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had an annual income of $7,000 from endow- 

 ments and other sources, besides which $4,000 

 had been subscribed to it for the next two 

 years. A session of the Council was given to 

 a centennial celebration of the adoption of the 

 American Episcopal Prayer-Book of 1785. A 

 Theological Seminary has been established in 

 Philadelphia, with professorships of Hebrew 

 and Old and New Testament Exegesis, and of 

 Systematic Theology and Christian Evidences, 

 and lectureships on Ecclesiastical History and 

 on Pastoral Theology and Liturgies. 



RHODE ISLAND. State Government The fol- 

 lowing were the State officers during the year : 

 Governor, Augustus O. Bourn, succeeded by 

 George P. Wetmore, Republicans ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Oscar J. Rathbun, succeeded by Lu- 

 cius B. Darling ; Secretary of State, Joshua M. 

 Addeman ; Treasurer, Samuel Clark ; Auditor 

 and Insurance Commissioner, Samuel H. Cross; 

 Railroad Commissioner, Walter R. Stiness ; 

 Attorney- General, Samuel P. Colt ; Commis- 

 sioner of Public Schools, T. B. Stockwell ; Ad- 

 jutant-General, Elisha Dyer, Jr. Supreme 

 Court : Chief- Justice, Thomas Durfee ; Asso- 

 ciate Justices, Pardon E. Tillinghast, Charles 

 Matteson, John H. Stiness, and George M. Car- 

 penter, succeeded by George A. Wilbur. 



Legislative Sessions* The Legislature met in 

 adjourned session at Providence on the 6th of 

 January, and adjourned near the close of April. 

 On Jan. 20, Jonathan Chace, Republican, was 

 chosen United States Senator in the place of 

 William P. Sheffield, who had been appointed 

 by the Governor. Three proposed constitu- 

 tional amendments were passed in March, 

 which require the approval of another Legis- 

 lature before submission to the people, viz. : 

 a prohibitory amendment, a female suffrage 

 amendment, and one granting to foreign-born 

 citizens who served in the Union army during 

 the rebellion the right of suffrage on the same 

 terms as native-born citizens. A brief session 

 of the new Legislature was held at Newport, 

 beginning on the 26th of May. 



Finances. The bonds of the State outstand- 

 ing Dec. 31, 1885, were as follow : 



Bonds of July 1, 1363, payable 1893, coupon .... $200,000 00 



" " " registered. 425,000 00 



Bonds of Aug. 1, 1864, payable 1894, coupon .... 832,000 00 



" " registered. 410,000 00 



Total $1,367,000 00 



The sinking fund stood as follows : 



, Sinking fund, Jan. 1, 1885 $370,257 07 



Received from General Treasurer, Jan. 15, 1835. 100,000 00 



Interest received on investments 17,736 96 



Interest due on investments 2,796 00 



Amount of sinking fund, Jan. 1, 1886 $490,790 03 



The balance-sheet was as follows : 



' Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1885 $368.206 41 



Receipts for year ending Dec. 31, 1885 827,001 41 



$1,195,207 82 

 1 Payments for year ending Dec. 31, 1885 841,707 87 



' Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1886 $353,499 95 



The expenditures for the past six years, de- 

 , ducting the amounts paid into the treasury by 



the courts, and the State institutions at Cran 

 ston, from the payments made for their sup- 

 port, have been as follow: 1880, $677,670.55 ; 

 1881, $710,619.92; 1882, $675,810.62; 1883, 

 $799,366.94 ; 1884, $735,269.58 ; 1885, $768,- 

 685.86. 



At the outbreak of the civil war in 1861, 

 the State had no debt; at its close there 

 were $4,000,000 of bonds outstanding. Of this 

 amount the national Government reimbursed, 

 for war expenses, $751,391.66, leaving a bur- 

 den of $3,248,608.34. The State has since paid 

 off $1,881,608.34. 



Institutions for Savings. The returns to the 

 State Auditor of the condition of the savings- 

 banks on Nov. 17, 1885, show : 



Increase of deposits $787,229 76 



Increase of surplus profits 287,787 02 



Deposits and surplus 54,376,471 91 



The whole number of depositors 116,881 



Increase of depositors 629 



Increase of those depositing less than $500 443 



Average to each depositor $445 24 



Amount loaned on mortgages of real estate in 



other States $3,480,925 88 



The above does not include the amount of 

 deposits on participation, $4,016,275.55, or the 

 number of depositors, 1,358, in the Rhode Isl- 

 and Hospital Trust Company. 



Education. The following are some of the 

 statistics of the school returns for the year : 



Number of children from five to fifteen years Inclusive 60.147 



Increase from last year 1,289 



Number who have attended school more than twelve 



weeks 46,570 



Increase from last year 2,672 



Number who have not attended any school 11,222 



Decrease from last year 1,672 



Number of day schools 882 



Average length nine months six days. 



Different pupils enrolled 47,990 



Number of teachers regularly employed 1,007 



Amount paid teachers $458,687 25 



Pupils enrolled in evening schools 4,714 



Average attendance 2,871 



The largest part of the gain has been made 

 during the past two years, or since the enact- 

 ment of the new truant and absentee law. 



The State aid granted to the free public li- 

 braries has proved of great advantage to them, 

 and in ten years they have increased in num- 

 ber from seven to thirty-three. 



The Normal School was organized in 1871. 

 There have been connected with it 1,014 pu- 

 pils. Three hundred and fifty-four have been 

 graduated, and almost all of these have taught 

 in the State. 



The School for the Deaf is small, but well 

 conducted. 



The State Home and School for Dependent 

 and Neglected Children was opened for the 

 reception of inmates the first week in April, 

 1885. Since that time twenty-six children 

 have been at the school, as many as could be 

 accommodated in the buildings then on the 

 place. During the summer and autumn a sec- 

 ond wooden cottage was built, capable of hold- 

 ing twenty-five more children, which is now 

 filled. A large stone wing has been added to 

 the main building. 



The Rhode Island School of Design has been 



