Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-11-02
Annual Reports Of State officers.

The following abstracts of the Reports
Of State officers we copy from the Mont.
pelier correspondent of the St. Albans
Messenger !: 's ..a -g.y.s i
The report of the directors and super
inteDdent Of the State Prison exhibits the
following facts: The whole number of
convicts in the costody Of the prison au-
tborities during the past years, was 125,
of which % were discharged by the expi-
ration of their term of service 8 by exc.
cutive clemency and s by death. The
present number of coHvicts is sc, of
whom are females There have been
two births in the prison this year. The
general health OF the convicts has been
good. The expenses have exceeded the
income by s5,S97.53. The superintend.
ent ascribes this deficit to the existing
contract by which the labor of the con-
victs is let for 45 cents per day per capt.
ia, and which contract expires in 1871.
1t appears that New Hampshire gets 80
cents for the labor of her convicts, Mas.
sachusctts gets from So cents to $1.07,
and Maine employs her own convicts,
yielding surplus over all running ex.
penses '.
The report of the Trustees and Super.
intcndent of the Vermont Reform School
presents the following facts: Present
number of inmates, 1872. The causes for
commitment were : larceny, 1874; breach
of the peace, ] ; intoxication, ] vagran-
cy, 8; burglary, 4; assault, l; disobedi-
ence, l malicious conduct, B. Of the
whole number, 7 did not know the alpha
bet when committed. The current expen-
ses of the school the past year were &c.
1852. The Trustees believe the State
should make permanent arrangements for
the accommodation of at least 200 boys.
The Superintendent recommends that the
Legislature be pettioned to amend the law
so that the sentence of boy, in every in
stance, shall continue during his minority,
unless he shall be pardoned or else dis
charged.
The report of the Vermont Asylum for
the Insane gives the number of patients
in that institution the past year at 16S, Of
which 7 we're discharged recovered; 9
discharged not recovered; II died; pres
!: ent number, 1876. The excess of expend-
itures over the income was SO, 1888.
: The report of the Railroad Commits
sisioner shows the excess of earnings over
expenditures of the following roads, for
the year ending May 3lst, 1870, as fol-
. lows: Vermont Central and Vermont &
) Canada, S55s, ,97697; Connecticut & Pas.
sumpsic, 800, 46S. SO ; Rutland & Vernon.
Valley, SIT, ,529.15; Vermont & Mass,
sos, ,95O.42.
The report of the Trustees of the Yer
mont University and State Agricultural
College, shows. 70 students present the
r last year. Tle annual income is little
less than $4,000. The number of Yer
) monters in college is smaller than thirty
years ago. The ratio of attendance ! to
1896 of the population. OF the Vermont
students attending colleges, 2l2 in all,
Dartmouth has 10; University Of Yer
mont, 81 Middlebury, 3S; Amherst,
; 10; and the remainder are distributed a.
mong other colleges in the South and
West.
The condition of the twelve Savings
Banks of the State, including the Nation
al Trust Co. of St. Albans, shows IL, ,240
depositors 1.-TWO making no returns of their
numbcrs), and deposits amounting in the
aggregate to 2,99S,6S4.
: The expenditures of the last Legis-
; lature we're $50, ,322.32; of the Council
of Censors, $1.63l.60; Constitutional
Convention, s1O752.S2; Sergeant-at.
Arms department, s7,296.SO; Auditors
; orders, $l90,6ll.l4.
At the last session of the Legislature
the Adjutant and Inspector General was
direcected to ascertain and report the
names Of all men who enlisted directly
: into the regular army and navy from Yer
mont, and the names of all who were
9 transferred or enlisted from Vermont reg.
iments into the same. OF the first class
D he reports 1850, of the second class ITO
: No returns were received from the navy
department.
: The Quartermaster Generals report fol
Q 1870 shows receipts from the sale Of pub
: lie military property amounting to ST.
7lO.50. The expenditures were $2,'
t 564.73.