Sheriffs. Newport County, Wm. D. Lake, Newport; Providence County, Daniel K. Chafee, Providence; Washington County, George H. Olney, Brand's Iron Works; Bristol County, Luther Collamore, Bristol; Kent County, Caleb A. W. Briggs. The expenses of the insane are included in Governor's orders; repairs of State Prison, Court-Houses, and various other expenses, in accounts allowed by Legislature. The United States surplus revenue received by the State was disposed of thus: The State owes no debt except what it has used of the United States surplus revenue. There are about $ 40,000 of disputed Revolutionary claims which are sometimes called the old State debt. Banks in Rhode Island, September 2, 1854. - Number of banks in the State, 87; of which 37 were in Providence. Capital, $ 17,542,346. Circulation, $ 5,035,073.75. Deposits on interest, $ 329,425.03. Deposits not on interest, $ 2,682,006.25. Dividends unpaid, $90.361.29. Net profits on hand, $ 1,074,051.82. Total liabilities, $27,799,922 82. Debts due from directors, $ 887,406 84; from other stockholders, $ 992,157.38; from all others, $23.353,640.23. Specie, $312,606.70. Bills of other banks, $ 880,724 87. Deposits in other banks, $932.619.87. Real estate, $ 262,164.72. Other property, $178.702 21. sources, $27,799,922.82. Amount of bills in circulation under $5, $ 1,326,789. made no report of bills in circulation under $5. The average semiannual dividend of all the banks was 3.3+ per cent. The increase of capital since the last return was $ 1,596,449.23. Total re15 banks Savings Banks. - In the 14 institutions for savings, on the first Monday of October, 1854, there were: - Depositors, 20,333; amount of deposits, $ 4,104,091.95. These institutions divide on an average 6 per cent per annum. The largest amount due any one depositor is $7,512. The increase during the year is as follows; in number of banks, 2; number of de positors, 3,393; in amount of deposits, $ 804,134.77. Public Schools. -The State has a permanent School Fund, actually invested, of $73,896.38. By an act passed in 1836, the interest of the State's part of the United States surplus revenue (commonly called the Deposit Fund) was set apart for public schools. $35,000 are annually paid from the State treasury for schools; and by the act of January, 1854, $ 15,000 were added to the annual appropriation. By an act passed in June, 1848, the proceeds of the militia commutation tax in each town are to be applied hereafter to the support of public schools. The whole number of school districts in the State in October, 1854, the date of the last published report, is 382, of which 42 are not organized; 297 districts own their schoolhouses; in 40 districts they are owned by the town; and in 41 by proprietors. There has been expended for school-houses during the last nine years, $319,293.07; during the last year, $7,348.57. No. of scholars, in May, 1854, 25,868, -13,776 males and 11,811 females; average attendance, 19,894. Number of male teachers, 253; of female, 364. Amount received from the State, $35,000; amount raised by towns, $ 61,013; whole amount from all sources, $118,602.38. Expended for instruction, $103,049. A State Normal School was established by the Legislature in May, 1854, on the recommendation of E. R. Potter, Commissioner of Public Schools, and $3,000 a year are appropriated therefor. It is at Providence. Dana P. Colburn is principal. Teachers' institutes are annually held in different parts of the State, supported by the State. State Prison, Providence.-S. L. Blaisdell, Warden; salary, $1,050. The number of prisoners, January 1, 1854, was 48; committed to December 31, 1854, 22; whole number during the year, 70. Discharged by expiration of sentence, 13; by pardon, 3; by death, 3; leaving in prison, December 31, 1854, 51, all males. The whole number of convicts since the establishment of the institution in 1838 to January 1, 1855, was 227. Discharged by expiration of sentence, 97; by pardon, 63; 11 died, and 5 escaped. Of this whole number 95 were natives of Rhode Island; 35 of Massachusetts; 17 of New York; 19 of other of the United States; 14 of England; 32 of Ireland; and 12 of other foreign places. The State prison now more than supports itself. The jail is an expense to the State of about $3,500 yearly. The convicts in the State Prison are principally employed at cabinet-work; those in the Providence county jail, in shoemaking. Number of persons in Providence jail at the suit of the State, December 31, 1854, 79; at the suit of the city, 18; awaiting trial, 20; total, 117. The average number in the jail is about 100, in the prison, about 50. - Butler Hospital for the Insane, Providence, R. I. — Dr. Isaac Ray, Superintendent. On the 31st of December, 1853, there were in the Hospital 136 patients, 63 males and 73 females. Admitted during the year, 80, -31 males and 49 females; whole number during the year, 216. Discharged, 85, -40 males, 45 females; leaving in the Hospital, December 31, 1854, 131 patients, 54 males, 77 females. Of those discharged, 40 had recovered; 20 were improved; 6 were unimproved; and 19 died. Of those admitted, 22 were from other States. Of the 58 remaining, 27 were supported by cities or towns or the State, and 31 enrirely by private means. The disbursements during the year were $26,640.36; the receipts were $ 25,846.22. The minimum price of board for patients is $2.25 per week. The Hospital can accommodate about 145 patients. The State now makes an appropriation of $1,500 per annum to enable the Governor to aid the poor insane persons at the Butler Hospital, and it also pays a portion of the expenses of such poor insane as the towns may choose to send there. Deaf, Dumb, &c. - The sum appropriated annually to the deaf, dumb, and blind, was in January, 1851, increased to $2,000, and idiots were included in its benefits. In June, 1851, the sum was further increased to $ 2,500. The State beneficiaries among the deaf and dumb, 4 in number, are sent to the American Asylum at Hartford; those of the blind, 3 in number, are sent to the Perkins Institution at South Boston. Four persons (up to January 1, 1853) have received the benefits of the State appropriation for idiots and imbeciles, two of whom are at South Boston, one at Barre, Mass., and one under the care of Mr. J. B. Richards at Philadelphia. Providence Reform School. -E. M. Cushman, Superintendent. This School was established in 1850, and was opened to receive inmates, Nov. 1, 1850. From that date to Nov. 30, 1854, there were committed, 293, -252 boys, 41 girls. There were in the School, Nov. 30, 1854, 106, 92 boys and 14 girls; admitted during the year, 85, ,-73 boys and 12 girls. Discharged during the year, 70 boys and 10 girls. Of the 85 admitted during the year, 27 were committed for theft; 11 for assault; 8 for vagrancy; 24 for truancy; 4 for safekeeping. 58 were born in the United States, and of these 43 were born in Rhode Island. 74 hours in each day, except Sundays, are devoted to labor; 5 to school exercises; 24 to meals and recreation; 1 to religious exercises; and 8 to sleep. Their labor has been employed in making such articles as are needed in the institution, and in housework. An arrangement is made by the State by which all juvenile delinquents may be sent to this school. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. The first annual report on this subject, under the provisions of the act of January, 1852, is made for the year ending May 31st, 1853. It is incomplete. Population of the State in 1850, 147,549. Number of Births for the registration year, 1,859, — 942 males, 899 females, and 18 unknown. Marriages, whole number, 831. Deaths, whole number, 1,126,-males, 570; females, 545; sex unknown, 11. The average age at death of the males was 26.91 years; of the females, 28.28 years; of each individual, 27.41 years. Of the births, 46 per cent. were of American parentage, nearly 37 per cent. of foreign, and 17 per cent. of unknown. Of the marriages, 65 per cent. were between Americans, 29 per cent. between foreigners, and 6 per cent. between those whose nativities were unknown. Of the deaths 70 per cent. were of American nativity, 15 per cent. of foreign, and 15 per cent. of unknown. Of the causes of death, nearly 21 per cent. died of consumption; about 7 per cent. of scarlet-fever; 6 per cent. of dysentery; 4 per cent. of old age. As regards occupation, agriculturists reached the highest average age, viz. 68.08 years; merchants, 53.23; mechanics, 49.53; laborers, 42; and professional men the lowest, viz. 40.33. VI. CONNECTICUT. Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in May, 1856. Thomas B. Butler, 2,000 The Legislature at the May session, 1855, established two Courts, the "Supreme Court of Errors," and the "Superior Court," and abolished the County Courts. The Supreme Court of Error is to consist of a Chief and two Associates, and the Superior Court of six judges. But now the Supreme Court of Errors consists of the Chief and four Associates, to be reduced to a Chief and two Associates as vacancies occur, and the Superior Court of nine judges, including the present five judges of the Supreme Court of Errors, Judges Wait, Storrs, Hinman, Ellsworth, and Sanford. There are now four judges of the Superior Court, Judges Park, Butler, Seymour, and Waldo. As a vacancy occurs in the Supreme Court of Errors, a new judge will be appointed to the Superior Court, until the number of the judges of the Superior Court amounts to six, i. e. the Supreme Court is to lose two judges, and the Superior Court is to gain two. The senior judge of the Superior Court will preside. Two judges constitute a quorum of the Supreme Court of Errors for the transaction of business, and two terms of the Court are held annually in each county. The terms of the Superior Court are held by one judge, except for the trial of capital offences, and as often as four times a year in each county. Any judge may hold special terms of this Court, but cannot at such term proceed to the trial or determination of any cause unless the parties consent thereto. A legal verdict may be found by any number of jurors, not less than nine, in any civil cause in which the parties so agree in writing before the verdict is rendered. The judges of this Court appoint a State's Attorney in each county, and may remove him for cause. The Judges of both Courts are appointed by the concurrent vote of the Senate and House, and in all cases shall be chosen by ballot, and hold their offices until seventy years of age. In the trial of capital cases, the Court is held by a judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, who presides, and by a judge of the Superior Court. The same act establishes some new rules of practice in civil cases. The Clerks of the Superior Court, who are ex officio Clerks of the Supreme Court of Errors in the several counties, are as follows: Expense of superintendence of com- $3,375.07 Debenture and contingent expenses $33,260.67 Salary of directors of State Prison, 300.00 <Judicial expenses, 57,535.22 Expense of supporting State paupers, 2,200.00 $179,862.56 Total receipts for year ending March 31, 1855, including balance of preceding year, $216,264.12 Total expenditures during same period, 179,862.56 Balance in Treasury, March 31, 1855, $ 36,401.56 The permanent fund of the State, April 1, 1855, consisting of bank stock not transferable, or subscriptions to the stock of certain banks which may be withdrawn on giving six months' notice, amounted to $ 406,000.00. The Grand List gives for the 1st October, 1854, the following summary of taxable property: 61,267 dwelling-houses, valued at $56,852,707; 2,522,774 acres of land, value $57,490,322; value of mills, stores, &c., $14,113,498; horses, $2,328,263; neat cattle, $5,150,921; sheep, swine, &c., $254,546; farming utensils, $ 224,348; coaches and pleasure carriages, $887,225; clocks, watches, &c., $ 434,095; piano-fortes and musical instruments, $303,911; household furniture, $1,193,311; quarries, fisheries, &c., $651,076; stocks and bonds, $20,298,195; investments in merchandise, $6,918,981; in mechanical and manufacturing operations, $ 9,673,743; in vessels, &c., $3,382,304; money at interest, $ 16,164,438; money on hand, $429,185. All other taxable property, $6,988,712; total taxable property, $203,739,831; polls at $ 10 each, $681,564; total amount of assessment, $6,819,191.59. Common School Statistics. - Number of towns for year ending March 31, 1852, 148; of school societies, 217; of school districts, 1,642; of children between four and sixteen, 96,382; attending school in winter, 74,100; average attendance, 55,100. Winter schools were kept in 1,530 districts. Number of teachers in winter, male, 1,060, female, 730. Summer schools were kept in 1,410 districts. Number of teachers in summer, male, 670, female, 1,020. There were in the winter 403 private schools of all grades, with 8,100 scholars. Average monthly compensation of teachers in winter, exclusive of board, males, $18.50, females, $ 8.20; in summer, males, $22, females, $7.50. Of the teachers, 220 had at least 10 years' experience; 430, 5 years'; 500, 3 years'; 570 less than one year's. 45 schools were broken up from the incompetency of the teachers. $ 73,000 were expended in building and repairing school-houses during the year. But one town appropriated any portion of its annual tax to common schools. The amount of dividends from the school fund for the year was $ 143,693.69; which gives $ 1.35 to every enumerated child. The number of towns for the year ending March 31, 1855, was 153; of school societies, 221; of school districts, 1,644; of children between 4 and 16 years of age, 100,294, which is an increase over the number reported the preceding year of 1,314; capital of school fund, $2,049,953.05; revenue for the year, $144,137.73, giving to each scholar $ 1.25. The Superintendent of Schools issued circulars in March, 1855, and attempted to obtain full information as to the condition of the schools, but the returns were imperfect and fragmentary. Lecturers are employed to visit the districts, and to lecture upon topics calculated to improve parents, teachers, and scholars, and Teachers' Institutes have been held with marked success in the several counties in the State. 655 members were in attendance. State Normal School. - This institution is at New Britain, and has John D. Philbrick, the Superintendent of Schools, for its Principal. It was opened for scholars May 15, 1850, and from that time to March 27, 1855, 867 pupils were connected with it. During the last year, 294 pupils have been in attendance. The number is limited to 220 at any one term, selections to be one from each school society. - Tuition free. State Reform School. - West Meriden. Philemon Hoadley, Superintendent. The buildings of this institution were so far completed, that it was opened for the reception of pupils March 1, 1854. From that time to April 1 of the same year, 15 boys were received. During the year ending April 1, 1855, 135 were received, and 11 discharged, escaped, or died, leaving in the school April 1, 1855, 139. Of the 150 committed, 54 were for theft, 7 for burglary, 41 for vagrancy, and 35 for stubbornness. 89 were committed during minority; 17 |