IX. PENNSYLVANIA. GOVERNMENT. Salary. DAVID R. PORTER, Governor, (term of office expires on the 3d $4,000 After the 3d Tuesday in January, 1845, the salary of the Governor will be $3,000. The Judges of the Supreme Court receive, in addition to their salaries, $4.00 a day, "while on the circuits, as a full allowance for travelling expenses." By a law passed in 1843, the salaries of those who succeed the present incumbents will be as follows: Chief Justice, $1,800, Associate Justices, $1,600; and, in addition, $3 a day while on the circuits. They hold court in bank, once a year, in four several districts; — 1st, for the Eastern District, at Philadelphia; 2d, for the Middle District, at Harrisburg; 3d, for the Northern District, at Sunbury; 4th, for the Western District, at Pittsburg. District Courts.-There are four District Courts, which are invested with the civil jurisdiction of the Common Pleas, in their respective Districts, in all cases exceeding a certain amount. District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia. District Court for the City and County of Lancaster. Salary. $2,000 2,000 2,000 District Court for Erie, Crawford, Venango, Warren, and Mercer. James Thompson, Courts of Common Pleas. — The State is divided into 20 Districts, for the sessions of the Court of Common Pleas. The President Judge of the District of Philadelphia and the Associate Judges have each a salary of $2,600. The President Judges, in all the other districts, have each a salary of $2,000, and their Associates $120. Districts. 1. Philadelphia, President Judges. Judges, James Campbell, John R. Jones, Anson V. Parsons. 10. Westmoreland, Indiana, Armstrong, and Cambria, Thomas White. 11. Susquehanna, Munroe, Wyoming, Wayne, Pike, William Jessup. 12. Dauphin, Lebanon, Schuylkill, and Carbon, 13. Luzerne, Bradford, and Tioga, 14. Washington, Fayette, and Greene, 15. Chester and Delaware, 16. Franklin, Bedford, and Somerset, 17. Beaver, Butler, and Mercer, 18. Porter, Mc Kean, Warren, Jefferson, and Elk, 19. York and Adams, 20. Huntingdon, Mifflin, and Union, Nat. B. Eldred. Jeremiah S. Black. Alex. Mc Calmont. Salaries of Exec. officers, $14,100.00 Taxes on estates, $554,452.06 Property of the Commonwealth. Stock in sundry corporations, (par value) Public Works, (cost of construction) Public buildings and grounds at Harrisburg, (estimated) Money due on lands unpatented, (estimated) State arsenals, powder magazine, &c., (estimated) $2,002,507.56 28,616,375.01 250,000.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 $31,168,972.57 The Tax Bill which passed both houses of the Legislature, in 1844, has received the signature of Gov. Porter, and has consequently become a law. It levies a tax of three mills on every dollar of the valuation of real and personal property in the State, which it is estimated will exceed $600,000,000. The tax, of course, will amount to over $1,800,000. The revenue derived from other taxes will amount to $400,000, and the net income of the public works, is estimated, at the minimum, at $550,000, making an annual revenue, in all, of $2,750,000. The interest on the public debt of every description, is about $2,000,000, and the expenses of government, including appropriations to the public schools, less than $600,000. Ample provision is therefore made to enable the State hereafter to meet its engagements, and for the restoration of the public credit. |