5. Statement showing birth-place of boys admitted. District of Columbia, 27; Massachusetts, 2; New York, 1; Pennsyl vania, 1; Illinois, 1; Maryland, 12; Virginia, 15; Kentucky, 1; Georgia, 1; Mississippi, 1; England, 1; Ireland, 1; Germany, 1. 6. Statement showing parentage of boys admitted. American, 4; English, 2; Irish, 10; Scotch, 1; German, 5; French, 1; African, 42. 7. Statement showing commitments during each month. July, 6; August, 9; September, 5; October, 3; November, 3; December, 3; January, 3; February, 3; March, 11; April, 6; May, 8; and June, 5. District of Columbia, on account of support of inmates. $10,000 00 13, 049 79 F. W. Howe, superintendent, sundry receipts from sale of farm produce, board, &c.... John Bailey, president, proceeds of sale of old building receipts from chair-work, &c., sold. Magne & Chipman, in payment for chair-work.. Total Disbursements. 1,328 84 150 00 1,403 01 300 00 26, 231 64 Charles Stott & Co., medicines, &c.... 106 92 F. W. Howe, superintendent, hospital fixtures, medicines, &c.. 193 00 F. Westby, wages as gardener.. 720 00 D. C. Mosher, wages as superintendent of work-shops.. 600 00 J. E. Graham, wages as laborer 120 00 J. W. Allen, wages as laborer.... Sarah Drew, wages as seamstress. 1876. April 18. F. W. Howe, superintendent, freight, &c H. L. Carlton, hay...... W. G. Wheatley, repairing shoes, &c.......... 23. F. W. Howe, superintendent, hired-labor pay-roll 24 00 180 00 22 90 124 62 109 85 16.00 65 50 25 00 June 5. Anton Hitz, baker. Hall & Hume, groceries... Kaspar Kneessi, repairing harness B. W. Reed's Sons, groceries.. J. C. Wiswall & Co., cloth................. Petty & Harvey, hats.... William R. Riley, dry goods 28. F. W. Howe, superintendent, hired-labor pay-roll. 1875. Lauxman & Long, blacksmithing Anton Hitz, baker B. W. Reed's Sons, groceries July 30. Charles Thomas, on account of bread F. W. Howe, superintendent, hired-labor pay-roll Ang. 13. B. W. Reed & Sons, groceries.. Washington Gas Light Co., gas. Hall & Hume, groceries... H. L. Carlton, provisions. W. R. Riley, dry goods.. John S. Killman, coal.. Thomas C. Bashore & Co., steam-pumps Wm. M. Gault, flour A. Nailor, jr., carriage-hire.. Webb & Beveridge, crockery. John A. Baker, hardware.... Kasper Kneessi, repairing harness W. D. Wyvill, pipe William Ballantyne, stationery Lauxman & Long, blacksmithing Lewis Baar, sewing-machine repairs. 14. Thomas H. Joy, beef... F. W. Howe, superintendent, sundry expenditures 30. F. W. Howe, superintendent, hired-labor pay-roll Sept. 11. Robert Ball, shoes.... B. W. Reed & Sons, groceries. H. L. Carlton, breadstuff.. William R. Riley, dry goods Hall & Hume, groceries... ...... Charles Thomas, on account of bread. George Ryneal, jr., paint, &c................. Petty & Harvey, hats Thomas H. Joy, beef... 15. F. W. Howe, superintendent, freight, &c...... Esq., EXHIBIT M. United States Marshal for the District of SIR: The laws of the United States having made it my duty to exer cise general direction over marshals in the manner of discharging their offices, I have prepared for their use this circular-letter of instructions as to the coming elections, intending the same also as a reply, once for all, to numerous applications, in like connection, from private citizens in various States. In the present condition of legislation, the United States occupy a position toward voters and voting which varies according as the election is for State and other local officers only, or for members of Congress and presidential electors. In elections at which members of the House of Representatives are chosen, which by law include also elections at which the electors for President and Vice-President are appointed, the United States secure voters against whatever in general hinders or prevents them from a free exercise of the elective franchise, extending that care alike to the regis tration-lists, the act of voting, and the personal freedom and security of the voter at all times as well against violence on account of any vote that he may intend to give as against conspiracy because of any that he may already have given. The peace of the United States, therefore, which you are to preserve, and whose violation you are to suppress, precedes as well as follows such elections, and protects (among others) the rights specified in the last paragraph, so that any person who by force violates those rights breaks that peace, and renders it your duty to arrest him, and to suppress any riots incident or that threaten the integrity of the registration or election, to the end that the will of the people in such election may be ascertained and take effect, and that offenders may be brought before the courts for punishment. Notorious events in several States, which recently and in an unusual manner have been publicly reprobated, render it a grave duty of all marshals who have cause to apprehend a violation of the peace of the United States connected as above with the elections to be held upon the Tuesday after the first Monday in November next, to be prepared to preserve and to restore such peace. As the chief executive officer of the United States in your district, you will be held responsible for all breaches of the peace of the United States which diligence on your part might have prevented, and for the arrest and securing of all persons who violate that peace in any of the points above enumerated. Diligence in these matters requires, of course, that you be and continue present in person or by deputy at all places of registration or election at which you have reason to suspect that the peace is threatened; and that whenever an embodiment of the posse comitatus is required to enforce the law, such embodiment be effected. You will observe that the "special" deputies mentioned in section 2021 of the Revised Statutes have peculiar duties assigned to them, duties which otherwise do not belong to deputy marshals. Such "special" deputies can be appointed only in cities of twenty thousand inhabitants or upwards. But the duties assigned to marshals and their deputies by section 2022, or other like statutes, belong to all duly-appointed deputies, whether they be general or be "special" within the meaning of that and the preceding section. Deputies to discharge this latter class of duties may be appointed to any number whatever, according to the discretion of the marshal, in all States in which sheriffs have a similar power. Sec tion 2030 has no practical bearing upon this point in States where no limit is imposed upon the appointment of deputies by sheriffs, because in such States the laws of the United States "prior to the 10th of June, 1872," left marshals also unlimited as to the number of their deputies. In discharging the duties above mentioned, you will doubtless receive the countenance and support of all the good citizens of the United States in your respective districts. It is not necessary to say that it is upon such countenance and support that the United States mainly rely in their endeavor to enforce the right to vote which they have given or have secured. The present instructions are intended only to counteract that partial malice, wrongheadedness, or inconsideration which sometimes triumphs at critical moments over the conservative and, in general, prevailing forces of society, and to which the present and passing con |