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REFORMED CHURCHES. 



20,049; the average salary of lay male teachers 

 with diplomas was $663, and of females $152. 

 The number of pupils in Roman Catholic model 

 schools and academies was 102,855; the average 

 attendance was 85,097 ; the average salary of male 

 lay teachers with diplomas was $487, and of fe- 

 males $130. The number of pupils in the Protes- 

 tant model schools and academies was 8,976; the 

 average attendance was 7,330; the average salary 

 of male lay teachers with diplomas was $830, 

 and of females $291. 



In the Roman Catholic classical colleges there 

 were 2,171 pupils in the commercial course and 

 3,666 in the classical course. The average attend- 

 ance was 5,361. The number of Protestants in 

 the Roman Catholic elementary schools was 724; 

 those attending the Catholic model schools and 

 academies numbered 15,194. The Roman Catholic 

 pupils in Protestant elementary schools numbered 

 2,187, and in the Protestant model schools and 

 academies 419. Including elementary, model, and 

 normal schools, universities, colleges, academies, 

 and schools for the deaf and dumb, and art and 

 design, there were 5,958 schools in the province, 

 2,215 male teachers, 8,640 female teachers, and 

 322,761 pupils. The Government expenditure 

 upon schools in 1899-1900 was $449,950. A new 

 normal school for girls was opened at Montreal. 

 The French pupils learning English in the schools 

 of the province numbered 73,506, and the English 

 pupils learning French 24,608. 



Public Works. The payments to railways be- 

 tween July 1, 1899, and June 30, 1900, amounted 

 to $90,276 in cash and land subsidies converted 

 into cash. Of this total, $10,000 went to the 

 South Shore Railway, $59,181 to the Great North- 

 ern Railway, and $21,095 to the Pontiac and Pa- 

 cific Junction Railway. The total mileage of 

 railways in the province was 3,387. Of the $10,- 

 696,230 granted by the province in railway sub- 

 sidies to June 30, 1900, $7,742,243 had been paid, 

 $2,287,802 had lapsed, been transferred, or aban- 



doned, and $666,183 remained to be paid when 

 earned. 



Mines. Mr. J. O. Valski, Inspector of Mines, 

 advised the commissioner in March, 1901, that 

 " the mining industry continues to develop regu- 

 larly in this province, without, however, present- 

 ing any very striking new features. The most 

 important operations have been in asbestos, cop- 

 per, mica, chrome, and iron, and an increase in 

 the output of these has to be reported. The work- 

 ing population has augmented, and it is note- 

 worthy that in certain districts wages have been 

 raised 25 per cent, by the mining companies." 

 The gross value of the minerals utilized was 

 $2,546,076 for the year running from Jan. 1, 1900, 

 to Jan. 1, 1901, and the number of persons em- 

 ployed 5,400, with about $1,300,000 received in 

 wages for ten months' work. 



Prisons and Asylums. In the year 1899- 

 1900, the number of prisoners in the province was 

 4,626, of whom 3,787 were men and 839 women, an 

 increase of 256 over the preceding period. The 

 inspectors gave reasons for this change. " For 

 the last year or two especially, thieves, swindlers, 

 tramps, and all who have any interest whatso- 

 ever in hiding from justice, seem to have gath- 

 ered together in one city [Montreal], and have 

 doubtless largely contributed to filling our pris- 

 ons." Another cause was the activity of the po- 

 lice in Montreal against disreputable women. The 

 prisoners under sixteen, however, decreased in a 

 most marked manner, numbering 56 against 74 in 

 1898. There were 1,468 convictions for drunken- 

 ness, against 2,167 in the previous year. The ex- 

 penditures for maintenance were $116,602, an in- 

 crease of $11,819. There were 3 reformatory schools 

 for boys and 2 for girls, costing for maintenance 

 $34,780. The 5 industrial schools cost $27,722. 



In the asylums of the province the number of 

 inmates in 1899 was 2,981, and the cost of mainte- 

 nance $314,157. The percentage of cures was re- 

 ported as smaller than in the preceding year. 



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REFORMED CHURCHES. I. Reformed 

 Church in America (Dutch). The Committee 

 on the State of Religion reported the following 

 statistics of this Church to the General Synod in 

 June: Number of churches, 651; of ministers, 723; 

 of families, 62,111; of communicants, 110,898, 

 showing a net gain of 999 for the year; received 

 during the year by confession, 5,428; number of 

 Sunday-schools, 912; amount of contributions for 

 all benevolent objects, $380,811; for congregation- 

 al purposes, $1,196,131; showing an increase for 

 the year of $53,765 in benevolent contributions, 

 and of $105,748 in those for congregational pur- 

 poses. 



The Board of Education had aided 77 students, 

 against 90 in the previous year. Its total re- 

 ceipts had been $22,791, and its disbursements 

 $20,545. A bequest of $1,483 had been received, 

 and the Educational fund had been increased by 

 a legacy of $3,500. The board had begun the year 

 free from debt, had been able to care for all its 

 students, and to grant the full amount recom- 

 mended to the several institutions, and closed the 

 year in a sound financial condition. 



The total investments of the Widows' fund 

 amounted to $108,698; the income account was 

 $12,635; and the disbursements had been $11,213. 

 Two hundred and nineteen churches had con- 

 tributed to the fund. 



The endowment of the Disabled Ministers' fund 



had been increased to $67,593. Only 294 of the- 

 643 churches were contributing to it. The receipts 

 from contributions and interest, $6,826, had been 

 insufficient to meet the demands upon the board, 

 and its treasury was $500 in arrears. 



The Board of Publication reported sales during 

 the year to the amount of $26,000. 



The 675 Christian Endeavor Societies, senior 

 and junior, had contributed $34,047 to the various 

 causes of the Church. 



Nine hundred and twelve Sunday-schools were- 

 reported, including 157 in the classis of Arcot, 

 India, with 123,804 pupils enrolled. Their con- 

 tributions to Church benevolences amounted to 

 $23,139. 



The contributions to the General fund of the 

 Board of Domestic Missions had been $26,369, or 

 $2,273 more than in the previous year. This fund 

 is applied to the salaries of classical missionaries, 

 and for the erection and furnishing of churches 

 and parsonages of the student missionary, Indian, 

 and Kentucky mountaineer missions. 



The Board of Foreign Missions reported that 

 while the receipts exceeding $173,000 had been 

 the largest in its history, severe retrenchments 

 had been necessary in its appropriations for the 

 regular work of the missions. This was largely 

 because a considerable number of the gifts had 

 been made for specific objects, leaving the amount 

 generally available less than was actually needed. 



