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schools during the past year, (1849.) For instruction 

 the sum of $176,930 ; for repairs, fuel, and other 

 expenses of school-houses, $57,095 ; for new school- 

 houses, $99,489; making a total of $334,114. 

 There are about 2,000 children attending private 

 schools not educated at the public expense. 



Manufactures of almost every description are carried 

 on at Boston ; the whole in 1845 amounted to $10,- 

 648,153. 



The Mayor, in his inaugural address in 1850, says : 

 " The city debt, exclusive of that contracted for water, 

 (which is $4,540,000,) amounted on the 31st day of 

 December to $1,623,863. It is estimated by the 

 Auditor that the debt, even if no anticipated expen- 

 diture shall be authorized, will amount at the close of 

 the financial year (30th April) to the sum of $1,726,- 

 803. To meet this sum we have bonds and mortgages, 

 $242,000 ; balance to credit of Committee on Reduc- 

 tion of Debt, $28,000; City Wharf, valued at $600,- 

 000 ; all amounting to $770,000 : besides the Mar- 

 ket, (yielding over $30,000 per annum,) many other 

 public buildings, the Public Garden, and nearly ten 

 millions of feet of upland and flats in the 11th and 

 12th wards. The specific appropriations for the cur- 

 rent financial year were $1,415,600. The Auditor 



