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crease of 18 in two years. Of these, 40 males 

 and 24 females were deaf and dumb, and 21 

 males and 9 females blind. The total receipts 

 of the institution from all sources amounted 

 to $101,923.22; current expenses, $71,247.51; 

 expenses for improvement of the grounds, 

 $5,672.70 ; for new building, furniture, etc., 

 $27,003.01. The average yearly cost of sup- 

 porting and instructing each pupil was $419.10. 



The north wing of the Insane Asylum at 

 Stockton, intended for female patients, has 

 been completed. Of the $113,000 appropri- 

 ated for the purpose, only $88,511.33 was ex- 

 pended. On the 1st of July, there were 1,302 

 patients in this institution, of whom 615 were 

 received during the year preceding. The cost 

 of maintenance for the last two years had been 

 43 cents per day for each patient. The new 

 Insane Asylum at Napa is well advanced toward 

 completion, the north wing, which is capable 

 of accommodating 130 patients, being ready 

 for their reception. 



During the last two years there has been an 

 increase of 29,953 in the number of children 

 of school-age in the State, but the increase of 

 the average daily attendance at the schools 

 was only 8,566. Three hundred and twenty 

 new schools have been organized in 117 new 

 districts ; $613,746.61 were expended in build 

 ing and furnishing 274 schoolhouses. The 

 school expenditures had increased $544,885.09, 

 and school property had enhanced in value 

 $1,011,262.85. The average length of school- 

 terms had increased 1.33 months in the year. 

 The State Normal-School building is substan- 

 tially completed, and the institution is ex- 

 pected to be in successful operation the com- 

 ing year. 



The University of California, at Berkeley, 

 has been in operation six years. The first 

 year there were 40 students ; the second year, 

 78 ; the third, 143 ; the fourth, 185 ; the fifth, 

 191 ; the sixth, 231 ; and the number at pres- 

 ent is 312. The staff of instructors numbers 

 30, besides graduate and student assistants. 

 The institution consists of six colleges a col- 

 lege of letters, and colleges of agriculture, me- 

 chanics, mining, engineering, and chemistry. 

 At the close of the last fiscal year, the whole 

 amount that had been drawn from the State 

 Treasury for its support and endowment was 

 $1,555,426.35. It receives $50,000 a year from 

 State endowment, and has a grant of 150,000 

 acres of land, which will produce a capital of 

 $750,000, yielding an annual income of $45,000. 

 This will make its total revenue $95,000, but 

 the expenses of the current year are estimated 

 at $128,000. 



The State lands of California have consisted 

 of three classes swamp and overflowed lands, 

 marsh and tide lands, and various other grants 

 from the United States. Of swamp and over- 

 flowed lands, 1,524,655.13 acres have been con- 

 firmed to the State, but have passed into pri- 

 vate hands, never being a source of revenue, 

 but rather of expense, to the State. The marsh 

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and tide lands have been mainly disposed of, 

 and a fund created from the proceeds to endow 

 the University of California with an annual in- 

 come of $50,000. The Tide-Land Commission 

 has paid into the State Treasury the sum of 

 $1,418,219.76. Of a grant of 500,000 acres of 

 other lands originally made for purposes of 

 internal improvement, but diverted by the 

 State constitution for the support of common 

 schools, the selectiou of 471,418.75 acres has 

 been approved, and the remainder of the grant 

 has been sold. Other grants of 72 sections 

 and 10 sections have been disposed of, and 

 46,604 acres of the former and 3,203 of the 

 latter have been approved at Washington. 

 The University of California has been vested 

 with complete charge and control of another 

 grant of 150,000 acres. There remains the 

 grant of the 16th and 36th sections of each 

 township, which has been only partly dis- 

 posed of. These were covered in many cases 

 with private grants, and the State was author- 

 ized to select others in lieu of them. A good 

 deal of complication has arisen on account of 

 conflicting and disputed claims, and a conflict 

 of authority between the State and the Gen- 

 eral Government as to the right to dispose of 

 lands containing minerals. Further legislation 

 and negotiations will be necessary to settle 

 these, and enable the State to dispose of the 

 remainder of its public domain. 



The commission appointed in 1874 to deter- 

 mine the value of the property claimed by pri- 

 vate parties in the Yosemite Valley, made 

 majority and minority reports on the subject, 

 neither of which was approved by the State 

 Board of Examiners. That board, however, 

 after a thorough examination into the subject, 

 made awards and expended $55,000 in satisfy- 

 ing claims. The Yosemite Valley and Mari- 

 posa Big-Tree Grove were granted to the State 

 of California and accepted by her in 1864, to 

 be preserved as public property for purposes 

 of general resort and curiosity. They are in 

 the charge of commissioners who ask for 

 $26,500 to be used during the next two years, 

 for purposes of preservation and improve- 

 ment. 



Immigration into the State continues to in- 

 crease from year to year. The arrivals and 

 departures at San Francisco by the Pacific Rail- 

 road for the six years that it has been in opera- 

 tion, ending with the 1st of May, were as fol- 

 lows : 



The arrivals by both sea and land for the 

 first four months of the year 1875 were as 

 follows : 



