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of the deposits received during the year was 

 $42,751,557.43, which was $14,264,753.46 more 

 than in 1879, and the amount withdrawn was 

 $84,403,428.23, or $2,322,901.02 more than in 

 1879. The number of deposits made during 

 the year was 532,594, an increase of 154,333, 

 and the average amount of each was $80.27, an 

 increase of $4.96. 



The aggregate interest-bearing debt of all 

 the cities and towns of the State on the 1st of 

 May was $88,656,058, from which there is an 

 offset of $18,204,610 in sinking funds. Thirty- 

 eight per cent, of the net debt of municipalities 

 is for water-supply. 



The population of the State, as shown by 

 the Federal census, is as follows by counties : 



The population of the cities of the State is 

 as follows: Boston, 362,535; Lowell, 59,485; 

 Worcester, 58,295; Cambridge, 52,740; Fall 

 River, 49,006 ; Lawrence, 39,178 ; Lynn, 38,- 

 284 ; Springfield, 33,340 ; Salem, 27,598 ; New 

 Bedford, 26,875 ; Somerville, 24,985 ; Holyoke, 

 21,851 ; Chelsea, 21,785 ; Taunton, 21,213 ; 

 Gloucester, 19,329 ; Haverhill, 18,475 ; New- 

 ton, 16,995; Newburyport, 13,537; Fitchburg, 

 12,405. The following unincorporated towns 

 have over 10,000 inhabitants: Brockton, 13,- 

 608; Pittsfield, 13,367; Northampton, 12,172; 

 Maiden, 12,017; Waltham, 11,711; Chicopee, 

 11,325; Attleborough, 11,111; Woburn, 10,- 

 938; Weymouth, 10,571; Quincy, 10,529; 

 North Adams, 10,192; Marlborough, 10,126. 



The number of public schools reported by 

 the Board of Education was 5,570; number of 

 teachers, 8,595 ; number of different pupils, 

 306,777; average attendance, 233,127. This 

 includes 215 high-schools, with 494 teachers 

 and 18,758 pupils. There were also reported 

 73 academies, with 10,398 students; and 350 

 private and parochial schools, with 15,891 

 pupils. Besides these, there were 116 evening- 

 schools, with an average attendance of 4,503. 

 The average length of day-schools was eight 

 months and seventeen days. The amount raised 

 by taxation and expended upon public schools, 

 exclusive of expenditures upon schoolhouses, 

 was $4,732,286.06. There was expended upon 

 the same schools $173,859.17 not raised by 

 taxation. The amount expended upon school- 



* Including, in the State, 237 Chinese, 8 Japanese. 841 In- 

 dians, and 11 Kast Indians ; in Barnstable County. 2 Chinese 

 and 100 Indians; in Berkshire County, 19 Chinese and 1 

 Japanese; in Bristol County, 2 Chinese nnd 84 Indians; in 

 Dukes County, 67 Indians; in Essex County, 16 Chinese, 7 

 Indians, and il Kast Indians; in Franklin County, 1 Japan- 

 ese and 1 Indian; in Hampden County, 16 Chinese, 1 Jap- 

 anese, and 4 Indians; in Hampshire County, 20 Chinese, 1 

 Japanese, and 1 Indian ; in Middlesex County. 25 Chinese, 1 

 Japanese, and 10 Indians; in Norfolk County, 17 Indians; in 

 Plymouth County, 41 Indians ; in Suffolk County, 135 Chi- 

 nese, 3 Japanese, and 21 Indians ; in Worcester County, 2 

 Chinese and 38 Indians. 



buildings was $610,585.89. There are six nor- 

 mal schools for the training of teachers, and a 

 normal art-school, which belong to the State 

 system of education. 



The number of persons in the penal institu- 

 tions of the State, including those of counties, 

 was 3,821 on the 30th of September. The 

 number of commitments on sentences during 

 the year that preceded was 17,053, of which 

 10,434 were for drunkenness. 



There were thirty- one and one fourth miles 

 added to the railroad system of the State dur- 

 ing the year ending September 30th. The thir- 

 ty-four corporations making returns to the Rail- 

 road Commissioners owned 2,667'352 miles of 

 main line and branches, of which 651-480 were 

 provided with double track. The total length 

 of sidings was 938*947 miles, and the aggregate 

 of track, considering double track and sidings 

 as so much additional length, was 4,257*779 

 miles, an increase of 107*793 for the year. Of 

 the whole amount, 1,893*080 miles of main 

 line, 454-792 of double track, 696*693 of sid- 

 ings, or 3,044 655 miles in all, were within the 

 limits of the State. The average cost of con- 

 struction and equipments for standard gauge 

 roads is $63,671.70 per mile. The aggregate 

 of capital stock of all the companies was 

 $118,758,871.58, and the net debt $59,172,- 

 520.25. The total gross income was $35,- 

 140,374.77, an increase for the year of $4,827,- 

 410.25, or more than fifteen per cent. The total 

 expenses were $23,948,559.24, an increase of 

 $3,789,608.56 ; net income, $11,191,815.53, or 

 $1,037,801.67 more than in 1879. The num- 

 ber of passengers carried was 45,151,152, an 

 increase of 5,933,518; tons of freight, 17,221,- 

 567, an increase of 2,819,690. The amount 

 distributed in dividends was $5,987,718.64. 

 Twelve companies, with $5,229,000 permanent 

 investment, had no net income ; fifteen com- 

 panies, with $34,790,000 investment, had an 

 income of 3 per cent, or less; eleven com- 



