RHODE ISLAND. 



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United States to participate in the celebration in 

 October next, to visit the State of Rhode Island at 

 such time during their sojourn in the United States 

 as may be convenient to them, and while the said 

 representatives are within the State to remain the 

 guests thereof; and that his Excellency is hereby re- 

 quested and directed to appoint a committee of such 

 citizens of this State as he may deem proper to assist 

 him in entertaining the guests of the State while here 

 in such a manner as the committee may believe will 

 be most acceptable to their guests, and that his Ex- 

 cellency the Governor be and he hereby is authorized 

 to draw his orders upon the General Treasurer lor 

 the expense incident to carrying this resolution into 

 effect. 



The finances of the State, during the year 

 ended December 31, 1881, show the following 

 results : 



Receipts from all sources $919,792 44 



Balance in Treasury, January 1, 1631 85,663 23 



Total $1 ,005,475 67 



The aggregate expenditures for all purposes 

 during the same year amounted to $794,- 

 685.77 ordinary, $432,984.09 ; extraordinary, 

 $361,701.68, leaving as cash balance in Treas- 

 ury, January 1, 1882, $210,789.90. 



The sum of $129,011.18 was paid on the 

 principal of the State debt, which is at present 

 $2,521,500; made up of outstanding bonds 

 maturing and payable as follows: In 1881, 

 $500 ; in 1882, $952,000 ; in 1883, $200,000 ; 

 in 1893, $691,000 ; in 1894, $738,000. 



Toward paying the State debt, the amount 

 of securities held by the sinking fund on 

 January 1, 1882, was $998,080.50, leaving the 

 amount of actual debt at that date, $1,923,- 

 419.50. 



The aggregate deposits in the thirty-nine 

 savings-banks of Rhode Island, on the 21st 

 of November, 1881, amounted to $46,771,- 

 723.43, an increase of $2,016,097.84 over the 

 preceding year ; and the number of depositors 

 was 102,991, an increase of 5,300 within the 

 year. Of this increase 4,107 are depositors of 

 sums not exceeding $500. The number of 

 depositors has never been as large as at pres- 

 ent. The amount of deposits in the Rhode 

 Island Hospital Trust Company, on participa- 

 tion account, from 1,283 depositors, was at 

 that date $3,647,065.10, which shows the whole 

 number of depositors in the State to be 104,- 

 274, and the whole amount of their deposits 

 $50,418,688.53. 



The condition of the educational interest of 

 Rhode Island appears from the following table 

 of statistics, showing the number of her school- 

 ago population, their attendance in the public 

 schools, and the cost of their instruction dur- 

 ing the year 1881 : 



SCHOOL CENSUS. 



Number of children from five to fifteen years enu- 

 merated 68,077 



Number of children reported as attending public 

 schools 88,930 



Number of children reported as attending Catholic 

 schools 4,7-28 



Number of children reported as attending select 

 schools 1,991 



Number of children reported not attending any school 12,730 



RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 



Total receipts $532,965 19 



Current expenditures 499,102 71 



Permanent expenditures, buildings, apparatus, 



etc 60,88891 



In the charitable, correctional, and penal 

 institutions on the State Farm at Cranston, 

 under the management of the Board of State 

 Charities and Corrections, the average num- 

 bers of their respective inmates given in 1880 

 have not varied materially in 1881, except in 

 the Asylum for the Insane, where the number 

 of patients has increased from 245 on January 

 1, 1881, to 281 on January 1, 1882. This in- 

 crease has been exclusively in the class of 

 patients supported by the State. The total 

 number of persons of the several classes in 

 the public institutions, including the Reform 

 School in Providence, on January 1, 1882, was 

 1,077; and the aggregate amount of money 

 drawn from the State Treasury for the support 

 of all these persons during the year was $122,- 

 324.45. The amount collected from some of 

 the said institutions, and paid into the State 

 Treasury by the Board of Charities and Cor- 

 rections during the year, was $64,296.39, leav- 

 ing $58,028.06 as the sum actually paid by the 

 State for their support. 



The whole number of children in the Reform 

 School, on June 1, 1881, was 148 boys 131, 

 girls 17; on January 16, 1882, it was 199 

 boys 178, girls 21 ; an increase of 51 in seven 

 months and a half. 



The annual returns of the sixteen railroads 

 operating in the State show a decided increase 

 in the amount of freight as well as passengers 

 during the year 1881 ; and a material increase 

 in their gross receipts, as compared with the 

 previous year's. But the amount of their net 

 earnings was actually less than in 1880, owing 

 to an exceeding disproportional increase in the 

 expenses. 



Toward increasing the supply of fish-food in 

 the State, half a million young shad have been 

 placed in the waters of Rhode Island during 

 the year 1881, and one thousand German carp 

 were also received and distributed among ap- 

 plicants who have proper facilities for the cult- 

 ure of that species. 



The work of revising the public laws of the 

 State, which has been attended to for two 

 years, is now finished, published in one volume 

 entitled "The Public Statutes," and widely dis- 

 tributed. The book contains all the laws of 

 the State down to the close of 1881, and will 

 go into practical operation on February 1, 

 1882. 



The death of General Burnside having caused 

 a vacancy in the Rhode Island representation 

 in the Federal Senate, Governor Littlefield con- 

 vened the General Assembly in Providence, on 

 September 20th, for the purpose of electing 

 a person to fill the vacancy. After a recess, 

 the two Houses met in convention, on October 

 5th, when Nelson W. Aldrich received eighty- 

 nine of ninety-six votes, and was elected. 



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