MINNESOTA. 



to $176,806.85, an increase over the previous 

 year of $28,276.95. 



report of the condition and workings 

 nf tlio Normal Schools is brought down to De- 

 er 1, 1870. The whole number of students 

 in attendance at that date was 460, an increase 

 over the attendance of the previous year. 

 of thin number the Winona Scnool has 216. 

 Sinco the establishment of this school, 91 stu- 

 di-iits have been graduated. The number of 

 students enrolled during the year ending De- 

 cember 1st, in the State University, was 801. 

 During the year, a new or modified plan of or- 

 ganization, drawn np by the president of the 

 I niversity, and indorsed by many eminent edu- 

 cators, was adopted. " It is claimed," says the 

 Governor, "and I think with justice, for this new 

 plan of university organization, that, while offer- 

 ing to the literary and professional classes the old 

 classical education in its best and highest form, 

 it looks also to the practical education of the 

 artisan, the engineer, the manufacturer, the 

 merchant, and the agriculturist. Intrusted, as 

 the Board of Regents are, with the expenditure 

 of the funds accumulating from the congres- 

 sional land grant for the benefit of colleges of 

 agriculture and the mechanic arts, they pro- 

 pose to themselves nothing else than a full and 

 cheerful obedience to the law donating those 

 lands, which declares the object of the grant 

 to be the ' liberal and practical education of the 

 industrial classes.' " 



The University, including the Agricultural 

 College, has a productive fund of $116,357.74, 

 produced by the conversion of the lands, grant- 

 ed by the General Government, into money or 

 interest-bearing bonds. The current fund con- 

 sists of the income of this permanent fund, and 

 the proceeds of the timber sold on lands be- 

 longing to the institution. The receipts for the 

 year, together with $11,880.74 in the treasury 

 at its commencement, amounted to $28,875.61, 

 and the current expenses were $22,500. Dur- 

 ing the year there were sold 348,127 acres of 

 the Agricultural College lands, realizing $17,- 

 860.85 for the University. 



The Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and 

 the Blind is suffering from lack of room, the 

 present building being overcrowded, but other- 

 wise the institution is in a favorable condition. 

 During the eight years that the school has been 

 in operation not a death has occurred among 

 the inmates, and epidemic diseases have been 

 successfully warded off. The whole number 

 instructed during the year was 85, of whom 67 

 remained at the end of the year. The total 

 receipts for the year were $18,131.49, and the 

 expenditures $17,549.02, leaving an unexpend- 

 ed balance of $1,580.47. The Reform School 

 is reported to be in a most flourishing condition. 

 The number of inmates received during the 

 year was 43 ; whole number in the institution 

 at the end of the year, 82. The Legislature of 

 1870 appropriated $7,000 for the purchase of 

 additional grounds and buildings for the female 

 department. The Board purchased thirty-three 



acres lying Immediately east of the original 

 purchase by the State, with a substantial 

 I'rimio building thereon, at a cost of $7,000. 

 The house has been repaired and partly fur- 

 nished, and was opened early in December. 

 The Board of Managers and the superintend- 

 ent have established what is known as the 

 "family plan," by which the inmates are dis- 

 tributed into families of forty each, under the 

 immediate care of a teacher. The institution 

 has received from all sources during the year 

 $25,642.66, and during the some period the 

 disbursements amounted to $26,759.80. The 

 State-prison is generally well conducted, bnt 

 the Governor speaks of the contract system of 

 labor in vogue there as injurious to the best 

 interests of the State. Notwithstanding the 

 inadequacy of the hospital accommodations, 

 and that nearly four hundred cases of sickness 

 were treated during the year, but one death 

 occurred among the inmates. 



The Hospital for the Insane has labored un- 

 der financial embarrassments. Expenses were 

 incurred during the year in preparing the cu- 

 linary department of the new buiding and fur- 

 nishing the hospital. The Legislature failed 

 to make an appropriation to meet these ex- 

 penses, amounting to $26,169. 30, and the Board 

 of Trustees issued negotiable scrip bearing 

 interest at the rate of 12 per cent, per annum ; 

 an appropriation is asked of the Legislature 

 of 1871 sufficient to cancel these obligations, 

 and to meet other necessary expenses. Dur- 

 ing the year 51 patients have been discharged 

 recovered, and 21 improved. 



The Legislature of 1870 passed an act creat- 

 ing a Board of Immigration, with an appropri- 

 ation of $10,000 for immigration purposes. 

 The following is a summary of the action of 

 the Board : " Fifty thousand copies of immigra- 

 tion pamphlets half of them containing maps 

 of the State have been distributed, but only 

 upon verbal or written application, to parties 

 desiring information. Of these, thirty thou- 

 sand were in the English, and the rest in the 

 Scandinavian, German, and Welsh languages. 

 Agents have been employed in Milwaukee, 

 Chicago, and Quebec, to guide, counsel, and 

 assist foreign immigrants to this State, who 

 have faithfully performed their duties to the 

 State and to the immigrants. An office has 

 been opened and a commissioner of immigra- 

 tion appointed in New-York City. The agent 

 in Germany has been retained. Immigrant- 

 houses were provided during the season, which 

 afforded temporary lodging for immigrants, at 

 La Crosse, Red Wing, and Minneapolis." The 

 number of foreign immigrants who passed 

 through Milwaukee and Chicago alone, en 

 route for Minnesota, during the year, as esti- 

 mated by the agents, was nearly 20,000. The 

 whole number (foreign and native) that reached 

 the State during the year is probably 85,000. 



From the report of the Adjutant-General, it 

 appears that there were organized during the 

 year eleven militia companies, ten of which 



