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Common Schools. The school fund was abolished in 1845, to pay the State debt. There has been no State Superintendent of schools since 1851; and since that year there have been no returns of the conditions of the Schools. The returns for 1851 will be found in the American Almanac for 1854, p. 234.

State Prison. Year ending September 1, 1854. - Hiram Harlow, Superintendent, salary $500. Number of convicts, September 1, 1853, 75; admitted during the year, 22; total, 97; 29 were discharged during the year; 20 by expiration of sentence; 5 by pardon; 4 died; leaving in confinement, September 1, 1854; 68. The services of the convicts are let out to contractors. The contract per-diem charge per convict is two shillings. The income of the prison for the year was $6,687.46. Expenditures, including depreciation of property, $7,538.77. Balance of expenditures over income, $851.31.

Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro'. — William H. Rockwell, M.D., Superintendent. Since the opening of the Asylum, there have been admitted, to August 1, 1854, 2,229 patients; 1,840 have been discharged, and 389 remain in the institution. Of the 1,840 patients discharged, 1,048 have recovered, equal to 57 per cent. Of those placed at the Asylum within six months from the attack, nearly nine tenths have recovered. During the year ending August 1, 1854, the whole number of patients was 535. Admitted, 163; discharged, 146; remaining in the institution, 389. Of those discharged, 80 were cured; 40 died; improved, 12; not improved, 14. There have been 207 State beneficiaries in the Asylum during the year, and 152 remained, August 1, 1854. Income during the year, $44,492.33; expenditures, 45,194.20; balance against the Asylum, $701.87. There is connected with the Asylum a library of over 1,200 volumes, and a large number of newspapers and periodicals are taken.

Terms of Admission. - For the first six months, $2 per week, and $1.75 afterwards. When the insanity is connected with epilepsy or paralysis, $2.50 per week. Patients are received from other States for $2 per week, or $100 per year.

Banks. From Bank Commissioner's Report, dated September 12, 1854.- Number of banks in the State, 40; capital paid in, $3,323,826; circulation, $3,989,711. Total liabil ities, $8,145,514. Notes and bills discounted, $6,264,885; deposits in city banks, $1,031,406; specie, $196,699; total resources, $8,476,222. To every $ 100 of circulation there is nearly $26 of deposits in city banks, and $4.93 of specie.

In the session of the Legislature of 1851 a General Banking Law was adopted, under which three banks, the South Royalton, the Bank of Castleton, and the Bank of Woodstock have gone into operation.

By a joint resolution of the Legislature passed in 1849, savings banks are required to report to the Auditor their condition on the first Monday of September in each year. On the first Monday in September, 1854, there were 13 savings banks in operation, with deposits to the amount of $895,370.13. The expenses of these 13 banks for the year were $1,879.53. The average dividend was 5 per cent.

FINANCES

For Fiscal Year ending August 31, 1854.

Amount received into the Treasury, including balance of 1853, .

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165,111.84

152,443.36

$12,668.48

$4,749.73

531.15

10,528.04

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9,326.03 Repaid loans and Safety Fund,

89.58 Peddlers' license money distributed, 2,160.00 Principal Sources of Revenue. 2,121.92 In Treasury, Sept. 1, 1853,

2,375.00

10,788.25 From taxes,

1,400.64 Safety and School Funds,

$ 3,009.93

139,385.07

2,812.50

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55,694.80 Bank taxes and interest,

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53,234 polls at $2,

Real estate (4,916,131 acres),

Taxable Property and

Taxation. — Aggregate of Grand List of 1853.

$106,468.00 Polls and one per cent. are,

61,720,414 44 Deduct for Fire Companies,

Personal estate, over debts owed, 15,231,283.30 Balance list for State taxes,

876,484.97

1,042.00

$875,442.97

Total real and personal,

$77,001,697.74

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Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1856.

of Boston,

of Concord,

Salary. $3,500

Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, $4 a day.

⚫ of Westhampton, Sec. of Commonwealth, 2,000

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of Boston,

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Sergeant at Arms, House & 1,300

of Boston, 1st Clerk, Secretary of State's Office, 1,300 1st Clerk, Treasurer's Office, 1,300 Sec. of Board of Education

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of Boston,

Chief Justice,

of Northampton, Justice,

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of Worcester,

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$10 per day.

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$3,500

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3,000

3,000

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2,500

of New Bedford, Attorney-General,

Reporter, $ 300 and proceeds of Reports.

of Framingham, District Attorney, N. Dist.

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George W. Cooley, of Boston, Comm'th Att'y for Co. of Suffolk, The Supreme Court consists of six judges, who hold office during good behavior. It has exclusive cognizance of all capital crimes, and exclusive chancery jurisdiction, so far as chancery powers are given by statute; and concurrent original jurisdiction of all civil cases, where the amount in dispute exceeds $600 in Suffolk, and $300 in the other counties. It holds law terms in eight of the fourteen counties of the State, and nisi prius terms in all the counties. Court of Common Pleas.

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The Court of Common Pleas is held for the trial of civil cases above $20, and, except in Suffolk County, has criminal jurisdiction in all cases not capital. In Suffolk, the criminal jurisdiction is surrendered to the Municipal Court. There are seven judges, and frequent terms are held in every county. Justices of the peace have a limited criminal jurisdiction, and in civil cases under $100, with the right of either party in all cases over $20 to call in a jury of six; and a right in all cases of appeal to the Common Pleas. In those places, as in Boston, where the justices of the Police Court on stated days hold a "Justices' Court," Justices of the peace cannot try causes. In Boston, a "Justices' Court" is held every Saturday. The jurisdiction of these courts is like that of justices of the peace.

Police Court of Boston.

John G. Rogers, Abel Cushing, Thos. Russell, Justices, salary, $1,500 each. Commissioners of Insolvency.

County.

Commissioner.

Residence.

County. Commissioner.

Barnstable, Simeon N. Small, Yarmouth. Middlesex, Isaac S. Morse,

Timothy Reed,

Barnstable.

Josiah Rutter,

Berkshire, Charles N. Emerson, Great Bar- Nantucket, George Cobb,

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Francis Hilliard,

S. B. Noyes,
Plymouth, J. J. Russell,

Residence. Lowell.

Waltham.

Nantucket.

Roxbury.

Canton.

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Lorenzo H. Gain well, Pittsfield.

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Worcester, A. H. Bullock,

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Middlesex, Asa F. Lawrence,

Cambridge.

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These Commissioners hold Courts of Insolvency in their respective counties as often as they may deem necessary. Salary, -fees not exceeding the amount of $1,500 each.

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Received into the Treasury during the year ending December 31st, 1853, on

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Received on all other accounts (including $ 546,800 5 per cent. temporary loans, borrowed in anticipation of the revenue),

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The entire payments during the year on account of ordinary expenditures were
On all other accounts, including $446,800 temporary loans repaid,

Total payments, .

Excess of revenue for 1853,

Cash on hand, January 1st, 1854,

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$882,289.32

1,238,990.75

$2,121,280.07

266,144.54

$2,387,424.61

$877,563.70 *1,306,891.26 $2,184,454.96 4,725.62 $202,969.66

Of this $13,409.64 is on account of ordinary revenue, and $189,560.02 on account of the school and other funds.

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The debt of Massachusetts, on its own account, was, on the 1st January, 1854, $1,804,175.00 Liability of the Commonwealth for scrip loaned to the various railroads,

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The value of the productive property of the Commonwealth, January 1st, 1854, consisting of notes, mortgages, stocks and scrip, the Western Railroad sinking fund, School fund, &c.

Real estate, &c., unproductive,

Mortgages on the various railroads,

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$3,965,105.98 2,077,796.07

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The lands in Maine last year estimated at $616,000 have been sold, and the proceeds ($646,196.19) have been divided between the School and the Sinking Funds.

Receipts and Expenditures, and Kinds of Expenditure, on Account of ordinary Revenue, from 1834 to 1853 inclusive.

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566,432 642,105

308,836

7,805

145,169

115,932 64,364

1852 598,170 674,622 295,404 10,500 147.261 149,112 72,345 1853 882,289 877,564 427,017 11,300 148,906 209,146 81,195

$9,657,112 $9,915,069 $4,686,305 $286,010 $2,056,143 $1,983,680 $902,923

Institutions for Savings in 1853. — In the 60 institutions that made returns, there were 117,405 depositors, and $23,416,392.73 deposits securely invested; seven millions in mortgages, and the rest in stocks and loans. The average dividend for the year was a fraction over 4.78 per cent. The average annual per cent. of dividends of the last five years is a

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