WISCONSIN. 



771 



Nunibi-r admitted during the year. 



l:imi- t!u- vr;i 



05 



discharged during the rear 93 



" September 80, 1680 180 



Of which number ninety-sir were males, and 

 Tour tcmulcs. 



current expenses of the year amounted 

 '.03. Tho farm, worked principally 

 1'V tlic patients him yielded a profit during tho 

 oars of over $6,000. 



Tho whole number of pupils in attendance, 

 during tho year, upon the Wisconsin Institute 

 for the education of the deaf and dumb, has 

 104. Number in attendance, October 1, 

 1806, 84. The trustees received from the State 

 and other sources during the fiscal year $20,- 

 678.80, and have expended $24,070.28. 



Owing to adverse legislation in 1865, requir- 

 ing from pupils payment for board, or a certifi- 

 cate from the county judge of the inability of 

 parents to make such payment, the condition 

 of the Institution for the Blind is very unsatis- 

 factory. The number of pupils has decreased 

 from fifty-four to eighteen, and the trustees as- 

 sert that " from one of the most prosperous and 

 efficient schools of its kind in the country, the 

 institution, by the action of this law, has sud- 

 denly been reduced to one of the most in- 

 significant." 



Tho expenditures for the last fiscal year 

 were, for building shop and other improve- 

 ments, $7,790.05, and for current expenses, 

 $16,471.74. 



In addition to the above a " Homo " for sol- 

 diers' orphans was opened January 1st, before 

 provision could be made for its organization under 

 State control, the necessary means having been 

 furnished in great part by private subscription. 

 The amount received by such subscriptions was 

 $12,834.69. The amount expended for repairs, 

 furniture, and current expenses, was $21,106.67. 

 The property was purchased by the State for 

 $10,000, and the Home became a State institu- 

 tion March 31, 18G6, since which time tho trus- 

 i.ive received for its support $25,000 from 

 tho State, and $404.75 from other sources. 

 Amount expended during the fiscal year, $17,- 

 400.20. Balance on hand, September 80, 1866, 

 $7,944.07. On the 1st day of January.1867, 

 298 children had been received into the Home, 

 of whom 57 have been removed by parents and 

 guardians, and 6 have died, leaving tho num- 

 ber of inmates on that day 236. 



The Board of Managers of the State Reform 

 School report that the whole number of chil- 

 dren received since the opening of the school, 

 July 23, 1860, is 400. Of these, 840 were boys, 

 ami GO girls. 



Tbo whole number of inmates during the past 



year was 209 



Number of inmates, October 1, 1865 165 



' " " " 1,1866.; 184 



Largest number of inmates at any one time 160 



No death has ever occurred among the in- 

 mates since the school was first established. 

 On the 10th of January the main building was 

 destroyed by fire. Instead of the one burned, 



the managers have erected threo smaller build- 

 ings, at a cost of about $41,000. They have 

 purchased 120 acres of land for farming pur- 

 poses at a cost of $7,500. The current expense* 

 for tho year amounted to $24,026.14. 



Tho condition of the State Prison is satis- 

 factory. The convicts have earned during the 

 year $32,450.96. 



Increase of supplies and materials during 

 the year $5,555 Cl 



Total credits $38,006 67 



Amount expended for support of the 

 prison 89,268 45 



Total cost to the State during the 

 flscalyear $1,256 88 



Number of convicts, September 80, 18*55 97 



" " " received during the year. .. 145 

 " " " discharged " " "... 78 

 " " " confined, Sept. 80, 1866.... 169 



Increase during the year 72 



It is a remarkable fact, which deserves con- 

 sideration, that of the 229 convicts committed 

 during the past three years, only four per cent, 

 could be called skilful mechanics, while not 

 more than ten per cent, knew the first rudi- 

 ments of a trade. 



The Legislature, on tho last day of the ses- 

 sion, passed " an act to reorganize and enlarge 

 the State University." By this act the nni- 

 versity is made to consist of a College of Arts, 

 a College of Letters, and "such professional 

 and other colleges as from time to time may be 

 added thereto, or connected therewith." The 

 College of Arts is designed to do what would 

 be done by an agricultural college. The pro- 

 ceeds of the 240,000 acres of land, granted by 

 Congress to the State in aid of an agricultural 

 college, are to be given to the university. It 

 was made a condition to the validity of this act 

 that the County of Dane, in which the univer- 

 sity is located, should guarantee the sum of 

 $40,000 to be used in the purchase and im- 

 provement of the experimental farm. This 

 condition was promptly met. The regents 

 have purchased 195 acres of land adjoining the 

 original plot, including various buildings, for an 

 experimental farm, at a cost of $27,054. 



The total productive fund of the institution 

 is now $168,298.65, the interest of which, to- 

 gether with such sums as may bo received for 

 tuition, room rent, etc., will insure an annual 

 income of about $15,000, while the estimated 

 expenditure for each, year is about $21,000, 

 leaving the animal income of the institution 

 inadequate to its proper support by about 

 $6,000. There are 17,982 acres of univ< 

 land and 288,656 acres of agricultural college 

 land belonging to tho fund, and as they are 

 disposed of, the deficit will, of course, diminish. 



One student from each Assembly district will 

 be admitted free of charge for tuition. 



At tho election in November, the whole 

 number of votes given for members of Con- 

 gress was 184,789, of which 79,823 were for 

 the Republican candidates, and 65,416 for the 



