Letter from California Governor Newton Booth to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; October 29, 1874

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Letter from California Governor Newton Booth to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames; October 29, 1874

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Ames, Adelbert, 1835-1933 Booth, Newton, 1825-1892 Hart, A.

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Finances Finances--Debt Taxation Taxation--California

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California--Executive Department California--Treasury Department Schools Schools--California Universities and colleges

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Secretaries

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California California--Humboldt County. Eureka California--Sacramento County. Sacramento

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State of California.EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

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EUREKA

Sacramento, Cal. Oct 29th 1874

To His ExcellencyGovernor Adalbert Ames of Mississippi.

Sir: [gap] I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 15th inst, and take pleasure in trans-mitting the following answers to your interrogatories:

Assessed valuation of Realty	$400.210.867.00
,, ,, ,, Personalty	207.009.763 00
State Indebtedness	3.448.000 00

(about $1.200.000.00 in private hands the rest held in trust for School fund & University fund).

Tax per cent to meet Bonds and Interest 6.7/10. on each $100.yr.

Yearly expenses of the State Government:—

General purposes

$1.600.000.00

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School purposes	$1.100.000.00
Interest & Sinking Fund	336.000.00

Tax per cent to meet the same:

General Fund.	35 9/10 ^cts,,
School ,,	22 3/10.
Bonds	6.7/10.—64.9/10—on each one hundred dollars.

Very Respectfully

Newton BoothGovernor

by A. Hart. Pr. Sec

I send to your address the last Biennial Report of the State Controller.