An act declaring that the machinery employed in manufacturing shall be assessed in the towns where used, and that the value thereof shall be deducted from the shares of the corporation owning the same before assessing the stock for taxation.

An act requiring the capital stock of all Insurance Companies to be paid in within one year after being incorporated; prohibiting the taking on one risk more than ten per cent of their capital; declaring them liable to taxation, and authorising in all actions to which they are parties, any evidence to be given under the general issue, upon notice being given of the facts seven days before the trial.

An act requiring the resident agents of Insurance Companies of other states, where a tax is imposed on foreign insurance contracts, to make a semi-annual return to the state treasurer of all property insured by him as agent, and to pay a tax of one half per cent on the whole amount so insured. And where any such law taxing insurance contracts by foreign insurers, may be passed in states where no such law now exists, the resident agents of insurance companies belonging to such, shall give a bond to pay such tax within sixty days after the passage of such law.

An act prohibiting gambling in licensed taverns, and declaring that where credit shall be given by a tavern keeper from time to time, to any person to be drank in his premises, the same shall be forfeited.

Acts were passed incorporating five new insurance companies, sixteen new banks, and increasing the capital of ten old ones; sixteen new manufacturing companies, and increasing the capital of three old ones; two coal companies, three rail road companies, eight academies, one hospital, ten religious societies, one astronomical observatory association, and two for marine purposes.

A bill entitled' an act for the relief of insolvent debtors,' passed the Senate, but was rejected in the House. Another bill, the object of which was to abolish imprisonment for debt, went through the same process and met the same fate. TREASURY REPORT, FOR Dec. 31, 1831. Receipts.

Cash in the Treasury Janua

ry 1, 1831
State tax for 1830

$25,275 73,180

urers

511 196,909 26,005 419,748 17,981 620

9,272

367

26

113

74

262,000

$1,032,083

$65,715

104,314

94,707

39,091

414,950

5,700

8000

22,000

6,745

3,231

1,605

23,514

217,100

6,860

18,551

$1,032,083

AMENDMENT OF CONSTITUTION.An amendment to the constitution was proposed in the legislature of 1832, and carried, ayes 347, nays 90, by which all religious sects were put on an equal footing, and declaring that all religious societies, whether incorporated or not, shall have the right to elect their religious teachers, and to manage all the pecuniary concerns of their societies; and that all persons shall be deemed members of the religious societies to which they belong until they file a written notice of their withdrawal with the clerk of such society.

The following is given as a correct return of the votes at the first election : for Mr Arnold, (Nat. Rep.) 2730; Mr Fenner, (Jackson) 2290; Mr Sprague, (anti-masonic) 608. No choice.

CITY OF PROVIDENCE. The organization of the City Government of Providence took place at the Court House on the second Monday of June, 1832. The oaths of office were administered to the Mayor and Aldermen by the President of the Town Council, and by the mayor to the members of the Common Council. Richard M. Field, late Town Clerk, was unanimously chosen City Clerk. The Mayor delivered his Inaugural Address in the presence of a large audience. He spoke of the newly adopted form, as one not tending to impair the rights of the people, and stated the object in obtaining the Charter to have been, not to obtain more power, but to administer the power already possessed with more prudence, economy, and energy. After the Address, the Mayor and Aldermen retired to the Senate Chamber, and the Common Council was organized, by the appointment of Mr George Baker, President, and Mr Thomas B. Fenner, Clerk. MANUFACTORIES. - By a statement in the Providence Journal it appears that there were in Rhode Island in 1832, 110 cotton factories, with a capital, embracing ground, buildings, machinery and materials, of $6,866,334; 22 woollen factories, capital $617,435;55 bleacheries, capital $317,000; 2 print works, capital $287,875; 10 founderies; 30 machine shops, capital $1,142,638; 4 tanneries, capital $217,000; 27 jewellers shops, capital $100,200; 2 comb manufactories, capital $72,000. Total capital, $9,522,672. Number of hands employed in the above establishments, 11,273. Besides these, there are a large number of smaller establishments for the manufacture of bras, tin, &c.

LACE WORK. An establishment called the Rhode Island lace school has commenced at Newport. Notwithstanding its recent origin, no less than seven hundred females are actively employed by its proprietors. The style of lace work is said to be the most ingenious of its kind, and of that particular description with which the English dealers in lace have had to supply themselves in France, in consequence of the superior

In the year ending 1st October, 1830 - there were imported into Providence, Rhode Island, 61,887 barrels of flour, 396,928 bushels of corn, and 18,857 bushels of rye. In the year ending October 1st, 1831-75,164 barrels of flour, 243,290 bushels of corn, and 11,172 bushels of rye.

In the first year, 43,000 bales of cotton, imported at Providence, were consumed in the last year 53,278 bales; and the stock on hand, 30th September, 1831, was 12,730 bales to wit, 5,430 Louisiana and Alabama, 5,691 upland, 354 sea-island.

ELECTION-The Legislature convened at N. Haven, on the first Wednesday in May, 1832. The official returns of votes gave for John S. Peters, the National Republican candidate, 11,971; for Calvin Willey, (Anti-masonic) 4,463; scattering 616. Majority for Peters, 6,892.

The Senate was organized by the choice of Roger Huntington, of Nor wich, President pro tem; the House of Representatives, by the choice of Martin Wells, of Weathersfield, Speaker.

The Governor's Message to the Legis lature presented a satisfactory view of the civil and political condition of the State. In relation to the finances, it is said

'The permanent Civil List Fund of the State of Connecticut, amounts to four hundred and thirtyfive thousand one hundred two dollars, sixtyone cents; the interest of which is applied to the cur rent expenses of the government.

'The revenue to the State from every source, for the year ending on the thirtyfirst day of March, A. D. 1832, amounts to eightytwo thousand six hundred fiftyseven dollars fifteen cents; including cash in the Treasury on the first day of April, A. D. 1831, one thousand eight hundred fortysix dollars, ninetysix cents, and uncollectable notes, two hundred fortythree dollars and sixteen cents. The disbursements from' the Treasury during the last political year, amount to seventythree thousand six hundred sixtyfive dollars seventysix cents; — leaving cash in the Treasury on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1832, ten thousand thirtyeight dollars thirtyfive cents, together with said notes.'

cumstances, at present unavoidable, ren. der a part of the School Fund unproductive; but when the whole amount of its capital can be made to produce six per centum per annum, an annual dividend may be anticipated of from $1,25 to 1,34 for each child enumerated.'

The message refers with much mortification to the fact, that thirty adult persons are unable to read, among the 297,711 who inhabit that State !!!

THE SCHOOL FUND. The following facts are taken from the report of the Commissioner of the School Fund, made to the Legislature at its late session, as abridged in the Hartford Review.

The whole Capital as ascertained on the 1st of April, 1831, consisted of the following items:

1. Bonds, Contracts and Mortgages

2. Bank Stock

3. Cultivated Lands and Buildings

4. Wild Lands

5. Stock and Farming Utensils

6. Cash on hand of principal

Amount of Capital

$1,423,716 42

99,950 00

196,595 90 164,144 60

1,320 00

17,230 95 $1,902,957 87

12,229 11,006 10 13,308 11,977 20

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85,095 76,585 50 WOOLLEN AND COTTON FACTORIES. From an article in the New England Review, which may be relied on as authentic, it appears that the State contains about fifty Woollen Factories, in which

the amount of capital invested is $1,281,050; annual amount of goods nianufactured, $1,399,228; pounds of Wool manufactured, 1,574,314. The whole number of yards of Broad Cloth manufactured annually, is 290,000; of Flannel, 229,078; of Satinet, 808,915; of Cassimere and other narrow cloth, 108,000. In these manufactories about two thousand persons are constantly employ. ed. In addition to the above, however, there are twentyfour manufactories from which no returns have been made, which employ an aggregate capital of $100,000.

In ninetyfour Cotton Factories, the capital invested is $3,101,229; yards of cloth manufactured, 20,212,953; pounds of Cotton used, 818,090. There are also, twelve new manufactories not yet in operation, most of which are nearly completed. In the manufacture of Cotton goods about 5000 persons are actively employed in the State.

The following resolutions were passed by the Legislature in May, 1832.

Whereas, The right to protect and encourage domestic industry and the mechanic arts, was one of the moving causes of the American revolution, and the practice of that right, one great object in the adoption of the constitution of the United States: and whereas from the first act of the first Congress to the present period, the government of the United States, adopted and sustained as they have been by public opinion, have adhered to the principle of protecting the agricultural, commercial and manufacturing industry of the people from the fatal effects of foreign competition: and whereas a very large proportion of the property of our citizens has been invested in those branches of industry in a confident reliance upon a continuation of that policy

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Resolved, by this assembly, That we regard the policy of a protecting tariff, as the foundation of our prosperity and independence as a nation, and we should deprecate any indication on the part of the general government, that it can in any event be abandoned.

with much anxiety the various propositions recently brought before Congress, designed to unsettle our legislation, and to reverse a policy which has contributed so much to the present happy and prosperous condition of our country.

Resolved, That if any modification of the tariff be expedient, by reason of the approaching extinguishment of our national debt, that the same should be so arranged as to give effectual protection to every branch of national industry.

'Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States be, and they are hereby, desired to make all suitable and proper exertions to maintain the principle of protection in a form that shall be every way adequate to insure the safety and future prosperity of existing inter

Advances to the quarter Master General

Public buildings and institutions

Meech 42, Mr Crafts 35-majority for
Palmer, one. Mr Smith, elected Speak-
er of the House of Representatives, and
all the rest of the officers appointed, are
anti-masons.

TREASURY. By the Report of the
Auditor of the Treasury Department,
there has been paid out of the Treasu-
ry of the State, for the year ending Sep-
tember 30, 1831, $62,078,90; leaving a
balance in the hands of the treasurer
at the same date, of $14,193 15. The
amount due for arrearages on taxes, Sep-
tember 30, 1831, was $38,231 79.

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SCHOOL FUND. The Auditor reports
that the amount of the School Fund, on
loan, September 30, 1831, was $36,267
40. The loans are mostly secured by
mortgages on real estate, of much great-
er value than the amount of the loan, or
additional names of undoubted responsi-
bility.

BANKS. It appears by the report of
the agent appointed to examine the
state of the several Banks in the State,
dated October 17, that the whole amount
of the capital stock paid in, is $511,640.
Deposites, $155,368 02. Bills in circu-
lation, $1,335,342 70. Notes discount-
ed, and due on book, $1,303,398 73.
Specie and bills of other banks on
hand, and deposites in other banks,
$762,472 06. Real estate held at cost,
$27,754 73.

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STATE PRISON. - The committee
appointed to settle with the Superinten-
dent of the State Prison, report, October
17, 1831, that the value of the personal
property belonging to the prison, manu-
factured goods and stock, and debts due,
amount to $30,378 65: that the claims
outstanding against the State, amount
to $14,730 64, leaving a balance of $15,-
748 01 in favor of the State. 143,000 yards
of cotton cloth were wove at the pris-
on the past year, being 17,000 more than
the product of the previous year's labor.
The superintendent has commenced the
experiment of manufacturing shoes.
He says, he has made a purchase of
leather, and commenced with ten con-
victs in the manufacture of men's coarse
shoes, of a fair quality, and from the
price that article bears in the large mar-
kets, the prospect is good that a profita-
ble business may be made of it, on a lim-
ited scale.' $211 40 has been received
from the committee of visiters the last
year. The amount produced by the la-
bor of the convicts has been sufficient to
defray the general expense of the prison
for the year, except the expenditures for
the new buildings.

ing.

An act declaring that the statutes of
limitations are not to apply to any claim,
in offset, which existed at the time
or subsequently to the making of the
contract or contracts, in offset to which
said claims are pleaded.'

An act declaring that where a married
woman in this or any other State, whose
husband is under guardianship, is pos-
sessed in her right of any real estate in
this State, in common, she may join with
the guardian of her husband in making
partition thereof with the other tenants
in common. Such married woman and
guardian are authorized to execute and
receive the deed, &e, necessary in mak-
ing such partition.

An act giving powers to probate courts
on application, to authorize executors or
administrato s to sell the real estate of
any person for the purpose of paying
debts and legacies, in preference to sell-
ing the personal estate, if it shall appear
to the court that creditors will not be in-
jured thereby. But this power is not
to be exercised to defeat any devise
of real estate, without the assent of the
devisee.

BANK FUND. An act requiring ev-
ery banking corporation hereafter created
or re-chartered, to pay annually to the
treasurer of this State three fourths of one