The report of James L. Davenport, commissioner of pensions, shows that there are 821,083 names on the pension roll. Nearly ten per cent of them, or 89,828, live in Pennsylvania. Ohio is only 600 behind, followed in order by New York, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, and Michigan. The disbursements for pensions during the past year amounted to $159,974,056, a decrease, as compared with the previous year, of nearly two million dollars. The annual value of the pension roll at the end of the past year was $158,332,391.82. This is the amount, the report explains, which would be required to pay all the pensioners now on the roll for one entire year, at the rates of pension now existing, should no new pensioners be added to the roll, and none be dropped therefrom. The number of new names added to the pension roll during the fiscal year just past was 29,219, and the number of losses was 54,330, making a net decrease of 26,111. During the year the pension bureau received 132,012 new applications for pensions or increase of pensions. The number of cases on hand at the end of the year for special examination was 2,823.