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t.> In- conducted upon the family system, under 



.ntn-1 of a matron, with an assistant-ma- 

 tron, who is also the teacher of the inmates, 

 :md a lionet !;. cpor who has in charge all that 

 ri lutes to the domestic service. The only 

 male* within t ho precincts of the institution are 



ipirintendent and the farmer, for whom 

 -. '[.unite residences, adapted to them respec- 

 tively, have been built on the grounds. A 

 third principal structure, the school-building, 



ins ten school-rooms, a library, and n 

 spurious hull to bo used for the daily devotional 



ises, and all public purposes. By the end 

 of June, 1870, one of the houses was ready for 

 occupancy. Twenty-five girls had actually 

 Km received into the institution at that date, 

 and applications had been sent in already for 

 tin- admittance of as many more as would fill 

 both houses. 



Crime seems to bo increasing in the State. 

 The convicts in confinement in the State-prison 

 on March 31, 1870, were thirty-six more than 

 on March 81, 1869. The prison is so crowded 

 that some of the male convicts had to be 

 lodged in the female wards. They are made, 

 however, to earn their bread and something 

 more, for the State. The product of their labor 

 last year was sufficient to pay all the current 

 expenses of the prison, and clear a balance of 

 $5,977.48. Concerning the number of con- 

 victs, the quality of their offences, and duration 

 of punishment, as well as their work and its 

 result, the warden makes in his report the fol- 

 lowing statements: "The shoe-shops paid 

 $14,593.38, the burnishing-shops $4,743.40, the 

 rule-shops $7,066.40. From visitors they re- 

 ceived $528.07; from the United States, for 

 board of convicts, $644.55, and interest, $51.78: 

 total, $27,627.64. The expenditures were: 

 Expense account, $9,839; provisions, $8,- 

 772.93; clothing and bedding, $1,142.60; hos- 

 pital, $640.33; female department, $397.64; 

 transportation of convicts, $206.99 ; repairs 

 and improvements, $650.87 ; balance net gain, 

 $5,977.48: total, $27,627.64. 



The whole number in confinement March 

 31, 1869, was 183, since received 99 total 282. 

 Of these 51 were discharged by expiration 

 of sentence, 6 by order General Assembly, 

 2 by death, 1 by suicide, and 3 transferred 

 to lunatic asylum leaving 219. Of these 208 

 are in for the first time, 8 for the second, 1 for 

 the third, and 2 for the fourth. One hundred 

 and seventy-one are white males, 43 colored 

 males, 5 white females; 165 ore Americans, 54 

 foreigners; 20 are under thirty years of age, 

 116 between twenty and thirty, 49 between 

 thirty and forty, 22 between forty and fifty, 

 and 12 over fifty. Nineteen are in for life, 49 

 for burglary, 47 for theft, 16 for horse-stealing, 

 and 13 for manslaughter. 



With regard to persons arrested and impris- 

 oned in the jails of the State at large, the of- 

 ficial returns, compiled by the Secretary of 

 State, show as follows : " The whole number 

 of persons committed during the year was 

 VOL. x. 14 A 



2,248, or 425 more than in the preceding 

 year. The average number of prisoners in all 

 the jails was 297 and a fraction, Ix-ing about 

 62 more than in 1868. On the 1st of April, 

 this year, there were 818 confined, or 69 more 

 than at the same date last year. Of the whole 

 number of prisoners during the year, 2,035 

 were whites 1,737 moles and 29 females and 

 211 colored 182 males and 29 females; 591 

 were natives of the State, 458 of other States, 

 and 1,204 of other countries; 185 were strict- 

 ly temperate, 1,220 moderate drinkers, and 727 

 habitually intemperate. The principal offences 

 for which arrests were mode are given as fol- 

 lows : Assault, 225 ; assault and battery, 152 ; 

 assault with intent to kill, 25 ; adultery, 10 ; 

 burglary, 10 ; breach of the peace, 51 ; common 

 drunkards, 30 ; common prostitute*, 15 ; drunk- 

 enness, 812 ; larceny, 382; obtaining goods on 

 false pretences, 22 ; resisting officer, 28; stealing 

 from person, 38 ; vagrancy, 62 ; lewd conduct, 

 20 ; horse-stealing, 20 ; fornication and visiting 

 houses of ill-fame, 14 each ; rape, 8 ; and attempt 

 at rape, 9 ; incendiarism, 9. The total receipts 

 and expenses were as follows : 



lUfflpti. Expentn. 



JTartford J12.1SO 40 $10,48368 



New Haven 14.08098 11.801 90 



New London 9,<S2 80 10,170 *3 



Fairflcld G.838 10.17023 



Windham 6.81087 2.84993 



Litchfield not stated not si ated 



Middlesex 2.E64 C8 8,084 47 



Tolland 84507 800 



The State militia is composed of thirty-nine 

 companies of infantry, two batteries of artil- 

 lery, a battery and a section of a battery drill- 

 ing as light artillery. The whole number or- 

 ganized into companies and duly armed and 

 equipped is 3,707, including field and staff offi- 

 cers. All of the companies have drilled two 

 days in the spring and six days in the fall, for 

 which they have received compensation. There 

 have been 500 new enlistments within the 

 year, and 642 have been discharged. The en- 

 rolment is as follows : 



Inactive militia 40,980 



Assessed $2 each, commutation 28,760 



Subject to duty in case of -war or insurrec- 

 tion 7,433 



Though the maintaining of this organized 

 force is considered necessary, chiefly in aiding 

 the civil authority in the repression of public 

 disturbances, it is recommended officially that 

 the infantry regiments be reduced to four, 

 with eight companies in each, and each com- 

 pany bo reduced to the minimum of the United 

 States Army. Such reduction would at the 

 same time save a part of the expenses, furnish 

 force enough for the protection of the State, 

 and secure better discipline. The expenditures 

 for this branch of the public service last year 

 amounted to $116,955.95; and the receipts 

 from the commutation-tax during the same 

 period were $59,427.95. The General Assem- 

 bly at the last session passed a law " in altera- 

 tion of an act for forming and conducting the 

 military force," ordaining as follows : 



