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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1920

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GRAND TOTALS.

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APPROPRIATIONS BY UNITED STATES FOR SUPPORT OF NEBRASKA TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT.¹

Years	Per Diem & Expense of Legislature	Salary of Governor	Salary of Secretary	Salary of Three Judges	Contingent Expense	Library	Capitol Building	Census	Indian Invasion 1864	Total
1854	$20,000.00	$2,500.00	$2,000.00	$6,000.00	$1,500.00	$500.00	......	......	......	$32,500.00
1855	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	3,125.00	2,500.00	$50,000.002	$2,000 .00	......	88,125.00
1856	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
1857	23,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	34,500.00
1858	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
1859	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
18M	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	5,000.00	......	......	36,500.00
1861	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
1862	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
1863	4,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	15,500.00
1864	15,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	26,500.00
1865	18,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	29,500.00
1866	15,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	$45,000.00	71,500.00
1867	20,000.00	2,500.00	2,000.00	6,000.00	1,000.00	......	......	......	......	31,500.00
Totals	$255,000.00	$35,000.00	$28,000.00	$84.000.00	$16,625.00	$3,000.00	$55,000.00	$2,000.00	$45,000.00	$523,625.00

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     ¹The United States government paid the salaries of the territorial governor, secretary, three judges, members of the legislature, and for each house a chief clerk, one assistant clerk, one sergeant at arms and one doorkeeper. The executive department was also allowed a clerk. The expenses of the legislative assembly were allowed as vas also the cost of printing the laws. Members of legislature allowed $3 per day. Presiding officer $6 per day. Members were allowed ?? mileage for each twenty miles going and coming. Chief clerk of each house received $4 per day, the other house and senate employes $3 per day.
     ²City of Omaha spent an additional $60,000 towards completion of this building. (Consolidated session laws of Nebraska, vol. 1, 1858, page 615 Ibld, 1859, page 691.)

NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1920

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APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY THE NEBRASKA TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE FOR SUPPORT OF
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT, JULY 1, 1855-1863.¹

Years	Expense of Legislature	Salary of Officers	Office Expense	Salary District Attorneys	Election Messenger	Care of Convicts	Collection of Revenue	Incidental Expenses	Special Appropriations	Interest Account	Total
1855-63	$11,174.50	$9,861.10	$733.44	$18,825.51	$1.733.75	$663.35	$4,736.52	$3,821.56	$7,786.40	$1,520.35	$63,856.78

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     ¹The reports of the territorial auditors from 1855-1863 were such as to make a more detailed statement than that given above impossible.

APPROPRIATIONS MADE BY THE NEBRASKA TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE FOR SUPPORT OF
TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. 1864-1867.

			Auditor			Treasurer		Librarian
Years	Expense of Legislature	Governor's Office and Incidentals	Salary	Office	Abstracts Land Etc.	Salary	Office	Salary	Office
1864	$1,815.00	$335.00	$900.00	$721.00	$1,066.22	$400.00	$350.00	$300.00	$30.00
1865	1,906.00	500.00	900.00	75.00	1,500.00	575.00	75.00	200.00	50.00
1866	2,453.50	......	900.00	75.00	1,575.00	400.00	50.00	400.00	222. 00
1867	2,275.00	750.00	1,000.00	325.00	2,700.00	400.00	100.00	400.00	175.00
Totals	$8,449.50	$1,585.00	$3,700.00	$1,196.00	$6,841.22	$1,775.00	$575.00	$1,300.00	$477.00

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	Adjutant General
Years	Salary	Ordnance Stores, Etc	Agricultural Society	Insane	Convicts	Immigration Board	Collection of Revenue	Miscellaneous	Total
1865	$150.00	$528.10	$300.00	......	$500.00	......	$865.67	$700.00	$8,960.99
1865	562.50	1,640.00	300.00	......	500.00	......	......	......	8,783.50
1866	300.00	1,770.60	300.00	$2,000.00	......	$2,000.00	......	397.00	12,843.10
1867	......	533.25	......	3,021.55	3,500.00	......	......	......	15,179.80
Totals	$1,012.50	$4,471.95	$900.00	$5,021.55	$4,500.00	$2.000.00	$865.67	$1,097.00	$45,767.39

Total, 1855-63	63,856.78
Grand totnI	$109,624.17

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