(P) REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE CENTRAL RAIL ROAD COMPANY. To the General Assembly of the State of Vermont : In compliance with the 19th Section of the Charter of the Ver 'mont Central Rail Road Company, the Directors of said Company hereby submit their first Annual Report" of their proceedings, receipts and expenditures," up to the 1st day of October, 1845: Sufficient subscriptions having been first obtained, this corporation was fully organized on the 23d day of July last, by the choice of seven Directors, who at once proceeded to the appointment of the necessary officers. An assessment of five dollars on each share was ordered, payable on the 1st of September last. Surveys preparatory to the location of the line of the road were commenced at the earliest moment practicable, and have embraced territory within the Counties of Franklin and Chittenden on Lake Champlain, and the valleys of Onion, White, and Connecticut Rivers. The surveys are so far completed as to warrant the location of the line, a part of it at least, within the present month; and notice has been given that proposals for grading will be received up to the 5th of November next. The receipts of the Company, being payments on the capital stock, amounted on the 1st inst. to And the expenditures for surveyor's instruments, surveys, and other services, amounted to $91,790,00 1,491,56 This statement is made from the Treasurer's books, and does not embrace payments which had been made on the stock, but of which an account had not been rendered by the banks in which the funds were deposited; nor expenses, which had then been incurred, but had not been presented for payment. All which is respectfully submitted in behalf of the Directors. CHARLES PAINE, Committee of the Board. October 13, 1845. A resolution having been passed by the House of Representatives at the last session of the General Assembly, authorizing the Governor to transmit to you, after the close of the session, the statistics of Common Schools, received from the several Town Clerks, which the law required him to transmit to the General Assembly, I herewith send the same to be deposited in your office, and, with them, the following abstract, to be published in the Appendix to the Journal of the General Assembly. I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant, WILLIAM SLADE. ABSTRACT OF THE RETURNS OF COMMON SCHOOL STATISTICS, UNDER THE ACT RELATING TO COMMON SCHOOLS, PASSED NOVEMBER 1, 1843. & BIF I & I taught by males. 46 1-4 83 1-4 1118 56 900 94 1121 35 7 1-4 20 1-2 Grafton, WINDHAM CO. 7 81-2 985 2411 1859 197 1-4 279 1-4 2361 22 1474 65'2548 48 Dummerston 147 369 369 23 Guilford, 187 426 422 42 1-2 172 419 419 24 Rupert, 329 29 1-4 42 280 Sunderland, 71 151 12 1-2 387 00 223 00 434 00 129 38 233 68 36 3-4 314 41 10 1-2 172 00 taught by females. ==ឪ | Amount of wages 20 3-4 paid males. RUTLAND CO. 227 00 253 92 302 58 441 92 194 05 664 47 3613 9495 7946, 586 3-4 989 1-2 7578 21 4925 57 9827 36 Springfield, * 870 49 Stockbridge, 172 435 336 17 Sharon, 182 450 209 20 taught by males. CARE Number of months 72 154 95 371 20 86 146 353 333 15 1-2 46 41 24826279 4618 432 1-4 739 1-2 5054 59 3319 49 6371 38 |