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GENERAL VIEW OF THE CONDITION OF THE BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES IN DIFFERENT YEARS FROM 1854 TO 1862 INCLUSIVE. (Corrected by the editor of the Bankers' Magazine, for the National Almanac.)

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INDIVIDUAL STATES.

I.-MAINE.

First settlement, 1625. Capital, Augusta. Area, 31,766 square miles. Population, 1860, 628,276. Government for the year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1864.

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Councillors.-Washington Wilcox, of Monmouth; Lewis L. Wadsworth, Jr., of Pembroke; George A. Frost, of Sanford; John H. Gilman, of Lubec; Charles Holden, of Portland; John M. Frye, of Lewiston; Raymond S. Rich, of Thorndike.

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Amount of expenditures for civil purposes of the year ending Dec. 31, 1854.... $358,527 02
Expenditures for war purposes.......

Leaving a balance in the Treasury Dec. 31, 1861, of...........
Which corresponds with the cash actually on hand.

Principal Ilems of Expenditure.

$385,712 33 1,003,087 50

1,388,799 83

36.739 99

$1,425,539 82

998,578 17 1,357,105 19

$68,434 63

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Public Debt and Resources of the State.-The funded debt of the State on the 1st Jan. 1862, including the war loan, was $1,499,000, which falls due in annual instalments of varying amount up to 1877. Beside this, the State is liable for funds held in trust for school fund, Indians, &c., to the amount of $351,747 43, and has unsettled warrants and balances due, but not called for, of $132,279 33. There is also due to counties for taxes to be refunded $4,371 82, making the entire liabilities of the State, direct and indirect, $1,987,398 58. The resources of the State at the same date were-Cash, $68,434 63; due on State taxes, $222,580 56; notes receivable in Treasury office, $26,415 04; Land Office, $87,733 75; in all, $105.163 98. The State also owns 8,446,634 acres of wild lands, valued at $2,422,506. The value of real and personal estate in the State according to the census of 1860 was $190,211,600, an increase of $67,434,029 on the valuation of 1850. The State valuation for the same year was $164,714,168, and 128,599 polls were reported.

EDUCATION.

academies, many of them very well conducted, but there is no report of their number of teachers or pupils accessible.

Common Schools.-The report of Hon. E. P. Weston, Superintendent of Common Schools for the year ending December, 1861, gives the following statistics: number of towns in the State, 399, from 395 of which returns were received; number of organized plantations, 116, from 68 of which returns were received; number of school districts, 4151; number of parts of districts, 360; number of persons between 4 and 21 years of age, 249,061; number registered in summer schools, 138,924; average attendance, 105,381; number registered in winter schools, 148,571; average attendance, 116,557; average attendance for summer and winter, 110,969; rates of average attendance to number of persons of school age, 45 per cent. Average length of schools, 5.35 months; number of school-houses in the State, 4010; number reported in good condition, 2157; number built during the year, 119; cost of the same, $92,358; estimated value of all the school-houses in the State, $1,250,000; number of male teachers employed, 2995; number of female ditto, 4926; wages of male teachers per month, exclusive of board, $22 01; inclusive of board, $28 00; wages of female teachers per month, exclusive of board, $8 76; inclusive of board, $13. School money raised by taxation, $478,017 76, an excess of $64,626 above the requirement of the law; average amount raised per scholar, $1 62.5; amount of public school fund, $154,760 36; interest of same apportioned to schools, $9,280 62; bank tax distributed to schools, $76,128 30; amount derived from local funds, $19,210 31; contributed to prolong public schools, $12,483 22; amount paid for private schools, $43,517 68; paid for repairs, fuel, &c., $57,013 41; average cost of board per week, $1 45; estimated amount paid for board, $134,390 93; amount paid for school supervision, There are two colleges in the State,-Bowdoin, $12,056 13; aggregate expenditure for school purat Brunswick, founded in 1792, under the care of poses, $742,952 01; number of towns that have the Congregationalists, and Waterville, at Water- their schools graded in part, 137; number of towns ville, founded in 1820, under the care of the Bap- that raised $1 or over per scholar by taxation, 1; tists. The condition of both is given in the Table number that raised $3 and over, 3; number that of Colleges of the U. S. There is one theological raised $2 and over, 42; less than $2, 357. The seminary at Bangor, founded in 1816, supported by State in 1860 appropriated $3600 per annum, to the Congregationalists, and a medical school at be distributed in sums of $200 each to one acaBrunswick, founded in 1820. The particulars in demy or seminary in each county, as part comregard to both may be found in the Tables of pensation for the instruction of normal classes for Theological and Medical Schools. two terms each year, the male teachers attending The State has a large number of incorporated to pay a further sum of $1 per term, and the fe

School Fund.-The permanent school fund of the State on the 1st Jan. 1862, was $158,336 72. It is increased annually from the sales of reserved lands, of which 487,567 acres are set apart for this purpose, and 20 per cent. of all moneys hereafter received from the sales of State lands, and the amount due on notes given for school lands, of which nearly $30,000 is yet outstanding. The amount apportioned for the year ending Dec. 31, 1862, was $68,043 21. The banks are taxed one per cent. on their capital for the support of schools, the tax amounting in 1861 to $78,059 87. The towns are obliged to raise by tax for school purposes a sum equal to 60 cents for each inhabitant, as the condition of receiving their share of the school money.

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