VERMONT. 



VIRGINIA. 



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savings-banks, $14,992.22 by trust companies, 

 $5,893.63 by home insurance companies, $6,- 

 855.93 by foreign insurance companies, and 

 $7,514.05 by foreign life-insurance companies. 

 The largest amount of tax was received from 

 the Central Vermont railroad $50,133.69. 

 Of the Huntington fund, $195,728.76 has been 

 converted into cash securities, leaving stocks 

 of the face value of $24,554 to be realized 

 upon. The estimated cash value of these is 

 $15,000, and when disposed of the total pro- 

 ceeds from the securities belonging to the fund 

 will be $210,728.76. There are twenty-six sav- 

 ings-banks and trust companies in the State, 

 exclusive of the St. Albans Trust Company, 

 which is in the hands of a receiver. The total 

 assets of these institutions are $15,375,271.75. 

 Their liabilities are to depositors, $14,253,- 

 863.47 ; to stockholders, $394,000 ; aggregat- 

 ing, $14,649,963.47; leaving $725,908.28. 



Public Schools. Statistics of the schools for 

 the year ending March 31 are given below : 



Public schools 2,557 



Average number of days of school 13(5 



Pupils enrolled 71,667 



Average daily attendance 46,625 



Male teachers 531 



Female teachers 8,797 



Average wages per week of male teachers $3 50 



Average wages per week of female teachers $5 50 



Total revenue for school purposes $621,370 19 



Total expenditures_for school purposes $583,127 67 



Probably 20 per cent, of the children of 

 school age are not enrolled in the public 

 schools. The law submitting the question of 

 the adoption of the town system of schools to 

 a vote of the people at the annual town meet- 

 ings in 1885 and 1886, was acted on by most 

 of the towns. Sixteen towns only voted to 

 adopt the town system ; all others that voted 

 on the question voted against it; seventeen 

 towns had previously adopted it, and the town 

 of Norton organized with it. 



Penal and Reformatory Institutions. The re- 

 ports of the directors and superintendents of 

 the State Prison and House of Correction, and 

 of the trustees of the Vermont Reform School, 

 show that these institutions have been con- 

 ducted in a satisfactory manner. The follow- 

 ing data are presented as indicating the rela- 

 tive number of inmates in these institutions 

 from and including 1882: 



The net ordinary expenses of these institu- 

 tions for the same period are as follow : 



The dependent classes are chiefly provided 

 for in institutions of other States. 



Insane. The number of inmates in the asy- 

 lum at Brattleboro', Aug. 1, 188 i-, was 437; 



Aug. 1, 1886, 450 ; admitted during the bien- 

 nial term, 184; discharged during the biennial 

 term, 171. Of those now in the asylum, 90 

 per cent, are regarded as incurable. 



VIRGINIA. State Government. The following 

 were the State officers during the year: Gov- 

 ernor, Fitzhugh Lee, Democrat; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, John G. Massey ; Attorney-General, 

 Rufus A. Agres; Secretary of State, Henry W. 

 Flournoy; Treasurer, A. G. Harman; 1st Audi- 

 tor, Morton Marye; 2d Auditor, Frank G. 

 Ruffin ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 John L. Buchanan ; Commissioner of Agri- 

 culture, Randolph Harrison; Superintendent of 

 Land-Office, Joseph A. Wingfield; Railroad 

 Commissioner, H. G. Moffett. Court of Ap- 

 peals : L. L. Lewis, B. W. Lacy, R. A. Rich- 

 ardson, T. T. Fauntleroy and D. A. Hinton. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature, which 

 was in session at the beginning of the year, ad- 

 journed on March 5. Among the acts passed 

 were the following : 



To establish an agricultural experimental station at 

 the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College at 

 Blacksburg. 



To amend and re-enact section 1 of an act to pay 

 to the public free schools the money set apart by the 

 Constitution and laws for their benefit. 



Prescribing a penalty against defaulting treasurers 

 and other collecting officers. 



To provide that all corporations hereafter chartered 

 in this State shall pay their taxes in money, or forfeit 

 their charters. 



To provide for the erection of additional buildings 

 for the State Female Normal School. 



To amend the law respecting the protection of wild 

 game. 



To incorporate the Virginia Pharmaceutical Associ- 

 ation . 



To give the consent of the Commonwealth to the 

 purchase or acquisition of real estate by the United 

 States Government in the city of Norfolk 'for a site for 

 a public building for the accommodation of the United 

 States court-rooms, post-office, and other offices. 



To amend the law in relation to the manner of 

 choosing registrars and judges of election for the sev- 

 eral counties and cities of the Common wealth. 



To define and punish barratry. 



To incorporate the Henderson, Eoanoke, and Vir- 

 ginia Railroad. 



To incorporate the Virginia Mineral Belt Railroad 

 Company. 



To incorporate the Lynchburg and Southwest Rail- 

 road Company. 



To incorporate the Rockbridge Savings-Bank. 



To incorporate the Virginia Boom and Log Com- 

 pany. 



To incorporate the Richmond and Alleghany Aid 

 Association. 



To amend sections 4, 7. and 15 of an act approved 

 March 19, 1884, entitled "An act to provide for the 

 sale of lands delinquent for taxes and county levies," 

 and to repeal section 16 of said act. 



To incorporate the Warm Springs Valley Railroad 

 Company. 



To incorporate the Mineral Springs Railroad Com- 

 pany. 



To allow persons charged with crime to testify in 

 their own behalf. 



To incorporate the Morotock Manufacturing Com- 

 pany. 



locate and establish the dividing line between this 

 State and the State of North Carolina. 



Providing that in the trial of any issue involving 

 the genuineness of a coupon appearing or purporting 



