MASS AC UK. SETTS. 



476 



,xl more than cli-vcn thousand five hun- 



The amount raised by taxes for schools 



7.39, showing an 



^ of $210,552.77 over tho preceding year. 



lod on schools from taxes, 



>, was $2,574,974.49, 



whir, to the sum of $10.09 for every 



State between five and fifteen 



The percentage of tho valuation 



; .:-opria"il tr public schools in 1866 



.-jo mill and ninety-eight hundredths. 



I this ratio ho maintained for ten years 



mated that at tho close of that 



1 tho sum to ho appropriated will exceed 

 56,000,000 per annum. The number of teach- 

 ers of public schools in 1866 was, males 1,377; 

 females 1 ( \885 ; all of whom received a greater 

 amount of compensation than in the preceding 

 year. 



Tho entire cost of tho Board of Charities for 

 1866, was $1,900, from an appropriation of 

 $2,500 ; of tho office of tho secretary, $8,000 ; 

 of that of tho general agent, $12,000. The 

 latter officer collected from immigrant head- 

 money and other sources, and paid into tho 

 treasury, more than $30,000 thus covering the 

 entire expenses of the department and leaving a 

 surplus of nearly $9,000. While the State sup- 



1 during the past year an average of two 

 thousand three hundred and seventy-five paupers 



inatics, at a cost of $300,000, tho Board of 

 Charities removed from the Stato or fully pro- 

 tor two thousand more, who would other- 

 wise have heen supported at the public expense. 

 The same agency has removed 17,000 of this 



-'nice 1837. The number of pauper luna- 

 tics supported in tho lunatic asylums of the State 

 on September 30, 1866, was 548, at the rate of 

 $3.2o per week for each inmate. The cost of 



institutions to the State during tho year 

 was $103.000. By an act of the Legislature of 

 1866 a State workhouse was established at 

 15 rid ire water, for the reception of inmates of 

 tho Stato almshouses convicted of vagrancy or 

 leading idle or dissolute lives; and the estab- 

 lishment at Monson was converted into a pri- 

 mary school for tho discipline and instruction 

 of such children as appeared likely to be 

 chargeable upou the State for a longer period 

 than six months. This, it was supposed, would 

 prove greatly to the advantage of tho latter 

 class. Tho experiment has proved successful, and 

 tho primary school at Monson at tho close of 

 tho year contained 445 pupils, who would com- 

 pare favorably in acquirements and discipline 

 with those in the majority of district schools. 

 In tho course of a year tho two institutions are 

 expected to assume their peculiar distinctive 

 character. Tho only Stato almshonso now left 

 i-i that at Tewksbury, which, by the last report, 

 i-..:itained 780 inmates. The aggregate popula- 

 tion of tho throe establishments is 1,800, who 



lie Stato $170,000 per annum. The hos- 

 pital at Rainsford Island in Boston Harbor, is 



fter to bo occupied for quarantine pur- 

 poses only. The School for Idiotic and Feeble 



Minded Youth, the Asylum for the Blind, and 

 tho various institutions of reform and correc- 

 tion, were reported at tho 'close of tho year in 

 good condition. Tho State prison at Oharlea- 

 town is now nearly or quite sclf-support'intr. 



From an abstract of the industry of Massa- 

 chusetts prepared by tho Secretary of State ha 

 1866, it appears that the aggregate amount of 

 industrial products for tho year ending May 1, 

 1865, was $517,240,613 ; tho amount of capital 

 employed, $174,499,950; the number of per- 

 sons employed, 271,421 in manufacturing, 

 and 68,636 in agricultural pursuits. In 1855 

 the persons employed numbered 245,908 ; 

 tho amount of capital was $120,693,258; the 

 amount of products, $295,820,682. The heavi- 

 est productions were cotton goods, $54,436,881 ; 

 woollen goods, $48,430,671 ; calico and mousse- 

 line do laino, $25,258,703; paper, $9,008,521; 

 clothing, $17,743,894; tanning and currying, 

 $15,821,712; boots and shoes, $52,915,243; 

 coastwise freights, $11,319,394; hay, $13,195,- 

 274, and horses, oxen, cows, etc., $19,154,790. 



There are within the borders of the Stato 

 46,904 farms, valued at $152,946,658, and culti- 

 vated in part as follo\v> : 



The report of the commissioner of savings' 

 hanks shows that the amount of deposits in 

 one hundred and two institutions was $67,717,- 

 947.80, an increase over 1865 of $7,781,465.28. 



The cod fishery of Massachusetts in 1866 was 

 on the whole successful, while tho mackerel 

 fishery showed a falling off of 25,099 barrels 

 from tho previous year. Fishing is declared 

 by tho Massachusetts journals to be an unpro- 

 fitable business, even in that State, where it 

 has always boon prosecuted with most skill and 

 enterprise, and it is predicted that the fisheries 

 must pass from New England as a prominent 

 employment, and eventually be established fur- 

 ther east, where the population can engage in 

 them without additional employment. 



The act of 1866 for organizing the militia of 

 Massachusetts provides that all able-bodied cit- 

 izens, between tho ages of eighteen and forty- 

 five, with certain exceptions, shall bo enrolled 

 in the militia. The enrolled militia, howcvi r. 

 are not to bo subject to active duty unless called 

 upon in case of invasion or riot. The active 

 militia will consist of volunteers, who, in any 

 emergency requiring tho exercise of military 

 force, will be tho first required to render ser- 

 vice to the State. Of this class of troops there 

 are to be one hundred companies of infantry, 

 eight of cavalry, and five of light artillery. 

 Arms and equipments are to be provided by 

 the State, and annual encampments are to be 

 held for the purpose of inspection, drill, and iu- 



