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HcvisitiL' and consolidating the law governing the 

 volunteer militia. 



Coii.stiiut'mi: ten hours' work in twelve consecutive 

 liours u du\ V \sork for conductor*, drivers, und mo- 

 tormen on .street railways. 



To prevent posting of advertisements on trees in tin: 

 high\vii\ >. 



Codifying and consolidating the lawn relating to 

 elections. 



Extending the law prohibiting discrimination 

 ULruinM persons oil account of race or color so as to in- 

 clude harbor shops und uny oilier public pluee kept 

 for hire, train, or reward. 



To protect persons, associations, or unions of per- 

 s"ii> iii their labels, trado marks, and forms of adver- 

 tisiinr. 



To authorize towns to use the McTammany auto- 

 matio ballot machines at elections of town otticere. 



To provide for licensing plumbers, and for super- 

 vising their business. 



To provide for the appointment of a commission 

 to examine and report upon the Norwegian system of 

 licensing the sale of intoxicating liquors. 



To provide for a highway commission to improve 

 the public roads. 



Requiring the preparation of plans and estimates 

 for a new State prison. 



Education. The following public-school 

 statistics cover the school year 1892-'93 : Num- 

 ber of children between five #nd fifteen years, 

 390,039 ; number of all ages in the schools dur- 

 ing the year, 391,745 ; average attendance, 290,- 

 801; teachers employed men, 989; women, 10.- 

 244; average monthly wages of male teachers, 

 $140.73; female teachers, $48.13; number of 

 public schools, 7,510; average length of school 

 year in months, 8'13. During the year 247 high 

 schools were maintained, with 28,582 pupils in 

 attendance, an increase of 2 schools and 1,100 

 pupils. Evening schools to the number of 244 

 were supported in 58 cities and towns. The 

 number of teachers employed therein was 1,088; 

 the total number of pupils enrolled, 27,784 ; and 

 the average attendance, 14,881. The whole 

 amount of money raised by taxation for the sup- 

 port of public schools, including only wages of 

 teachers, fuel, and care of fires and schoolrooms, 

 was $0,282,141.20, an increase of $703.190.91 for 

 the year. The amount expended for new school- 

 houses was $1,556,039.40. The expenditures for 

 schools, exclusive of the sum paid for repairing 

 and erecting schoolhouses, was $7,388,605.29. 

 The total expenditures, including repairs and 

 new schoolhouses, aggregated $9,468,436.52. 



The Industrial School for Girls, at Lancaster, 

 on Sept. 30, contained 112 pupils; the Lyman 

 School for Boys, 238 ; and the Primary School 

 at Monson (at which neglected and dependent 

 children and those convicted of light offenses are 

 cared for), 209, of whom 148 were boys, 50 girls, 

 and 11 women. 



Charities. The following is a summarized 

 statement of the condition of the State chari- 

 table institutions: Danvers Lunatic Hospital, 

 patients on Oct. 1, 1892, 863 ; admitted during 

 the year ensuing, 394; discharged, 388 ; remain- 

 ing.'Sept. 30, 1893, 869 ; total expenses, $171.443.- 

 24. Northampton Lunatic Hospital, patients 

 on Oct. 1, 1892, 489; admitted, 169; discharged, 

 178; remaining Sent. 30, 1893, 480; total ex- 

 penses, $84,932.25. Westborough Insane Hospi- 

 tal, patients on Oct. 1, 1892, 545; admitted. 340; 

 discharged, 371 ; remaining Sept. 80. 1893, 514 ; 

 total expenses, $111,914.36. Taunton Lunatic 



Hospital, patients on Oct. 1, 1892,698; admit' 

 led. :;SN; discharged, 335 ; remaining Sept. 80, 

 L808, ;'.!: total expenses, $127,9646& Worcester 

 Lunatic Hospital, patients on Oct. 1, 1*92,891; 

 admitted. ?>''> \ : discharged, 539; remaining 

 Sept.:{(), 1893.886; total expenses, $17 ? > J:>1.:.-1. 

 Worcester Insane Asylum, patients on Oct. 1. 1892, 

 449: admitted, 70; discharged, 05 { remaining 

 Sept. 30, 1893, 454; total expenses, $74.wi:;.-js. 

 State Almshouse at Tewksbury, insane depart- 

 ment, patients on Oct. 1,1892, 380; admitted, 

 I.Y?: discharged, 74; remaining Sept. 30, 1*9:5, 

 463; almshouse department proper, inmates on 

 Oct. 1, 1892, 825 ; admitted, 8,160; disi-harged. 

 2.080; remaining Sept. 30, 1893, 1,005. State 

 Farm at Bridgewater, inmates on Oct. 1, 1892, 

 788: admitted, 962; discharged, 993; remain- 

 ing Sept. 30, 1893. 757. Massachusetts School for 

 the Feeble-minded at Waltharn, pupils on Sept. 

 30, 1892, 398 ; admitted during the year, 101 ; 

 discharged, 79 : remaining Sept. 30, 1893, 420 ; 

 expenses, $107.350.01. 



Prisons. The number of convicts at the 

 State Prison on Oct. 1, 1892, was 656; during 

 the year following 145 convicts were admitted 

 and 155 discharged, leaving 646 remaining on 

 Sept. 30, 1893. The net cost of supporting the 

 prison during the year was $154,224.12, a de- 

 crease of $7,790.07 over the previous year. The 

 result of employing prisoners on industries upon 

 the State account was a loss of $17,202.02 

 for the year, against a loss of $8,724.82 for 1892. 

 The total cost of the institution to the State was 

 therefore $171,426.14. At the State Reformatory 

 in Concord there were 887 prisoners on Oct. 1. 

 1892 ; 860 were received during the year ensuing, 

 and 760 were discharged, leaving 987 remaining 

 on Sept. 30, 1893. The current expenses of the 

 institution were $180,853.09, from which should 

 be deducted $25,053.55, the profit made upon the 

 labor of prisoners, leaving $155,799.54 as the net 

 cost of the year. The Reformatory Prison for 

 Women contained 292 inmates on Oct. 1, 1892 ; 

 308 were received during the year following, and 

 288 discharged, leaving 312 remaining on Sept. 

 30, 1893. The expenditures for the year were 

 $54,378.05, and the receipts from labor of pris- 

 oners and other sources $20,392.65, making the 

 net cost of the reformatory $33,985.40. 



In all the penal institutions in the State there 

 were 6,408 prisoners on Oct. 1, 1892; 27,649 pris- 

 oners were committed during the year following, 

 and 27,022 discharged, leaving 7,035 remaining 

 on Sept. 30, 1893. 



Savings Banks. During the year ending Oct. 

 31 1,101,410 deposits, amounting to $75,727,471.- 

 03, were made in the 185 savings banks of the 

 Commonwealth, and $15.655,565.81 in dividends 

 were placed to the credit of depositors. During 

 the same period there were 953,053 withdrawals, 

 amounting to $84,403,075.29, leaving the aggre- 

 gate amount to the credit of depositors on that 

 day $399.995,569.81, represented by 1,214,493 ac- 

 counts, an average of $329.35 to each account. 

 The total assets of the banks amount to $424,579,- 

 334.38. Compared with the previous year, these 

 figures show a decrease of 73,885 in number of 

 deposits made, a decrease of $6,808,063.12 in 

 amount of deposits, an increase of 132.015 in 

 number of withdrawals, an increase of $10,744.- 

 837.36 in amount of withdrawals, an increase of 



