,               ..... 958,746 44

The total receipts into the Treasury in the fiscal year 1855,

were .....                .          $1,200,762 58

In the fiscal year 1856,..... 1,230,522 34

" 1857,..... 1,384,705 40

Which last amount includes the $275,770.23 received last year
from the United States Government on account of arrears of in
terest due the State for moneys advanced in the War of 1812.
The disbursements from the State Treasury

In the fiscal year 1855, were - - - $985,964 53

" 1856,              - - - 1,230,508 05

1857,              - - - 1,259,164 40

From which amounts there were paid towards the extinguish-
ment of the public debt by the redemption and cancellation of
matured State bonds in the fiscal year 1855,          - - $374 45

"                          " 1856,             - 185,433 31

"                          "          1857,             - 236,855 35

And by the transfer of surplus revenues to the sinking fund.

In 1855,........$98,617 80

" 1856,          ........56,875 02

" 1857,         ......             126,224 78

The total sums applied each year to the extinguishment of the
public debt, were in 1855, - - - - - $98,992 25

1856,..... 242,008 33

1857,..... 363,080 13

The surplus revenue existing in the Treasury was
In 1855, .... - . - - $313,744 01

1856, -....... 310,410 78

1857, -                        ..... 403,019 84

And the arrears of revenue in the hands of collecting officers
due from Sheriffs, Collectors, &c, reported each year by the
Comptroller as a part of the State's capital and credits were

In 1855,......... $672,143 42

" 1856, -------- 535,193 97

" 1857,...... . -              545,588 28

The Funded Debt.—The nominal public debt of the State at
the close of the last fiscal year is reported at $14,919,967.39.
In 1856 the debt was $15,159,692.82—in 1855 it was $15,132,-
909.00. The amount of State Bonds redeemed and cancelled,
as previously stated, in 1856 was $ 185,433.31—in 1857 $236,-
855.35, and in both years $422,288.66. The figures of the

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