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. Providence Reform School. -James M. Talcott, Superintendent. This School was established in 1850, and was opened to receive inmates, Nov. 1, 1850. From that date to Oct. 31, 1851, there were committed, 52, - 49 boys, 3 girls; 5 boys and I girl were discharged, and 1 boy escaped. Remaining in the school, Nov. 1, 1851, 45. 24 were committed for theft; 6 for assault; 4 for vagrancy; 11 for truancy. 42 were born in the United States, and of these 31 were from Rhode Island. 7 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 hours to sleep. The 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. 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. VI. CONNECTICUT. Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in May, 1853. A term of the Superior Court is held by one judge semiannually, in each county of the State; and the Supreme Court, constituted of the five judges, meets annually in each county. The judges of this court hold their offices until seventy years of age. This court has jurisdiction in all cases where the damages, or matter in dispute, exceed $70. A County Court is held by one judge three times each year, in the several counties. The judges of this court are appointed annually by the Legislature, and hold office for one year from the 4th of July of the year of their appointment. They have jurisdiction in all civil actions where the damages, or matter in dispute, exceed $35. In civil cases, an appeal lies in all cases from the County to the Superior Court, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $70. The clerks of the County Courts are likewise clerks of the Superior and Supreme Courts of their respective counties. FINANCES FOR 1851-52. Items of Expenditure. Contingent Fund, Debenture and contingent expenses Payments in addition to Comptroller's of General Assembly, $31,210.38 Orders, Salaries of Executive and Judiciary, 13,750.00 Contingent expenses of government, 12,560.97 Judicial expenses, Expense of supporting State paupers, superintendence of com mon schools, . 104.42 27.478 65 $137,326.18 Chief Sources of Income. 31,494.06 Balance of last year, $26,266.22 97,444.10 avails of courts, 1,582.44 2,432.09 300.00 dividends on bank stock, 37,597.00 5,217.65 2,485.31 State Prison, 9,917.43 Salary of directors of State Prison, Quartermaster-General's Department, 3,392.87 Trustees of the Normal School, Public buildings and institutions, 6,000 00 $176,456.21 Total receipts for year ending Mar. 31, 1852, including balance of preceding year, $176,456.21 Banks. The whole number of banks in April, 1852, was 53. The following table gives the condition of Banks in Connecticut for Sixteen Years. [From the Bank Commissioners' Report.] Common Schools. The number of towns is 146; of school societies, 217; of school districts, 1,652; of children in 1851, between four and sixteen, 94,852. The amount of dividends from the school fund for the year ending March, 1852, was $ 132,792.80; which gives $ 1.40 to every enumerated child. The returns in Connecticut do not give the number of teachers, or their wages, or the length of schools; but only the information indicated above. The Legislature, at the session of 1849, appropriated $ 10,000 for the establishment of a State Normal School, "for the training of teachers in the art of instructing and governing the common schools of the State." This institution is placed under the control of eight trustees, appointed by the General Assembly, one from each county. The principal of the Normal School, Henry Barnard, of Hartford, is, ex officio, Superintendent of Common Schools, an office heretofore attached to that of Commissioner of the School Fund. The associate principal, Rev. T. D. P. Stone, has the immediate charge of the school. The number of pupils is limited to 220, to be selected one from each school society. Tuition free. The number of pupils in the school during the year 1850 was 154. There were schools of practice connected with the Normal School in 1851, containing 400 scholars, organized into three grades. Schools or conventions for training teachers were also held in each county, generally by the Superintendent of Schools. School Fund. - The School Fund of this State was derived from the sale of 2,500,000 acres of land situated in the northeastern part of Ohio. This tract, with 500,000 acres more, granted to those residing on the sea-coast of this State who had suffered from the rav ages of the enemy during the Revolutionary war, was acquired soon after the close of that war, in the settlement of the conflicting claims of the several members of the confederacy, and the confederacy itself, to the then unexplored and almost unknown Western wilderness. By a resolve of the General Assembly of this State at its May session, 1795, a committee was appointed to sell these lands, and in September of the same year, after numerous propositions from individuals, the committee accepted the proposition of Oliver Phelps and associates, to give the sum of $1,200,000, for which the purchasers gave their individual bonds, thirty-six in number, at six per cent. interest. The avails of this sale were constituted a fund, the annual income of which, first by a legislative act, and afterwards by the constitution, was appropriated to the support of Common Schools. In May, 1810, the number of bonds had increased to about five hundred, and in May, 1818, to about two thousand, and the capital itself was estimated at $ 1,654,185.42. This fund is now estimated to be of the value of $2,049,482.32, and the number of bonds and contracts requiring supervision amounts to the number of 2,020. Thus this fund, originally only $1,200,000, has, in the lapse of more than half a century, increased to the sum of $2,049,482.32, all of which, except the estimated sum of $59,869.10, is an active productive capital, and has in the mean time distributed to the schools of this State, from its revenue, the sum of $ 3,983,192,28. State Reform School. At the session of the Assembly in 1851, a State Reform School was established, "for the instruction, employment, and reformation of juvenile offenders"; its government to be vested in a board of eight trustees, appointed by the Senate, one from each county in the State. Boys under the age of 16 years, convicted of offences now punishable by imprisonment, may, at the discretion of the court, be sent to this school, "to be kept, disciplined, instructed, employed, and governed, under the direction of the board of trustees," until they shall either be reformed and discharged, or bound out to service by the trustees, or remanded to prison as incorrigible. The sum of $10,000 is appropriated from the State treasury for the establishment of the school, and a like sum is to be contributed by individuals. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. — An act providing for the registration of births, marriages, and deaths was passed by the General Assembly in 1848. The report of the Secretary of State (May, 1852) exhibits the following results, from all except two towns. Of the deaths, 696 were under 1 year of age, 675 were between 1 and 5 years, 208 between 5 and 10, 313 between 10 and 20, 496 between 20 and 30, 358 between 30 and 40, 364 between 40 and 50, 321 between 50 and 60, 374 between 60 and 70, 380 between 70 and 80, 320 between 80 and 90, 66 between 90 and 100, and 1 was 100. The number of births in 1848 was 6,850; in 1849, 7,238; and in 1850, 7,578; - of marriages in 1848, 2,816; in 1849, 2,920; and in 1850, 2,884; — of deaths in 1848, 4,379; in 1849, 5,049; and in 1850, 5,170. The following table gives the births, marriages, and deaths for the registration year, ending July 31, 1851. Retreat for the Insane, Hartford. John S. Butler, M. D., Physician and Superintendent. The whole number of patients, April 1, 1851, was 157, of whom 72 were males and 85 females; 158, 68 males and 90 females, were admitted in the course of the year, making 315 in all; 140 of whom were males, and 175 females. 134 were discharged during the year, leaving in the Retreat, April 1, 1852, 181; 88 of whom were males, and 93 females. Of the 134 patients discharged, 68 were recovered, 22 improved, 22 not improved, and 22 died. The whole number admitted, from the opening of the institution, in 1824, to April 1, 1852, is 2,318. 2,137 have been discharged; of whom 1,203 have recovered, 712 have improved, and 222 have died. Of the 63 males admitted during the past year, 24 were farmers; and of the 90 females, 67 were engaged in domestic occupations. Of the 158, 70 were married, 69 single, and 19 widowed. The expenditures of the institution for the year were $28,637.50. Amount received for support of patients, $31,341.50. The terms of admission are, for patients belonging to the State, with the usual accommodations, $3.00 per week; for those belonging to other States, $3.50 per week. For patients belonging to the State, with accommodations in the centre building, and a separate attendant, $10.00 per week; for those belonging to other States, $ 12.00 per week. No patient is admitted for a shorter term than three months, and payment for that term must be made in advance. For admission, apply to the Superintendent. American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford. - Lewis Weld, A. M., Principal. The number of pupils for the year ending May 1, 1852, was 207; of whom 118 were males, and 89 females. Of these, 16 were supported by friends, 37 by the State of Maine, 23 by New Hampshire, 18 by Vermont, 72 by Massachusetts, 6 by Rhode Island, 29 by Connecticut, and 6 by South Carolina. The cost for each pupil for board, washing, fuel, tuition, and the incidental expenses of the school-room, is $100 per annum. In sickness, the necessary extra charges are made. Payment must be made six months in advance, and a satisfactory bond for punctual payment will be required. Applicants for admission must be between 8 and 25 years of age, of good natural intellect, capable of forming and joining letters with a pen legibly and correctly, of good morals, and free from any contagious disease. Applications for the benefit of the legislative appropriations in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts should be made to the Secretaries of those States respectively, stating the name and age of the proposed beneficiary, and the circumstances of his parent or guardian. In the States of Rhode Island and South Carolina, they should be made to the commissioners of the funds for the education of the deaf and dumb, and in Vermont and Connecticut, to the Governor. In all cases, a certificate from two or more of the selectmen, magistrates, or other respectable inhabitants of the township or place to which the applicant belongs, should accompany the application. The time of admission is the close of the summer vacation on the third Wednesday of September. State Prison, Wethersfield. — Elisha Johnson, Warden; A. S. Warner, Physician; Samuel Griswold, Chaplain. The whole number of convicts, March 31, 1851, was 158. During the year ending March 31, 1852, 60 were received, and 47 discharged; leaving in confinement, 171. 37 were discharged by expiration of sentence, 2 were pardoned, and 8 have died. Of those remaining in prison, 158 are males (116 white, and 42 colored), and 13 are females (10 white, and 3 colored). The males are employed in making cabinet-work, cutlery, and shoes; and the females in washing, cooking, making and mending clothing, and binding boots. A small library was purchased for the use of the prisoners, under the resolve of the General Assembly of 1847, and instruction in the rudiments of learning has been given them. There is also a Sunday school connected with the prison. The receipts for the year were $ 15,083.12; the expenditure $ 10,901.87. VII. NEW YORK. Government for the Year 1853. Salary. HORATIO SEYMOUR, Of Lockport, Governor (term ends Dec. 31, 1854), $4,000 Sanford E. Church, of Orleans, Lieutenant-Governor, $6 a day. Henry S. Randall, of Cortland Village, Sec. State & Sup't Com. Schools, 2,500 |