RHODE ISLAND. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



The regular annual session of the Legislature 

 was held at Newport on the 29th of May, and 

 occupied three days, the new Governor being 

 inaugurated on the first day. The sum of $40,- 

 000 was appropriated to buy the Providence 

 High-School building, for the use of the State 

 Normal School ; provision was made for dedi- 

 cating the new court-house at Providence, and 

 an act was passed for the punishment of tramps. 

 Other important legislation was postponed to 

 the adjourned session in January, 1878. 



For the fiscal year ending April 30th, the 

 receipts of the State Treasury were $1,205,- 

 541.44, including a balance of $396,185.53 on 

 hand at the beginning of the year. The dis- 

 bursements of the year amounted to $1,021,- 

 116.57, leaving a balance unexpended of $184,- 

 424.87. From May 1st to November 30th, the 

 receipts were $286,387.52, and the disburse- 

 ments $423,670.94, which reduced the unex- 

 pended balance to $47,141.45. The outstanding 

 bonded debt of the State on the 1st of Janu- 

 ary, 1878, was $2,534,500, and the sinking fund 

 amounted to $547,289.34. The outstanding 

 bonds are as follows : 



Bonds issued October 1, 1861, payable 1881 $500 00 



Bonds issued September 1, 1862, payable 1882. . . 965,000 00 



Bonds issued April 1, 1863, payable 1 8S3 200,000 00 



Bonds issued July 1, 1863, payable 1898 631,000 00 



Bonds issued August 1, 1864, payable 1&94 788,000 00 



Total $2,584,600 00 



The number of savings institutions in the 

 State is 39, the number of depositors on the 

 30th of November was 99,646 ; whole amount 

 of deposits, $49,567,997.33. There was a de- 

 crease during the year of 219 in the number of 

 depositors, and of $943,982.08 in the aggregate 

 amount of deposits. 



The public school statistics for the year end- 

 ing April 30th are as follows : 



DAT SCHOOLS. 



Number of different pupils enrolled 89,959 



Average attendance 27,562 



Number of schools (graded, 496 ; ungraded, 292). 783 



Average length of schools 9 months, 1 day 



Number of teachers regularly employed 850 



Amount paid male teachers $98,278 84 



Average wages paid male teachers per month. . . $SO 69 



Amount paid female teachers $298,895 14 



Average wages paid female teachers per month. $45 91 



EVENING SCHOOLS. 



Number of different pupils enrolled 



Average attendance 



Number of schools 



Average number of teachers employed 



Average length of schools 



RECEIPTS. 



State appropriation for day and evening schools. 

 Town appropriation for day and evening schools. 

 Town appropriation for land, buildings, and furni- 

 ture 



District taxation 



Registry taxes, school funds and all other sources. 



8,739 

 1,714 

 28 

 152 

 12 weeks 



$91,654 50 

 861,609 45 



163,546 15 

 52,784 67 

 60,827 50 



Total $780,422 27 



EXPENDITURES. 

 Teachers' wages and other current expenses of 



day schools $473,326 19 



Teachers 1 wages and other current expenses of 



evening schools 16,959 87 



School supervision 11,418 26 



Land, buildings, furniture, and apparatus 224,258 98 



Total $725,962 80 



The appropriations for the support of the 

 institutions of the State farm at Cranston, for 

 the year, amounted to $114,019.27. On the 

 1st of January, 1878, there were in the Work- 

 house and House of Correction 129 men and 

 67 women ; in the Asylum for the Incurable 

 Insane, 111 men and 98 women ; in the Alma- 

 house, 61 men, 66 women, 9 boys, and 4 girls. 

 The average number of inmates in the three in- 

 stitutions for the past three years is as follows : 



The new State-prison is well advanced tow- 

 ard completion. The total amount of the 

 appropriations made in 6 years for the con- 

 struction of this institution is $385,000, and the 

 amount expended to December 31, 1877, is 

 $353,955.81. The number of inmates in the 

 old prison on the 1st of May was 89, of whom 

 86 were males and 3 females. The number in 

 the jail was 133, of whom 121 were males and 

 12 females. The appropriations for the sup- 

 port of the State-prison for the year amounted 

 to $24,439.85. 



The Rhode Island Hospital, on the 30th of 

 September, contained 26 males and 19 females ; 

 the number admitted during the year preced- 

 ing was 255 males and 103 females. The ex- 

 penses of the institution for the year were 

 $25,500.26. It is a private establishment under 

 the charge of trustees. The State supports its 

 indigent blind, and deaf and dumb, in institu- 

 tions outside of the State. 



The new court-house at Providence has been 

 completed, and was dedicated, and its custody 

 formally transferred to the State, on the 19th 

 of December. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The year 

 1877 virtually closed the long pontificate of 

 Pope Pius IX., who died early in the following 

 year. On the 20th of January, 1877, Pius IX. 

 issued the following decree, inserting certain 

 words in the Creed of Pope Pius IV. : 



As it always has been, from the earliest times, of 

 custom that a certain and determinate formula should 

 be proposed to the faithful, whereby they should 

 profess faith and solemnly abjure the Leresies of each 

 age : so, at the happy closing of the Sacred Council 

 of Trent, the Soverefgn Pontiff Pius IV.. who hast- 

 ened without delay to put in force the decrees of the 

 Tridentine Fathers, by the Constitution Lijvnctum 

 A'obi*, issued November 18, 1564, drew up a form of 

 Profession of Faith, to be recited by those who were 

 to be promoted to cathedral and other principal 

 churches, or were to obtain dignities, canonries, or 

 other ecclesiastical preferments having cure of souls, 

 and by all others to whom the decrees of said Council 

 applied ; also, by others having charge of monaster- 

 ies, convents, houses, and other places whatsoever of 

 all regular and even of military orders, by what name 

 or title it might happen to be endowed. And this he 

 extended by another Constitution, issued on the same 

 day and year, beginning : In Sacrofancta, to all teach- 

 ers, masters, regents, or other professors of what art 



