William Tufts, Horace Mann, 1st Clerk, Secretary of State's Office, 1st Clerk Treasurer's Office, of Boston, William B. Calhoun, of Springfield, of Boston, $1,200 Sec. of the Board of Education, 1,500 of Greenfield, of Worcester, Worcester, of Salem, of Boston, of Northampton, Court of Common Pleas. Judges. Nymphas Marston, Chief Justice, Justice, do. do. Reporter, District Attorney, N. Dist. S. do. Mid. do. do. do. do. Attorney, Probate Courts. Chief Justice, $10 per day. $10 per day. do. do. do. do. 1,000 1,000 800 W. do. 800 Co. of Suffolk, 2,000 $3,500 3,000 3,000 3,000 300 Salary. Registers. $400 Timothy Reed, $2,100 1,800 1,800 1,800 1,800 1,800 Salary. $500 550 750 150 1,500 425 550 450 1,500 300 600 650 2,000 1,500 Police Court of Boston. Abel Cushing, Jas. C. Merrill, John G. Rogers, Justices, salary, $1,500 each FINANCES. Total receipts in 1846, including money borrowed, Cash on hand for ordinary revenue, January 1, 1847, Total indebtedness of the State, January 1, 1847, . Total liabilities of the State, As security for the redemption of the scrip lent to railroads, the Commonwealth holds a mortgage on all the roads, and also 3,000 shares in the Eastern, 4,000 in the Norwich and Worcester, and 1,000 in the Andover and Haverhill. Besides this, the Commonwealth owns various stocks and funds to the amount of $2,650,180.17. Abstract of the Returns of the Banks in Massachusetts for 1846. Due from the Banks. 25 Banks in 80 Banks out Total-105 Boston. of Boston. Banks. Debts due, including notes, bills, of exchange, and all stocks, Total of the resources, I Amount of dividends for the year, $563,272 88 555,065 31 $8,658 57 $999,654 30 5,049,555 56 $6,049,209 86 $3 18,180,000 00 12,980,000 00 31,160,000 00 5,677,668 00 6,651,717 00 12,329,385 00 696,018 00 1,566,511 50 2,262,529 50 1,474,694 72 1,029,441 45 2,504,136 17 5,072,005 48 213,010 19 5,285,015 67 6,806,374 51 2,653,001 41 9,459,375 92 740,237 18 161,034 80 901,271 98 38,646,997 89 25,254,716 35 63,901,714 24 2,437,072 39 617,683 29 3,054,755 68 719,582 87 378,418 10 1,098,000 97 2,394,802 78 240,256 38 2,635,059 16 176,236 00 43,459 55 219,695 55 3,194,657 23 2,463,431 59 5,568,088 82 29,814,646 62 21,511,467 44 51,326,114 06 38,646,997 89 25,254,716 35 63,901,714 24 1,163,500 00 692,790 00 1,856,290 00 1,151,642 10 655,561 65 1,807,203 57 Aggregate dividends of banks in Boston, for the year, a fraction less than 6 40-100 per ct. 3 15-100 in October, a fraction over 66 66 66 С. 66 66 66 66 "6 tr 66 66 out of Boston, for the year, a frac. less than 5 34-100" (6 66 (( 2 12-100 5 95-100 66 Savings Banks.-In thirty-eight savings banks, in 1846, there were 62,893 depositors, and $10,680,933.10 of deposits. The rate of the dividend was four and two-thirds per cent. ; and the amount divided was $345,443.10. The average annual rate of dividends, for the last five years, is five and a quarter per cent. The annual expenses of the institutions were $29,306.69. The number of depositors in Boston (two banks) was 22,393; amount of deposits, $3,702,260.30; amount of dividend, $130,149.42; annual expenses, $12,262.30. State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester; George Chandler, M.D., superintendent. The whole number of rooms designed for the use of patients is 351. The average number of patients for the year ending November 30, 1846, was 359; 270 patients-128 males and 142 females have been discharged during the past year, 154 of whom were restored to health; 31, improved; 43, incurable and harmless; 4, incurable and dangerous; and 28 died. Receipts during the past year, $46,485.14; expenses, $39,870.37. State Prison.-According to the report of the Warden, there were 253 prisoners in the Massachusetts State Prison on the 30th September, 1846; 78 having been received, and 112 discharged, during the year. Of these, 180 were committed for offences against property, including burglary, larceny, counterfeiting, &c.; 9 for arson and malicious burning; and 55 for crimes against life and the person, including assaults of various kinds. There are 15 confined for life; 1 for 35 years; 1 for 20 years; and only 28 for terms under 2 years. There are 23 from 15 to 20 years of age; 113 from 20 to 30; 96 from 30 to 50; and 21 over 50. Of the whole number, 64 are foreigners, and 90 natives of Massachusetts. There are 21 second comers and 10 third comers, and 1 each committed for the 4th, 5th, and 6th time. There are 12 negroes and 11 mulattoes. The receipts- - for labor, fees of admittance, &c., were $32,187.35; and the expenses, $32,692.33, leaving a balance of income of $504.98. Jails and Houses of Correction, for the year ending November 1, 1846.—The whole number of prisoners, including 953 debtors, was 6,544. Of these, 4,953 were males; 4,999 adults; 378 colored persons; 4,381, unable to read or write; 2,125 intemperate; 1,126 natives of Massachusetts; 1,265 natives of other countries; remaining in confinement, November 1st, 1846, 753. Average cost of board of each prisoner per week, $1.67%. Expense of jails, &c., during the year, $65,778.11. Value of labor in Houses of Correction, $15,495.76. Pauperism in the year 1846.-The whole number of persons relieved as paupers was 15,261; 7,022 of whom were state paupers, and 7,850 town paupers. Of the state paupers, 4,411 were foreigners; and of these, 3,834 were from England and Ireland. There were 181 alms-houses, with 18,064 acres of land attached, of the estimated value of $978,809.80. Number relieved in alms-houses, 7,108, of whom 3,545 were unable to labor; number relieved out of alms-house, 7,655; average weekly cost of each pauper in almshouses, $0.88 8-10; out of alms-houses, $0.88 4-10. Net expense of alms-house, including interest, $301,607.08. Estimated value of labor of paupers, $19,501.56; $33,652.10 were paid by the Commonwealth towards the support of state paupers. 722 foreign paupers have come into the state during the year. INFLUENCE OF OCCUPATION ON LONGEVITY. [From the Registration of Deaths in Massachusetts from 1842 to 1846.] 1842. 1843. 1844. 1846. 54 75 Number. 62 78 660 75 706 663 90 645 35 41 29 452 484 477 195 179 182 219 162 192 207 35 145 5 264 1845. Aggregate age. 54 2,847 52.72 4,296 53.04 81 679 2,724 43.93 4,403 48.92 39,869 61.81 45,241 66.63 1,544 44.11 34 1,396 41.06 22,398 46 96 538 24,613 45.7 10,690 48.81 216 10,679 49.44 6,206 42 80 119 5,798 48.72 408 81.60 37 2,571 69.48 12,215 16.32 395 18,537 46.93 1,687 1,805 1,695 1,942 100,457 51.72 2,153 115,978 53.87 John Coggeshall, John Smith, V. RHODE ISLAND. The settlement of this state was commenced at Providence, in 1636, by the celebrated Roger Williams, a minister who was banished from Massachusetts on account of his religious opinions; and in 1638, the settlement of the island of Rhode Island was begun by William Coddington, John Clarke, and others. In 1643, Mr. Williams went to England, and obtained, in 1644, a charter, by which the settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations were united under one government, and which continued in force till 1663, when a new charter was granted by Charles II., which, until 1842, formed the basis of the government. Benedict Arnold, elected William Brenton, do. do. Benedict Arnold, do. Walter Clarke, do. Benedict Arnold, do. do. Henry Bull, Caleb Carr, Walter Clarke, GOVERNORS, &c. Presidents under the first Charter. do. do. John Cranston, do. William Coddington, do. do. do. Walter Clarke, the Charter suspended] elected do. do. do. do. Nicholas Cooke, elected 1663 Joseph Jenckes, 1666 William Wanton, Stephen Hopkins, Stephen Hopkins, 1689 Samuel Ward, 1695 Josias Lyndon, elected do. do. do. elected do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. do. elected 1776 | Arthur Fenner, 1655 1657 1660 1662 1727 1732 1734 1741 1743 1745 1746 1747 1748 1755 1757 1758 1762 1763 1765 1767 1768 1769 1775 1789 1805 1806 James Fenner, elected William Jones, do. Nehemiah R. Knight, do. William C. Gibbs, do. James Fenner, do. do. Lemuel H. Arnold, 1807 William Sprague, elected 1811 Samuel W. King, Act. Gov. 1817 elected 1821 James Fenner, do. do. do. do. 1824 Charles Jackson, 1838 1839 1840 1843 1845 1846 1847 ABSTRACT OF CONSTITUTION, Ratified by the People, Nov. 21, 22, and 23, 1844. Every male citizen of the United States, 21 years old, resident in the state for one year, and in the town or city where he offers his vote six months next before the election, and owning real estate in such town or city, worth $134 above all incumbrances, or of the clear yearly value of $7, may "vote in the election of all civil officers, and on all questions in all legal town or ward meetings;" or if the estate lie without such town or city, but within the state, he may vote for "all general officers and members of the general assembly," in the town or city where he has resided for the last six months. Every male, native, citizen of the United States, 21 years old, resident in the state for two years, and in the town or city where he offers his vote six months next before the time of voting, and whose name is registered in such town on or before Dec. 31st in that year, and who shall have paid taxes to the amount of one dollar, or done military duty for one day during such year, may vote in the election of all civil officers, and on town or ward questions; provided that no person vote "in the election of the city council of Providence, or upon any proposition to impose a tax, or for the expenditure of money in any town or city," unless he have paid a tax on property therein valued at $134. A tax of one dollar, or of such sum as, with his other taxes, will amount to one dollar, shall be annually assessed upon every person registered, and shall be appropriated to the support of public schools in the town where it is paid; but no process shall issue for its collection, and it shall be remitted to persons who have performed one day's military duty, and to sailors at sea, during the year. No person in the marine, naval, or military service of the United States, can gain a residence by being stationed in the states; and no Narragansett Indian can vote. Representatives (not exceeding 72 in number), one for every 1,530 inhabitants, shall be chosen on the first Wednesday of April. Every fraction above one-half may elect a member; and every town or city shall be cntitled to not less than one representative, nor more than twelve. The senate, chosen at the same time, consists of the lieutenant-governor, and one member from each town or city. The governor, and in his absence the lieutenant-governor, presides therein, and also in convention, which is called the grand committee" of both Houses, and has only a casting vote; and, if no There was no choice of governor or lieutenant-governor, in April, 1839. Mr. King, who had the highest number of votes as senator, acted as governor. |