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were dismissed to their parents; 2 deceased during the first year; 2 ran away, and 131 are still connected with the school. The number of separate families is 5; the present limit of accommodations, 140; the average of attendance for the year was 126. Of those in the institution at the time of

setts, 16 of other States of the Union, and 17 of foreign countries; 83 were of American parentage; 29 of Irish, and 19 were children of foreigners of other countries; 34 were orphans; 61 half-orphans, and 36 had both parents living; 70 lived at home, and 61 away from home; 45 did not attend school, and 80 attended only occasionally; 81 attended some religious service; 50 did not. The average age on admission was 13 years. The farm, according to the report of the farmer, had produced during the year $3,946 87, a surplus of $966 20 over the expense of farmer's salary and cost of cultivation. The receipts of the year from all sources were $17,790 18, the expenditures, $16,580 71; of which, however, $3,609 47 was for furniture, repairs, and furnishing a new house purchased for the school, leaving $12,971 24 for the current expenses, or $102 94 per annum for each inmate.

successful one; and a considerable accession of intelligent and manly boys well trained for a nautical life is likely to be made not only to the mercantile marine, but to the navy. During a considerable portion of the year, the school-ship Massachusetts performed revenue-duty in Boston harbor, and won the commendation of the Govern-making the report, 98 were natives of Massachument officers for its faithful service. The number of boys on board the school-ship, October 1, 1860, was 58; transferred from State Reform School during the year, 36; committed during the year, 87; making the whole number in the school during the year, 181. Of these, 6 were transferred to the State Reform School as not adapted to a sailor's life, 51 were discharged and shipped on voyages at sea, and 12 escaped, leaving 112 remaining in school September 30, 1861. The average age of those committed was 13.9,-too young, the trustees think, for those who are looking forward to a sailor's life. As in the case of the boys at the State Reform School, stubbornness, idleness, vagrancy, and petty larceny were the offences for which most of them were committed. The ship visited during the year the principal ports of Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, and the boys performed their duties with great promptness and intelligence. Their general education, as well as instruction in navigation, is carefully attended to, and their progress in study has been satisfactory. The schooner Wave, originally used as a tender for the ship, was found to be unnecessary, and the trustees proposed to sell her. The receipts of the school from all sources for the year, including a balance in the treasury, October 1, 1860, of $1,423 91, were $26,971 04; the expenditures were $26,723 88, of which $3,518 38 were for equipment and repairs, $3,037 54 for ship-chandlery, $1,133 15 for furniture, and $519 62 for insurance, leaving the current ordinary expenditure $18,515 19, or not far from $185 15 per boy per annum.

The State Industrial School for Girls, at Lancaster, Rev. Bradford K. Pierce, Superintendent, is organized on the family system, and has been very successful in reforming the very difficult class of delinquents for whom it was designed. The following are its statistics for the year ending September 30, 1861: number remaining October 1, 1860, 121; received during the year, 32; returned from indentures, 10; whole number in charge during the year, 163; of whom there have been indentured during the year, 14; time expired, returned to friends, or placed at service, 11; discharged as unsuitable, 3; sent to Lunatic Iospital, 2; to State Almshouse, 1; discharged for good behavior, 1; remaining in the school, September 30, 1861, 131; the whole number received into the school from its opening had been 242; returned from indentures from opening, 15,-making 267 in all. Of this number 80 were indentured; the time of 26 expired and they were delivered to friends; 9 were sent to hospitals and almshouses; 4 were discharged as unsuitable; 3

The House of Reformation, on Deer Island, Boston harbor, is a city and not a State institution. The present Superintendent, Thomas Payson, was elected in May, 1861, and immediately introduced some reforms in the management of the institution. One of these was the putting the boys to the work of the farm during the summer months. They had previously had only in-door employment. They accomplished a large amount of labor, and their conduct was very much improved by the change of employment. The statistics of the school to Jan. 1, 1862, were: number remaining, January 1, 1861, 241 (boys, 217, girls, 24); whole number committed during the year, 90 (boys, 73, girls, 17); whole number discharged, 116; remaining, January 1, 1862, 215 (boys, 184, girls, 31). The offence for which they are committed is truancy; two-fifths of the boys and all the girls are sentenced during minority. The girls are employed in sewing, in the intervals of study. The accounts are kept with those of the House of Industry (a quasi almshouse and penitentiary), but the cost per head per annum is stated as $87 88.

Massachusetts State Prison, Charlestown.Gideon Haynes, Warden, Rev. George J. Carleton, Chaplain, A. B. Bancroft, M.D., Physician. This prison is on the congregated or Auburn plan; and in his report for 1861 the warden contrasts the results of the two systems for thirty years in the comparative statistics of the Charlestown prison and the Eastern Penitentiary at Philadelphia. The statistics of the Charlestown prison for the year ending September 30, 1861, are as follows: whole number of convicts remaining October 1, 1860, 502; number committed during the year,

197; total confined in the prison during the year, 699; discharged during the year by expiration of sentence, 110; by remission of sentence, 30; by death, 9; by suicide, 1; sent to insane hospital, 2; in all, 152; leaving in the prison, September 30, 1861, 547; largest number in the prison at one time, 550; capacity of prison, 554; smallest number, 486; average number, 520. There were in the prison 51 prisoners under 20 years of age; 160 between 20 and 25; 139 between 25 and 30; 125 between 30 and 40; 48 between 40 and 50; and 24 between 50 and 80; of those received during the year, 33 were under 20; 63 between 20 and 30; 48 between 25 and 30; 39 between 30 and 40; 10 between 40 and 50; and 4 between 50 and 60. Of the 547 prisoners now in prison, 123 were committed for crimes against the person; 417 for crimes against property; and 9 for crimes against society. Of those committed during the year, 32 were committed for crimes against the person; 162 for crimes against property; and 2 for crimes against society; 38 in the prison, including 7 sentenced during the year, were committed for life; and 74 (including 8 committed during the year) for ten years or more; 190 were foreigners, and 357 natives of the United States, of whom 205 were natives of Massachusetts. Of those received during the year, 60 were foreigners, and 137 natives, of whom 77 were natives of Massachusetts;

248 were employed by contractors; 246 on prisonaccount; 31 were not employed; 5 were in close confinement; 5 were old and infirm; and 12 in the hospital, sick. Of the 547 convicts in the prison, 74 were recommitments,-of whom 46 were for the 2d, 25 for the 3d, 2 for the 4th, and 1 for the 5th time; of those committed during the year, 21 were recommitments,-13 for the second time, 6 for the third, and 2 for the 4th. There is a library of 1000 volumes connected with the prison. The receipts for the year were $115,350 96, of which $107,661 60 was for labor of convicts, and work and stock for army equipments manufactured by them; the expenditures were $117,728 16, leaving a deficit of $2,377 20, the result of the financial depression and relinquishment of contracts. Of this, $49,467 53 properly comes under the head of current support, giving the average cost of maintenance to each prisoner per annum as $95 13. Besides the ordinary expenditures of the prison, $9,882 64, special appropriations made by the Legislature were expended in various repairs, erection of new buildings, wharf, additions to the library, &c. The whole number of persons employed in the prison on salaries is 36. The affairs of the prison are under the direction of three inspectors, who receive a salary of $200 cach for` their services.

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The whole number of insane or idiotic persons | had estates, or were supported by friends; 4 were confined in jails or houses of correction, and the Insane Asylum connected with the House of Correction at Ipswich, for the year ending September 30, 1831, was 47, of whom 35 were males and 12 females; 32 were supported at public expense; 15

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7,271 69
1,459 97

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Pauperism and Immigration.-The very large labor transformed into productive and valuable number of foreign paupers dependent upon the grounds. The Board of Commissioners of Alien State led in 1854 to the organization of a "Board Passengers and Foreign Paupers have a supervision of Commissioners of Alien Passengers and Foreign over these almshouses, and are required to carePaupers," and to the establishment of four State fully examine every applicant for admission, and Almshouses. Of these, one-the Rainsford Island if they have a permanent settlement in any town, Hospital-is used as a hospital for recently-arrived they are remanded to that town for support, or and other sick foreign paupers from Boston and the charges for their maintenance collected from vicinity; the almshouses at Tewksbury and them; if they have paid head-money in other Bridgewater are mainly occupied by adult pau- States or countries, or are otherwise justly charge pers, the incurably insane, idiotic, and demented; able to such States or countries, they are returned and the almshouse at Monson receives most of the to them, with due regard to the laws of humanity; pauper children, and only a sufficient number of and if they have friends who are capable of mainadults for the successful management of the es-taining them, means are taken to compel them to tablishment. The three almshouses have each assume their care. The results of the operations farms of considerable extent attached to them, ori- of this board, and the condition and statistics of ginally in each case of the most unpromising the several almshouses, are set forth in the followcharacter, but by diligent and long-continueding tablo:

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The whole number of immigrants arriving in Boston from October 1, 1860, to September 30, 1861, was 12,099; of whom 9810 were British subjects, 2793 of them from Ireland. The amount of commutation fees received for 5072 of these was $10,144. Bonds were required for 19 that they should not be chargeable to the State. Of the whole number, only 51 received aid from the State. 803 persons were found by the Commissioners to be chargeable to other States, or towns within the State, or friends, or to have funds applicable for their support, and were accordingly discharged or removed; 2052 were removed to the places whence they came, as not justly chargeable to the State. at an expense of $8405 61, of whom 301 were removed to places beyond sea at a cost of $1,230 70, and 113 to Canada. The Insane Hospitals contain 615 State insane paupers. The support of the poor who are natives of towns in the State, or have gained a settlement, devolves upon the towns. The following are the statistics of this class of paupers for 1861: Number of persons relieved or supported during the year, 52,847; number having a legal settlement in the town, 15,274; number of foreign-born, 24,917; number from England and Ireland, 22,484; number of State paupers sent to State almshouses, 5739; number

of poor assisted in town or sent to State almshouses, who were foreigners, 24,815; number of insane poor supported in State lunatic hospitals, 290; number of idiotic poor in State institution for idiots, S; number of almshouses, 219; number of acres of land attached to almshouses, 21,212; estimated value of almshouse establishments, real estate, $1,176,991 69; personal estate, $273,630 99; number supported in almshouse during whole or part of the year, 9374; average number supported in almshouse, 33852; average weekly cost of supporting each pauper in almshouse, 81 45; number of persons in almshouse unable to labor, 2150; value of labor performed by poor in almshouse, $23,074 50; number of persons, including families, supported out of almshouse during whole or part of the year, 19,936; average weekly cost of supporting each pauper out of almshouse, $1 212; number aided out of almshouse, 35,483; number supported or relieved who were insane, 749; number who were idiots, 243; number relieved or supported, made dependent by insanity or idiocy, 950; number of poor made dependent by intemperance in themselves, 2262; number made dependent by intemperance in those who ought to have supported them, 2834; total expense of supporting and relieving poor, including

* Besides 300 examined at the Lunatic Hospitals, and 1424 at the office of the Commissioners, making

4445 in all.

interest on almshouse establishment, $643,837 22; | Newbern, at Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and the number supported in almshouse at present time, 3173; number supported out of almshouse, 1579; number assisted out of almshouse at present time, 9302; number of indigent children under 14 years of age supported at public charge, males, 785, females, 558; total, 1448 (sex of 105 not given).

State Agency in Aid of Discharged Convicts. Dwight Graves, Agent. This agency is intended to find situations and render temporary aid to convicts after their discharge from the State prison. During the year ending September 30, 1861, 108 were aided in obtaining employment, received temporary assistance, or were conveyed to their friends; the amount expended was $1,380 20, of which $743 75 was for salary and expenses of agent. The amount was covered by legislative appropriation.

Indians.-There are small remnants of six Indian tribes who still have reservations in Massachusetts, and are under the protection of the State; they are the Chappequiddie, Christiantown, Dudley, Marshpee, Natick, and Troy Indians. They have tracts varying in extent from 1 to 500 acres, and some of them communal funds at interest, the result of the sale of part of their lands or the products of them. They also receive aid from the State treasury for the support of their schools and the maintenance of their paupers. The amounts received and expended for their benefit in the year ending September 30, 1861, were as follows:

Receipts. Expenditures. $458 20 $444 54 673 17 671 17

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For the Marshpee and Her-
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1,189 32 577 38

2,616 34 89 32

577 38

Total receipts and expend's... $13,257 91 $4,398 75 The Contribution of Massachusetts to the Volun- | teer Army. The honor of sending the first complete regiments to the war, as well as that of furnishing the first martyrs to the cause, belongs to Massachusetts. The President's proclamation was issued April 15, 1861; the quota of Massachusetts was assigned by telegraph on the 16th; on the evening of the 17th, two regiments, the third and fourth, left Boston for Fortress Monroe, and the sixth regiment, destined first to meet the enemy in deadly collision, started for, Baltimore and Washington. On the 18th, the eighth regiment, Brig.-Gen. Butler in command, left Boston. The State has never faltered in furnishing the force demanded from it throughout the war, and its regiments have partaken in every severe conflict in the Atlantic and Gulf States, and have been fearfully reduced in numbers by the severe battles in which they have participated. Hooker's "fighting brigade" contained two Massachusetts regiments; at Bull Run, at Ball's Bluff, at Roanoke Island, at

Seven Days' battles of the Peninsula, at James Island, at Fort Pulaski, at the capture of New Orleans, and at the battle of Baton Rouge, and above all at Cedar Mountain, Centreville, Gainesville, Chantilly, South Mountain, and Antietam, they were among the foremost in the fight, and the last to leave the field. On the 1st of January, 1862, Massachusetts had sent to the field (including 3736 three-months volunteers) 33,036 men, and had also contributed 11,000 men to the navy. The calls of July and August for three-years and nine-months men raised her required quota, including the filling up of the old regiments, to 72,107 land forces. These were all furnished promptly by the 1st of November (nearly all, indeed, much earlier), and, with the exception of a few drafted in the city of Boston, without draft. The towns of the State vied with each other in offering bounties to volunteers, and in some cases as high a sum as $330 in the way of local bounties was paid. Constant additions were making meantime to the navy from the State, and the number furnished by the State to the war unquestionably exceeded on the 1st of December, 1862, 90,000 men, or about one to every 13% of its population.

Census Statistics.-Like most of the New England States, Massachusetts has a large excess of females in her population; the white inhabitants being 592,244 males to 629,220 females, and the colored, 4469 males to 5133 females, making a total excess of 37,640 females. The State is 30th in rank in area, 7th in population, 1st in density of population, and 1st in absolute increase of population per square mile. It is essentially a manufacturing State, and stands 3d in the actual amount of its manufactures, New York and Pennsylvania alone surpassing it. The aggregate of its manufacturing products annually is reported at $266,000,000, of which cotton ($36,745,684) and woollen goods ($18,930,000), boots and shoes ($46,440,209), leather ($10,354,056), steam engines and machinery ($5,131,238), furniture ($3,365,415), jewelry ($2,648,641), sawed and planed lumber ($2,288,419), musical instruments ($1,762,470), &c., are the most considerable items. The products of her fisheries are given as $9,300,442, which is unquestionably far below the truth. In the amount of her valuation of real and personal estate, sho stands 5th in the census, and her own valuation is materially higher than that of the census. About two-thirds of the land in the State is improved. The cash value of farms in 1860 is stated at $123,255,948, ranking in this respect 20th among the States, though 30th in area. The value of her live stock was $12,737,744, and her investment in railroads within her own limits, $58,882,328, besides which she owns nearly as much more in railroads in other States. The number of newspapers and periodicals published in the Stato was 232, and their aggregate circulation was 102,000,760 copies.

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