2. Influence of Domestic Condition on Longevity.

Showing, for each County, the number and average age of all in the returns over 20 years old, whose condition is specified.

Total,

490 35.23 1421 54.41 326 73.93 517 41.63 1522 43.62 758 72.29

V. RHODE ISLAND.

Government for the Year ending 1st Tuesday in May, 1850.

HENRY B. ANTHONY, of Providence,

Thomas Whipple,

of Coventry,

Governor,

Lieutenant-Governor,

Salary. $400

200

The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, and Attorney-General are elected annually on the 1st Wednesday of April, for the year commencing the 1st Tuesday of May. The Commissioner of Schools is appointed by the Governor. The Senate consists of the Governor, who presides, the Lieutenant-Governor, and one Senator from each of the thirty-one towns in the State. The House of Representatives consists of 69 members.

The judges of the Supreme Court hold office until they are removed by a resolution passed by both Houses of the Assembly, and voted for by a majority of the members elected to each House. By an act passed May, 1848, the Court of Common Pleas in each of the five counties is hereafter to be held by a single judge of the Supreme Court sitting alone. The associate judges of the Supreme Court are to divide this duty among themselves. There are no longer any associate justices elected for each county. Clerks of the Supreme and Common Pleas Courts.

Public Schools. - The State has a School Fund, invested in bank stock, of $51,300. By an act passed 1836, the interest of this State's part of the United States surplus revenue (commonly called the Deposit Fund) was set apart for public schools. $25,000 is annually paid from the State treasury for schools; and each town, in 1846, according to the requisitions of the revised school law, voted to raise by tax one third as much as they receive from the State, and many of the towns raise a much larger sum. The amount expended for schools in 1844 (exclusive of academies and private schools) was over $54,000. For several years past, great exertions have been made in all parts of the State in improving the schools and school houses. By an act passed June, 1848, the proceeds of the militia commutation tax in each town are to be applied hereafter to the support of public schools. By the act of January, 1849, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, $ 10,000 is to be annually paid out of the State treasury for the support of schools. For several years past, $1,500 has been annually appropriated by the State for the instruction of the deaf, dumb, and blind, in asylums out of the State. No report has been made to the Legislature for three or four years past. The former commissioner resigned in February, 1849.

State Prison. Thomas W. Hayward, Warden. Salary $800. The number of prisoners, Sept. 30, 1848, was 20,- 17 males, 3 females. Committed, during past year, 7. Discharged, by expiration of time, 2. Died, 1. Escaped, 3 (1 retaken). Natives of Rhode Island, 11; of other States, 3; foreigners, 6. The convicts in the State prison are principally employed in shoemaking, those in the Providence county jail, at cabinet-work. FINANCES.

9,181 Pawtucket Turnpike,

Balance against State in last account, 9,635 Town Councils,

Governor's orders,

Deaf, dumb, and blind,

Miscellaneous,

1,186

Banks in Rhode Island in April, 1849. The whole number of banks is 63, and their condition is thus stated:

16,408,672.92

From a report to the Legislature at the June session, 1849, it appears, that the full value of all the property of the State was $ 70,289,990; of which $48,956,829 was real property, and $ 21,333,161 was personal. The increase of ratable property in the State, from 1796 to 1823, was $ 17,140,000; and from 1833 to 1849, it was $ 37,650,000.

City of Providence. - The total receipts of the city of Providence, for the year ending March 5, 1849, were (including balance of old account, $ 15,601.88,) $163,476.42. The total expenditures were $ 149,477.31. Leaving a balance to the city of $13,999.11. $9,891.26 were expended for interest; for schools, $32,628.04; for streets, $ 32,239.48. The debt of the city was $ 199,370.15.

Savings Institutions. From the returns of five Savings Institutions, in June, 1849, it appears that the amount of deposits was $1,054,263.60; and was made by 6,960 depositors. The average dividend, for the last 3 years, is between 5 and 6 per cent. per annum.

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

A term of the Superior Court is held by one judge semiannually, in each county of the State; and the Supreme Court, constituted of the five judges, meets annually in each county. The judges of this court hold their offices until seventy years of age. This court has jurisdiction in all cases where the damages, or matter in dispute, exceeds $70.

A County Court is held by one judge three times each year, in the several counties. The judges of this court are appointed annually by the Legislature. They have jurisdiction in all civil actions where the damages, or matter in dispute, exceed $35. In civil cases, an appeal lies in all cases from the County to the Superior Court, where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum of $ 70. The clerks of the County Courts are likewise clerks of the Superior and Supreme Courts of their respective counties.

FINANCES FOR 1848-49.

Principal Items of Expenditure, from Public buildings and institutions, $9,386.73 March 31, 1848, to April 1, 1849. Quartermaster-General's department, 2,250.00

1,000.00

Superintendence of common schools, 1,350.73 State Prison,

The permanent fund of the State, on the 1st day of April, 1847, consisting of bank stock not transferable, or subscriptions to the capital of sundry banks, which may be withdrawn on giving six months' notice, amounted to $406,000. Valuation in 1846 of real estate, $88,963,321.08; personal estate, $ 15,888,483.933. Aggregate, $ 104,851,805.02.

Banks in Connecticut in May, 1849...

Liabilities, exclusive of Capital Stock. Dividends unpaid,

$ 32,220.34 6,310.95

$7,015,340.91

Excess of resources,

$20,249.61

332,751.72 13,740,591.07

$16,920,097.93

7,015,340.91

9,904,757.02

Four new banks were chartered by the Legislature of 1849, with an aggregate capital of

$950,000.

Abstract of Expenditures of the State of Connecticut for Twelve Years.

Common Schools. - The number of school societies is 217; of school districts, 1,650; of children between four and sixteen, 88,911. The amount of the School Fund, September 2, 1847, as appears from the biennial exhibit, was $ 2,077,641.19, and the amount of dividends for 1849, was $133,366.50; which gives $1.50 to every enumerated child. The returns in Connecticut do not give the number of teachers, or their wages, or the length of schools; but only the information indicated above. The Legislature, at its last session, appropriated $ 10,000 for the establishment of a State Normal School, "for the training of teachers in the art of instructing and governing the common schools of the State." This institution is placed under the control of eight trustees, appointed by the General Assembly, one from each county. The principal of the Normal School, Henry Barnard, of Hartford, is, ex officio, Superintendent of Common Schools, an office heretofore attached to that of Commissioner of the School Fund. The number of pupils is limited to 220, to be selected one from each school society. Tuition free. Schools or conventions for training teachers must also be held in each county annually, by the Superintendent of Schools.

Retreat for the Insane, Hartford. John S. Butler, M. D., Physician and Superintendent. The whole number of patients, April 1, 1848, was 122; 133 were admitted in the course of the year, making 255 in all; 108 of whom were males, and 147 females. 122 were discharged during the year, leaving in the Retreat, April 1, 1849, 133; 61 of whom were males, and 72 females. Of the 122 patients discharged, 70 were recovered, 23 improved, 17 not improved, and 12 died. The whole number admitted, from the opening of the institution, in 1824, to this time, is 1,897. 1,761 have been discharged; of whom 1,012 have recovered, 597 have improved, and 155 have died. Of the 49 males admitted during the past year, 17 were farmers; and of the 84 females, 12 were wives or daughters of farmers, and 34 engaged in domestic occupations. Of the 133, 49 were married, 71 single, and 13 widowed. The terms of admission are, for patients belonging to the State, with the usual accommodations, $3.00 per week; for those belonging to other States, $ 3.50 per week. For patients belonging to the State, with accommodations in the centre building, and a separate attend. ant, $10 00 per week; for those belonging to other States, $12.00 per week. No patient is admitted for a shorter term than three months, and payment for that term must be made in advance. For admission, apply to the Superintendent.

American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, Hartford. - Lewis Weld, A. M., Principal.