PREFACE. 



is evident propriety in its collection, digestion and diffusion 

 broadcast, tlirougliout the State. 



In preparing the following pages it has been my aim to 

 arrange whatever might be culled from the mass of returns 

 made, of general interest ; and it is most earnestly to be hoped 

 that great improvement may hereafter be made by the prepara- 

 tion of such reports and statements as may render a digest of 

 the same less unsatisfactory than this one necessarily must be> 

 from the extremely meagre nature of the returns which were 

 received. 



