ABSTRACT of returns of the Deaf and Dumb, &c., in the State of Michigan, for the year A. D., 1849. *NOTE.-Three deaf mutes are reported as having been educated at asylums in other stato --and are included in the number above specified. JOINT ABSTRACT of the Returns of the Blind of the State of Michigan for Blind from birth or infancy, the year 1849. COMPARATIVE TABLE Showing the number of Insane, Deaf, Dumb and Blind in the State of Michigan, as reported with the Census of 1840, and the number of the same as reported by Supervisors, 1849. No. 10. LEGISLATURE, 1850. ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of State relative to the State Library. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, To the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan: Pursuant to the provisions of Section 51 of Chapter 12, of the Revised Statutes, I have the honor to submit the following REPORT: The number of Volumes added to the Library since the date of my last Annual Report, is five hundred and sixteen, as follows: sixteen volumes by purchase, a list whereof is annexed marked “A;” three hundred and forty-two volumes received as donations from other States and the Congress of the U. S.; one hundred and twenty-eight copies of the 2nd Vol. of Douglass' Michigan Reports, deposited in the Library, as required by Sec. 68 of Chapter 95 of the Revised Statutes, and thirty volumes of the Session Laws of this State for the year 1849, deposited as required by law. The whole increase of the Library during the two years last past, being one thousand one hundred and thirty-seven volumes. Three Volumes were lost during the last year, the cost of which $3,50, has been paid into the State Treasury, to the credit of the proper fund. The work of Laplace entitled "Mecanique Celeste" in four volumes, has been removed from this Library and deposited in that of he University, as required by act No. 166 of 1849; in all other re |