and it amounted to $ 5.602 to each child returned as within the organized school-districts. The number of schools reported in 1854 was 167; teachers, 213; number of children, 20,075; number attending school, 9,773. The Legislature has established a Board of Education for the State, consisting of the Governor, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Surveyor General; the Governor being the President, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction being the Secretary thereof. Each town, &c. elects three persons as commissioners of schools for the town, and a constable as a common school marshal. Provision is also made for County Superintendents. State Prison. The whole number of convicts, Dec. 30, 1853, was 242,-240 males and 2 females. Insane Asylum, at Stockton. The grounds contain 101 acres. During the year ending November 30, 1854, the number of patients under treatment was 272, being 247 males and 25 females. Cured and discharged during this period, 127, 113 males and 14 females; leav ing in the asylum 126, 112 males and 14 females. 18 died during the year. State Marine Hospital, San Francisco. -- Between January 1, and December 15, 1854, 2,612 patients were admitted into the hospital, and for the support of 1,564 of these the city of San Francisco is responsible. 2,352 were cured and discharged, and 239 died during that period. Dec. 15, 1854, there were in the hospital 251 patients. WILLIS A. GORMAN, of St. Paul, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs, .1857, $2,500 XXXIV. UTAH TERRITORY. Government for the Year 1856. *BRIGHAM YOUNG, of Salt Lake City, Governor and Sup't Almon W. Babbitt, John F. Kinney, Term ends. Salary. 66 of Indian Affairs, Secretary, XXXV. NEW MEXICO TERRITORY. DAVID MERRIWETHER, of Santa Fé, Term ends. Salary. Governor and Sup't of Indian Affairs, 1857, $3,000 Secretary of State, 1857, 2,000 The four years for which Governor Young was appointed expired some time since, but as he holds office until his successor is qualified, he is still Governor, the person appointed to succeed him failing to accept the office and to qualify. JUDICIARY. Term ends. Salary. Saml. Dexter Lacompte, of Leavenworth, Chief Justice, Fenner Ferguson, of Omaha City, Chief Justice, Term ends. Salary. 1858, $2,500 2,000 XXXIX. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. THE District of Columbia is under the immediate government of Congress. The city of Washington became the seat of the government of the United States in 1800, and it is the residence of the President, and the other chief executive officers of the national government. By an act of Congress, in 1846, which was subsequently accepted by the people of Alexandria, the city and county of Alexandria were retroceded to the State of Virginia, and the District is now confined to the Maryland side of the Potomac. |