Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-10

AUST be an ultimate loss. LliSr nal
aiable means 10 pay the bonds fall
July can he drawn by the Treasp-
Ia At existing statutes, from the School
II Afprring to that fund the balance OF
Ii MS from the Western Railroad
Va hich are ample security for the
liar reference has been made 10
- nd, in order to impress upon
rl4E lho Importance Of limiting BY
-e Of the securities in which
r FrinttS Ind snd kohel be hereafter invested. -
per ,ance which does not neel
n.,,e. ~ ~ ~ security Is SO good 10
i. a wear win be made as his own obi. Atom
id quarterly or half Sc hen, be given TO our own
esi', - C@o ao1a.G investment of our school
cts q year; sinqiec : selecting next our coun-
,ys77s7-sssa,ses n funds, and then the obliga-
I1N' ! 1A'9SA States, counties, cities, and
England, Il such disposition
Osas q vested funds be required by law, the
special securities being left as they now are To
the discretion of the Treasurer, subject to the
appro a, OF the Governor and Council, insteal
OF the wide age Of real, personal, and stock
collatera's heleiotcre permitted there can be
little doubt Of greater security and more avail
able assets.
During the past year, the Alien Commits
sioners have vigorously but humauely pur-
sued their duties, and relieved the State from
large expense in the support of pGupers who
have no settlement within its limits. and not
particle OF rghtiul claim upon its treasury.
One thousand and seventy-three paupers have
been sent from the State institutions to those
places beyond our limits where they have
settlements, and the residences of thirty three
lunatics who were in our Insane Asylums
have been discovered, and these unfortunate
hay kaay cd III rF
competent relatives, or of their natiye towns,
for support.
By the judcious measures of this Board,
the State has been saved from very large
expenditure, probably not less than $50 600
for the past year, which it would otherwise
have necessarily incurred, from the support in
her institutions of this large lumber of pau.
pers and lunatics. There has been ANAL
decrease in the number Of inmates of the four
State A4mshouses within the year Just closed.
The Commissioners relative to the Artificial
Propagation of Fish making interesting
experiments at suitable stream in the town
of Sandwich; but, as the season for testing
the result of these experiments has not yet
arrived, no report has been received from
them.
would call the particular attention of the
Legislature to that class Of persons confined
in our institutions who are designated as in
sane criminals, combining the designation
strictly TO those vino were criminals before
and Independently of their insanity. | am
advised that there are several of this class
transferred from our Correctional Institutions
to our Insane Asylums, who daily peril the
lives, not only of their officers, but of their
inmates and being. necessarily less securely
confined than it is proper they should be- also
endanger the safety of the community.
There is no duty more sacred than the suit
able protection OF the lives of those officers
whom we intrust with the care and custody
of the criminal and the insane, of which the
recent terrible catastrophe at the State Prison
painfully reminds US. leave the subject to
your good Judgment, confident that your con-
victious accord with mine as to its impor-
lance.
The Startling Intelligence of the cold blood
ed and shocking murder Of the Warden Of
the Prison, murd, p rllleled in atrocity on
ly by that which struck down his Deputy,
communicated to me as | was finishing the
preceding sentence, invests the foregoing
suggestions with tremendous emphasis, and
calls for your immediate and decisive action.
Notwithstanding the Amendment TO the
Constitution declaring that all civil officers
elected under its provisions shall be chosen
by plurality of votes, the law still requires
the returning authorities to state the whole
number OF ballots given in for each class OF
officers at every election. This provision,
necessary under the majority system, has now
become supertluous, and as it occasions very
considerably increased Trouble and delay, both
to town officers aud the board of canyassers,
without apparent corresponding benefit, |
recommend It's repeal.
am advised by the Commissioners for the
~, IL. Al.
cd their arduous labors as soon as possible
after their appointment and have continued
them with such diligence as the nature of the
case admitted. They have endeavored, in the
first place, by careful examination of tie
legislation of the year 1886, and of each year
subsequent thereto, to ascertain in what man.
ner, and TO what extent, that legislation had
affected the body of the law comprised in the
Revised Statutes and Iii the next place to
determine in what connection such portions Of
the Ac.s passed since the Revised Statutes
were enacted, as still remained in force,
should be incorporated with the previous leg
isiation making such changes in the general
arrangements OF the statutes, es seemed TO be
necessary fer that purpose.
1t remains to draw the Bills in compact
form, and this the Commissioners are now
proceeding to do.
should render necessary an extensive re ar
rangememenr- of the work already done. the
Commissioners hope TO be able 10 place the
matter in the hands Of the printer in the
course of the month of July, and have their
final report ready for the action of the legis-
lature at the commencement of the next ses-
sion which probably is quite as early as any
one, who is fully aware ot the extent of the
labor and care required, could reasonably
have expected.
A statutecreating Courts of Insolvency was
enacted at THE last session, and in accordance
with its provisions, such Courts have been
gained, and are now in successful operation.
This new system, adopted by the Legislature
with no little unanimity, bids fair TO secure
uniform, vigorous, and independent admins
tration of this important department of the
law. On this account it is regarded with great
favor by the business men Of Massachusetts,,
and it has also attracted the attention OF very
many leading merchants in the great States of
New York aud Pennsylvania, who have had
opportunity to observe its beneficial Effects
Copies of our insovent statutes have been OBJ
tanned by them, to be used as basis for SINH
ar systems in those great commercial and bu-
siness centres.
From cursory examination of the returns
Of insovent cases, and an approximate esti-
mate from these statistics, the results arrived
at Will probably excite surprise. Duling the
year ending with April, 1866 there were rs
ing 65U cases. and during the succeeding
year, ending in April, 1856, about 600. If
the Legislature should deem it proper that
these Courts, intrusted with interests Of such