Litchfield enquirer., 1861-05-09
$269,44l 63
S269,44l 63

Deduct the gum in the Treasury from loan o1 $50 0OO, due from the State, and our indebted. ness will be $7,7O9.50, which is $26, 432 54 less than it was year ago, and SIS, ,45l 56 less than in 1858. The expenses for the year have been $227, 151.13.
 The resources are such, that our ordinary ex- penses are met by light taxations but our pres. hitherto occupied that it is impossible to form a reliable estimate of expenses for the current year. That they will be largely increased is certain. Injustice to ourselves, and to those who are to succeed us, we should increase the rate of taxation upon the grand list, and give authority to the Treasurer to make such loans as may be necessary to meet the demands upon his department.
 With the exception of lands in the state of New York, valued at $5,00p the School Fund of the State is invested in Bank stocks and in bonds and Elortages, and on the I'd day of September 1860, amounted 10 S2.U5u, ,46O.49.
 The income for the year ending April 1st, 1881, has been $l37, l5 u7, fraction more than SIX and one half per cent. The number oi children. between the ages of four and sixteen, is one hundred and eight thousand three hun lrcl and hfty-six. which is an increase of two thousand eight hundred and sixty-two over that of the previous year. As the number increases the rate of dividend for each must necessarily diminish The last year, the distribution was made among the several school districts which had conformed to the provisions of law, upon the basis of $1.15, to each scholar The mum. Der of pubic schools, is one thousand eight hun dred and forty-three, sustained at the expense of over $338,Ou about nine tenths of winch is met by tax on property, and the income from public funds. Over $.4, ,OOO have been expended | in repairing cfool houses, and over S6u,UUU ill erecting new ones, during the year
 l One hundred and eighty-tour persons from 1 seventy-three different towns, have attended the State Normal school, for the purpose of qualify. ing themselves for the responsible duties o1 teachers
 The expense of the school, borne by the state for the past year, including repairs upon the buildings, has been $5,l86.42. The Genera Assembly of 1859, made an annual appropriation of $5,O ,OOO for the support of the school for two years, which time has now expires The sub jcct of providing for the future expenses of thu institution wil doubtless, receive the attention which the acknowledged benefits of the schoo justify.
 commend the thorough and able reports O. the Commissioners of the Fund, the Superin tendent of Common Schools, and the Trustees O the State Normal School, to your careful consid eration, confident that you appreciate the i'm portance of universal education too highly, t, neglect any opportunity of offering it's benefits every child in the State.
 The State Reform School contained one hun dred and twelve juvenile delinquents on the frs day of April. sixty-fve of whom have been re ceived during the year. The Trustees and Su perintendent are laboring with assudity and flu elity to reform their habits and improve thei morals. The inmates have sufficient employ ment on the farm and in the workshops, an, their labor has been moro remunerativc thai formerly. My examinations have satisfied m that the institution is managed with rigid econ L. ~An H,, C. clothing, does not appear to be sufficient, bu the funds at their command are limited by tn earnings of the boys and by your appropria tions.
 The Institution has never given greater prom ise of accomplishing the objects for which it wa founded, and your cooperation with the Trust ees is essential to it's final success.
 The States Prison contained on the first da of April last, one hundred and sixty-eight pris oners.
 The earnings of the convicts, for the yea, And the expenses of the Prison. ... l4,9o7 6
 Showing gain to the State off, S422
 Probably no penal institution in our countr Is conducted with a stricter reference to th health and moral condition of the convicts, Q with greater economy, or higher regard to tn
 paolic interest. Strict discipline and subordin | ? prevails. The new. workshops appear to hay
 nao favorable influence upon the health of tn , inmates, The reports of the Directors and off
 cers of the institution present a full statement
 their doings. g we'll as their plans for the flu
 ture. Having confidence in their judgment
 and feeling the importance of maintaining th , buildings in good repair, I approve of their a, plication for an appropriation from the treasur, The number of State benefcaries on the fir, of April, at tho American Asylum for the De, { aud Dumb, was forty; at theP ePerkins'Institutio and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, nine
 at Dr. H. M. Knights School for Imbecile eleven. 9si
 Forty-ive State patients have been receive at the Hartford Hospital, twelve of whom r , inained on, the first of April. Ninety-one ha' T been received at the Hospital in New Haven, f
 teen of whom remain
 These institutions of benevolenoe arc doir q much to mitigate the wretchedness of the unfo
 tunate, and to comfort their kindred and friend and trust the day is far distant when th.