REPORT OF JOHN HOWE, JR., RELATIVE TO STATE AID FOR SOLDIERS' FAMILIES IN VERMONT.

(Referred to on Page 18 of the Journal.)

To his Excellency, J. Gregory Smith:

Enclosed is respectfully submitted a report of the expenditures for State aid to soldiers' families, under the acts of April 25, 1861, and November 14, 1862.

In accordance with your instructions, I have endeavored to equalize the amounts paid to the different towns applying for aid, in proportion to the number of its soldiers in service, and, so far as it was possible, this has been done, but the circumstances under which assistance has been claimed not always being the same, render it impossible to preserve, in all cases, an exact equality.

With the happy termination of the war, the calls for assistance have nearly ceased, and will soon be entirely closed. The statements of amounts expended the last six months exhibit the reduction as our soldiers have returned to their homes.

For all details of management, I would respectfully refer to previous reports. There is one unsettled claim, from the agent of Corinth, about $250 00, which I have not deemed it proper to allow. I know of no other claims.

Statement by towns of all the agents appointed; Average Number of Families, and Number in the Families, aided one month; with total amount of aid from Sept. 1, 1864, to Sept. 1, 1865, giving Average per Family and per Head, per month, with the number the Families were aided.

of

months

Expenditures from September 1, 1864, to September 1, 1865, being total amount of State Orders issued,

$17,607 22 22 64

Less received from Henry Loomis,

Number of families aided, 416.

Number of persons aided, 1,832.

EXPENSES.

For amount paid for postage stamps,

$34 50

For amount paid Tuttle, Gay & Co., bill for books and blanks,
For amount paid D. L. Milliken for blanks,.

19 00

6 00

For amount paid for express and stationery,

4 85

For amount paid Chas. H. Ross for keeping books and accounts one

$17,584 58

Statement of amounts expended the past six months, showing the decrease as our soldiers

$300 10

"Total amount of State aid to soldiers' families, from Oct. 1, 1861, to Sept. 1, 1865:

$1,062 80
513 32
212 62

Aid.

$15,739 66

Expenses. $309 93

21,517 54

413 00

REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE VERMONT AGRICULTURAL

COLLEGE.

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(Referred to on Page 67 of the Journal.)

To the Hon. Paul Dillingham, Governor of the State of Vermont :

SLR:-In behalf of the Trustees of the Vermont Agricultural College, we have the honor to report, that, in pursuance of an act of incorporation, a meeting of the board was held at Montpelier on the 2d day of May, 1865, when the board was duly organized, and at once proceeded to institute measures for a thorough and efficient canvass of the whole State, for the purpose of raising by subscription $100,000, being the amount required by our charter as a condition to the location and continued existence of the corporation. The board next proceeded to appoint a committee to consider and report a plan of organization and course of study. This committee, at a subsequent meeting, reported as follows, viz:

PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND COURSE OF STUDY OF THE VERMONT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

I. Real estate, one hundred and fifty acres or more, with farm-buildings, live stock and implements for illustrations in agriculture, stock-growing and rural affairs.

DIVISIONS. Field crops, vegetables, fruit garden, botanical garden, arboretum, including specimens of the principal trees and shrubs growing in the State.

II. College buildings.

DIVISIONS.-Lecture and recitation rooms, chapel, library and room for librarian, museum of natural history, mineralogy, geology, woods, seeds, wool, insects, models of agricultural implements, and models of fruit in wax, chemical laboratory, rooms for philosophical and chemical apparatus and surveying instruments, hall for exhibitions and military drill, armory, rooms for the President and other officers, rooms for students, boarding or club-house for such students only as cannot be otherwise accommodated.

III. A President who shall discharge the duties of some department allotted to a profes

sor.

IV. A Faculty, composed of the President and resident professors, who shall administer such rules of government and carry out such course of study as shall be established, and make and execute all other regulations necessary to proper order and discipline.

V. A farm superintendent, who shall, under the direction of the president, manage all the affairs of the farm and control all labor thereon, except such labor of students as the Faculty may place under control of professors or others, and shall keep an accurate account in detail of the operations of the farm, all expenses, labor, crops, stock, sales and consumption of products, and make an annual report, embracing the substance of such account, to the President of the College, on the first Tuesday of in each year.

VI. The following departments, each under one professor and such assistants as may be necessary, viz:

1. Moral and Intellectual Philosophy and Political Economy.

2. Chemistry, and chemistry in all its relations to agriculture, embracing animal and vegstable productions.

3. Latin and Greek.