468 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



41,444 hogsheads of tobacco, 245,937 bales of 

 cotton, and 11,783,887 gallons of petroleum. 



EXPENSES OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT. 



For 1880 $3,947,799 27 I For 1882 $4,108,377 90 



For 1881 4, 106,447 84 | For 1883 4,256,755 62 



The total funded and guaranteed debt of the 

 city is $37,516,991.73. Against $21,779,933.41 

 of this sum the city has assets that are-produc- 

 tive and interest-bearing. On $10,759,406.25 

 additional, the water department, Western Ma- 

 ryland Railroad, and passenger railway compa- 

 nies are compelled under special city ordinances 

 to pay the interest, leaving $4,877,632.07 to be 

 provided for by the tax levy. Of the funded 

 debt, $22,081,298.19 bears 6 per cent, interest; 

 $11,723,061.54 bears 5 per cent, interest; and 

 $1,856,800 bears 4 per cent, interest. 



The public schools in Baltimore number 122. 

 The total value of the buildings, exclusive of 

 the lots on which they stand, is $1,188,686. 

 There are 880 teachers and 38,036 pupils. The 

 Baltimore City College has 604 students ; the 

 Western Female High School has 654, and the 

 Eastern Female High School has 445. There 

 are 19 male grammar-schools, 20 female gram- 

 mar-schools, 30 male primary schools, 30 fe- 

 male primary schools, 5 public English-German 

 schools, and 14 colored schools. The colored 

 pupils are fewer than 5,000. The expenses of 

 the school system vary from $650,000 to $675,- 

 000 per year. 



The receipts of leading products during the 

 year ending Nov. 1, 1884, were: flour, 658,- 

 208 barrels; wheat, 17,191,927 bushels ; corn, 

 6,521,801; oats, 1,653,947; rye, 586,500; bar- 

 ley, 381,837; coffee, 373,418 bags; tobacco, 

 38,602 hogsheads. 



MASSACHUSETTS. State Government. The fol- 

 lowing were the State officers during the year : 

 Governor, George D. Robinson, Republican; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Oliver Ames ; Secretary 

 of State, Henry B. Peirce; Treasurer, Daniel 

 A. Gleason ; Attorney- General, Edgar J. Sher- 

 man; Auditor, Charles R. Ladd; Insurance 

 Commissioner, John K. Tarbox. Judiciary, 

 Supreme Court : Chief-Justice, Marcus Mor- 

 ton; Associate Justices, Walbridge A. Field, 

 Charles Devens, William Allen, Charles Allen, 

 Waldo Colburn, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 January 2, and adjourned on June 4, after 

 passing 335 acts and 81 resolves, among which 

 were these : 



Increasing the pay of members of the Legislature 

 from $500 to $650 per each regular session ; raising 

 the salary of the Governor from $4,000 to $5,000, and 

 of the Secretary of State from $2,500 to $3,000 ; pro- 

 hibiting the employment of minors under eighteen in 

 mercantile establishments more than sixty hours a 

 week ; authorizing ten or more persons to form a cor- 

 poration to examine and guarantee titles of real estate ; 

 dividing Worcester county into two districts for the 

 registry of deeds, the northern district, with office at 

 Fitchburg, and the Worcester district ; abolishing the 

 election sermon ; providing for the furnishing of free 

 text-books and school supplies to the pupils of the 

 public schools ; incorporating the town of Bourne, 

 taken from Sandwich ; providing for taking the de- 



cennial census and the industrial "fetfotistics of the Com- 

 monwealth ; relating to the transfer of stock in cor- 

 porations ; preventing discrimination by life-insurance 

 companies against persons of color ; establishing a re- 

 formatory for male prisoners at Concord, and remov- 

 ing the State Prison back to Boston ; for the protec- 

 tion of harbors and navigable waters ; to prevent the 

 sale or exchange of property, under the inducement 

 that a gift or prize is to be part of the transaction ; for 

 ascertaining by proper proofs the citizens who are en- 

 titled to the right ot suffrage ; regulating elections and 

 voting thereat ; incorporating the city of Waltham ; 

 providing a State tax of $2,000,000 ; to improve the 

 civil service of the Commonwealth and the cities there- 

 of ; establishing a homoeopathic hospital for the insane 

 at Westborough ; changing the name of the State Re- 

 form School at Westborough to the Lyman School for 

 Boys ; concerning loreign corporations having a usual 

 place of business in the State. 



An amendment to the Constitution was pro- 

 posed, giving the Legislature power to provide 

 more than one place of meeting in towns for 

 the election of officers under the Constitution. 

 This goes to the Legislature of 1885 for action. 

 The biennial-sessions amendment was defeated. 

 The following propositions also failed to pass: 

 to allow women like privileges as voters with 

 men, in the conduct of municipal aifairs, to 

 submit to the people a prohibitory amendment, 

 and an amendment abolishing the poll-tax as a 

 prerequisite to the right to vote. 



Finances* The financial statement is as fol- 

 lows: 



Funded debt, Jan. 1, 1884 . . . 



Funded debt, Jan. 1, 1885 , 



Decrease . 



$31,43C,6SO 90 



81,482,680 90 



$4,000 00 



Sinking funds, Jan. 1, 1884. . . . . $16,836,672 06 

 Sinking funds, Jan. 1, 1885 17,731,124 94 



Actual increase, allowing for payment of 

 loans ($4,000) $899,052 88 



Actual expenses, 1883 $4,777,565 88 



Actual expenses, so far as ascertained, 1884. . . 4,691,744 44 



ESTIMATES FOR 1885. 



Payments for all purposes $4,992,865 00 



Eeceipts, in addition to cash on hand, but not 

 including direct tax 4,500,664 89 



Deficit $491JOO~11 



A State tax of $1,500,000 will cover this de- 

 ficiency and leave upward of $1,000,000 in the 

 treasury. 



The twenty-fourth annual abstract of polls, 

 property, taxes, etc., as assessed May 1, 1884, 

 shows these results: There are 22 cities and 

 325 towns in the Commonwealth. An increase 

 over the previous year in the total valuation 

 of $25,582,717 is reported. Twenty cities, 205 

 towns report an increase; 2 cities, 119 towns 

 a decrease. An increase in real estate of $32,- 

 341,415 is reported. Twenty-two cities, 2- 

 towns report an increase ; 82 towns a decrease. 

 A decrease in personal estate of $6,758,698 13 

 reported. Eleven cities, 158 towns report an 

 increase ; 11 cities, 166 towns a decrease. An 

 increase in the total tax of $2,330,117 is re- 

 ported (State tax increased $500,000) ; 19 cities, 

 188 towns report an increase; 3 cities, 136 

 towns a decrease. Rate of tax per $1,000: 

 13 cities, 154 towns report an increase; 6 



