The revenues accruing during this period were of two classes, ordinary and extraordinary: the latter came from the sale of bonds, the former from taxes, fees, interest on investments, and the like. The following table shows the per cent of total net receipts derived from taxes, sale of bonds, and miscellaneous sources:1

The taxes, in their order of importance, were the general property tax, the occupation taxes, and the poll tax.3

1 It should be remembered that this table does not represent the contributions to the general revenue account only. There were no receipts from bond sales accruing to this account in 1874, 1878, and 1880. The large per cent shown from bond sales in 1880 is due to the refunding operations.

2 The receipts for 1877-8 are net receipts, except for the interest received on state bonds held by the special funds, the amount of which was not separately stated in the comptroller's report.

3 The reports of the state's financial officers are not so compiled and published as to make it possible to state what proportion of the tax receipts each of the taxes contributed. A rough idea of the proportion may be gained from the statistics of assessed taxes, but the statistics for occupation taxes are especially defective: they are in every instance reported as partial, and those for 1876 are not published. In the case of the general property tax also the assessments are not complete. The following are the amounts and percentages of the several taxes assessed or reported: