incurable and harmless, 4 incurable and dangerous, and 57 died. Receipts during the year, $48,336; balance of cash, December 1st, 1849, $14,134; total, $62,470. Expenditures, $46,776. Leaving balance to new account, $ 15,694. The average annual expense per pa tient for the 18 years the Hospital has been in operation is $ 118.75. State Prison. Henry K. Frothingham, Warden; Rev. Jared Curtis, Chaplain; J. W. Bemis, M. D., Physician. The number of prisoners, October 1st, 1849, was 349; 221 were received during the year ending 30th September, 1850, and 130 were discharged. Number of prisoners 30th September, 1850, 440. Of those in prison, 373 were committed for offences against property, and 67 for offences against the person. 21 are confined for life; 1 for 35 years; 1 for 30 years; 1 for 20 years; 3 for 18 years; and the remainder for a shorter period: 143 are confined for 2 years or less. 71 are from 16 to 20 years old; 219 from 20 to 30; 80 from 30 to 40; 41 from 40 to 50; 22 from 50 to 60; 6 from 60 to 70, and 1 from 70 to 80. 161 are natives of Massachusetts; 143 of other States, and 136 are foreigners. There are 41 second comers, 11 third comers, 5 fourth comers, 1 is a fifth comer, and 2 are sixth comers. There are 35 negroes, and 10 mulattoes. Average number of convicts for the year, 411. There have been 6 deaths; 3 have escaped from prison, and the sentences of 10 have been remitted. The expenses have been $45,261.32, and the receipts $ 45,816.93; amount of receipts over expenses, $555.61. State Reform School, Westboro'.-W. R. Lincoln, Superintendent. Boys in the school, December 1st, 1849, 310; received since, 106; discharged during the year, 94; remaining, November 30th, 1850, 324. 1 was 8 years old, 4 were 9, 8 were 10, 9 were 11, 17 were 12, 14 were 13, 25 were 14, and 28 were 15. 41 were committed for larceny; 47 for stubbornness; 3 as idle and disorderly; 6 for vagrancy; 3 for shopbreaking and stealing; 1 for burglary; 2 for pilfering; I for malicious mischief; 1 for assault, and 1 as a runaway. 95 were committed during minority; 1 for 10 years, 1 for 8, 1 for 6, and the remainder for a shorter period. 14 were received from Bristol County, 3 from Berkshire, 26 from Essex, 12 from Hampden, 20 from Middlesex, 1 from Nantucket, 6 from Norfolk, 12 from Suffolk, and 12 from Worcester. 95 were born in the United States, and 11 in foreign countries. All the boys are employed during a portion of the day at some mechanical, agricultural, or domestic labor. They do the washing, ironing, and cooking, and make and mend their own clothes. Each day, 4 hours are devoted to school, 6 to labor, & to sleep, and 54 to recreation and miscellaneous duties. 180 acres of land were originally purchased, and since that time an adjoining farm has been added. The buildings can accommodate about 300 boys. The school has been much crowded the past year, and many boys have been rejected for want of proper accommodations. The health of the boys is good. For more than five months preceding November 30th, 1849, there was not a single case requiring the aid of a physician. There were but 4 deaths during the past year, and since May there has been no sickness of importance. Pauperism in the Year 1850.- The number of persons relieved or supported as paupers was 25,981; of whom, 7,900 were town paupers, and 16,058 State paupers; of these State paupers, 12,334 were foreigners, and of this number 10,816 were natives of England and Ireland. There were 204 almshouses, with 20,6544 acres attached, the whole valued at $1,255,125. Number relieved in almshouses, 12,547 (the average being 4,825), of whom 6,429 were unable to labor. Number relieved out of almhouses, 13,757. Average weekly cost of each pauper in almshouses, $ 1.08; out of almshouses, $0.98. Net expense of almshouses, including interest, $ 467,959. Estimated value of pauper labor in almshouses, $17,966. 1,891 foreign paupers have come into the State within the year. 676 insane, and 390 idiots were relieved or supported during the year. 969 are paupers by reason of insanity or idiocy, and it is probable that 14,674 were made paupers by intemperance in themselves or others. Jails and Houses of Correction in 1850. — Whole number of prisoners, including 1,461 debtors, 12,122. Of these, 9,180 were males; 1,491 females; 1,619 minors; 535 colored; 3,533 able to read or write; 23 insane; 1,546 natives of Massachusetts; 832 natives of other States; 5,854 foreigners; 2,429 nativity unknown; remaining in confinement, November 1st, 1850, 1,112. Average cost of board of each prisoner per week, $1.66. Total expense for the year, $102,271.33. Estimated value of labor in Houses of Correction, $ 22,312.04. Births, Marriages, and Deaths, for the twenty months from May 1st, 1848, to December 31st, 1849. Returns were received in 1849 from all but eight towns. The number of births during that period was 38,313; of which 25,773 were in the year 1849, which gives one birth to every 38.6 inhabitants. The number of marriages was 10,951; of which 6,936 were in 1849, which gives one to every 14.3. The number of deaths was 29,988; of which 20,423 were in 1849, which gives one death to every 47.95 inhabitants. An average of ten persons died of consumption each day of the year 1849. The Registration gives the following table. Influence of Occupation on Longevity. 1. * From letter of Dr. Chickering to the City Council of Boston. 3. Native and Foreign Population in 1830, 1840, and 1850.* of Newport, Government for the Year ending 1st Tuesday in May, 1852. PHILIP ALLEN, William B. Lawrence, of Providence, Lieutenant-Governor, Governor, Salary. $400 200 The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Attorney-General are elected annually on the 1st Wednesday of April, for the year commencing the 1st Tuesday of May. The Commissioner of Schools is appointed by the Governor. The Senate consists of the Governor, who presides, the Lieutenant-Governor, and one Senator from each of the thirty-one towns in the State. The House of Representatives consists of 69 members. Richard W. Greene, JUDICIARY. of Providence, of Warren, of Providence, of Providence, Salary. Chief Justice, Entries & $900 Associate Justice, 66 66 Reporter. The judges of the Supreme Court hold office until they are removed by a resolution passed by both Houses of the Assembly, and voted for by a majority of the members elected to each House. By an act passed May, 1848, the Court of Common Pleas in each of the five counties is hereafter to be held by a single judge of the Supreme Court, sitting alone. The associate judges of the Supreme Court are to divide this duty among themselves. There are no longer any associate justices elected for each county. Clerks of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts. * From letter of Dr. Chickering to the City Council of Boston. -City Doc., No. 42, 1850. Accounts allowed by General Assembly, 17,059 Insurance Companies, 1 Chief Sources of Income. $3,396 2,038 State tax, 18,966 34,558 9,141 Tax on increase of bank capital, 6,141 6,899 Surplus profits and bonus for new 34.345 charters,. 1.252 7,500 From Courts, . 6,094 5.387 367 Interest on surplus revenue, 10.425 700 Dividend on School Fund, 3,591 1,157 4,000 City of Providence. - The total receipts of the city of Providence for the year ending March 3, 1851, were (including balance of old account, $7,598.14) $ 180,505.24. The total expenditures were $165,050.84. Leaving a balance to the city of $ 15,424 40. $14,984.93 were expended for interest; for schools, $ 40,553.30; for streets, $ 28,999.14. city was $ 185,552.60; decrease thereof during the year, $8,798.02. The debt of the Public Schools. - The State has a School Fund, invested in bank stock, of $51,300. 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 is annually paid from the State treasury for schools. 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 is 332, of which 231 own schoolhouses. There has been expended for school-houses during the last six years, § 148,254. No. of persons in the State under fifteen, 47,857. No. of scholars registered, 24,442, -13,360 males, and 11,032 females; average attendance, 13,182. No. of male teachers, 239; of female, 270. Amount received from the State, $ 34,348.71; amount raised by towns, $50,332.70; whole amount, $ 96,913.54 Expended for schools, $95,291.16. Expended for school-houses, $ 19,070.81. In June, 1851, the school laws were revised and consolidated, and in many respects much improved. State Prison, Providence. -Thomas W. Hayward, Warden; salary, $800. The number of prisoners, September 30, 1849, was 28,- 27 males, 1 female. Committed during the past year, 23; whole number during the year, 51. Discharged by expiration of time, 3; by the General Assembly, 11; leaving in prison, September 30, 1850, 37, all males. The convicts in the State prison are principally employed in shoemaking; those in the Providence county jail, at cabinet-work. The income of the prison for the year was $3,964.56; the expenses were $9,427.43; balance of expense, $5,462.87. Number of persons in Providence jail at the suit of the State, September 30, 1850, 66; at the suit of the city, 4; debtors, 6; total, 76. During the year 220 were committed on sentence, 202 for default of bail, in all, 483; of whom 448 were males, and 35 females; whites, 458; colored, 25; natives, 247; foreigners, 236. Of those sentenced, 140 reported themselves, or were known, as intemperate. There were besides committed to the jail as a house of correction, during the year, 146 persons, of whom 142 were intemperate. Pauperism. By tables in a report on the poor and insane in Rhode Island made by Thos. R. Hazard, and published by order of the Legislature, the average annual cost of maintain ing each pauper in towns where asylums were supported was $51.50; in towns where there were no asylums, but the poor were boarded out by contract, or put out to persons who would keep them for the lowest sum, the average annual cost per pauper was $45.60, State Reform School. - By an act passed January, 1850, the Providence Reform School was established. An arrangement has since been made by the State by which all juvenile delinquents may be sent to it. 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. SEVENTH CENSUS OF RHODE ISLAND. [Not revised at the Census Office.] 1. Population, Kind and Condition, Deaths, and Education. 40-15 212 4.343 9.13 20 4 2,310 270 47 265 17 16 163 10 1 218 23 13 3,944) 316 81 15 3 1,692 185 38 561 132 87,528 42.617 44,911 1,523 13,639 3,794 1,355 32 3 147 23 16,042 2,412 440 2. Houses, Families, and Property. 55 28,331 3,744 738 Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in May, 1852. |