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IMMIGRATION.

These vessels have brought 22,904 alien passengers and 8,979 passengers of American birth, or aliens who had previously resided in the Commonwealth. Of the aliens, 22,500 were commuted for, and 564 were bonded. Of the 18,760 immigrants arriving by the European lines, 6,540 passed through the Commonwealth on their way to other States.

Expenses.

Salaries,

Rent, printing, stationery, &c., .

Extra boating, wharfage and repairs on boat,

$4,204 67 524 52

115 23

$4,844 42

CLASSIFICATION of all Passengers arriving at the Port of Boston during the year ending

September 30, 1871:

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TABLE showing the number of immigrants landing monthly from Great Britain and Ireland, "Cunard" and "Inman" lines; also, number ticketed beyond the State.

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SUB-DEPARTMENT OF SETTLEMENT AND BASTARDY.

In March last, the Supreme Judicial Court, in the case of the Commonwealth vs. The Inhabitants of Sudbury, declared the Act of 1868, conferring legal settlements on aliens to be prospective only; thus remitting to the care of the State a large number, principally lunatics, the burden of whose support had previously been transferred to the towns of their supposed settlements.

Immediately upon the rendering of this decision application was made to the General Court, then in session, for legislation to cure this admitted defect in the Act of 1868. This resulted in the passage of a retrospective Act taking effect July 1, 1871, which re-transferred the above-named cases to the towns of their settlement. But the Act taking effect only after half the official year had expired, the average of State patients at the lunatic hospitals during the term is something larger than would otherwise have been.*

STATE LUNATIC HOSPITALS.

There has been about the same per cent. of decrease in the average of State patients supported at the hospitals as in the past two years, the number at the Asylum remaining the There were on the first day of October, 1871, in the

same.

* TABLE showing the number of examinations made at each of the State Almshouses and Lunatic Hospitals and at the Local Office, the number requiring verification, and the number returned verified or otherwise; also the number of Legal Settlements found in the State, and the Settlement of Insane found in other States:—

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The number of State patients at the hospitals October 1, 1868, was 540. The number at present supported by the Commonwealth is 335; a decrease of 205 in the number supported, and a reduction of more than one hundred dollars per day in the cost of their support.

STATE ALMSHOUSES.

There were on the first day of October, 1871, 495 inmates at three almshouses, divided as follows:

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In addition to the above, twelve persons were arrainged for escaping from the custody of the Master of the Workhouse, two were convicted, and the cases of ten were continued nisi.

GENERAL AGENT'S REPORT.

Their terms of sentence were as follows, its average length being 14 months and 23 days :

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There were 67 persons sentenced from the municipal and police courts, making the whole number present 312.

Bastardy.

The number of cases pending Oct. 1, 1870, in which proceedings had been instituted under the Act, was

Entered during the year, .

Settled by payment,

by marriage,

under the provisions of chap. 124, Gen. Sts.,

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TRANSPORTATION.

Discontinued for various causes,

Pending October 1, 1871,

Amount paid Treasurer of Commonwealth,

Amount paid complainants,

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SUB-DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.*

Of the labors of the past year in this relation little need be said. Nothing of a marked character has transpired. The same uneasiness relative to persons removed prevails among

* TABLE showing the number and destination of the persons removed :

Sent to Trans-Atlantic Ports and British

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Via Norwich and Worcester Railroad,.
Old Colony and Newport Railroad,
Conveyances by water,

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to Rhode Island,

to Connecticut,

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to Michigan,

to Indiana,

Total,.

209

202

866

1,863

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