V. RHODE ISLAND.

GOVERNMENT

For the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday in May, 1832.*

The Senate is composed of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and the following eight senators, there being this year two vacancies.

The House of Representatives is composed of 72 members, elected semiannually, in April and August. Joseph L. Tillinghast, Speaker.

JUDICIARY.

The judiciary power is vested in a Supreme Court, and a Court of Common Pleas for each of the five counties. All the judges are appointed annually by the General Assembly.

Each of the Courts of Common Pleas comprises five judges, who have no salaries, but are paid by entries.

There was no election of Governor and Lieutenant Governor in May. A second trial was made in July, and a third in the latter part of August, both unsuccessful.

Whole amount appropriated by the towns for the support of

Amount drawn from School Fund,

Whole amount expended for support of public schools,

Number of private schools continued through the Male teachers,
year,*
Whole number of scholars taught in them, (exclusive of the
Friends' Boarding School, Providence,†)
Estimated expense of the private schools which continue through
the year at twenty dollars per scholar,

3 months.

$11,490

$10,000

$21,490

30

Female do

88

3403

$68,040

Estimated expense of other private schools, at three dollars per scholar,

$13,335

Total estimated expense of private schools,

$81,375

Sum total expended for support of schools for one year,

$102,865

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Canals.-See Blackstone Canal in Massachusetts.

Rail-roads.-A company was incorporated in 1832 to construct a railroad from Providence to Norwich in Connecticut; and another to construct a rail-road from Providence to Stonington in Connecticut.

VI. CONNECTICUT.

GOVERNMENT

For the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday of May, 1833.

In nearly all the country towns, the private schools correspond very nearly, both in number and scholars, with the public schools; or they may be considered as the public schools continued by individual subscription, from three to six months each year.

This flourishing institution contains, on an average, one hundred and sixty scholars ; with four male and four female teachers.

For other information respecting the Courts, see Am. Almanac for 1832.

EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR ENDING MARCH, 31, 1832.

For debentures, and contingent expenses of General Assembly, $14,254.26

"Salaries,

"Contingent expenses of government,

"Judicial expenses,

"Expense of state paupers,

"State Prison (salaries of Directors),

"Advances to the Quarter-Master General,

"Public buildings and institutions,

Total,

The ordinary expenses for the year ending March 31st, 1833,

are estimated at

Special grants to sundry institutions,

Total,

EDUCATION.

The sum divided among the several school districts for the year ending March 31st, 1832, was $76,585.50, which considerably exceeds all the expenditure for other public purposes. This sum proceeds from a School Fund; and there is reason for believing that it is less useful than it would be, if raised by an annual tax.

The number of children between four and sixteen years of age, in all the school districts, according to the enumeration in the month of August, 1831, was 85,095.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Farmington Canal.-This canal was commenced in 1825 with the design of connecting Connecticut river at Northampton, Mass., with New Haven harbor. Whole distance from Northampton to New Haven, 78 miles. Only 56 miles of the canal have yet been completed, from New

Haven to Southwick, Mass. It is 36 feet wide at the surface of the water, 20 at the bottom, and 4 feet in depth. Lockage, 218 feet. The locks are 80 feet in the clear, and 12 feet wide. At its commencement, at New Haven, is a basin of 20 acres. Cost, $600,000.

Enfield Canal.-This canal is constructed around Enfield Falls on Connecticut river, and is used for extensive hydraulic works, as well as for navigation. It is five and a half miles long, with two stone locks of ten feet lift, each 90 feet by 20. Company incorporated in 1824.

The Senate consists of 32 members, who are elected for four years, one quarter being chosen annually. Edward P. Livingston, President. The House of Representatives consists of 128 members. Livingston, Speaker.

Charles L.

The eight circuit judges are vice-chancellors for their respective circuits.

Circuit Courts.

There are eight Circuit Courts, with eight Judges, and the circuits correspond, in territory and name, to the eight senate districts.

Ogden Edwards,

The annual expenditure for common schools exceeds $1,000,000. Nearly one tenth of this sum is paid from a School Fund; one tenth by a tax on the towns; two tenths, by a tax on the property of the several school districts; and six tenths are paid voluntarily by the parents and guardians of the scholars. The number of scholars in these schools, in 1832, is stated at 506,887; and the proportion of the children that are known to be taught, to the whole population of the state, is more than as one to four. In nine counties more than one third of the population are children at school during some part of the year.