| Summary: | This report was presented by Comptroller Joel Riggs to the legislature. In it, he documents the financial condition of the state, listing receipts and disbursements to and from the state treasury. In addition to the detailed narrative, he also includes eight tables of itemized expenditures and taxes collected. Of particular interest is a statement "Showing in detail the kinds, amounts, and taxes assessed on the personal property of the several counties in the State for the year 1848," which includes data on the numbers of enslaved people and "free negroes and free mulattoes" and the "fund for slaves executed."
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