struction, from that hitherto pursued, can only be viewed with extreme solicitude and anxious misgivings as to the safe and practical results of such change. When all the obligations which duty enjoins, shall have been faithfully observed, will not the State have well accomplished its high and holy mission towards these unfortunate, and in no respect unworthy members of it?

The providential destitution visited upon this class of our population, seems to the undersigned, sufficient to place them under the special guardianship and protection of the State : he can, therefore, only respectfully submit, that this important parental trust be executed with a most scrupulous regard for their permanent welfare and future usefulness as members of society, and by means fully adequate to a complete and successful accomplishment of this duty.

There are some suggestions that properly belong to this subject, which, when well matured by further inquiries and examinations, the superintendent, if permitted, will respectfully submit to the consideration and action of the Legislature at an early day in the next session.

N. S. BENTON.

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

HARVEY P. PEET, A. M., President.

PROSPER M. WETMORE, First Vice-President,
BRITAIN L. WOOLLEY, Second Vice President.

ROBERT D. WEEKS, Treasurer.

GEORGE S. ROBBINS, Secretary.

Intellectual Department.

President of the Institution,
HARVEY PRINDLE PEET, A. M.

Professors and Teachers,

DAVID ELY BARTLETT, A. M.
JOSIAH ADDISON CARY, A. M.
ORAN WILKINSON MORRIS, A. M.
JACOB VAN NOSTRAND, A. M.
SAMUEL PORTER, A. M.

THOMAS GALLAUDET, A. M.
ISAAC LEWIS PEET, A. B.
JEREMIAH WOOD CONKLIN,
GILBERT C. W. GAMAGE,
FISHER AMES SPOFFORD.

Domestic Department.

Physician,

NICHOLAS MORRELL, M. D1

Steward,

EDMUND B. PEET.

Matron,

MRS. HARRIET STONER.

Assistant,

MRS. LOUISA A. FRISBIE.

Mechanical Departments

JOHN C. MILLER, Book-Binder.
WILLIAM M. GENET, Cabinet-Maker.

JAMES W. TRASK, Tailor.

J. S. G. SANGER, Shoemaker.
GARRET MEAD, Gardener.