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MICHIGAN. 



victs in prison, from 1839 to 1874 inclusive, 

 5,018; number of solitary life-convicts (for 

 murder in first degree), from 1848 to 1874, in- 

 clusive, 68. 



Number of inmates in State Reform-Scliool 

 at beginning of the fiscal year, 222 ; admitted 

 during year, 109 ; discharged, 88 ; inmates 

 September 30, 1874, 243; increase, 21. Whole 

 number received since opening of school in 1856, 

 1,512. Of committals for the year, 79 were for 

 larceny, 3 for grand larceny, 5 for burglary, 4 



for burglary and larceny, 7 for assault and bat- 

 tery, 8 for vagrancy, 1 for false pretenses, and 

 2 returned : 97 were white, and 22 colored ; 

 81 natives of the United States, and 28 of foreign 

 birth ; average age, 13 years and 3J months. 



The Board of Supervision of Charitable, 

 Penal, Pauper, and Beformatory Institutions 

 give the folio wing statistics of the persons who 

 received, in some manner, public aid or sup- 

 port in the State during the year ending Sep- 

 tember 30th : 



Of the number in prisons, it is estimated 

 that 2,500 were first in jails, and were there- 

 fore included twice in these figures. 



The entire number of persons in the State 



wholly supported at the public charge, on the 

 30th day of September, 1874, in establishments 

 organized and administered by public authority, 

 was as follows : 



The total cosr of fully supporting all the paupers in the several poor-houses of the State, for 

 the year ending September 30, 1874, was $167,177 46 



The total sum expended for temporary relief outside the poor-houses, including medical 

 attendance was 183,33867 



The total sum pnid for transportation of paupers was 10,395 74 



Total cost of paupers maintained in poor-houses, and of those receiving "out-door relief" 

 and transportation, was $300,911 87 



