Hon. JOHN E. SANFORD, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Sir, -In compliance with the Resolve creating this Bureau, we submit, through you, to the Legislature, the Report of its doings for the year ending at date.

Heretofore we have been permitted to report in print. In reporting in manuscript, we encounter the many chances of errors of copyists and other unavoidable inaccuracies, which, in print, are reduced to a minimum.

The necessary index can only be made as the printed sheets come from the printer with the proper paging. The Report contains matter upon the following subjects, viz :

WAGES AND EARNINGS.

COST OF LIVING.

SAVINGS AND SAVINGS BANKS.

OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY.

CO-OPERATION.

EDUCATION.

POVERTY.

HOURS OF LABOR.

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.

In addition to the Report, we present to the Legislature a folio volume of 600 pages, it being an Index of the various employments in Massachusetts, containing the names of all corporations, companies and individuals, producing not less than $500 in value, per annum, and employing not fewer than two persons, together with location of manufacture; capital