Grand Encampment of Kentucky. Meets in Louisville, semi-annually, on the first Fridays after the first Wednesdays in May and No.vember. OFFICERS FOR 1846-7. M. W. G. P. David P. Watson, Nicholasville, M. E. G. H. P. George W. Lewis, Frankfort, R. W. G. S. W. P. M. Jones, R. W. G. J. W. Tal. P. Shaffner, James S. Lithgow, John Magness, G. A. Waggoner, Louisville, A. K. Marshall, M. D., Nicholasville, R. W. G. S. 039e་ས SONS OF TEMPERANCE. The Grand Division of Kentucky meets in Louisville on the third Wednesday in January, April, July and October, at 10 o'clock, M. Keeper of the State House, 1,500 1,250 66 Register of the Land Office,. President Board of Internal Improvement, .1,250 1,000 Adjutant General, .. * The Circuit Judge of the Fifth District receives $1,500. Members of the General Assembly, for the first sixty days, $3 per day; afterwards, $2 per day. Twelve and a half cents a mile to and from the capital allowed. Speakers of the Senate and house of Representatives, $6 per day. Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeepers of ditto, $4 per day. Clerks of the Senate and House, $10 per day; Assistant do. $7. DISBURSEMENTS OF EACH ADMINISTRATION OF THE GEN. GOVERNMENT, FROM 1789 To 1845. Administration. Cur't Expenses. P'd on acct of Do Public Debt. Total. Washington's 1st,.. $3,799,503 20. $12,549,605 49.$16,349,108 60 2d,..12,093,205 35.. 23,541,341 43..35,634,546 78 $21,348,351 19. $18,957,962 69. $40,306,313 88 John Adams'. Do 2d.. Madison's 1st,. Do 2d, Monroe's 1st,. Do 2d,... John Q. Adams' Jefferson's 1st,....$17,174,431 96. $32,268,658 68. $49,433,090 64 ..23,926,355 72..32,927,739 85.. 56,854,095 57 .$36,147,857 98. $26,920,305 12. $63,068,153 10 ...108,537,081 78.. 56,508,657 66. 165,145,749 44 $58,698,087 71.$63,051,658 31 $121,749,746 02 45,665,358 92.. 38,314,452 98.. 83,979,811 83 . $50,501,914 31. $45,303,533 43. $95,805,447 74 $56,270,480 62. $57,754,303 51 $114,024,784 13 Do 2d,........88,275,930 46.. 7,778,299 85.. 96,054,230 31 Van Buren's,.... $112,188,692 16 $20,842,146 30 $133,030,836 46 Tyler's,... $94,164,952 99. $29,568,207 13 $123,733,160 12 Jackson's 1st,. 203 Α CHRONICLE OF IMPORTANT EVENTS. SPANISH ERA. 1512. March 27. Ponce De Leon discovered Florida. 1528. April 12. Narvaez landed on the eastern coast of Florida. Of this expedition, consisting of 400 men and 45 horses, but four survived. Narvaez perished at sea. 1539. May 12. Hernando de Soto set sail from Havana with 1000 men and 350 horses. The latter were nearly esteemed as much as the men. May 25. Landed at the Bay of Espiritu Santo, the modern Tampa Bay, and passed through the territory of the present States of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. 1541. June or July. De Soto crossed the Mississippi at the lowest Chickesaw bluff, near the present Memphis, Tenn. 1542. This enterprising wanderer died near the mouth of Red River. "The corpse," says the learned and eloquent Bancroft, "wrapped in a |