VERMONT. 



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$532.24. There is a small Territorial debt, but 

 the dues from various counties are sufficient to 

 pay it off and leave a balance in the Treasury. 

 The school statistics for 1875 are as follows : 

 "Whole number of school-districts, 236 ; num- 

 ber reporting, 163 ; number of schools, 296 ; 

 teachers, 258 ; children of school age (four to 

 sixteen), 35,696; increase over 1874, 2,399; 

 pupils enrolled in public schools, 19,278, or 54 

 per cent. ; in private schools, 3,542, or 10 per 

 cent. ; total enrollment, 22,820, or 64 per cent. ; 

 average attendance in public schools, 13,462 ; 

 in private schools, 2,437 ; total average attend- 

 ance, 15,899 ; amount paid teachers in public 

 schools, $95,532.70; in private schools, $50,- 



345 ; total salaries of teachers, $145,877.70 ; 

 amount appropriated by the Territory, $15,000; 

 raised by local taxation, $20,267.28; tuition 

 fees, $95,532.70; total amount raised, $130,- 

 799.98 ; expended, in addition to this, for build- 

 ing purposes, $49,568.87; superintendents' sal- 

 aries, $3,450 ; tuition fees in private schools 

 paid out in salaries, $50,345 ; total expenditure 

 for school purposes, $234,163.85; value of 

 public-school property, $438,665; private- 

 school property, $72,850; total value of all 

 school property, $511,515. No appropriation 

 of either money or lands has ever been made 

 by the General Government for the benefit of 

 the schools of Utah Territory. 



V 



VERMONT. The extra session of the Ver- 

 mont Legislature, called for the purpose of 

 taking such action as was made necessary by 

 the destruction of the Reform School at Water- 

 bury by fire, on the 12th of December, 1874, 

 continued only three days, January 13th, 14th, 

 and 15th. An act was passed providing for a 

 new Reform School at Vergennes, and the 

 purchase for the purpose of the Champlain 

 Arsenal property, for a sum not exceeding 

 $11,000, and such additional land as might be 

 required, at a cost of not more than $8,000. 

 The amount appropriated for the purchase, and 

 the construction and fitting up of new build- 

 ings, was $30,000, and the trustees were au- 

 thorized to sell the property at Waterbury. A 

 separate act made the proceeds of this sale 

 available for the benefit of the new institution 

 at Vergennes, and provided for the transfer of 

 the pupils thither as soon as practicable after 

 the buildings had been completed. Another 

 act provided for the admission of girls to the 

 Reform School, "upon the same terms and for 

 the same offenses that boys are now admitted," 

 and required the trustees to " arrange build- 

 ings for the complete separation of the sexes, 

 except for educational and religious instruction, 

 and such recreation as may be allowed by the 

 trustees and superintendent at their discre- 

 tion." For this latter purpose the sum of 

 $5,000 was appropriated. Another act pro- 

 vided that no boy under ten years of age should 

 be sentenced to the Reform School for any 

 offense punishable by fine only, except for non- 

 payment of the fine. Yet another gives the 

 Judges of the Supreme Court jurisdiction over 

 the boys in the Reform School to examine 

 into any case brought before them on petition, 

 and discharge the offender or remand him to 

 custody, " or make such order or orders in the 

 case as to such judge shall seem just and rea- 

 sonable." The only act passed not relating 

 to the Reform School was one appropriating 

 $12,500 for enlarging and improving the State- 

 prison. The Arsenal-grounds at Vergennes 

 consist of 28 acres, and the buildings, which 



cosfr the United States $136,000, had been 

 recently sold for $10,000. The additional 

 ground which it was proposed to purchase for 

 the Reform School consisted of an adjoining 

 farm of 107 acres. 



The fiscal year in this State begins with 

 August 1st. On that date in 1874 the Treas- 

 urer had on hand a balance from the previous 

 year of $367,883.29, and the receipts of the 

 year following amounted to $462,723.64. The 

 expenditures of the year were $678,162.45, 

 leaving a balance on hand, August 1, 1875, of 

 $152,444.48. The liabilities of the State con- 

 sist of $167,500 of bonds due in 1876 and 1878, 

 $135,500 due to the Agricultural College Fund, 

 and floating debts to the amount of $25,584.26 ; 

 total, $328,584.26. Against this, it had, on the 

 1st of August, resources, in cash and taxes 

 due, of $324,940.29, leaving the excess of lia- 

 bilities over resources at $3, 643. 97. The yearly 

 income from school lands, in the various towns 

 of the State, amounts in the aggregate to $15,- 

 122.29, which is devoted to the support of 

 common schools in the several towns. 



The line of the Green Mountain Railroad 

 has been surveyed from Rochester to Middle- 

 sex, a distance of 36$- miles. From Rochester 

 to Granville Summit, 12 miles, there is a rise 

 of 573 feet, and from Granville Summit to 

 Middlesex, 24| miles, there is a descent of 

 859 feet. 



The town of Montpelier was visited by two 

 destructive fires in March and April, the most 

 severe occurring on the 30th of the latter 

 month. Nearly one-half of the business por- 

 tion of the town was destroyed, and the total 

 loss was over $200,000. 



A State Convention of the Woman's Tem- 

 perance Union was held at Rutland on the 

 28th of September. A plan of organization 

 for unions throughout the State was adopted, 

 and the general purposes were set forth in the 

 following resolutions : 



Resolved, That we, the women of Vermont, recog- 

 nize, in the general uprising of women all over our 

 country against the liquor-traffic, the desperation of 



