Pedlars' Licenses On State Bank Debts Of Principal of School Fund Cash received of School Fund in Treasury last year Cash received Interest on School Fund. On Taxes EXPENDITURES, Total $799 23 4,330 28 289 75 215 43 827 30 39,942 46 $59,492 05 Cash paid Debentures of last General Assembly, and the Several State's Attorneys † Supreme Court Orders Auditor's + do. Wolf Certificates § Commissioners of Deaf and Dumb Superintendent of the State Prison || On Special Acts Electors of President and Vice-President Salaries of the Secretary of State, Clerk of the House, Secretary of Governor and Council, Auditor of Accounts, Engrossing Clerk, Governor, and Commissioners of School Fund Cash applied to School Fund Balance in the Treasury Valuation for Tax List. The Grand List, as it is called, for assigning the ratio of taxation, is made as follows. The polls of all males, except students of colleges, and persons properly equipped and doing military duty, between the ages of 21 and 60, are set in the list at $10; improved land, at 6 per cent. upon its value as ascer The judges of the Supreme Court, when sitting with the assistant judges of the County Court for County Court business, receive the same fees as the assistant judges; but they account with the treasurer for the money thus received, as part of their salaries. †The Supreme and County Courts, by their clerks, draw orders on the State Treasury for the expenses of conveying convicts to the State Prison, the fees of witnesses, and services and expenditures in those criminal cases where the penalty (if a fine may be imposed) goes to the State, and for the fees of State's attorneys, grand jurors, and clerks of the courts. The auditor of accounts against the State is empowered to audit, examine, allow, and draw orders for the payment of accounts between the State and persons acting under its authority, in all cases not required to be examined by the courts, or referred to some particular board by special enactment; a sort of appeal from the decision of the auditor may be taken to the General Assembly. The bounty on each wolf is twenty dollars. The disbursements of the State Prison exceeded the income received from it, by the sum of $652-08. The superintendent in his report gives the State credit for $168.67 received for admission of visitors. tained by appraisers; houses and lots appurtenant at 4 per cent.; mills, stores, distilleries, &c. at 6 per cent.; oxen at $2; cows and other cattle of three years old, at $125; cattle of two years old, at 75 cents; horses and mules of three years old, and of the value of $25 or less, at $1; horses and mules worth more than $25, and less than $75, at $3; horses and mules worth more than $75, at $6; horses and mules of two years old, at $2; do. of one year old, at $1.25; jack-asses at $40; sheep at 10 cents per head; carriages at 6 per cent. upon their appraised value; brass clocks and timepieces at $3; gold watches at $4; other watches at $1. Money on hand and debts due to (deducting debts due from) persons assessed, at 6 per cent.; bank and insurance stock (within the State) at 3 per cent.; attorneys, physicians, and surgeons, mechanics and manufacturers, and merchants and traders, in addition to their property, at such sum as the listers [assessors] think fit, (generally from $10 to $200.) Upon the list so made up, all taxes, school, state, town, district, and those for highways and bridges, are assessed. Common Schools. An act was passed in 1827 to provide for the support of common schools. The 4th section of the act was repealed in 1828, and in lieu of its provisions it was enacted, that the superintending committees should recommend (instead of direct) suitable class-books to be used in the schools; that the committee should not be required to visit each school more than twice during the term (generally three or four months), and that teachers may, at the request of any particular district, be licensed, though not possessing the qualifications specified in the first section. Very few town committees made the report prescribed by the act, the last year, and the number of schools or scholars cannot be ascertained, with any tolerable degree of accuracy. The money raised by the general law for the support of schools, at 3 per cent. on the Grand List, would amount to $51,119-42. Perhaps as much more is raised by district taxes, and a considerable sum is paid for the support of private schools. In 1825 an act was passed, imposing upon all the banks in the State a tax of 6 per cent. upon their annual profits and appropriating the money thus received, together with that derived from pedlars' licenses, and the remaining property of the old Vermont State Bank, to the creation of a fund for the support of common schools. This fund is to be profitably invested under the direction of the Treasurer of the State, and is to accumulate until the income derived from it shall be sufficient to support a common free school in every district in the State, for two months in each year. The report of the Treasurer of the School Fund was as follows, Sept. 30th, 1829. To Amount loaned the year past as per receipt of Auditor, in the Treasury Department To Balance in Treasury applicable to this object. Cr. $8,060 00 264 39 $8,324 39 By Cash received appropriated to this object, as per report of $215 43 8,108 96 $8,324 39 By Balance in the Treasury last year The operations and increase of the School Fund will be more distinctly seen by the following statement. By the Report of the Auditor last year, it appears that there was then on Loan the sum of Principal paid since that Report Amount loaned the past year Amount now on loan $15,993 07 289 75 There are about twenty incorporated academies in the State, where young men may be fitted for college. No returns have been made, but the number of students will probably average about forty at each. State Prison. The State Prison at Windsor was established by an act of the Legislature in 1808. Confinement at hard labor in this prison is the punishment for almost all of that class of offences which are called mala in se. Murder, high treason, perjury, in those cases where the life of another is taken away by false swearing, and arson, where death or serious injury to the person ensues, are the only crimes punishable by death. In all cases not capital, the courts may impose a fine; but this is rarely done, except for the breach of positive statutes, and for assault and battery, riot, or resisting the execution of the laws, From the last report of the superintendent it appears, that the number of convicts in the prison on the 1st of October, 1828, was 123. On the 1st of October, 1827, the number was 134. The convicts are chiefly employed in weaving cotton goods by hand looms; and 180,000 yards were woven the last year. Banks. State of the Banks, according to the Report of the Inspector, dated April 1st, 1828. From which it appears, that the Banks in operation on the 1st of April, 1828, had paid in $370,616 capital stock; that they had on hand at that time in specie and specie funds $674,904-27; that at that time they were authorized by their charters to circulate bills to the amount of $1,188,498.82, but actually had in circulation $949,844.53. NOTE.The two last named Banks were newly chartered, and did not go into operation until after the 1st of April, 1828. Bank of Burlington chartered in 1818 with a nominal capital of $150,000 Windsor 1818 100,000 100,000 1824 Orange County" 1827 |