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respectable and law-abiding citizens, a record that speaks more eloquently than words for the excellence of its management. There have been 159 boys in the school during the past year. The present number is 114. Good health has prevailed among them, no death having occurred there during

the year.

In 1889 there was erected a building 96 by 48 feet designed to accommodate fifty boys. This enables a good beginning to be made in the introduction of the cottage system, which permits the classification of these youths into family groups. The adoption of this system in other states has been attended with most satisfactory results. By a purchase in 1889, twenty acres of land were added to the school farm, making a total of about 184 acres.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.

The Industrial School for girls continues to do a most successful and worthy work. Its efforts are upon a broad, humane and philanthropic plane. The large measure of success that has attended them in the past entitles the School to continued encouragement and support.

STATE REFORMATORY FOR WOMEN.

An effort was made during the session of the last Legislature to secure an appropriation for the establishment of a State Reformatory for Women. The matter was finally left in the hands of the Governor and Council, with instructions to investigate it and report to the next Legislature. They have accordingly given a public hearing, at which various friends of the project appeared and urged many forcible reasons why the State should have such an institution. The report upon the matter will soon be laid before you. There are many grave objections to the custom now in vogue of keeping female prisoners in the various jails of the State, where proper provision has not been made for them, and where the associations are demoralizing. The enlightened moral sentiment of society demands a considerate treatment of women, even when they incur the penalties of the law. There can be no doubt that a State Reformatory under competent female management would result in vast good.

CONCLUSION.

The details of many of the subjects I have thus briefly touched upon, and of others which do not require specific mention at this time, will fully appear in the various public documents that will be placed before you.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: As we turn to the important work of the session, we must bear clearly in mind the fact that we are here not as the representatives of any special interests or sections of the State, but as the representatives of all interests and all sections. Let us act fearlessly and conscientiously for the furtherance of whatever, in our judgment, may be for the highest good of the whole State. At the same time, we should invoke, in all our deliberations, strength and guidance from Him who is the source of all wisdom. It is my earnest hope that, with the blessing of God, our labors here for the welfare of our beloved State may be crowned with such success as shall permanently advance its interests and make for the lasting benefit of all its citizens.

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To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives :

I have the honor of presenting herewith, a communication from Honorable James G. Blaine, Secretary of State of the United States, transmitting documents submitted by Sir Julian Pauncefort, Minister of Great Britain, in relation to the pollution of the St. John river and its tributaries, by allowing sawdust and mill refuse to drift into them.

By these documents it will be seen that the Dominion government is desirous of obtaining the co-operation of the legislature of Maine to insure protection to the fisheries and navigation of these streams.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

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To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives:

I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature, approved March 5th, 1889, to select an eligible site for an Insane Hospital, to be located at or near Bangor and to be known as the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, January 21, 1819.

To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives:

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I have the honor of transmitting herewith the report of the commissioners, appointed under resolve of the legislature entitled "Resolve in favor of Enlargement of State House" approved March 12, 1889.

EDWIN C. BURLIEGH.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, January 29, 1891.

To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives :

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I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of a special committee of the executive council, appointed in accordance with the provisions of the resolve of 1889, chapter 198, approved March 2, 1889, requesting the governor and council to inquire into the matter of the establishment, within this state, of a reformatory prison for women.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, January 30, 1891.

To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives :

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I have the honor to transmit herewith the report of the governor and council, made in conformity to legislative resolve, chapter 241, approved March 13, 1889, in favor of

cities and towns, in which was owned, on the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, capital stock of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, February 4, 1891.

To the President of the Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives:

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I have the honor of transmitting herewith a communication from Mr. Francis T. Garrettsen to the Secretary of State of the United States, in relation to the lack of fire-escapes in the hotels in this State; and by that officer referred to the executive department of Maine.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

To the President of the

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

AUGUSTA, February 9, 1891.

Senate

and Speaker of the House of Representatives:

I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of resolutions passed by the executive committee of the Maine Pomological Society, in relation to securing a proper exhibit of Maine fruit, at the World's Fair in 1893.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
AUGUSTA, February 18, 1891. S

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

It becomes my sad duty to announce to you the death of General William Tecumseh Sherman at his home in New York Saturday afternoon at 1.50 o'clock. The event is one that will be sincerely mourned by all patriotic citizens. It removes from our midst the last of that great trio of Generals who won world-wide distinction in the great war of the rebellion and whose names and achievements will be as enduring as the history of the great republic whose integrity and free institutions they did so much to preserve and insure.

The career of General Sherman was a conspicuously honorable and patriotic one. He rose to great emergencies and

became master of them.

No man went before him in love of country. He died full of years and honors, in the warmest love and and esteem of his fellow country-men.

The whole nation mourns him. It is fitting that Maine should give expression to the profound sorrow that this sad event has brought to the hearts of her people.

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In accordance with section seventy of chapter two of the revised statutes, I transmit here with the report of the treasurer of state for the year ending December 31, 1890.

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I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of a resolution adopted January 21st, 1891, by the legislature of the state of Illinois, relating to the World's Columbian Exposition.

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I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of an act of congress, approved February 7, 1891, entitled, "An Act making an apportionment of representatives in congress among the several states under the eleventh census," certified by the secretary of state of the United States.

EDWIN C. BURLEIGH.

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