Institutions.--1: Blind institute, Little Rock; Otis Patton, principal. 2: Deaf mute institute, Little Rock; J. Caruthers, principal. Appropriations.*-1: Current expenses, 1869, $11,000. Ditto, 1870, $15,000. Purchase of land, $7,000. Deficiency,1868, $2,500. 2 Salaries and contingent expenses, $5000; and $300 per annum for each pupil received. Population, 556,208. CALIFORNIA. Tax valuation, $250,000,000. Real value, at least one-third more. Receipts for year ending June 30, 1869, $2,918,211 09. Institutions.-1: Insane asylum, Stockton; G. A. Shurtleff, M. D., superintendent. 2: Institution for the education of the deaf, dumb, and blind, San Francisco; (to be permanently located at San Jose); Prof. W. Wilkinson, principal. 3: State prison, San Quentin: William Holden, warden. Appropriations for two years.-Amounts appropriated to above institutions not stated. To varions associations, hospitals, orphan asylums, home for the care of inebriates, Magdalen asylum and prison commission, $71,000. Population, 537,468. CONNECTICUT. Tax valuation, $322,553, 488. Real value, one-third to a-half more. Institutions.-1: Hospital, New Haven. 2: Hospital, Hartford; Daniel S. Bromley, M. D., house physician. 3: American asylum for the deaf and dumb, Hartford; Rev. Collins Stone, A. M., principal. 4: Retreat for the insane, Hartford; J. S. Butler, M. D., superintendent. 5: General hospital for the insane, Middletown: A. M. Shew, M. D., superintendent.† 6: Reform school for boys, West Meriden; E. W. Hatch, M. D., superintendent and physician. .7: Industrial school for girls, Middletown. 8: School for imbeciles, Lakeville; Henry M. Knight, M. D., superFor one year, when not otherwise stated. The only one of these institutions owned and controlled by the state. The others are individual and corporate charities, aided by the state. intendent. 9: Fitch's home for soldiers' orphans, Darien. 10: Soldiers' orphan home, Mansfield. 11: The Connecticut blind are sent to the Perkins institute, South Boston, Massachusetts. Appropriations.--The amount appropriated for these several classes of indigents, last year, was $241,595 49. The amount expended on the buildings of these institutions, last year, by the state, was $61,548. Total, $303,138 49. Population, 1,185,000. GEORGIA. Tax valuation, $204,481,706. Institutions.--1: Penitentiary, Milledgeville; John Darnell, warden. 2: Lunatic asylum, Milledgeville; Thomas F. Green, M. D., superintendent. 3: Academy for the blind, Macon; W. D. Williams, superintendent. 4: Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, Cave Spring; Wesley O. Connor, principal. 5 State university, Athens; A. A. Lipscomb, LL. D., chancellor. Appropriations.-1: $27,000. 2: $83,000. 3: $13,500. 4: $8000. Total, $131,600. Population, 2,540,216. ILLINOIS. Tax valuation, $480,031,703. Revenue, 1869, $956,478 43.* Institutions.-1: Penitentiary, Joliet; Elmer Washburn, warden. 2: Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, Jacksonville; Philip G. Gillett, A. M., superintendent. 3: Hospital for the insane, Jacksonville; Henry F. Carriel, M.D., superintendent. 4 Institution for the education of the blind, Jacksonville; Joshua Rhoads, M. D., superintendent. 5: Normal university, Normal; Richard Edwards, LL. D., president. 6: Experimental school for idiots and feeble minded children, Jacksonville; C. T. Not including state debt, interest, school tax, and central railroad funds, $1,835,970 72. The revenue for 1870, on assessment of 1869, has been nearly three and a half million dollars. The receipts for other purposes have been over two and a half millions. The levy for revenue tax, 1871, on assessment of 1870, is about $1,100,000. The other receipts will probably amount to about $2,200,000. Wilbur, M. D., superintendent. 7: Home for the children of deceased soldiers, Normal; Mrs. Virginia C. Ohr, superintendent. 8: Industrial university, Champaign; John M. Gregory, LL. D., regent. 9: State reform school, Pontiac; George W. Perkins, superintendent; not opened. 10: Southern Illinois normal university, Carbondale; building. 11: Asylum for the insane, Anna; building. 12: Northern Illinois hospital and asylum for the insane, Elgin; building. 13: Illinois soldiers' college, Fulton ;* Leander A. Potter, A. M., president. 14: Eye and ear infirmary, Chicago;* E. L. Holmes, M. D., and E. Powell, M. D., attending surgeons. Appropriations for two years.-1: For current expenses, and for purchase of stock, material, tools and machinery, $300,000; to pay Illinois manufacturing company, (deficiency, 1888,) $55,000; to pay for work done by the late lessees, $5,289 59. Total, $360,289 59. 2: to meet deficiency, 1868, $7,746 77; current expenses, $56,250 per annum; repairs and improvements, $2000; furniture, $2500; printing press, etc., $4000. To this add interest of college and seminary fund, $3995 77 per annum. Total, $136,738 31. 3: to meet deficiency, 1868, $15,000; current expenses, $90,000 per annum; fire-proof covered way, $5000; improving ventilation, $7500; improvement of water-works, $2000; new cooking ranges, etc., $2000; patients' library, $500 per annum; insurance, $750 per annum. Total, $214,000. 4: For current expenses, $25,000 per annum; repairs, $5000. Total, $55,000. 5: For salaries and expenses, $9000 per annum; fence, $500; apparatus, $1500; sidewalks, $500; furniture, $2000; repairs, $2500; water closets, $500. To this add interest of college and seminary fund, $12,444 99 per annum. Total, $50,389 98. 6: For current expenses, $20,000 per annum. Total, $40,000. 7: To complete the building, $25,000; heating and ventilation, $6500; stables, out-buildings, etc., $3000; furnishing, $10,000; insurance, $500 per annum; current expenses, $45,000 per annum. Total, $135,500. 8: For use of agricultural department, $12,500 per annum; horticultural department, $10,000 per annum; chemical department, $5000 per annum; apparatus and *The soldiers' college, and eye and ear infirmary, are not owned and controlled by the state, but by private corporations. They have been aided by grants of money from the state treasury. books, $10,000. Total, $60,000. 9: Appropriation made, 1867, for purchase of land, $5000; for building, $50,000; also, for current expenses, not payable until the governor is officially notified that the buildings and equipments are ready for the accommodation of inmates, $30,000. Total, $85,000. 10: For building, $75,000. 11: For purchase of site and for building, $125,000. 12: For purchase of site and for building, $125,000 13 : For current expenses, $20,000 per annum, applicable to the maintenance and education of disabled soldiers and sailors, or indigent orphans or half orphans of deceased soldiers, above the age of twelve years, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum, for each student. Total, $40,000. 14: For the support of the poor of the state of Illinois, while receiving treatment at the infirmary for diseases of the eye or ear, $5000 per annum. Total, $10,000. Grand total of appropriations, $1,511,917 88.* INDIANA. Population, 1,668,169. Tax valuation, $655,521,479.☀ Institutions.-1: Hospital for the insane, Indianapolis; Orpheus Everts, M. D., superintendent. 2: Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, Indianapolis; Thomas MacIntire, superintendent. 3: Institution for the education of the blind, Indianapolis; W. H. Churchman, superintendent. 4: House of refuge, Plainfield; B. F. Ainsworth, superintendent. 5 : State prison, north, Michigan City; W. W. Higgins, warden. 6: State prison, south, Jeffersonville; Col. L. S. Schuler, warden. 7: Reformatory for women and girls, Indianapolis; building. 8: State normal school, Terre Haute. 9: State university, Bloomington; Cyrus Nutt, D. D., president. Cost to state, 1869.-1: For current expenses, etc., $117,507 61; for construction of north wing, $43,689 71. 2: For expenses, repairs and building, $80,679 20. 3: For expenses, heating ap *Or omitting interest of college and seminary fund, $1,479,036 66. Omitting further the appropriation of 1867, on behalf of the state reform school, we find that the total appropriations made by the legislature of 1869, for the benefit of public institutions, were $1,394,036 36. Tax valuation, $294,532,252. Revenue, November 1, 1869, $928,056 87. Institutions.-1: Institution for the blind, Vinton; Rev. S. A. Knapp, principal. 2: Institution for the deaf and dumb, Iowa City; Rev. Benjamin Talbot, principal. 3: Hospital for the insane, Mount Pleasant; Mark Ranney, M. D., superintendent. 4: Soldiers' orphans' home, Davenport; S. W. Pierce, superintendent. 5: S. O. Home, Cedar Falls; Henry F. Tucker, superintendent. 6: S. O. Home, Glenwood; William Hale, superintendent. 7: Reform school, Salem; Rev. Joseph McCarty, superintendent. 8: Penitentiary, Fort Madison; Martin Heisey, warden. 9: State agricultural college, Ames; A. S. Welch, M. A., president. 10: State university, Iowa City. 11: Deaf and dumb asylum, Council Bluffs; building. 12: Additional hospital for the insane, Independence; building. Appropriations for two years.-1: $42,016 54. 2: $16,000; for a new building, $35,000; for furnishing the same, $12,000. Total, $63,000. 3: $36,500. 4, 5, 6: $25,000. 7: $22,000. 8: Not stated. Amount paid in 1868-9, $70,217 68. Auditor's estimate for 1870-1, $29,044 63. 9: Not stated. Amount paid in 1868-9, for building, $58,750; salaries and trustees' expenses, $5,173 33. Total, $63,923 33. 10: Not stated. Amount paid in 1968-9, for improvements,* $8,687 45; trustees' expenses, $1332. In addition, an appropriation of $20,000, made by the twelfth general assembly, is acknowledged in the report of the university, and its expenditure accounted for, in detail. Total, $30,019 45. 11: Not stated. Amount appropriated by twelfth assembly, $125,000, of which there was expended to November 30th, 1869, $77,239 72. Main building and one lateral wing contracted for, at $121,500. Cost will exceed contract, by $7,344 14. Estimated cost of west wing, $69,680. 12: $165,000. Amount *Charged to university account in auditor's report, page 28. Amount acknowledged in report of university, page 19, $8,287 83. |