X. DELAWARE. GOVERNMENT. THOMAS STOCKTON, of Newcastle, Governor, (term of office expires on the 3d Tuesday in January, 1848,) Salary. $1,333% William Temple, of Smyrna, Speaker of the House. Pay of the members of the legislature, $3 a day. The Chancellor and one of the Judges of the Superior Court. Common School Fund. Receipts for 1844, (from interest on surplus fund, tax on marriage and tavern licenses, and appropriation from State Treasury,) $34,952.07. Amount paid this year for tuition of 10,879 children in 200 free schools, (the whole number of white children in the State, from 5 to 20 years old, being 21,242,) $36,929.12. 3,276.89 corporations, $6,336.11 Interest on invested sur- $23,908.87 1,523.57 Tax on Banks and other 7,282.10 12,557.13 Tax on retailers' licenses, 3,730.39 710.87 496.04 4,715.85 Public Lands, 635.84 Fines and forfeitures, Crime. Population of the State in 1840, 58,568 whites, 16,919 free blacks, and 2,605 slaves. Indictments for crime in ten years, 316 whites and 270 blacks; trials in ten years, 164 whites and 229 blacks; convictions, 110 whites and 163 blacks; average convictions each year, 11 whites and 16 blacks. This statement is for crimes above the grade of misdemeanors. A large proportion of the white convicts is in Newcastle county, in the line of communication between two large cities. In Kent county, with a white population of 13,600, there were only seven convictions for crimes of the grade of felony in ten years, being less than one per annum. Pauperism. From the Report for Kent county, the following facts appear. The population in 1840 was 19,872, of whom 13,618 were whites, and 6,254 were blacks. The whole number of paupers supported in 1844, was 120, of whom 73 were whites, and 47 were blacks. The aggregate expense of the poor-house establishment in 1844 was $2,349.00. The average number of paupers at any one time was 76; the average cost of supporting one pauper for a year was $34.872. The total population of Sussex county in 1840 was 25,093, of whom 19,137 were whites, and 5,956 were blacks. The whole number of poor relieved during the year was 171, of whom 116 were whites, and 55 were blacks. The average number of paupers at any one time was 120. The whole expense of the in-door pauper establishment, in 1844, was $4,124.06, so that the average expense of each pauper for one year was $34.33. A farther sum of $2,742.75 was paid for the relief of out-door paupers, making the whole cost of the poor, $6,866.81. The population of New Castle county in 1840, was 33,120. The average number of in-door paupers in 1844 was 150, and the whole cost of their maintenance was $6,673.56, being an average of $44.49 for each. $783.69 were also paid for the out-door poor, making the whole cost of the pauper establishment for the year $7,457.25. XI. MARYLAND. GOVERNMENT. THOMAS G. PRATT, of Pr. George's Co., Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Monday in January, 1848,) Wm. T. Wootten, of P.George's Co., Secretary of State, of Annapolis, Treasurer, Dennis Claude, Thomas Karney, James Swan, John N. Watkins, do. William Williams, of Somerset Co. Examiner General, Salary. *$4,200 2,000 2,500 800 Fees. The State is divided into six judicial districts, each comprising two, three, or four counties. For each district there are a chief judge and two associates, who constitute the County Courts for the respective counties in the district. These are the common law courts of original jurisdiction in the State; and they have jurisdiction of all claims for fifty dollars and upwards, appellate jurisdiction from the judgment of justices of the peace, and equity jurisdiction within the counties coëxtensive with the chancellor. The six chief judges constitute the Court of Appeals for the State, which has appellate jurisdiction of cases at law and in equity, originating in the County Courts, the Orphans' Courts, (of which there is one in each county,) and the Court of Chancery. The interest in arrear on the State Debt, Dec. 1,1844, was $1,450,961.00. The productive capital of the State, consists of the Besides this productive stock, the State holds a large amount of capital and credits, at present unproductive, but which must, nevertheless, in the course of a period not very remote, become of considerable value. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Receipts for the two years ending September 30, 1844. Cost per passenger per mile, including expense of salaries, The Insane Poor. From an able report on this subject, drawn up by Dr. Stephen Collins, we learn that there are in the alms house of Baltimore, 73 insane paupers. Of these, 23 are white and 4 colored men; 35 white and 11 colored women; 28 are foreigners by birth, and 50 are from the city of Baltimore. 10 of the whole number are idiotic or subject to fits, and some, particularly among the women, are old and harmless, and cannot be cured. The annual cost for the support of each of these is $65. They are waited upon by other inmates of the almshouse. The "Maryland Historical Society" was formed in January, 1844. Sev. eral previous efforts to establish a Historical, Society had been made without success. The Society may now be considered as established upon a permanent basis, numbering as it does about 175 names upon its list of active members, which is every month receiving accessions. Many valuable donations have been received, among which may be mentioned a voluminous mass of important Mss. relating to the Colonial and Revolutionary History of the State, presented by the family of the late Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and by Robert Gilmor, Esq. The Society expect soon to publish their first volume of proceedings, &c. The Officers are - Gen. John Spear Smith, President ; John V. L. McMahon, Vice President; John J. Donaldson, Treasurer; Brantz Mayer, Cor. Secretary; Sebastian F. Streeter, Rec. Secretary; Geo. B. Coale, Librarian; John W. Knighton, Assistant Librarian. |