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the school laws as should exclude politics from 

 school management and secure free schoolbooks 

 pupils, and to submit to popular vote the 

 question whether appointments to the i>li>. 

 fire, and all other departments of public service 

 should be in accordance with the principles of 

 the merit system : and condemned the partisan 

 management of the oyster police force, and de- 

 nounced every effort to deprive the people of 

 th.-ir independent righto to the public oyster 

 beds and the leasing and selling of them. I .;> 1 

 Lowndes was nominated for ...\. rn T : Robert 

 P. Graham, for Comptroller: ami Harry M. Cla- 

 bough. for ral. 



At theelertion in November tin- KepuMiean 

 was successful, the vote cast being as 

 follows: Lloyd Lowndes, Republican, 124,986; 

 John rat, 106,169; Joshua 



Levering, Prohibitionist, 7.TIH: and for Henry 

 Irews, candidate of the Populist and Labor 

 parties, 1,381. The Gov. -m.-r's plurality was 18,- 

 <67. The Republican candidates for Comptroller 

 and AUorney-Oeneral also were elected. The 

 composition of the Legislature of 1896 is: In 

 the Senate. 12 Republicans and 14 Democrats ; 

 in the House, 70 Republicans and Jl Demo- 

 crats. 



MASSACHUSETTS, a New England State, 

 one of the original thirteen ; ratified the Consti- 

 tution Feb. 6, 1788; area, 815 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 878,787 in 1790; 422,845 in 1800; 472,040 

 in 1810; 523.1 ! in 1H20; 610,408 in 1830; 737,- 

 609 in 1840; 994,514 in 1850; 1.231,066 in 1860 : 

 1.457,351 in 1870; 1,783,065 in 1880; and 2,288,- 

 : :: in 1890. By the State census of 1895 it was 

 1,500481, Capital. Ilo>t,,n. 



Government The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Frederick T. 

 Greenhalge ; Lieutenant Governor, Roger Wol- 

 cott; Secretary ..f State. William M. Olin ; 

 Treasurer, Henry M. Phillips till April, when he 

 resigned and was succeeded by Edward P. Shaw ; 

 Auditor, John W. Kimball; Attorney-General, 

 Hosea M. Knowlton ; Adjutant General, Samuel 

 Da It on, all KepuMiean- : Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court. Wai bridge A. Field; Associate 

 Justices, Charles Allen, Oliver W. Holmes, 

 Marcus P. Knowlton, Jam ~ M. Morton, John 

 Lathrop, and James M. Barker. 



State Census, This was taken during the 

 year, giving a total of 2,500,183 for the population 

 of the State and 560,802 for the number of legal 

 voters. By counties the population was as fol- 

 lows: Barnstable. 27,654; Berkshire, 86,292; 

 Bristol, 219.019; Dukes, 4,238; Essex, 830,893; 

 Franklin, 40,145; Hampden, 152,938; Hamp- 

 shire, 54.710; Middlesex. 499,217: Nant 



Norfolk. 184,819: Plymouth, 101,498; 

 *. 539,799 ; Worcester, 306,445. The pop- 

 tUalion of Boston is 496,920 ; Worcester, 98,767 ; 

 Fall River. 80,203; Lowell, 84,867 : Cambridge, 

 8ltt; Lynn, 62354; New Bedford, 55,251; 

 Somerville. 52.200; Lawrence, 52.164: Sprintr- 

 51,522; Holyoke, 40,322; Sal- 



i 1W J Chebea, 31,264; Hav, -rhill. 

 den, 20,708; (tloucest^-r. -vJii: 

 Newton, 87,590; Taunton, 27,115; Fitchburg, 



Valuations, The total valuation of assessed 

 estate, May 1, 1895, was $2,542,348,993, the real 



estate being valued at $1,90-1. 

 personal property at $577,514,887. < 'f ' 

 estate, the value of land, excluding' I- . 

 was $978,660388. Of the ,- 

 855,674 was resident bank sto. , 



: .'.".' -.Ml. ,,f \\liMin 4;,-.. 



886 were for poll tax only. Th.- nun 

 residents assessed was 81, 058. Th. t 

 oiinty. and city or town purpose 



.. i , ; S::MM.I;<I:I. The immlM-r , 



dwellings was 404,888; of h 



i'>: of sheep, 89,848, of su 

 of neat cattle other than cows, 86,H] 

 536,244. The number of residents 

 property in Boston was 47,566 : <>f n 

 l.T" 1 1 : the number assessed for i 

 was 124,207. The value of assessed real <tt 

 in Boston was $744,751,050; and ..f ; 

 Bttate, x-j(M;,(iir,.s7s. 



Charities. The total numi.,-r ..f 

 under Miprrvi.-ion of the - 

 and Charity wa< : In hospitals HI 

 5,763; in town almshouses, 803: in 

 families, 20*2. The total receipts at ih.-' 

 hospitals were $811,503.47; the , 

 $819,217.95. The weekly cost f 

 $3.29. There were 327 re< 

 The asylum at Medfield is nearly tin 



The State Primary School, 

 closed July 1. It has been maintained 

 nine years as a place of maint. nan- . 

 tion for boys and ^'irls who mii-i oi i 

 been in the alrashouse, during wlii.-h tin 

 received over 6,000 inmates. The | 

 ing pupils out was adopted in part in 1 - 

 extended from time to time. Tin 

 inmates at the time of closing, most ' 

 juvenile offenders. The current exp ; 

 school during its last nine month 

 012.92, giving a per capita cost of $7. ( 

 rate being due to the sudden changes 

 in reference to carrying on the school. 



The Lvman School, at Wes! 

 forming ooy offenders is in it* for! 

 The aggregate number in the sch< 

 year was 436, and the average was 'J 

 the 264 boys in the school at the do 

 there were 635 others who had ! I 

 either on probation or by trai 

 stitutions. The total appropriation was ( 

 H'.O. The .-xpenditunv* from < tet 1. I s 

 30, 1895, were $57,237.58; the gr. 

 capita was $446. 



In the State Industrial S<t,o,,l foi 

 Lancaster, there were :',;? in nusl 

 school and out on prol.ation at 

 the year. During the year 0" 

 placed out were recalled and 72 

 the average number at the school wn 

 cost of the school from Sept. 30, is: 

 80, 1895, was $28,801, & per en, 

 new house was opened in June, and tl 

 are now divided into r> fan 



At the State Hospital for l> 

 Inebriates, at Fox borough. 1 1 

 mates at the beginning of i 

 and 129 remain r 



appropriation was $20.000; the wh< 

 $52,838.64. This institution 

 unsatisfactory condition. Pali- 

 escape in large numbers. 



