support of common schools. This fund is to be profitably invested under the direction of the Treasurer of the State, and is to accumulate until the income derived from it shall be sufficient to support a common free school in every district in the State, for two months in each year. The report of the Treasurer of the School Fund was as follows, Sept. 30th, 1829. To Amount loaned the year past as per receipt of Auditor, in the Treasury Department To Balance in Treasury applicable to this object Cr. By Balance in the Treasury last year $8,060 00 264 39 $8,324 39 $215 43 8,108 96 $8,321 39 The operations and increase of the School Fund will be more distinctly seen by the following statement. By the Report of the Auditor last year, it appears that there $15,993 07 289 75 There are about twenty incorporated academies in the State, where young men may be fitted for college. No returns have been made, but the number of students will probably average about forty at each. State Prison. The State Prison at Windsor was established by an act of the Legislature in 1808. Confinement at hard labor in this prison is the punishment for almost all of that class of offences which are called mala in se. Murder, high treason, perjury, in those cases where the life of another is taken away by false swearing, and arson, where death or serious injury to the person ensues, are the only crimes punishable by death. In all cases not capital, the courts may impose a fine; but this is rarely done, except for the breach of positive statutes, and for assault and battery, riot, or resisting the execution of the laws. From the last report of the superintendent it appears, that the number of convicts in the prison on the 1st of October, 1828, was 123. On the 1st of October, 1827, the The convicts are chiefly employed in weavin hand looms; and 180,000 yards were woven Banks. State of the Banks, according to the Report of th BANK OF BURLINGTON owes- Specie, current Stock paid in Bills in circulation 134,042 77 Deposites and dividends Discounted notes Stock in other Banks 3,200 00 Real estate at cost 10,450 50 Specie, current bills, and Funds and 1 deposites in other Banks 161,153 63 Discounted not $278,289 72 BANK OF WINDSOR Owes Stock paid in $60,000 00 Due on book Bills in circulation 107,366 00 From which it appears, that the Banks in operation on the 1st of April, 1828, had paid in $370,616 capital stock; that they had on hand at that time in specie and specie funds $674,904-27; that at that time they were authorized by their charters to circulate bills to the amount of $1,188,498-82, but actually had in circulation $949,844-53. Note. The two last named Banks were newly chartered, and did not go into operation until after the 1st of April, 1828. Bank of Burlington chartered in 1818 with a nominal capital of $150,000 Internal Improvements: In 1824 an act of the Legislature was p a company for the purpose of improving the necticut river. The company has gone i it is supposed the river will be rendered n boats, nearly up to the 15 mile falls. T ever, yet made much progress in effecting incorporation. In 1825 the governor and thorized to appoint canal commissioners, States' engineers in examining routes for were appropriated to defray the expenses of The Legislature also appropriated $75 to of surveying a canal route from Montpeli plain. United States' officers have exan Lake Memphremagog to Connecticut river, a plain, and from the river to the lake, by w but it is not likely that canals will ever be c of these routes. A company was incorpor the purpose of constructing a tow path along Creek, from Vergennes to the lake, which plished. 34,297 65 Principal and Interest of Notes and Bonds due the Commonwealth 9,221 51 Lands in Maine sold by the Agents Of County Treasurers Of the Attorney General 2,724 60 761 58 217 00 131 12 2,206 71 Of the Solicitor General Miscellanies Money borrowed of Banks Total of Receipts EXPENDITURES. On Warrants and Rolls for the support of Government, including the pay of Representatives On Rolls of the Committee on Accounts for different years Principal and Interest of the 5 per cent. Funded Debt 210,000 00 $450,026 32 } $146,063 43 70,888 53 26,355 95 293 08 County Treasurers Wounded Soldiers, $137, Pensioners $1243 33 Support of Deaf and Dumb Persons in the Asylum at Hartford 6,227 79 1,380 33 Commissioners for settling the affairs of Massachusetts and Maine, principally for Surveying Interest on Money repaid to Banks Cash in the Treasury, January 1st, 1828 Amount of Receipts in 1828, including money borrowed of Amount of Expenditures in 1828, including money repaid Amount of Cash in the Treasury, January 1st, 1829 1,000 00 951 37 2,425 74 42,056 97 140,000 00 The following results are contained in a Report of the Secretary of the Commonwealth for the year 1827, collected from imperfect returns of the several towns. |