can be removed at any time. Incurable cases, supported by their friends, may remain indefinitely in the Hospital. A fixed number of recent indigent cases are maintained on the funds of the house for a limited period; but these, if not improving or likely to improve at the end of six months, are discharged to make room for others. Cases of mania a potu are not received into this Hospital.

At the close of the year 1845, there were 169 patients under care. The highest number in the house at one time was 174. The average number for the whole year has been 162; being more than at any previous period in the history of the institution. Of those discharged in 1845, 80 were cured, 5 much improved, 24 improved, 30 stationary, 20 died; total, 159. From the opening of this institution in 1841, up to the end of 1845, there have been 769 admissions, of which 447 were males, and 322 females. Discharged, or died, 600; 361 males, and 239 females; and there remain 86 males and 83 females, total 169. Of these numbers, there were 269 single males, and 136 single females; total number of single, 405. Married, males 152, females 139; total married, 291. Widows, 47; widowers, 26. Of the 600 discharges since the opening in 1841, 313 have left "cured," 50" much improved,” 79 66 improved," 88" stationary," and 70" have died."

Of the 769 patients, 373 were cases of mania, 208 males, and 165 females; 143 were cases of melancholia, 82 males and 61 females; 128 were cases of monomania, 76 males and 52 females; 119 were cases of dementia, 76 males and 43 females; 6 were cases of delirium, 5 males and 1 female. In proportion to the number of admissions, the ratio of recoveries has been larger in the cases of mania than in either of the other forms of insanity. In melancholia and monomania, they have been nearly equal; in dementia, there have been very few; and of those registered as entering with delirium, none.

X. DELAWARE.

GOVERNMENT.

WILLIAM TEMple,
of Smyrna, Acting Governor, (term of
office expires on the 3d Tuesday in January, 1847,)
George P. Fisher,
of Dover, Secretary of State,
James S. Buckmaster, of Frederica, State Treasurer,

Salary.

$1,333 1-3 Fees and 400

500

500

Orphans' Court. The Chancellor and one Judge of the Superior Court.

THOMAS G. PRATT, of Pr. George's Co., Governor, (term expires

the 1st Mon. in Jan. 1848,)

Salary.

Use of a house and $4,200

The State is divided into six judicial districts, each comprising two, three, or four counties. For each district there are a chief judge and two associates, who constitute the County Courts for the respective counties in the district. These are the common law courts of original jurisdiction in the State; and they have jurisdiction of all claims for fifty dollars and upwards, appellate jurisdiction from the judgment of justices of the peace, and equity jurisdiction within the counties coëxtensive with the chancellor. The six chief judges constitute the Court of Appeals for the State, which has appellate jurisdiction of cases at law and in equity, originating in the County Courts, the Orphans' Courts, (of which there is one in each county,) and the Court of Chancery.

The interest in arrear on State debt, Dec. 1, 1845, was 1,376,891.20

Besides this productive stock, the State holds $15,523,649.95 of capital and credits, at present unproductive, but which must, at some future time, become of considerable value.

Estimated present value of this unproductive stock, $,5,000,000.00

BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.

of Richmond,

Clerk of the Council,

of Richmond,
of Greenville,

1,000

2,000

$6 a day.

Secretary of the Commonwealth,

Adjutant Gen. and Librarian, 1,720

Superintendent of Penitentiary,
Speaker of the Senate,

Thomas F. Lawson,
Charles S. Morgan,
Edward P. Scott,
William O. Goode, of Mecklenberg Co., Speaker of the House, $8 a day.

The Governor, Treasurer, Auditor, 2d Auditor, and Register of the Land Office are, ex officio, members of the Board of Public Works, Literary Fund, and Northwestern Turnpike. They do not receive compensation for this service.

The judges are entitled to receive, in addition to their salaries, 25 cents a mile for necessary travel. The Court of Appeals holds two sessions annually; one at Lewisburg, Greenbriar county, for the counties lying west of the Blue Ridge, commencing on the 2d Monday in July, and continuing 90 days, unless the business shall be sooner despatched; the other at Richmond, for the counties lying east of the Blue Ridge, commencing at such times as the Court may from time to time appoint.

General Court. The State is divided into ten Judicial Districts, and each District into two Circuits, except the 4th, which comprises three. The third Circuit of the 4th District is the 21st District of the State, containing but a single Court, called the "Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the county of Henrico and city of Richmond." In this Court, there are two judges; one on the law side, with a salary of $1,800; the other on the chancery side, with a salary of $2,000. On the death, resignation, or removal of either of the two judges now attached to this court, his duties are to devolve on the other, without any increase of salary. In all the other circuits, the chancery and common law jurisdictions are blended in the same judges, each of whom has a salary of $1,500, and $4 for every 20 miles of necessary travelling.