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UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (VERMONT.) 



trained in blacksmithing, carpentry, and shoe- 

 making, and the girls in needle-work, sewing, 

 fancy work, and knitting with knitting-machines. 

 An increase in the percentage of reformation is 

 noted. 



The School for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, at 

 Ogden, was attended by 85 deaf and 18 blind 

 pupils. Besides the regular scholastic studies, 

 carpentry, printing, shoemaking, domestic sci- 

 ence, dressmaking, barbering, blacksmithing, mu- 

 sic, cane-seating, basket-making, hammock-ma- 

 king, and fancy weaving were taught. 



The State Insane Asylum contained 350 in- 

 mates, an increase of 36 in two years. 

 The average daily cost of each patient was 32^% 

 cents, a slight increase over the preceding two 

 years, due to the advanced price of commodities,. 

 The board of trustees has requested the Legisla- 

 ture to change the name of the institution to 

 Mental Hospital. 



The number of convicts in the Utah State Peni- 

 tentiary decreased 28 in two years. The per 

 capita cost of maintenance rose from 42 cents 

 a day in 1899 to 56 cents in 1902. The manufac- 

 turing department made all the clothing and 

 shoes worn by prisoners, and in addition made 

 and sold socks, brushes, saddle-cinches, clothing, 

 and other articles at a profit of $5,136.62. In 

 two years the Board of Pardons granted 37 par- 

 dons, 2 commutations of sentence, and 12 paroles. 



The Utah Art Institute, supported by the State, 

 held exhibitions in Salt Lake City and Provo 

 this year, besides several smaller exhibitions of 

 school drawings. The State acquired the Alice 

 Art collection, which is kept in temporary quar- 

 ters in the State-House until a permanent exhi- 

 bition hall can be secured. 



Political. In April, Heed Smoot, an apostle 

 in the Mormon Church, announced his candidacy 

 for the United States Senate, and he succeeded in 

 capturing a majority of the Republican County 

 conventions at which candidates for the Legis- 

 lature were nominated. 



The Democratic State Convention met in Provo 

 and nominated W. H. King for Congressman at 

 Large and Richard W. Young for Justice of the 

 Supreme Court. 



The Republican Convention met later in Ogden, 

 and nominated Joseph Howell for Congress and 

 William M. McCarty for Justice of the Supreme 

 Court. 



The Socialists nominated Matthew Wilson for 

 Congress and Warren Foster for Justice of the 

 Supreme Court. 



The election, Nov. 4, resulted as follows: Con- 

 gressman, Howell, 43,710; King, 38,196; Wil- 

 son, 2,936. Supreme Justice, McCarty, 43,214; 

 Young, 38,433; Foster, 3,069. 



The Republicans elected 6 out of 9 Senators, 

 giving them, with hold-overs, 12 members to 6 

 Democratic members. Forty Republicans were 

 elected to the house and 5 Democrats. As a ma- 

 jority were pledged to Smoot, his election was 

 assured. 



VERMONT, a New England State, admitted 

 to the Union March 4, 1791 ; area, 9,565 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census, was 154,465 in 1800; 217,895 in 1810; 

 235,966 in 1820; 280,652 in 1830; 281,948 in 1840; 

 314,120 in 1850; 315,098 in 1860; 350,551 in 1870; 

 332,286 in 1880; 332,422 in 1890; and 343,641 in 

 1900. Capital, Montpelier. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, William W. Stickney; 

 Lieutenant-Governor. Martin F. Allen; Secretary 

 of State, Fred. A. Howland; Treasurer, John L. 

 Bacon; Auditor, Orion M. Barber; Adjutant- 



General, William H. Gilmore; Superintendent of 

 Education, W. E. Ranger all Republicans; Su- 

 preme Court Chief Justice, John W. Rowell, ap- 

 pointed by Gov. Stickney to fill the vacancy 

 caused by the death of Russell S. Taft; Assistant 

 Justices, Loveland Munson, John H. Watson, H. 

 R. Start, James M. Tyler, W. P. Stafford, and 

 Seneca Haselton; Clerk, M. E. Smilie all Repub- 

 licans. 



State officers are elected biennially in Septem- 

 ber of the even-numbered years. The Legislature 

 meets biennially in October of the same years. 

 There are 30 Senators and 242- Representatives. 

 The town system of representation is still main- 

 tained. 



Finances. The report of the Treasurer for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, shows the follow- 

 ing totals of cash transactions of his office: Cash 

 on hand July 1, 1901, $101,559.93; receipts, $1,485,- 

 088.46 ; disburse- 

 ments, $1,261,679.- 

 11; cash on hand 

 June 30, 1902, 

 $324,969.28. From 

 this last amount 

 were payable the 

 State school and 

 highway taxes, ag- 

 gregating $233,- 

 639.07 apportioned 

 for distribution to 

 the several towns 

 and cities. 



In the fiscal 

 year ending June 

 30, 1901, $260,000 

 was borrowed for 

 the use of the 

 State, of which 

 $160,000 was paid 

 the same year. To 

 the balance was 

 added in the ensuing year $275,000, but all loans 

 of this character were taken up prior to June 30, 

 1902. The expenditures for interest of all descrip- 

 tions were $24,727.37 and $27,724.13, for the re- 

 spective fiscal years. 



The receipts on account of corporation taxes 

 show considerable increases, the totals received 

 from the various classes of corporations assessed 

 on deposits, appraisal, or gross earnings for the 

 years ending in 1901 and 1902 being $453,543.42 

 and $462,816.62, respectively. The increase in li- 

 cense taxes paid in the year ending June 30, 1902, 

 was $16,418, or over $4,000 more than ever. 



The Legislature of 1900 assessed a State tax of 

 15 cents on the dollar of the grand list of 1901, 

 half to be paid into the treasury of the State on 

 or before Nov. 10, 1901, and the remaining half on 

 or before June 10, 1902. The grand list for 1901 

 amounted to $1,790,149.92 and the tax aggregated 

 $268,522.49. 



The Legislature of 1900 provided for the an- 

 nual assessment of a tax of 8 cents on the dollar 

 upon the grand list for the support of public 

 schools instead of 5 cents as theretofore. The art 

 went into force Feb. 1, 1901, and it therefore did 

 not affect the amount of the tax of 1901. This 

 tax is distributed on or before July 10 annually 

 among the several cities, towns, and unorganized 

 towns, in proportion to the number of legal 

 schools sustained during the school year ending 

 March 31. 



The State highway tax for 1902 assessed upon 

 the grand list of 1901 ajnounted to $89,507.50. 

 The amount of the 1901 apportionment brought 

 forward for addition to the tax of this year was 



JOHN G. MCCI'LLOUGH, 

 GOVERNOR OF VERMONT. 



