We find, however, that at the present time but few high classes exist, and no uniform standard of graduation prevails.

In order, therefore, to open the way for the worthy and intelligent graduates of any institution to participate in the advantages offered in the college, and at the same time to afford the pupils of our own primary department an opportu nity to fit themselves to enter the college, we have organized an intermediate or preparatory class, corresponding in its grade with the existing high classes. Into this class we propose to receive those who, desiring to enter the college, have been unable in their respective State institutions to make full preparation therefor; their standing in the class depending on the advances they have made in study before coming to us.

These pupils will be instructed wholly by members of the College Faculty, and our object will be to prepare them as rapidly as practicable for admission to the Freshmen class.

The charge for board and tuition in the college, as in the other departments of the institution, is one hundred and fifty dollars per annum to those not entitled to free admission by congressional or legislative enactment.

Cases, however, have arisen, and will doubtless continue to present themselves, of worthy deaf-mutes, desirous and capable of pursuing a course of ad-vanced study, who will find it out of their power to pay the above-named sum. To such applicants the directors propose to render assistance by remitting in whole or in part the usual charge, as circumstances seem to require, and as far as the means of the institution will admit.

This we are authorized to do by the fifth section of our organic act.

Candidates for admission to the Freshmen class are examined in arithmetic, English grammar, history, (ancient and modern,) geography, (modern and physical,) physiology, the elements of natural philosophy, algebra to quadratic equations, and the principles of Latin construction in their application to any familiar Latin author, regard being had more to the acquaintance evinced with the essential principles of Latin etymology and syntax than to the amount of literature read.

Classified abstract of the receipts and expenditures of the institution during the year ending June 30, 1865.

The failure on the part of Congress at its last session to pass the civil appropriation bill, in which provision was made for the support of the institution for the current year, would have placed us in a very unpleasant predicament but for your prompt and considerate action in the premises, and the willingness of the First National Bank of this city to advance the sums of money necessary for our maintenance until Congress should meet and provide for their reimbursement.

With the amount named in my letter of June 7, 1865, viz., twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars, we have been enabled to meet all current expenses and to carry forward the work on one of our extensions so that the roof is now being put on and the building nearly ready to encounter the winds and storms of winter without fear of injury.

The cost of this addition to our buildings will not exceed the original estimate; and if, as we expect, Congress makes the appropriations asked for last year, we shall be able to have this building ready for occupancy in the early

summer.

In preparing our estimates for current expenses during the year ending June 30, 1867, we have thought it desirable to aggregate in one sum the amounts we have hitherto drawn from two sources.

The act of February 16, 1857, allowed us from the treasury one hundred and fifty dollars per annum for the support of each beneficiary placed in the institution by order of the Secretary of the Interior.

The act of May 29, 1858, authorized annual appropriations for salaries and incidental expenses.

The first act made what may be termed an indefinite appropriation, and the amounts drawn in pursuance of this law were never submitted in our estimates, although they have been reported in our annual statements of receipts and disbursements. The item, therefore, asked yearly for "salaries and incidental expenses," while it appeared to present the whole amount wanted for the support of the institution, did not in reality do so.

We think it is due both to Congress and to the institution that this apparent inconsistency should be done away with, and we propose, after June 30, 1866, to relinquish the per capita allowance of one hundred and fifty dollars. To enable us to take this step we have added the amount we should naturally have derived from this source to the amount we shall need for salaries and incidental expenses, and present the following estimate, viz:

For the support of the institution for the year ending June 30, 1867, including five hundred dollars for books and illustrative apparatus, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars. This amount, with the exercise of strict economy, will, we think, be sufficient to meet the current expenses of the institution in all its departments, and we respectfully recommend that Congress be asked to make the necessary appropriation therefor.

The unprecedented increase in the number of our pupils the past year, with the prospect that the coming year will witness a similar enlargement, makes it incumbent upon us to extend our buildings and to approach as rapidly as possible the completion of our plans. All our improvements thus far have been carried on in pursuance of a carefully considered and comprehensive design, and we are inclined to the opinion that few public works will, on inspection, give evidences of a fuller return for moneys expended than ours. All the construction has proceeded under the immediate supervision of the president, and our buildings, as far as erected, are of a most substantial character. We should complete, if possible, during the coming year, the building occupied by our academic department. We are much in need of a new brick barn and cow-house, those we are now using being very insufficient frame structures. An ice-house is quite essential to our domestic economy. We should erect a gas-house at the earliest possible period, and the interests of our male pupils demand an extension of our shop accommodations. It is also extremely important that we should under-drain our grounds and construct several new sewers. There is urgent need at the same time to continue the work upon the permanent enclosure of our grounds, that the property of the institution may be protected from marauders and the products of the soil be secured to our use. The estimates which follow provide for all these improvements, and will, it is believed, in every case, be sufficient to complete the work contemplated:

"For the erection, furnishing, and fitting up of two additions to the buildings of the institution to furnish enlarged accommodations for the male and female pupils and for the resident officers of the institution, thirty-two thousand two hundred dollars.

"For the erection of a brick barn and cow-house, a shop extension, gas-house and ice-house, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.

"For the improvement and enclosure of the grounds of the institution, including under-drainage and sewerage, four thousand five hundred dollars."

We respectfully recommend that Congress be asked to make the foregoing appropriations at its approaching session. We do this with full confidence that our benevolent work deserves and will continue to receive the approval and support of the representatives of a people never backward in sustaining institutions which aim to improve the minds or gladden the hearts of its children.

By order of the board of directors:

Hon. JAMES HARLAN,

EDWARD M. GALLAUQET, President.

Secretary of the Interior.

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.

Department of METROPOLITAN POLICE,

Office of Board, No. 483 Tenth st., Washington, D. C., Oct. 1, 1865.

To the honorable the Secretary of the Interior:

The Board of Police of the Metropolitan Police district of the District of Columbia begs leave respectfully to submit its fourth annual report of the condition of the police within said District, in accordance with the twenty-fourth section of the act of Congress entitled "An act to create a Metropolitan Police district of the District of Columbia, and to establish a police therefor," and approved August 6, 1861.

The act of Congress establishing the Metropolitan Police, and the amendments thereto, authorizes the board to appoint one superintendent, ten sergeants, six detectives, and a patrol force not exceeding one hundred and fifty men. During the past year the force has been maintained, as far as practicable, at its maximum number. But even this number is entirely inadequate to the maintenance of a thorough and sufficient police system for this District. There are within our boundaries about seventy square miles of territory to be guarded by the above number of patrolmen, which gives, after making the necessary deductions for permanent details and sickness, less than an average of two men to a square mile. In the suburban and country portions of the District, even this low average cannot be assigned to duty without almost entirely uncovering the more densely populated and business portions of the cities of Washington and Georgetown. The board has therefore assigned one sergeant and eleven mounted patrolmen to do duty in the county of Washington outside of the corporate limits of the two cities. In addition to this number there is a detail of ten men for sanitary duty, five men for permanent special duty, and fourteen men detailed as roundsmen. These country patrolmen and the several details named deducted from the whole number of patrolmen, leaves one hundred and ten patrolmen for duty in the corporations of Washington and Georgetown. One-third of these one hundred and ten patrolmen, or thirty-six men, are assigned to day duty, and the other twothirds, or seventy-two men, (omitting fractions in both cases,) are assigned to night duty. Now there are about two hundred and seventy miles of streets in the two cities, which, divided by the number of men on duty at night, gives a beat of three and three-quarter miles in length for each man; and divided by the number on day duty, gives seven and a half miles in length to each beat. This calculation makes no allowance for alleys, or for sickness of the men.

From the foregoing statement it will be seen that it is simply impossible, with the force now at the command of the board, to so station the patrolmen as to afford proper protection to the community. Experience teaches that each patrolman should so have his beat arranged, that he can easily see over the whole of it at any time. In New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Baltimore, this arrangement of the beats is adopted. But here the small number of men on the force, and great extent of territory covered by the two cities, renders such an arrangement impossible.

Since the organization of the present police force, it is estimated that the population of this District has more than doubled, while no additions have been made to the number of men on the force; consequently the labors of the police have been greatly enhanced; in fact they have become greater than can be properly performed.

It should also be stated, that during and since the close of the rebellion large umbers of the worst and most desperate characters have been attracted here.

While the war existed and troops were quartered in this vicinity, these men lived by robbing soldiers through various devices; and now that this occupation is taken from them by the close of the war, they prey upon our citizens as thieves and burglars. The mustering out of troops in our midst has been the means of leaving among us from this source large numbers of bad men, such as are found in all armies. It is personally known to us that many recruits and substitutes were taken from our District jail, where they were confined for crime, and put into the army. Of course most of these characters are again in our midst, ready to renew their vicious course of life. This condition of things demands that our police force be largely increased.

STATION-HOuses.

The board urges the necessity of further and more definite legislation in regard to the erection of station-houses within the District. The corporation of Washington has provided in two of the precincts station-houses that are safe, convenient, and provided with all the modern improvements. In fact, probably no city in the country has better arranged buildings for police purposes. The building known as the central guard-house has within a few months been turned over by the mayor of Washington to the board for its use. This building is now used by one of the precincts, and answers a very good purpose. In the remainder of the precincts the buildings in use are unsafe, inconvenient, discreditable, and unavoidably filthy, loathsome, and pestiferous. There is actual danger that prisoners may suffocate if confined in the cells attached to these buildings. In fact, two deaths have occurred in these cells during the past summer which were hastened, to say the least, by their foul condition. Humanity demands that some legislation be had which shall remedy this condition of these station-houses.

Besides, a proper state of discipline canrot be maintained among the officers of the force without accommodations for them at their respective station-houses. In order that the efficiency of the force may be kept up to a proper standard, there should always be a reserve force in each precinct, and this reserve should be provided with accommodations for sleep and rest while off duty. But, except in three precincts, no such accommodations exist; consequently, no reserve force for cases of emergency can be maintained at these stations. In the act creating the Metropolitan Police force Congress made it incumbent upon the three jurisdictions within the Metropolitan Police district to provide. suitable station-houses for the several precincts. The law organizing the present system of police went into effect August 6, 1861. At the present time but three of the nine precincts contained within the District are provided with such station-houses as are worthy of the name, or that are at all adapted to police purposes.

THE POLICE TELEGRAPH.

The utility of the police telegraph, as an auxiliary to police operations, has been fully demonstrated during the past year. In fact, its benefits have been experienced to so great an extent that its loss would be regarded as an irreparable disaster. In cases of emergency the concentration of a large police force at any point, through the agency of this telegraph, can be accomplished in a very few moments; whereas, without its assistance, hours perhaps might be required to assemble an equal force.

During the year there has been transmitted through the central office by the police telegraph 7,833 messages, besides a large amount of business done between the precinct stations which did not pass through the central office.

There being no special provision of law under which the board felt authorized to pay for this telegraph, the contractors yet remain unpaid. The price