Principal Items of Expenditure.

Salaries, Executive and Judiciary, $18,881.05 Officers' School of Instruction, 1847

Total receipts for the year ending June 6, 1849,

1,065.80 and 1848,

7,589.67 $155,364.29

Statement of the Condition of the several Banks in New

1st Monday of June, 1849.

Hampshire, on the

Common Schools.

The present school law is in the third year of its existence. Already, however, much interest has been excited in the cause of education, and in the improvement of the common school system. The returns to the 20th of May, 1849, are from all but 7 towns, and give the following statistics, to wit:

Whole number of school districts reported,
Number of scholars in the winter schools,
Average attendance in the winter schools,
Number of scholars in the summer schools,
Average attendance in the summer schools, .
Average length of the winter schools in weeks,
Average length of the summer schools in weeks,.

Average monthly wages of male teachers, exclusive of board, .
Average monthly wages of female teachers, exclusive of board,
Number of male teachers employed in the winter schools,
Number of female teachers employed in the winter schools,
Amount of money raised by taxes for the schools,

Amount contributed in board and fuel,

Income of local funds,

Amount of literary fund,

Amount raised for the Teachers' Institute, about

2,137

80,072

59,812

64,036

47,084

9.8

8.5

$14.13

$ 5.95
1,316
807

$132,771.22

$7,519.44

$6,287.62

$10,452.10

$1,500.00

Whole amount raised for the benefit of the schools during the year, $159,430.38 Including the amount raised in the towns not reported, the entire amount would not be much less than $ 160,000, which is about $ 60,000 more than is required to be raised by law, and $10,000 more than was raised last year.

State Prison, Concord. - James Moore, Warden, salary, $800; Rev. Eleazer Smith, Chaplain; William Prescott, M. D., Physician. Whole number of convicts in prison, July 1, 1848, 77. Received since, 17. Whole number, 94. There have been discharged during the year, by expiration of sentence, 9; by pardons, 2; death, 1;= 12. Leaving in prison, May 31, 1849, 82. Of those remaining in prison, 80 are males, and 2 are females. The ages of the convicts at the time of their conviction were as follows:- Under 15 years of age, 2; from 15 to 20, 17; 20 to 30, 35; 30 to 40, 17; 40 to 50, 5; 50 to 60,4; 60 to 70, 1; 70 to 80, 1. Of the convicts now in prison, 57 were committed for offences against property, as burglary, house-breaking, horse-stealing, larceny, &c.; 6 for arson and malicious burning; 9 for rape or attempt to commit rape; 5 for manslaughter; 4 for murder. There are 9 sentenced for life; 3 for 20 years; 3 for 15 years; 2 for 14 years; 1 for 11 years; 6 for 10 years; 12 for 5 years; 18 for 3 years; and 1 for 1 year. Of the whole number, 17 are for eigners, and 45 natives of New Hampshire. 21 convicts are employed in the cabinet shop; 31 in the shoe shop; 12 in the smith shop; the 2 females are employed in sewing. The expenditures for the year were $5,631.22; the receipts were $ 4,735.89; making a balance against the prison of $895.33. The amount owed by the prison, May 31, 1849, was $2,226.01. By the report of the chaplain, it appears that each convict has been furnished with a good newspaper weekly, and that considerable progress has been made in writing, arithmetic, &c. The prison library now consists of nearly 600 volumes.

New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, Concord. Andrew McFarland, Superintendent. Since the opening of the asylum, for nearly seven years, there have been admitted, to May 31, 1849, 627 patients; 196 have been cured, and 114 now remain in the institution. Of these, 52 are males and 62 females. The number of patients admitted during the past year was 81. Of these, 32 were males and 49 were females. 76 were discharged during the year. Of these, 36 (16 males and 20 females) had recovered; 15 (9 males and 6 females) had partially recovered; 11 (6 males and 5 females) had remained stationary; and 14 (6 males and 8 females) died. The number of patients is now so large as to require more ample ac

commodations than the present asylum gives. The receipts of the asylum from all sources, for the year ending May 31, 1849, were $11,829.95. The expenditures for the same period were $ 12,132.89. There is due the asylum $3,402.79. Deduct $1,934 owed by the asylum, and also deficiency of income for the past year, and the asylum has a balance in its favor of $1,165.79.

Commissioner of the Insane.

of Bennington, Bank Commissioner.

The Senate was established in 1836. 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.

The judiciary powers are vested in a Supreme Court, consisting of six judges; in County Courts, or Courts of Common Pleas, comprising six 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, and is always in session for all purposes except the final hearing of a cause. An appeal from the decree of the Chancellor lies to the Supreme Court. Common Schools. - Number of school districts in the State, 2,616; number of children between 4 and 18 years, 98,000; average of wages paid male teachers per month, $ 13.12; average of wages paid female teachers per month, $ 5.26; average length of schools in the year, 25 weeks; average amount paid for each scholar, $ 1.33. 68 per cent. of the schools were taught by females. The school fund was abolished in 1845 to pay the State debt. State Prison. Year ending Sept. 1, 1848.. Number of convicts, Sept. 1, 1847, 55; admitted during the year, 19; total, 74. 22 were discharged during the year: 14 by expiration of sentence; 7 by pardon; and 1 escaped. One of the prisoners is a female. The income of the prison for the year was $4,234.46. Expenditures, $7,588.93. Balance for the year against the prison, $3,354.47.

Vermont Asylum for the Insane, Brattleboro'. — William H. Rockwell, M. D., Superintendent. Since the opening of the asylum, there have been admitted, to September, 1848, 1,323 patients; 1,011 have been discharged, and 312 remain in the institution. Of the 1,323 patients thus admitted, 592 have recovered, equal to 44.74 per cent.; 143 have died, equal to 10.80 per cent. Of the 1,011 discharged, 592 have recovered, equal to 58.55 per cent. Dur ing the year ending August 1st, 1848, the whole number of patients was 460. Admitted, 156; discharged, 148; remaining in the institution, 312. Of those discharged, 84 were cured, and 36 died.

Terms of Admission. For the first six months, $2 per week, and $1.75 afterwards. When the insanity is connected with epilepsy or paralysis, $2.50 per week. Patients are received from other States for $2 per week, or $100 per year.

Banks. - Number of banks in the State, 21; capital paid in, $ 1,604,225; circulation, $1,733,482; due depositors, $269,228.75. Total liabilities, $3,613,350.25.

Resources,

Government for the Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1850.