

MONT. 



A new Cabinet was constituted on June 96, M fol- 

 lows: Minister of the Interior. lr. HrnU-rt- 



M mister t.f Fi'ivurn Affair*. lr. K/.rjni-l 



mister t. i'ivurn ar*. r. /.rjn- 

 Rojas; M. n.ster ..f \\ r and Marine. lien. .1. K. 



'muster of Public Instruction. Ir 

 rhirim-s: Mim>ter of Public XV,. rk*. <Jm. Jorge 

 l*zUr; Trva-Mir .iMll.-: Mim-tcr of 



culture and Improvement ,runald; Mm- 



istarof Poets and Telegraphs. Dr. \.Ki.ra. Later 

 Krnesto Garcia became MiniM. r ..f IV 

 and (ifn. I'xlar Treasurer. Later in the year revo- 

 Ititionarv disturbance* were threatened in Caracas. 



aJ journalist* and |*.litHan* were arrest. 

 attacking the Government. A plot to brine; about 

 revolution in ro nt tin- nulling of 



Congress was suspected, and on Nov. 1 some 500 



V KB MONT, ,te. admitted to 



, 4. 17H1 : an 'Miles. 



, accord iii to each ileceiinia: 



. .; .;-.-. : >oo : 817.800 In 18K: v!::.VM!r, 

 ?0; 380.658 in 1890; 281.91 :it.lJin> 



-W: 850,551 in 1*70; 3^.. 

 I860; and 882. .j-ital. Montpelier. 



ttTrrnent The State offleen .:. i s '.'7 

 Governor, Jostah Qrout ; Lieutenant <. vernor. Nd- 



W. Brown- 

 all; Treasurer. Henrv F. Field: Auditor. Franklin 



I>. HaU-: Adjutant Cteneral. all K,- 



publieanM: Saperintendenl -f Kdu-ati..n. Ma 

 Stone, ladependanl : In*|--t..r <>f Finance. Hosea 

 Mann: Tax OoaunisrfofMC; h. .1. Fster: Kailroad 

 Cpmrai^onem. <Uin M-rrill. loton, and 



Frank Keofleid; n,,,.f .lus,,,,. ,,f the Supreme 



.Jonatlian Rom; Awiciate Jn- . land 



Mnnson. John XV. Uovr.-ii. ,. n. n,. Iirv 



"". I, II d .lame, M.Tvler: 



aerie, I :e-ll Hepuhlicans. 



inanren. The n-|.rt ..f the Treasurer for the 

 Tear ending June 80. 1897. shows that the receipts 

 during the year were $l .:;.'.. -'-: .:{?. ineludinu' the 

 balance $209.455.94 on hand at the Wpinn; 

 the year. The larger items of receipts * 

 corporations, $383.728.63 : from county clerks, jodg- 

 meiits and balances, $56,737.90: fr .."m towns, ac- 

 count of State school tax, $83,028.17; from towns, 



account state hi-hway tax, $88,028.17: from ten.- 



|-ni! - 396, |400, ' : In, MI 



Kujienntendentof the State Prison, | i'mm 



1'nilnl States (Mix-eminent. eiido\\mei:: 

 cultural College, $22.<MK>. A l.alan 

 remaineil at the end <>f th- \ear. Temporary loans 

 to the amount of $880.000 were paid, and an ;i>\l;im 

 f $50,000. The Auditoi DOUnted to 



$664,679.41!. S-luKil and hi^h\say mon. \ \\ ;t s { \\^. 

 tribute*!, each to the amounl \9JBS. 'I'h.- 



iroefl amounted to .v , and the lial.ili- 



ties to $367,149.45, leav in ^ a\ailal>le f<.r t he ensu- 



raar $885,614.45. The funded liai.ilm.- 

 $185.. < <M: this is the agricultural collep- fund. 

 resent- M.-red INHHI.S due in l'.H. 



I diieation. :;,,,,! >t;iiis- 



Miiial peri> ' \ nionj; 



the items fur 1890 we find: Nnml-er of 



N " maintained. 'J.I'.r.l : of graded selmoN. l 1 | ; 

 number of le^ than twenty-six we. 

 iiunibrr of \\r.-k> of >chools having t\\. 

 more. :;us ; a \,.ra-e daily atteiulaix 

 age number of da\> fc>r all sc'hooN. i:,.| : total 

 amount ! 1 ; indebtedness f,,|- 



Decetian nhod expenses, ^To.-loli : f..r n- u l.uild- 

 pi-r pupil, $16.!^; cost of free 



l.-\t-bM.k> f'-r eaeh ehild attending, ^'J.ll: eMi- 

 mated numlM-r attending |.arochial >C|HM,|S. . 

 attending private >rhoo|s, ;!;( ; niiml.er pulilie 

 Iiliraries. !M> ; number of volumes. I ; 



The three normal schools graduated 171 students 

 during the two years, and drew from the S 



- 



The summer >,}).., ,]- of two weeks each 

 were alien. led by 1.410 for the two years. 



At the I'niversity of Vermont then 

 students in the departments of arts and sciences, 

 and -1*M in all departments. inclndiiiLT the medical. 



.penditures in 1896 were $71.!' 

 Prisons. The number of inmates ,,f the State 

 in July. 1SJM5. was I'M. The in.-oii 

 !. and exceeded the expenditures by 



The number of commitments to the House of 

 reel ion, at Kut land, during! he t woyeai > \\as 777. and 

 the number remainiiiLr June 30, 1896, was 1 1 1. The 

 chant's made by the last Legislature iti laws against 

 intoxication and' tramps have considerably de. -. 

 I he commitments for those offenses since' t he last r.-- 

 port. The average cost of subsist, . n ,. r for all con- 

 nected with the institution has been Of cents per day. 



The whole nuinlier committed t,, the Industrial 

 School was 1. 1 o."i. of whom 107 were girN. There 

 were 05 boys and 14 ^irN remaining at the e]< 

 the period. The expense to the State for each was 



$i4&ia 



Militia. The National Cuard of the Si;,' 

 shown by the annual returns for (I idintf 



June 80, 18M, oonsfcti oi ^ offlcen a: 



listed men. oru'ani/ed into ODe 8-battalion regiment 

 >f infantry, one 4-gun bati-ry of li^ht art illery. and 

 the Norwich cadets, designated by statute t),. 

 tion of Artillery. 



< harities. The Braltl .-.-, for the In- 



patienti June 80, 1896, 116 of whom 

 were support e<l by private means. Tl. 



*1 67.943 and'the expenditures *U57.71.". 



At the State Asylum there were 4!>M pan 

 The average cost was $2.SU a week for each patient. 



The Soldiers' Home, at I'ennintrton. has rec. 

 liiice its organization in : : ihi< 



iiiim>N>r.rs have died and 127 have been dischai 

 The new addition to the main building of 40 

 feet will make it 140 feet long and '.'> -tones J,j^h. 



Hanks. The agpr of all the sav- 



instit!itions. and tru-t com- 

 panies in the State June 80, 1896, were : Loan- on 



