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Biennial State Finances and Institutions Report Summary
A detailed Iowa biennial message reviews finances, taxes, and state funds, noting receipts of 2,143,077.99 and expenditures of 2,143,103.55, with a net gain in revenues and reductions in warrants. It calls for semi annual tax payments, reform of property assessments to cash value, and stronger enforcement of codified duties. It covers the treasury, debt, war claims, swamp land indemnity, and major state institutions, including state universities, normal schools, and asylums, urging economies, repairs, and improved executive supervision.
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Ft. Madison
Treasury
Board of Supervisors
Agricultural College
Seventeenth General Assembly
Commonwealth
General Assembly
State University
Law Department
Iowa
Normal School
Labatory
Sewer
United States
Congress
Sremk
Boards of Supervisors
Bonneville de Arcarer
France
Parliamentary Commission On Prison Reform
Cincinnati Prison Reform Congress
Highwa
Institution OF the Deaf and Dumb
Board of Trustees
W. R. Craig
Deaf and Dumb Institution
Craig
Messrs. Finkbine, Dey
Robertson
General Assemblies
College For the Blind
Archibald
Executive Council
Providential
MT. Pleasant
Ile
Boards of Trustees
Independence
Sixteenth General Assembly
Anamosa
Mt. Pleasant Hospital
Independence Hospital
Winans
Durin
Spevenien
Finkbine Haa
W. F Hayden
Timothy Whiting
Eldora
Coer
Seth H. Craig
Eli C. McMillan
McMillan
Seventienth
Tool Company
Fort Madison
Galusha Parsons
District Court
Lee County
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Anamosa Water Company
William Foster
Des Moines
Martin Heisey
Smme
Institution For the Deaf
Puisb
Sapere
Executive Board OF Control
Independence 1,360.50 Hospital For
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Pita WU Rivgteice
Os Ese Sn
Palace