PREFACE.

THE STATE OF INDIANA,

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,

INDIANAPOLIS, May 1, 1881.

In accordance with the requirements of an act, approved February 3, 1853 (1st G. & H., p. 358), the several administrative officers of State, and the Trustees and Superintendents of the Benevolent, Reformatory and Educational Institutions thereof, have submitted to the Governor, and filed in the Executive Department, the reports required of them for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1880, and the calendar year ending December 31, 1880, respectively, which have been entered of record in the order of their reception, and delivered to the Secretary of State for publication, under the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding.

Sixteen hundred copies of these reports are now bound, in two volumes, and issued to the officers and persons designated by law to receive them. The usual number of copies of each report have also been bound in pamphlet form, and delivered to the responsible officer or superintendent of the institution, for distribution in such manner as they may deem for the best interests of the State.

INDEX.

1. Report of Secretary of State. 2. Report of Auditor of State.

3. Report of Treasurer of State.

4. Report of Attorney General.

5. Report of Quartermaster General.

6. Report of Governor's Financial Expenditures.

7. Report of Mine Inspector.

8. Report of Oil Inspector.

9. Report of Financial Expenditures of Department of Statistics. 10. Report of Financial Expenditures of Board of Agriculture. 11. Report of Financial Expenditures of Horticultural Society. 12. Report of State House Commissioners.

13. Report of Indiana University.

14. Report of State Normal School.

15. Report of Purdue University.

16. Report of State Librarian.