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the future. About the same time he procured 

 from the establishment of Mr. Green, at Mum- 

 ford, K Y., about 18,000 trout-spawn, which 

 had been some twenty days in his hatching- 

 troughs; these Mr. Clark, after transporting 

 them some four hundred miles, placed in a 

 separate trough, where a constant stream of 

 water was flowing over them, and in about 

 fifty days over ninety per cent, of them were 

 hatched, and at the date of this writing (Feb- 

 ruary 15, 1870), are doing finely; their yolk 

 sacks being nearly consumed by their growth, 

 so that they will soon require food. The ex- 

 periment thus far strengthens the hopes and 

 predictions of those who believe that within a 

 few years pisciculture will be an important 

 branch of industry in this beautiful and healthy 

 region. 



The following are the primary school statis- 

 tics for the year : number of counties reporting, 

 63 ; of towns, 828 ; of districts, 3,891 whole, 

 and 1,161 fractional. Number of children be- 

 tween the ages of 5 and 20, 374,774 ; increase 

 over preceding year, 20,021 ; number attending 

 school, 269,587 ; number of these over 20 or 

 under 5, 5,869 ; average time school was taught 

 by qualified teacher, 6^th months; volumes 

 in district libraries, 96,580 ; added during the 

 year, 7,635 ; cost of same, $10,727.61 ; number 

 of stone school-houses, 74 ; brick do., 459 ; 

 frame do., 3,767 ; log do., 621 ; value of school- 

 houses and lots, $5,331,774 ; number of graded 

 schools, 236 ; number of visits by county su- 

 perintendent, 5,744 ; number of visits by direc- 

 tors, 10,670 ; qualified male teachers employed, 

 2,354; do. female, 7,898; aggregate months 

 taught by male teachers, 9,021 ; do. by female, 

 30,443 ; wages of male teachers, $430,389.36 ; 

 do. of female, $747,458.50 ; volumes in town 

 libraries, 40,254 ; added within the year, 2,370 ; 

 paid therefor, $3,567.42 ; voted at spring elec- 

 tions for libraries, $2,056.50; fine-moneys re-' 

 ceived for libraries, $27,413.38 ; number of new 

 districts organized, 141 ; number of private 

 schools in State, 173; pupils attending same, 

 8,807; paid school inspectors for services, 

 $4,235.55. The resources of the districts for 

 the year were as follows . 



On hand at beginning of the year $264,446 22 



Received from two-mill tax 323,246 12 



" primary- school fund 165,960 51 



rate bills 94,752 25 



" non-resident scholars. . . 24,659 00 



District taxes to pay teachers' wages. . . 571,564 11 



Other district taxes 737,054 67 



Tax on dogs 25,337 63 



Raised from all other sources 490,076 13 



Total resources for the year $2,771,653 92 



Paidteachers $1,159,46086 



14 for building and repairs 776,074 00 



" all other purposes 465,983 60 



On hand at end of the year 383,542 37 



Total indebtedness of districts at end of the 

 year, $917,027.87. 



The gift made by the State to the university 

 in 1867, on condition that there should always 

 be one homoeopathic professor in the medical 

 department, was so far modified this year as 



to dispense with the condition, and make the 

 donation $15,000 annually. The Legislature 

 also passed a joint resolution, in favor of the 

 admission of females to the university on the 

 same terms as males. The institution was 

 prosperous during the year. The following 

 degrees were conferred : pharmaceutical chem- 

 ist, 23 ; mining engineer, 7 ; civil engineer, 9 ; 

 bachelor of science, 9 ; bachelor of arts, 23 ; 

 master of arts, 20 ; master of science, 1 ; doc- 

 tor of medicine, 97; bachelor of laws, 129. 

 The Normal School was also well attended 

 and prosperous, and for the Agricultural Coir 

 lege the Legislature made provision for the 

 erection of a new and spacious building, largely 

 increasing its accommodations. 



The following table shows the number of 

 convicts in the State Prison at the commence- 

 ment of each year, the average number for 

 the year, the number received, and the 

 average amount to each convict disbursed 

 during the year, omitting the amount expended 

 for buildings and repairs : 



The receipts and expenditures of the prison 

 for the year were as follows : 



Balance OR hand at beginning of year $11,125 31 



Received from convict labor 76,192 73 



" from United States for keeping con- 

 victs 6,351 68 



Received from visitors 2,945 49 



" miscellaneous sources 1,747 23 



Total $98,26244 



Expenses for the year 94,219 79 



Balance on hand 4,042 65 



Add to this expended for building and repairs. 8,114.78 



Jl2,157 43 



And it will be seen that the receipts for the 

 year exceed the current expenses for other 

 than building purposes $1,032.12; a result 

 which has appeared this year for the first time 

 in the history of the institution. 



The number of prisoners discharged, etc., 

 during the year was as follows : by expiration 

 of sentence, 195 ; by reversal of sentence, 3 ; 

 by pardon by the Governor, 7 ; by pardon by 



