Sheriffs and Clerks of the Courts in the several Counties. The Sheriffs are elected for three years; the terms of service of the present incumbents expire in 1866. The Clerks of Courts, who are clerks both in the Supreme, Judicial, and Superior Courts, are chosen for five years, and their terms expire in 1867. Counties. Barnstable.. Berkshire.... Bristol..... Dukes...... Essex. Franklin Hampden. Hampshire.. Middlesex.. Nantucket. Norfolk. Plymouth.. Suffolk........... Sheriffs. David Bursley........ Samuel H. Reed...... New Bedford.... William H. Whitman..... F. H. Underwood, Crim. T. John M. Clark........ Boston..........Joseph Willard, Civ. T..... John S. C. Knowlton Worcester........ Residence. Barnstable. Dedham. Plymouth. Receipts: Receipts and Disbursements-Extraordinary included. On account of Ordinary Revenue.... $2,949,816 71 Union Fund Loan of 1861.. Military Emergency Fund, for money From the Ordinary Revenue, includ 782,500 00 600,000 00 168,000 00 202,915 56 40,348 06 79,811 85 153,006 98 70,487 69 1,751,974 14 60,000 00 185,964 32 60,865 00 495,000 00 229,549 46 $7,830,269 77 $2,470,054 65 60,865 09 580,000 00 1,255,547 15 1,012,500 00 Expenditures on account of the War. The amount of military expenses on account of the United States for the year 1862 was $199,982.67, ard the total amount expended and charged to the General Government from the commencement of the war to the close of 1862 was $3,455,110,52 Of this sum there was reimbursed from the United States and other sources $1,625,188.25, leaving due the State $1,829,922.27. To meet these expenditures, bonds of the State were issued to the amount of $3,600,000, and the payment of these bonds has been provided for by the Union Loan Sinking Fund to the amount of $1,071,139.01. To this should be added $700,894.13 remaining in the treasury, being so much of the State tax of last year as was assessed to meet the direct tax of the General Government, and also the amount due from the United States, making in all $3,001,955.41 pledged to redeem the bonds as above stated. Casli on hand, January 1, 1862.. Payments: ing United States Tax paid Union Loan Sinking Fund. On account of Sundry Funds Interest on Railroad Scrip. Temporary Loans repaid. Union Loan Sinking Fund.... Military Fund.... 228,305 40 Back Bay Lands Fund.... 309,369 26 Sales of Back Bay Lands... Massachusetts School Fund.. Allotment Rolls.. Military Emergency Fund.. Expenditures for relief to families of volunteers. Returns from the cities and towns of Massa chusetts relating to expenditures on this account show the following totals: Massachusetts Volunteers... Sundry other funds. Cash on hand, January 1, 1863.. These amounts were expended under authority of a State law, and are to be reimbursed to the cities and towns. BANKS.-On the 30th September, 1862, there were 183 banks in the State, with an aggregate capital of $67,544,200, of which 42 were in Boston, having an aggregate capital of $38,231,700. TABLE exhibiting the Condition of the Massachusetts Banks in detail, September 30, 1862, as compared with September 30, 1861, showing the Aggregates for all the Banks in the State, and those for the Bosion Banks separately. SAVINGS-INSTITUTIONS. TABLE exhibiting the Number, Condition, and Progress of the Savings-Banks of Massachusetts, in each Year for Ten Years from 1853 to 1862 inclusive. Life. (From the Report of the Insurance Commissioners, January 1, 1863.) The amount insured by the 24 life-insurance | companies legally doing business in this Commonwealth falls very little short of $200,000,000 in more than 75,000 policies. These companies hold cash funds, from premiums and interest thereon, to the amount of over $20,000,000. Their cash-income during the last year exceeded $6,000,000, and they paid more than $2,000,000 for losses by death. Notwithstanding the agitations of the times, their business continued rapidly to advance during the year. The amount of policies issued by these companies from November 1, 1861, to November 1, 1862, was over $38,000,000. Those of them that were doing business in Massachusetts the previous year made a net increase in 1862 of $13,000,000 in the amount insured, against a net increase of $2,000,000 in 1861. The following are some of the aggregates re ported for 24 companies in 1862:-Amount insured, $199,285,861; net present value of poli cies, $18,494,607: net assets, including capital, $28,392,660; receipts, including income of capital, $7,035,359; expenses, $925,322; claims of death against 23 companies, 720; amount, $2,623,670; ratio of loss to amount insured, 1.14; ratio of claims to whole number of policies, 1.09. |