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the above, there were in 1910, as State minor wards, under the custodial care of the Board, 3,259 children boarded in families and 1,377 children in families Avithout board.
The number of paupers in almshouses during the fiscal year anding November 30, 1911, was 10,660. Besides almshouses and asylums for the insane, &c., there were in Massachusetts during the same year 742 incor- porated charitable institutions from which annual returns were called for by the State Board of Charity. The number of institutions which made returns to the Board was 676.
The penal institutions in the State consist of 5 strictly State institutions and 21 county jails or houses of correction. On September 30, 1912, the number of prisoners in these institutions was 6,355, being 537 less than on the corresponding date in 1911. During the fiscal year 1911 the number of sentences was 29,657, of which 1,505 were for crimes against the person, 3,055 against property, 24,497 against public order. Of the offences against public order, 20,086 were for drunkenness, leaving 4,411 for all other offences in this class.
Finance, Defence.— For the fiscal year ending November 30, 1912, the net revenue and expenditures of the State were as follows : —
Dollars Cash in Treasury, December 1, 1911 . . . 6,208,335
Net receipts, year ending November 30, 1912 . . 48,054,456
Total . . . . . . . 54,262,791
Total net expenditure, year ending Nov. 30, 1912 . 47,892,827
Cash in Treasury, December 1, 1911 . . . 6,369,964
The direct debt of the State on December 1, 1911, amounted to 41,920,417 dollars, while the sinking fund amounted to 21,438,295 dollars. The contingent debt amounted to 74.313,745 dollars and its sinking fund to 14,406,353 dollars.
For the year ending November 30, 1911, the assessed value of real and personal property in the State amounted to 5,417,678,441 dollars, as compared with an assessed valuation of 5,027,154,806 dollars for the previous year.
For the financial year ending January 31, 1912, the actual receipts of the city of Boston were 38,739,589 dollars, and the actual expenditures were 33,341,529 dollars, while the net funded debt of the city, including the Cochituate Water Debt and the Suffolk County Debt for which the city is responsible, was 73,474,233 dollars.
The military force of the State is the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, composed of the land forces (the Massachusetts National Guard) with an authorised strength of 6,607 ; and the naval forces (the Massachusetts Naval Militia), with an authorised strength of 695. In January, 1912, the actual strength of the National Guard Avas 5,890, comprising 2 general officers, 72 officers in the staff departments, 9 enlisted men in staff departments, 5 regiments and 2 separate battalions of infantry (4,178), headquarters, band, and 12 companies of coast artillery (802), 1 battalion of 3 four-gun batteries of field artillery (374), 1 squadron of 4 troojis of cavalry (250), 1 signal corps company (59), and hospital corps and ambulance company (134). The number of men liable to military service was 555,125. The U.S. Navy Department has loaned the State for the use of its Naval Militia the cruiser Chicago and the torpedo boat Rodgers. Men are enlisted for a period of three years, on the expiration of which they may re-enlist for one, two, or three years.
Under the authority of the U.S. Statutes, a steam sloop of war (U.S.S. Hanger) is loaned by the National Government to the State to be used as a training-ship by the pupils of the State Nautical School ; the officers of this vessel are detailed by the U.S. Navy Department. There is an armed
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