Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro'. William H. Rockwell, M. D., Super intendent. Since the opening of the asylum, there have been admitted, to September, 1849, 1,459 patients; 1,141 have been discharged, and 318 remain in the institution. Of the 1,459 patients thus admitted 666 have recovered, equal to 45.64 per cent.; 165 have died, equal to 11.30 per cent. Of the 1,141 discharged, 666 have recovered, equal to 58.37 per cent. During the year ending August 1st, 1849, the whole number of patients was 448. Admitted, 136; discharged, 130; remaining in the institution, 318. Of those discharged, 74 were cured; 22 died; improved, 22; not improved, 12. 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. - Number of banks in the State, 23; capital paid in, $ 1,829,395; circulation, $2,321,808. Total liabilities, $4,502,862.31. Notes and bills discounted, $3,541,081.22; deposits in city banks, $606,320.47; specie, $ 120,811.01; total resources, $4,623,731.70. FINANCES. For Fiscal Year ending September 1, 1849. Amount received into the Treasury, including balance of 1848, expended, Balance in Treasury Sept. 1st, 1849, Principal Items of Expenditure. Expenses of the Legislature, $119,386.34 111,056.05 $8,330.29 Principal Sources of Revenue. $27,651.32 In Treasury, Sept. 1, 1848, $3,659.40 Government for the Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1851. Military Stores, 1,500 1,500 The Supreme Court consists of five judges, who hold office during good behaviour. 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. 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 six judges, and frequent terms are held in every county. Since July, 1850, Trial Justices, several of whom are appointed by the Governor in each county, to hold office for seven years, exercise the jurisdiction formerly held by justices of the peace; to issue writs, &c., in all civil cases under $20, and warrants in all criminal cases; and the power of justices of the peace is limited to that extent, except that, in criminal cases, they may issue warrants returnable before a Trial Justice. This act does not affect the Police Courts, nor the "Justices' Court" of Boston, which the Justices of the Police Court hold on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Police Court of Boston. John G. Rogers, Jas. C. Merrill, Abel Cushing, Justices, salary, $1,500 each. Commissioners of Insolvency. These Commissioners hold a Court of Insolvency at the shire towns in their respective counties on the first Tuesday of each month, and as much oftener as they may deem necessary. Salary,-fees not exceeding the amount of $1,500 each. The receipts of all kinds, including loans, for the year ending January The debt of Massachusetts, on its own account, was, on the 1st January, 1850, $1,085,508.50 Liability of the Commonwealth for scrip loaned to the various railroads, Total absolute and contingent debt, 5.049.555.56 6,135,064.06 The value of the property of the Commonwealth, January 1, 1850, consisting of notes, mortgages, railroad stock and scrip, cash on hand, and proceeds of temporary loans, . Western Railroad stock sinking fund, interest in, say, Real estate unproductive, State Reform School fund in the hands of trustees, Mortgages on the various railroads, $2,539,061,96 123,500.00 181,000.00 1,315,100.00 20,000.00 5,049.555.56 Total property of the Commonwealth, Excess of resources over liabilities, 9,228,217.52 $3,093,153.46 To this may be added about 2,000,000 acres of Maine lands, worth $1,500,000, the proceeds of the sales of which are to be divided between the school fund and the sinking fund until they amount to $1,000,000 each; and also the Western Railroad loan sinking fund, held in trust by the Commonwealth, $541,841. Institutions for Savings. In the 42 institutions that made returns, there were 71,629 depositors, and $ 12,111,553.64 deposits securely invested. The average annual per cent. of dividends of the last five years is 5.9 per cent. The whole expense of managing these 42 Savings Banks was $ 37,361.26. Insurance Abstract for 1849.-Number of stock offices, 29, 16 of which are in Boston. Capital, $5,775,000. In United States stocks and Treasury-notes, $52,239. Bank stocks in Massachusetts, $4,045,044. Stock of the State of Massachusetts, $174,438. Loans on bottomry and respondentia, $87,650. Real estate, $447,258. Mortgages on do., 8 840,386. Loans on collateral and personal security, $390,386; loans on personal security only, $421,692. Cash, $211,742. Reserved or contingent fund, $ 402,932. Railroad stock, $415,190. Losses ascertained and unpaid, $ 93,212. Estimated losses in addition, $232,629. Premium notes, $2,188,603. Notes bad or doubtful, but not charged to profit and loss, $ 12,410. At risk, marine, $ 63,696,079; fire, $ 58,428,929. Premiums on fire risks undeter mined, $435,572. Average annual dividends for 5 preceding years, or since incorporated, 84 per cent. (Boston offices, a fraction over 9 per cent.) Fire losses paid last year, $210,025. Marine losses do., $1,428,770. Abstract of the Returns of the Banks in Massachusetts for 1849. Average dividends of all the banks for the year, 6.76 per cent. 965,652.14 2,724,513,20 394,336.49 785,775.63 171,855.76 193,531.81 Schools for 1849. The towns raise by taxation for the support of schools, annually, $830,577. Besides this, $5,483, income of the "Surplus Revenue," is so appropriated. Total, $836,060. Add $35,281, contributed as board and fuel: Number of children in the State from 4 to 16 years old, 215,926. Number that attend school under 4 years, 3,326; over 16 years, 10,452. No. of public schools in the State, 3,749. No. of male teachers, 2,426. No. of female teachers, 5,737. No. of scholars in summer schools, 173,659. No. in winter schools, 191,712. Average wages per month, inclusive of board, paid to male teachers, $31.02. Do. to female teachers, $14.19. Amount of School Fund, December 1, 1849, $876,092; increase during the year, $27,815. There are 64 incorporated academies in the State, with 3,864 pupils, and an aggregate of $61,691 paid for tuition; also 1,047 unincorporated academies and private schools, &c., with 27,583 scholars, and an aggregate of $240,730 paid for tuition. There are also local funds for the support of academies, &c., to the amount of $354,620, yielding an income of $21,584. No. of volumes in school libraries, 91,539. Value, $42,707. Value of apparatus, § 23,826. The value of the public school-houses in the State in 1848 was $2,750,000, of which $2,200,000 had been expended since 1838. There are three Normal Schools supported by the State, at an annual cost of about $6,500, one at Westfield, one at West Newton, and one at Bridgewater, -averaging annually, in all, 225 pupils. State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester. - George Chandler, M. D., Superintendent. Number of patients, December 1, 1848, 409,- -217 males, 192 females; admitted during the year, 273, — 134 males, 139 females; remaining at the end of the year, 429,-220 males, 209 females; average during the year, 420. Of those admitted during the year, 206 (97 males, 109 females) were committed by the courts; 26 (17 males, 9 females) by overseers; and 41 (20 males, 21 females) were private boarders. 167 foreigners (77 males, 90 females) remained in the hospital at the end of the year. 253 patients (131 males, 122 females) were discharged during the year; of whom 138 were recovered, 26 improved, 31 incurable and harmless, 21 incurable and dangerous, and 37 died. Receipts during the year, $49,440.40; balance of cash, December 1, 1848, $7,764.74; total, $ 57,205.14. Expenditures, $43,070.86. Leaving balance to new account, $14,134.28. The expense per patient the last year was $97.31; the average annual expense per patient for the 17 years the Hospital has been in operation is $124.99. State Prison. The number of prisoners, October 1, 1849, was 319; 190 having been received, and 124 discharged, during the year. Of those in prison, 307 were committed for offences against property, and 42 for offences against the person. 18 are confined for life; 1 |