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,. 66 expended,. Balance in Treasury, Sept. 1, 1854, Principal Items of Expenditure. Expenses of the Legislature, Contingent expenses, Library, Executive expenses, - salaries, Salaries of Judges, Vermont Reports, 165,111.84 152,443.36 $12,668.48 Financial disbursements, $34,039.32 Elections, 9,326.03 Repaid loans and Safety Fund, 2,375.00 89.58 Peddlers' license money distributed, 1,400.64 Safety and School Funds, Principal collected on same, $4,749.73 531.15 10,528.04 2,160.00 $3,009.93 139,385.07 2,812.50 2.097.38 2,861.15 5,041.65 5,671.57 2,219.48 Resources, Balance in favor of the State, Taxable Property and 53,234 polls at $2, Real estate (4,916,131 acres), State Liabilities, Sept. 1, 1854. HENRY J. Gardner, Simon Brown, Ephraim M. Wright, Jacob H. Loud, Joseph Mitchell, Ebenezer W. Stone, Ebenezer Bradbury, Benjamin Stevens, William Tufts, George Russell, Barnas Sears, Charles L. Flint, Lemuel Shaw, $21,041.19 To meet which, it has, — 4,559.90 $30,601.09 48,349.15 $ 17,748.06 Taxation. $106,468.00 Polls and one per cent. are, 61,720,414 44 Deduct for Fire Companies, Personal estate, over debts owed, 15,281,283.30 Balance list for State taxes, Total real and personal, $77,001,697.74 IV. MASSACHUSETTS. Government for the Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1856. Governor, Aggregate of Grand List of 1853. of Roxbury, of Newton, of Boston, of Boston, Salary. $3,500 Lieutenant-Governor, $4 a day. of Concord, of Plymouth, of Boston, of Westhampton, Sec. of Commonwealth, 2,000 Treas. and Receiver-Gen., 2,000 Auditor, 2,000 Adj.-Gen.& Quartermaster, 1,500 Land Agent, 1,000 Sergeant at Arms, House & 1,300 of Boston, 1st Clerk, Secretary of State's Office, 1,300 of Kingston, 1st Clerk, Treasurer's Office, 1,300 of Newton, Sec. of Board of Education and State Librarian, 1,900 Sec. of Board of Agriculture, 1,500 Pres't of the Senate, $4 per day. Speaker of House of Rep. " 66 of Boston, of Salem, of Boston, $ 12,668.48 35,680.67 $48,349.15 66 876,484.97 1,042.00 $875,442.97 of Worcester, of New Bedford, Attorney-General, Reporter, $ 300 and proceeds of Reports. S. 66 *Officers at the session of 1854. $3,500 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 3,000 2,500 1,000 1,000 of Danvers, of Dedham, of Worcester, Mid. of North Adams, W. 2,000 Alfred A. Abbott, Ezra Wilkinson, P. E. Aldrich, Henry A. Dawes, 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. County. Commissioner. Residence. Barnstable, Simeon N. Small, Yarmouth. Timothy Reed, Barnstable. Berkshire, Charles N. Emerson, Great 66 Bristol, 66 District Attorney, E. District, $800 S. E. 66 800 Dukes, 66 of Lenox, of Pittsfield, Court of Common Pleas. Chief Justice, of Salem, of Concord, $2,300 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,100 Edward Mellen, Horatio Byington, Jonathan C. Perkins, E. Rockwood Hoar, Henry W. Bishop, George N. Briggs, George P. Sanger, 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. 66 County. Commissioner. 66 Plymouth, J. J. Russell, 66 rington. Lorenzo H.Gain well, Pittsfield. Shepherd Thayer, Adams. Edgartown. Suffolk, 66 Lawrence. Greenfield. Franklin, Springfield. Hampshire, Ithamar F. Conkey, Amherst. "" Samuel T.Spaulding, Ware. Middlesex, Asa F. Lawrence, Cambridge. 66 66 66 Worcester, A. H. Bullock, "" Charles Demond, John M. Williams, C. H. B. Snow, 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. Total receipts, Add cash on hand, January 1st, 1854, Total means, Councillors, Legislature, FINANCES. Received into the Treasury during the year ending December 31st, 1853, on account of ordinary revenue, Received on all other accounts (including $ 546,800 5 per cent. temporary loans, borrowed in anticipation of the revenue), Total payments, . Excess of revenue for 1853, Probate Courts. Salary $500 500 Principal Items of Expenditure, 1853. The entire payments during the year on account of ordinary expenditures were (6 Deaf and Dumb, $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 Cash on hand, January 1st, 1854, Of this $13,409.64 is on account of ordinary revenue, and $189,560.02 on account of the school and other funds. 150 800 300 350 Henry Smith, 300 Samuel F. Lyman, 800 Alfred A. Prescott, 200 George Cobb, 600 Jonathan H. Cobb, 500 H. M. Willis, 800 Charles G. Prentiss, State Prison, $6,104.00 Prevention of counterfeiting, 1,000.00 Newspapers and advertising, 859.22 County Treasurers, 9,000.00 State paupers, 7,567.41 Interest on temporary loans, 66 3,200.00 Salary. $550 600 800 175 1,500 450 600 475 1,500 300 800 700 2,000 1,500 40,551.01 1,079.37 855.64 30,000.00 5,574.70 8,543.80 6,663 22 1,880.96 1,542.47 27,009 14 $6,123.38 2,518.00 99,094.57 103,330.43 6,669.72 5,000.00 50,100.00 19,425.00 8,782.00 Loans repaid, Interest on same, Western R. R. sinking fund, Chief Sources of Income. Year. Receipts. 1835 1836 1834 $409,968 $362,380 447,679 494.438 406,626 435,456 478,239 510,461 422,233 490,434 413.279 481,195 405,742 407,943 1837 1833 1839 1840 1841 416,970 398,950 1842 433,804 357,736 370,365 413.561 1843 331,568 394,099 505,547 546,800.00 Attorney for Suffolk County, 49,872.17 Alien estates, 492,811 566,056 194,400.00 Hawkers' and peddlers' licenses, 5,119.37 Western Railroad dividends, 48,361.19 Interest on school fund, 94,255.37 Western Railroad stock and loan sinking fund, &c. Bank tax, Five per cent. scrip, 1853, $443,340.00 Premiums on ditto, 5,082.54 State tax, 1853, Insurance tax, The debt of Massachusetts, on its own account, was, on the 1st January, 1854, $1,804,175.00 5,049.555 56 $6,853,730.56 The value of the productive property of the Commonwealth, January 1st, 1854, Total property of the Commonwealth, Excess of resources over liabilities, Expen- Govern- ment. $208,013 236,123 296,929 253,542 $ 9,968 13,365 19,958 235,300 31,562 24,922 167,376 160,137 154,735 1844 1845 1846 502,025 416,443 158,540 1847 500,332 1848 548,675 230,017 1849 490,904 566,804 232,583 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. Education. Charities. Correctional Interest. 217,500 308,836 $91,350 88,410 93,180 82,400 16,171 9,965 73,300 69.436 4,709.70 31,008.51 2,515.82 542 00 1,861.82 65,000.00 546,800.00 239,659.07 49,078.22 52,500.00 198,978.34 175,000.00 4,172 50 286,605.00 $ 3,965,105.98 2,077,796.07 5,049,555.56 $11,092,457.61 6,853,730.56 $4,238,727.05 82,503 73,544 80,200 17,773 97,115 15,787 90,681 10,667 86.642 10,818 94.132 7,454 118,035 138,180 54,989 127,217 62,337 6,634 7,500 138,033 122,000 58,056 1850 1851 7,805 10,500 145,169 115,932 64,364 1852 598,170 674,622 295,404 1853 882,289 877,564 427,017 147.261 149,112 72,345 148,906 209,146 11,300 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. 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