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KHODE ISLAND. 



RINEHART, WILLIAM II. 



the State from suits pending at the close of the 

 year was $11,120, at the lowest rate of fine 

 imposed by law. With regard to the work of 

 the constabulary force, the Governor said, in 

 his message of January, 1875: "Having the 

 opportunity of observing to some extent the 

 interior working of the department, and pain- 

 fully aware of the obstacles persistently placed 

 in its way, I am surprised that a force of only 

 eight men should have accomplished in so 

 short a time so great an amount of work, and, 

 I may also add, so great an amount of good. 

 I unhesitatingly place upon record the com- 

 mendation which these men have earned from 

 the State, by their honest, energetic, and fear- 

 less discharge of duty." 



There was in the State Treasury, the 1st of 

 May, the beginning of the fiscal year, a balance 

 of $294,306.08; and the receipts from that 

 time to December 1st amounted to $255, 395. 74. 

 The expenditures for the same period were 

 $282,854.98, which left in the Treasury, De- 

 cember 1st, $266,846.84. The bonded debt of 

 the State is as follows : 



Bonds of Oct. 1, 1861, payable 1881 $500 00 



" Sept. 1, 1862, " 1882 994,00000 



" April 1, 1863, " 1883 200,00000 



July 1,1863, " 1893 631,00000 



Aug. 1, 1884, " 1894 738,00000 



Total $2,563,500 00 



The bonds are held at a premium, and, as 

 the act authorizing their purchase before ma- 

 turity requires that they shall be bought at a 

 price not exceeding the par value, no reduction 

 of the debt was made during the year. 



The school-system of Rhode Island is one of 

 the most efficient in the country. The num- 

 ber of children between the ages of five and 

 fifteen in the State is 43,800. Of these, 39,401 

 attended school at least one day during the 

 year ending April 30, 1874. The average 

 number belonging to the schools was 30,165, 

 the aggregate attendance 24,434. The number 

 of schools was 732, an average of 13 over the 

 previous year ; the average length of schools 

 was 8 months and 19 days; number of teach- 

 ers employed, 805, an increase of 47. The 

 average compensation per month of male 

 teachers was $83.65, an increase of $7.95 ; 

 average compensation per month of female 

 teachers, $43.86, an increase of $1.89. There 

 were 52 evening-schools, with an aggregate 

 length of ISf- weeks, in which the number of 

 different pupils enrolled was 6,083, and the 

 average attendance 2,930. The entire receipts 

 from all sources throughout the State, for 

 school purposes, were $745,769.60 ; expendi- 

 tures, $690,851.53. 



Some important changes were made at the 

 State Farm during the year. The old work- 

 house was remodeled and converted into an 

 almshouse, at a cost of $7,669.85. The new 

 Workhouse and House of Correction was com- 

 pleted, and the buildings of the Insane Asylum 

 were put in repair. On the 1st of January 

 there were in the Workhouse and House of 



Correction 190 men and 67 women ; during the 

 year, 333 men and 145 women were commit- 

 ted; 37 escaped men were returned, 334 men 

 and 152 women were discharged, 81 men and 2 

 Avomen escaped, 3 men and 1 woman died, and at 

 the end of the new year 142 men and 57 women 

 remained in the institution. The inmates are 

 employed about the farm and buildings, and 

 in making baskets and seating chairs. The 

 Asylum for the Incurable Insane contained 78 

 men and 79 women at the beginning of the 

 year, and 87 men and 85 women at the end of 

 the year ; 28 men and 22 women were received, 

 and 10 men and 14 women discharged, during 

 the year, 4 escaped, 2 escaped inmates were 

 returned, and 9 died. The Almshouse was 

 opened on the 1st of August. From that date 

 to January 1, 1875, 64 men, 72 women, 31 

 boys, and 29 girls, were received, including 2 

 boys and 5 girls born in the establishment ; 8 

 men, 19 women, 13 boys, and 7 girls, were 

 discharged ; 3 men, 4 women, and 1 girl, died ; 

 and at the end of the year 53 men, 49 women, 

 18 boys, and 21 girls, 141 inmates in all, re- 

 mained. Work has begun on the new State- 

 prison, and the inmates of the Workhouse are 

 employed upon it to some advantage. The 

 cost of supporting the institutions on the State 

 Farm, under the direction of the Board of 

 State Charities and Correction, for the year, 

 was $100,954.11 ; the estimates for 1875 arc 

 $112,000. 



There are 37 institutions for savings in the 

 State, with 98,359 depositors, having an aver- 

 age of $495.85 on deposit. The total amount 

 of deposits is $48,771,501.86; increase over 

 previous year, $2,154,318.83. The total re- 

 sources and liabilities of the savings-banks 

 amount to $50,540,703.19. 



There are seven stock-insurance companies 

 chartered by the General Assembly of the 

 State, with a paid-up capital of $1,300,000 ; 

 gross assets, $2,110,428; liabilities, $587,054 ; 

 surplus, $1,523,334. Besides these, there are 

 35 companies of other States and 15 of foreign 

 countries, doing business in Rhode Island. 

 There are also 16 mutual companies with State 

 charters, and 7 from other States. 



The Rhode Island militia force consists of 44 

 general and staff officers, 36 cavalry, 53 artille- 

 ry, and 220 infantry officers, under commis- 

 sion; and 221 enlisted men in the cavalry, 282 

 in the artillery, and 1,972 in the infantry; 

 making a total of 2,799 men. The entire en- 

 rolled militia, comprising all persons between 

 the ages of eighteen and forty-five, liable to 

 service under the United States laws, numbers 

 34,263. 



RINEHART, WILLIAM H., an American 

 sculptor of rare genius, born in Carroll (near 

 Frederick) County, Md., in 1827; died at 

 Rome, Italy, October 28, 1874. His father 

 was a farmer, and gave him a good common- 

 school education, and he worked on the farm, 

 and in a marble-quarry which had been dis- 

 covered on it, till he came of age. Developing 



