of the Associate Judges $3 a day, during the Session of the Court, and 9 cents a mile for travel.

LEGISLATURE. Senators receive $2 a day during the Session of the Legislature, and 9 cents a mile for travel. The Speaker of the House of Representatives receives $2 50 a day; clerks, $2; members, $1 50, and 9 cents a mile for travel.

School Fund.

According to the Report of the Commissioner, the Capital of the Connecticut School Fund was as follows, on the 1st of April, 1829.

The revenue derived from the Fund during the year ending the 31st of March, 1828, amounted to $80,243 29. The State is divided into 208 School Societies, which contain, in the aggregate, according to the enumeration taken in August last, 84,899 children, between the ages of four and sixteen. The dividends made to schools from the School Fund, amount to 85 cents on each child enumerated; so that $72,164 16 have been paid from this Fund for the support of Common Schools during the past year.

The following summary shows the amount of money paid from the School Fund, and the number of children taught at different periods, in the respective counties.

Connecticut.

Abstract from the Controller's Report for April 1st, 1829.

Receipts and Expenditures.

Balance in the Treasury

Avails of Courts

Forfeited Bonds, &c.

RECEIPTS.

Duties on Writs and Licenses

Dividends on Bank Stock

Interest on United States Funded Debt

Total of Receip

EXPENDITURES.

Debentures and Contingent Expenses of General Asser

Contingent Expenses of Government

Judicial Expenses

Expenses of supporting State Paupers

Warden of State Prison, for Advances

Quarter Master General

Building Committee of State House at New-Haven

Registered Debt discharged for Orders paid

Treasurer's Accounts, audited for Payments made Abatements on State Tax, payable 20th February, 1829 Collecting Fees and Travel

Total of Expenditu

Leaving a balance in the Treasury of

State Fund.

Total

9 between forty and fifty, 5 between fifty and sixty, 2 between sixty and seventy, 2 over seventy. The income and expenditures of the prison for the year ending April 1st, 1829, were as follows.

Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford.

The instructors at this institution are Thomas H. Gallaudet, Principal, and nine Assistants.

There have been received into the Asylum since its commencement 303 pupils, of whom 160 have left the school, and 143 were remaining in May, 1829.

The Directors state in their report, that of the 279 pupils, who have received the benefit of the Institution, 116 were born deaf, 135 lost their hearing in infancy, or childhood, by disease or accident, 28 uncertain.

These 279 pupils have come from 247 families, 47 of which have contained more than one deaf and dumb child; 29 families have each contained two; 4 families three; 7 families four; 4 families five; 2 families six; and 1 family seven. In one instance, the father and two children are deaf and dumb. In another, the father is deaf and dumb, and also 4 of the children. These are the only instances, that have come to the knowledge of the Directors, in which either of the parents has labored under this defect.

The expenses of the Institution for the last year were $22,979 37, and the receipts $23,041 55, leaving a balance of $62 18.

The annual charge to each pupil is $150, which includes board, lodging, washing, fuel, stationery, and tuition.

In the year 1823, the State of Connecticut appropriated $1500 for the Asylum; in 1829 the amount was extended to $2000. The present grant of Massachusetts is $6500 an