VERMONT. 



Cash and deposits $126,118 66 



Uncollected taxes 218 94 



Due from savings-banks * 28,167 63 



Total $154,505 23 



The only items in the list of liabilities that 

 are likely to be called for are suspense, savings- 

 bank tax, and orders not presented, amounting 

 to $4Y,367.15, leaving an excess of available 

 assets over current liabilities August 1, 1882, 

 of $107,138 ; on the same basis, August 1, 1878, 

 $153,009 ; on the same basis, August 1, 1880, 

 $199,483. 



The following table shows the total acreage 

 and average valuation per acre of the farms 

 (exceeding ten acres) in each county, the ap- 

 praised valuation thereof as equalized by the 

 State Board, and the aggregate valuation of 

 all real estate for purposes of taxation (ex- 

 cept road-beds of railways) for the year 

 1882: 



Included in the last column is the appraised 

 valuation of first-class real estate, comprising 

 all buildings and property in estates under ten 

 acres. 



The footings of the above tabulated state- 

 ment are as follows : Number of acres in farms 

 exceeding ten acres in the State, 5,037,841; 

 average appraisal per acre for the State, $13.- 

 86 ; total appraised valuation of such farms in 

 Vermont, $46,779,445 ; total appraisal of first 

 and second class real estate in Vermont, $102,- 

 708,419. 



To this should be added the following ap- 

 praised valuation of road-beds of the various 

 railways as reported by the State Board of 

 Listers and arranged by counties: Addison 

 County, $130,647; Bennington, $182,309.87; 

 Caledonia, $82,400; Chittenden, $122,976.04; 

 Essex, $81,225; Franklin, $200,707.74; Grand 

 Isle, $32,842; Orange, $165,916 ; Orleans, $173,- 

 447.50 ; Rutland, $309,296 ; Washington, $78,- 

 190 ; Windham, $176,736 ; Windsor, $237,828 ; 

 total, $1,974,521.15. 



A summary of the valuation of the first, sec- 

 ond, and third class of real estate in the State, 

 as determined by the State Equalizing Con- 

 vention (and returned by the State Board of 

 Listers), aggregates $104,682,940. 



PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. In 1880 there were 



142 convicts in the State-Prison ; in 1882 the 

 number was 94. 



On the 31st of July, 1880, there were 66 

 prisoners in the House of Correction and four in 

 the Rutland County Jail, which is in the same 

 building and under the same management. 

 Two years later there were 44 prisoners in the 

 House of Correction and one in the Rutland 

 County Jail, making a difference of 25 in the 

 two years. 



On July 31, 1880, there were 122 pupils in 

 the Reform School ; on the same day in 1882 

 there were but 86, a decrease of 36 in two 

 years. 



The report of the trustees of the Insane 

 Asylum at Brattleboro shows that the number 

 of the inmates of the asylum August 1, 1882, 

 was 441, of whom 356 were residents of Ver- 

 mont, an increase of 27 within two years. 

 They say that the institution has become al- 

 most exclusively devoted to the State, only 

 three having been admitted from outside its 

 limits in the past two years. 



There are in the various institutions at which 

 the beneficiaries of this State are being edu- 

 cated the following numbers, viz. : At the 

 American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at 

 Hartford, Conn., 17 ; at the Clarke Institution 

 for Deaf- Mutes at Northampton, Mass., 4 ; at 

 the Perkins Institute for the Blind at Boston, 

 Mass., 8 ; at the Massachusetts School for Idi- 

 otic and Feeble-Minded Youth at South Bos- 

 ton, Mass., 3. To aid in supporting these pu- 

 pils the State has expended during the past 

 two years the following sums, viz. : For the 

 deaf and dumb at the American Asylum, $5,- 

 689.66 ; for the deaf and dumb at the Clarke 

 Institute, $1,430.71 ; for the blind at the Per- 

 kins Institute, $4,850; for the feeble-minded 

 at South Boston, $2,316.96. The entire appro- 

 priation per annum is $5,000 for the deaf and 

 dumb, $4,000 for the blind, and $2,000 for the 

 feeble-minded. 



EDUCATION. The Superintendent of Educa- 

 tion, in his report embracing the two years 

 ending March 31, 1882, says that as a whole 

 the common schools are not now accomplishing 

 what the best interests of the people and State 

 demand. Among the many causes for this in- 

 efficiency he cites the following: That the num- 

 ber of native-born children has decreased; that 

 the people have gradually gathered arounc 

 business centers, and that many rural district 

 are thinly populated; that schools are small, 

 scholars young, real estate depreciated, taxes 

 high, and the tendency of the times is to em- 

 ploy cheap teachers; that school-houses are 

 neglected, and that the work of the distric 

 schools is unsatisfactory. 



In 1857 there were but four graded school 

 and seventy academies in the State. Sim 

 then the academies have decreased and grade 

 schools increased. 



The State Normal School at Castleton 

 ports an aggregate attendance for the year 

 396 pupils and 13 graduates; and the Norr 



