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rate homoeopathic treatment of insane persons 

 under the care of the Commonwealth, who 

 shall desire such treatment ; and, if they shall 

 determine that it is desirable, they are request- 

 ed to present to the next General Court some 

 practicable plan for the establishment of a 

 hospital for such treatment, for which any va- 

 cant premises owned by the State may be ap- 

 propriated. 



Hereafter savings-banks and institutions for 

 savings may invest their deposits and the in- 

 come derived therefrom in the legally author- 

 ized bonds of the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

 Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, 

 and of the District of Columbia, or in the legally 

 authorized bonds for municipal purposes of any 

 of the cities in the aforesaid States and the 

 State of New York, which has at the date of 

 such investment more than fifty thousand in- 

 habitants, and whose net indebtedness does not 

 exceed five per cent of the valuation of the 

 taxable property therein ; and they may loan 

 upon the note or notes of any citizen of this 

 State, with a pledge as collateral of any of the 

 aforesaid securities, at no more than eighty per 

 cent of the market value thereof. 



A savings-bank or institution for savings is 

 limited in its investments in the stock of any 

 one bank or banking association to three per 

 cent of the amount of its deposits at the time of 

 the purchase of such securities. 



At the end of one year after the date of 

 final settlement, the Commissioners of Savings- 

 Banks are to take and keep all 'Jie books and pa- 

 pers of insolvent savings-banks and institutions 

 for savings, including those of the receivers. 



In attempted legislation on the liquor-traffic 

 the failures were more conspicuous than the 

 successes, Most noticeable was the rejection 

 of a stringent prohibitory bill which the House 

 threw out by a tie-vote of 110 to 110, all but 

 seven of its members being accounted for either 

 by their direct assent or dissent, or by their 

 pairs. There were also negatived measures 

 providing for a limit to the number of licenses, 

 for increasing the price of such licenses, and 

 for the prohibition of the use of any part of the 

 premises on which a license is exercised for 

 residential purposes. The noticeable measures 

 that became laws are as follow : 



Every common victualer holding a license to 

 sell liquors must keep his premises closed from 

 twelve o'clock at night until five o'clock in the 

 morning. 



The granting of a license to sell liquors on 

 premises within four hundred feet of a public 

 school on the same street is prohibited. 



The tax levy fixed upon for the year is $2,- 

 000,000, an amount of $500,000 in excess of 

 that assessed and collected last year and the 

 year before, to meet the current expenses of the 

 Commonwealth; this increase is made because 

 of the redaction of the tax on the deposits in 

 savings-banks and institutions for savings from 

 three fourths of one per cent to one half of one 

 per cent. 



The chairman of the Committee on Printing 

 on the part of the Senate, the chairman of 

 said committee on the part of the House of 

 Representatives, the Secretary, Treasurer, and 

 Auditor of the Commonwealth, the Clerk of 

 the Senate and the Clerk of the House of 

 Representatives, are to make a contract for 

 the execution of all the printing for the sev- 

 eral departments of the government of the 

 Commonwealth for a term of five years from 

 the first day of July, in the year 1882. 



A person who, having been arrested on a 

 criminal process, is required to furnish sureties 

 for appearance before any court or trial jus- 

 tice, may in place thereof give a personal re- 

 cognizance, and deposit the amount of bail 

 ordered with the court, trial justice, or magis- 

 trate who has authority to take the recogni- 

 zance. 



It was enacted that the provisions of law 

 relating to the qualification and admission 

 to practice of attorney s-at-law shall apply to 

 women. 



To harmonize the laws governing the ob- 

 servance of legal holidays it was enacted that 

 when Christmas occurs on Sunday the day 

 following shall be a legal holiday. 



Many of the measures upon which much 

 time was spent, and which were quite as im- 

 portant as a large number of those that have 

 become parts of the public statutes, were re- 

 jected, while others were referred to the next 

 General Court. 



FINANCES. The receipts and expenses on 

 account of revenue for the year 1882, includ- 

 ing cash on hand, were : 



Cash in the Treasury, January 1, 1882 $1,351,639 39 



Kevenue receipts during the year 8,090.356 59 



Total $9,441.995 98 



Payments 7,648,062 16 



Eevenue cash, January 1, 18S3 $1,7 



The comparative results for the years 1882 

 and 1881 are as follow : 



In these aggregates are included the corpo- 

 ration and national bank taxes returned by the 

 Commonwealth to cities and towns, etc. These 

 should be deducted, to show the actual ex- 

 penses, viz., $2,275,892.99 in 1882, and $2,- 

 243,437.51 in 1881. With theso deductions 

 the expenses of 1882 were $4,441,419.04, and 

 in 1881, $4,690,966.15, showing that the ex- 

 penses of 1882 were $249,547.11 less than in 

 1881. The principal expenses of the year 1882 

 were : 



Interest on the public debt $1,647,825 S3 



Legislative department 205,822 40 



Executive and other departments 83,364 02 



State-House and Pemberton Square 25.660 57 



Commissioners 79,696 16 



Printing 41,247 89 



