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This department, among other things, should embrace, 



1. The obtaining of full and exact information of every 

 branch of industry in the Commonwealth ; the amount of cap- 

 ital invested ; the cost and nature of the raw material used ; 

 the number of persons employed ; the rate of wages, and the 

 amount of products, with various other material circumstan- 

 ces which I need not enumerate. 



2. An account of the condition of the persons employed in 

 any of the arts or forms of industry, with the bearing of these 

 employments upon health and morals, and the bearing and 

 execution of existing laws of the State upon any mechanical or 

 manufacturing establishments. 



3. A report of all improvements or inventions by which labor 

 is abridged or its productiveness increased. 



4. A full and detailed report of the application of all moneys 

 bestowed by the Government for the encouragement of domes- 

 tic industry ; such as bounties paid to agricultural societies, or 

 premiums upon any article of culture or production. 



5. The account of any seminaries of education in the State 

 in any way connected with manual labor, either mechanical 

 or rural. 



6. The report of the condition of all penitentiaries or houses 

 of correction in the State, and all pauper and eleemosynary es- 

 tablishments, as far as the inmates of such establishments are 

 supported by their own labor, of whatever description. 



7. An annual and general survey of the productive resources 

 of the Commonwealth in regard to her agricultural, mechanical 

 and commercial industry. 



I cannot enter into details in relation to these matters; but 

 respectfully throw out these hints for the consideration of en- 



