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Lue Receiver Danby Bank-safety fund, $6,650 00 Due towns-U. S. Surplus fund, 11,176 18 Due Agricultural College fund. 4,187 10 Due extra State pay-estimated. 20,000.00 $63,340 19
CURRENT RESOURCES.
Balance in the Treasury, $28,576 67 Due on tax of 1865, 5,877 56 Surplus fund notes unpaid, 1,100 00 $35,554 23 $27,785 96
ESTIMATED CURRENT EXPENSES. Int on bonds and loans,, $96,000 00 Other state expenses, 170,000.00 For sinking fund-installment on bonds, 150,000 00 $416,000 00
Total current liabilities for the year, 143,785 06 To meet this sum a tax of 45 cents on the dollar on the grand list will be re-quired; and as our people in every department of business are prosperous, and have ample means to meet this amount of taxation.it will almost certainly be consonant with their wishes to pursue the policy of applying yearly $150.000 as a sinking fund, to lessen the funded debt in advance of its falling due.
Orders were drawn by me on the State Treasurer from Oct. 24, 1865, to Jan. 1, 1896, amounting to $7,669 51, which may be classified as follows: Services and expenses of recruiting officers. $128 45 Services and expenses of arresting deserters, 6 25 Defense of the frontier. 372 03 State pay prior to muster and pay of officers, 114 60 Expenses organizing State militia, 102 84 Expenses of State military commission at Washington, 129 60 Expenses of Adjutant and Inspector General's office, 300 00 Transportation of Vermont officers, soldiers, &c.. 890 14 Expenses of State Treasurer's office, December 1, 1864, to December 1, 1865. 5,625 60
Since January 1, 1866, all orders on the Treasury have been withdrawn by the Auditor of Accounts, in accordance with the provisions of the act approved No. 9, 1865.
STATE AID.
Hon. John Howe, Jr. agent for the distribution of State aid to soldiers' families, has made his final report, showing that from Sept. 1, 1865, to April 15, 1866, he disbursed, under the acts of April 26, 1861, and Nov. 14, 1861, the sum, in all of $582 17. The agent states that there is now no outstanding claim under either of those acts. I hereby transmit said report.
VOLUNTEER TROOPS.
Since the last session of the Legislature, the four companies of the 9th regiment and the entire 7th regiment of Vermont Volunteers have been mustered out of service. Those of the 9th were mustered out in the State of Virginia, December 1, 1965, and the 7th at Brownsville, Texas, March 14, 1866. From these points they returned to Vermont, where they were paid and discharged. Thus all the obligations of Vermont in connection with the active prosecution of the war for the preservation of the Union, have been performed, and all the organizations sent from the State, and of which have contributed so largely to its reputation and honor and to the final success of the national arms, have ceased to exist as such, and the officers and men composing them have laid aside their arms and assumed the garb of the citizen, and have quietly mingled with the mass of the community. All honor to these noble men that yet live: all respect, undying respect, to the memories of the fallen, who so cheerfully gave their own lives that their country might still continue to live! The original numbers that composed the different Vt. organizations for the war, were: Officers, 702 Enlisted men, 17.828 18,530
GAIN. Appointed commissioned officers, 58 Enlisted men, 10,379 10,437 Aggregate, 8,967