chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and of two county judges, generally appointed from among the yeomanry, whose principal duty it is to attend to the ordinary business of the county, its roads, expenses, &c. Terms are held semi-annually, in each of the counties. STATE PRISON. Samuel G. Berry, Warden; William Berry, Deputy Warden; Rev. Eleazar Smith, Chaplain; Thomas Chadbourn, M. D., Physician. of Enosburg, Salary. HORACE EATON, Thomas Kidder, Governor, (term ends Oct. '47,) $750* of Manchester, Lieut.- Gov. and Pres. Sen., $4 a day. The Senate, established in 1836, consists of 30 members, each county being entitled to at least one, and the rest being apportioned according to population; and the House of Representatives is composed of about 230 members, one member from each town. Pay of the members of each House, $1.50 a day, during the session of the legislature. *And $50 as Commissioner for the Deaf, Blind, Insane, &c. The judiciary powers are vested in a Supreme Court, consisting of five judges; in County Courts, or Courts of Common Pleas, comprising five Circuits, each County Court being composed of one Judge of the Supreme Court, who is, ex officio, Chief Justice of the County Courts of his Circuit, and two Assistant Judges for each county; and in Justices of the Peace; all the Judges and Justices being chosen annually by the Legislature. The Supreme Court sits once, and the County Courts twice, a year, in each county. Each judge of the Supreme Court is Chancellor of a Circuit. The Court of Chancery has two stated sessions annually in each county. An appeal from the decree of the Chancellor lies to the Supreme Court. Common Schools. - The School Fund has been abolished, having previously been borrowed by the State. By an Act of the Legislature, passed Nov. 5, 1845, provision is made for the supervision and regulation of Common Schools, by the appointment of a State Superintendent to be elected by joint vote of the assembly, County Superintendents to be appointed by the Judges of the County Court, and Town Superintendents to be elected by the inhabitants of each town, at their annual town-meetings. To these Superintendents are committed the regulation of Schools so far as concerns the examination of teachers, course of instruction, government, discipline, and the selection of books. Each town is divided into a suitable number of school districts, the prudential concerns of which are under the management of a District Committee. Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro'. — William H. Rockwell, M. D., Superintendent. Since the opening of the Asylum there have been admitted, to September, 1845, 835 patients; 572 have been discharged, and 263 remain in the institution. Of the 835 patients thus admitted, 340 recovered, equal to 40.71 per cent.; 59 have died, equal to 7.06 per cent. Of recent cases discharged last year, 89.58 per cent. recovered. Of all chronic cases discharged last year, 31.37 per cent. recovered. Terms of Admission. For first six months, two dollars per week, and one dollar and fifty cents afterwards. When the insanity is connected with epilepsy or paralysis, $2.50 per week. No patient received for a less term than three months, unless he recover before that time. State Prison. Average number of convicts, in 1845, 68; expenditure, $7,803.65; income, $5,914.59. 15,003 01 do. notes, 484 00 7,034 16 Amer'n Asylum, (Hartford,) 1,960 91 School fund notes, Insane Hosp'l, (Brattleboro',) 1,332 20 State bank collections, Blind Asylum, (Boston,) Court expenses, Silk and cocoon premiums, 405 31 IV. MASSACHUSETTS. GOVERNMENT For the year ending on the 1st Wednesday in January, 1847. of Concord, Treasurer and Receiver Gen., 1,600 of Salem, 1st Clerk, Sec. of State's Office, 1,200 1,000 Sec. of the Board of Education, 1,500 of Roxbury, Speaker of the House of Rep. of Boston, Charles W. Storey, Jr., of Boston, |