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Showing the solvent debts assessed in the several counties, in eighteen hundred and seventy-two, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and eighteen hundred and seventy-five.

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NOTE.-No solvent debts assessed in eighteen hundred and seventy-three.

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G. H. SPRINGER.........STATE PRINTER.

SIR: I submit this, my biennial report:

LITIGATION.

The litigation of the State, with the exception of that in regard to th collection of its taxes, has been remarkably successful. The crimin business in the appellaté Court has decreased, while the population hɛ *increased. All capital cases are appealed, but none have been reverse No really important case has been lost; some of great import to th commonwealth have been gained. Of the criminal offenders who we the representatives of crimes the most dangerous to our civilization an progress, Vasquez and Marks have met the punishment their deeds d served. The law has not yet become the terror to evil-doers that ought to be, but a close following of these victories over sickly sent ment on the one hand, and the corrupt use of ill-gotten gains on th other, will sooner or later bring our people within the protection of th laws they have, and make life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness reality and not a name.

LAWS.

Crime decreases as countries grow older, because punishment become more certain. Our laws are good enough, but there is no certaint about the punishment; and it is to this I wish particularly to call you attention. Crime is not punished as often as it ought to be; more ‹ the guilty escape than are convicted. The administration of crimina justice is absolutely and unqualifiedly corrupt in almost every count in this State. The corruption generally lies with trial and grand juror Bribing jurors should be made dangerous to all who participate in it. The law in regard to the testimony of accomplices, in my opinion ought to be repealed. It is nonsense as it reads now. The common la 'on the subject obtains still in England, and in most of the States of th United States. It is perfectly fair as between the criminal and th

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as to who of the State criminals were entitled to clemency. To put citizen's life or liberty into one man's hands is a relic of despotism-i is not republican justice either to the man or the State.

TAX LITIGATION.

The collection of delinquent taxes by process of law has been dis astrous to the State. No one has paid, except those who have been frightened into it, and those who were obliged to as a condition of sal when they transferred their property. This branch of the legal busi ness of the State was, by the last Legislature, placed entirely in th hands of the Controller and attorneys to be appointed by him. Sinc my last report, there has been paid to the Controller's attorneys som twelve thousand dollars. The law of the last session, which authorize the Controller to collect the delinquent taxes, gives to his attorneys: percentage, which I estimate at one hundred thousand dollars, if the law is successful at all. I would suggest that this penalty be turned into the State Treasury-the sufferer by the delay in payment of taxesand that all legal business be turned over to the Attorney General where it belongs; or, if the Controller must have private counsel create the office and attach a salary to it. No final determination o the tax suits superintended by the Controller has yet been had.

DISBURSEMENTS.

The disbursements in this office, with the exception of one year when a fee of five thousand dollars was paid to the Hon. Jos. P. Hog as counsel in the tax cases, have never reached the amount appropriated and ́in no instance has there been a deficiency. The Controller, in hi report, at page eighteen, says the item of nine thousand dollars paid by him for counsel fees properly appears under the head of "Costs and expenses of suit where the State is a party-deficiency." The Con troller is mistaken; it does not belong there. There is no deficiency it my department, and never has been. This deficiency occurred in the office of the Controller, and should have appeared under the head of the fund under his control known as the fund for the "Prosecution o delinquents-deficiency."

The following are the amounts expended by me in each fiscal year leaving out Mr. Hoge's fee in the twenty-fifth fiscal year, to which have already referred:

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