WILLIAM SLADE, Horace Eaton, John Spalding, Jas. McM. Shafter, III. VERMONT. GOVERNMENT. Salary. of Middlebury, Governor, (term ends Oct. 1845,) $750 Lieut-Gov. & Pres. Sen., pay, $4 a day. of Burlington, Sec'y Civil & Military Affairs, of Enosburg, 200 The Senate, established in 1836, consists of 30 members; each county being entitled to at least one, and the rest being apportioned according to population; and 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 five judges; in County Courts, or Courts of Common Pleas, comprising five 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. An appeal from the decree of the chancellor lies to the Supreme Court. COMMON SCHOOLS. There is an accumulating State School Fund of 200,234 95, which is not at present appropriated. An annual tax is assessed for the support of Common Schools, of nine cents on the dollar, which amounts to about $70,000. A part of the interest accruing upon the U. S. deposit money, amounting to about $20,000, also goes to their support. The whole control of the Schools is left to the School Districts, and all expenses are paid by taxes upon their respective inhabitants, with the aid of the above-named tax and deposit money. VERMONT ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, BRATTLEBORO.' William H. Rockwell, M. D., Superintendent and Physician; Doctor Samuel B. Low, Assistant Physician; Mrs. Ann F. Wilkinson, Matron. In the last year, 224 patients have enjoyed the advantages of the institution. Of these, 88 have been discharged, leaving 136 patients on the 1st of October, 1843. Of the recent cases, 872 per cent. have recovered, while of the chronic, or old cases, only 33 per cent. have recovered. The terms are fixed at $2 per week, or $100 per year, if the patient remain so long. IV. MASSACHUSETTS. GOVERNMENT. For the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in January, 1845. Thomas Russell, of Plymouth, James F. Boyd, Treasurer and Receiver Gen., 1,600 of Charlestown, Adjutant General and Keeper from the Bank tax, Auction Tax, Balance in the Treasury, January 1, 1843, The ordinary receipts in 1843, exclusive of money borrowed, were Interest on bank deposits, $41,652 69 $313,269 45 46,995 20 448 39 Attorney for Suffolk County, 3,620 60 Proceeds of Lands in Maine, 1,373 53 $9,748 67 Cash on hand for ordinary purposes, January 1, 1844, Indebtedness of the Commonwealth, January 1, 1844. Pay of the Council, Senate, and Representatives, Salaries established by law, Balances to County Treasurers, Militia services, Support of paupers, military and other accounts, Interest on State Stock, 73,768 50 61,862 10 29,501 38 27,295 25 67.652 03 8,916 56 46,762 43 8,273 25 7,777 19 |