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tricts, instead of being held, as heretofore, in the several counties. These terms are held annually in Portland for the Western, in Augusta for the Middle, and in Bangor for the Eastern District. The other cases are tried, as heretofore, in the several counties where they are commenced.

Municipal and Police Courts.

George S. Mulliken, of Augusta; Alpheus Lyon, of Bangor; Jacob Smith, of Bath; Joseph Williamson, Jr., of Belfast; Henry Orr, of Brunswick; George W. Dyer, of Calais; William Palmer, of Gardiner; Samuel K. Gilman, of Hallowell; Henry Carter, of Portland; William G. Sargent, of Rockland; and Edward E. Bourne, Jr., of Biddeford, are Judges at those places respectively. Some are paid by salaries, others by fees.

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Amount of expenditures from January 1, 1854, to December 31, 1854,
Balance, January 1, 1855,

To be further reduced by existing appropriations,

Leaving a balance for further wants in the Treasury of

$359,420.74

92,504.71

$451,925.45

343,818.04

108,107.41

71,448 46

36.658.95

Beyond the ordinary demands upon the Treasury, there have been paid during the year for

the Insane Hospital, $ 18,000; and on account of the Public Debt, $30,000.

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8,495.00 County Taxes,

2,704.64

School fund, Nos. 11-20, inclusive, 15,132.49 Fuel and lights,

2,000.00

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Public Debt. The public funded debt of the State, January 1, 1855, was $681,500. There are besides funds to the amount of $ 291,171.62, held in trust by the State, and for which the State must provide the payment of interest. There are other liabilities for unpaid warrants, &c., to the amount of $71,448.46; total, $1,045,120.08. Resources of the State at the same date other than lands, consisting of bank shares and bills receivable, $648,289,36.

Common Schools. - By the Act of April 17, 1854, provision is made for the appointment of a Superintendent of Common Schools. His duty is "to devote his time to the improvement of common schools and the promotion of the general interests of education in the State." He is to hold annually in each county a teachers' convention, for one week at least, of which he has the charge, and he is to employ suitable instructors and teachers to assist him therein. To defray the expenses of these conventions $2,000 are to be appropriated annually. There are no statistics of the Schools in the last Report of the Superintendent.

School Fund. -The permanent school fund is $ 125,281.01. The amount apportioned for the year 1854 was $55,860.53. The bank tax for the support of schools is one half of one per cent. on their capital. The apportionment is made ratably among towns making returns. Towns are obliged by law to raise annually an amount of school money equal to 40 cents for each inhabitant. The number of scholars in 1853 was 238,736.

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Due other banks,

172,628

Net profits,

550,704

174,424 Bal. due from other banks, 1,781,065 1,226,894
500,378 Loan,
13,181,908 12,590,930

In June, 1854, the banks had $626,143 of bills in circulation under five dollars. At the last session of the Legislature ten new banks were incorporated, and the capital stock of eleven old banks was increased.

Insane Hospital, Augusta. Henry M. Harlow, Superintendent and Physician, Theodore C. Allan, Treasurer and Steward. Nov. 30th, 1853, there were in the Hospital 119 patients, 61 males and 58 females; received during the year, 110, 57 males and 53 females, in all 229. 114 (56 males and 58 females) have been discharged; of whom 49 (26 males and 23 females) were recovered; 15 (4 males and 11 females) were improved; 18 (10 males and 8 females) were unimproved; and 16 males and 16 females died; remaining, 115, 62 males and 53 females. Of those admitted 27 men and 32 women were married; 26 men and 12 women were unmarried; 5 were widowers, and 8 were widows. 30 are under 30; 58 between 30 and 50; 18 between 50 and 70, and 5 over 70. The dysentery was epidemic in the institution in August, September, and October. There were 90 cases, and 16 deaths, among the patients. One female assistant also died, and the Superintendent was prostrated with it.

Since opening the Hospital in 1840 there have been 1,430 patients. 590 of these have recovered; 261 improved; 290 were unimproved, and 175 died.

Receipts from all sources during the year, $ 17,162.33; expenditures, $ 17,561.00; excess of expenses, $44.42. The price of board is now $2.25 a week, and a bond must be given in the sum of $200 for the payment of all dues to the institution. During the year 1855 the new wing of the hospital has been completed, and the institution will accommodate 250 patients. This number is less than half the insane persons in the State.

State Prison, Thomaston. Number of convicts, December 1, 1853, 69; received up to December 1st, 1954, 42; discharged during the same period, by expiration of sentence 14, and by pardon 5, in all 19, leaving 92 in prison. 53 are committed for larceny, 4 for manslaughter, 2 for murder, 2 for forgery, 4 for arson, 3 for rape, 4 for assault with intent to ravish, 4 for burglary, 4 for shop-breaking and larceny, 1 for robbery. One convict is colored, and one a white female. 17 are employed in the lime-quarry, 11 in the smith-shop, 30 are shoemakers, 17 are wheelwrights. There is little demand for the labor of the prisoners. The labor of the shoemakers is let at 30 cents per day. The cost of "keeping" each convict is about 11 cents per day. The cost of clothing is $5 per year for each convict. Receipts for the year, $9,270.30; expenses, exclusive of salaries and repairs, $7,894.58. Since July 2, 1824, 1,121 prisoners have been received. Of these there have been discharged, by expiration of sentence, 801; pardon, 184; death, 28; escape, 8; removal to Insane Hospital, 4 ; writ of error, 1. The diarrhea and dysentery prevailed at the prison in August and September.

State Reform School. This school is at Cape Elizabeth, and is under the superintendence of William R. Lincoln. The first boy was received November 14, 1853; from that day to Nov. 13, 1854, 117 inmates were received and 4 were discharged. 27 were from Kennebec County; 30 from Cumberland; 28 from Penobscot; 2 from Oxford; 1 each from Hancock and Waldo; 12 from York; 3 each from Washington and Franklin; 8 from Sagadahoc; and 2 from Somerset. 78 were committed for larceny; 3 for breaking and entering with felonious intent; 21 as common runaways; 4 for truancy; 3 for assault, and 5 for malicious mischief. 100 were Americans, and 17 foreigners; average age 13 years. Each boy is employed six hours of each day at some mechanical, agricultural, or domestic labor. The farm connected with the school contains 160 acres.

II. NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday of June, 1856.

RALPH METCALF,
Lemuel N. Pattee,
Benjamin E. Badger,
William Berry,
John Sullivan,
Joseph C. Abbott,
William Haile,

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of Hinsdale,

Pres. of the Senate, $2.50 per day.

John J. Prentiss,

of Claremont, Speaker of the House, $2.50 per day.

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Railroad Commissioners.

Executive Council.

Counties.

Rockingham and part
Merrimack,

Strafford, Belknap, and
Carroll,

Councillors.

John Dame, of Portsmouth.

Fees.

Fees.

N. V. Whitehouse, of Rochester.

Hillsborough and part) Stephen Smith, of Mason.

of Merrimack,

Cheshire and Sullivan, Milon C. McClure, of Claremont.
Grafton and Coos, William Tenney, of Hanover.

JUDICIARY.

At the session of the Legislature in June, 1855, the judicial system of the State was remodelled. Instead of the Superior Court and the Common Pleas, with its circuit justices and side judges, there are now the Supreme Judicial Court, consisting of a chief justice and four associates, and the Court of Common Pleas, composed of a chief justice and two associates; the justices of the Supreme Court being ex officio justices of the Common Pleas, and having authority to hold terms thereof only in cases of accident and necessity. The jurisdiction of the Common Pleas is substantially as that of the old Court; but in civil actions, where the ad damnum does not exceed $ 100, it has exclusive and final jurisdiction; exceptions in matters of law being allowed to the Supreme Court. In other civil actions, an appeal on the facts lies to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has limited equity jurisdiction, and exclusive jurisdiction in all criminal cases, except those within the jurisdiction of justices of the peace and of police courts. The Court of Common Pleas is held by one or more of the justices thereof twice a year in each county. A single justice of the Supreme Court holds a trial term twice annually in each county, except in capital cases, which must be tried by two or more justices. For hearing and deciding law questions, the State is divided into five judicial districts, in each of which two terms are held annually. Three justices constitute a quorum to hold law terms, and the concurrence of three is necessary to the decision of any law question. All legal questions submitted to the court must be decided before the close of the term next succeeding the submission, unless a reargument is ordered; and each justice must, within six months from the time of such decision, prepare for the press and furnish the State Reporter correct reports of all cases in which he pronounces judgment. The judicial districts are composed as follows:-1. Rockingham and Strafford Counties; 2. Merrimack and Hillsborough; 3. Cheshire and Sullivan; 4. Belknap and Carroll; 5. Grafton and Coos.

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Belknap,

Warren Lovell,

Meredith,

142 O. A. J. Vaughn, Gilmanton, 183

Carroll,

Jonathan T. Chase, Conway, 150 Joel Eastman, Conway,

200

Cheshire,

Larkin Baker,

Westmorl'd, 225 Geo. W.Sturtevant, Keene,

300

Coos,

Turner Stephenson, Lancaster, 110 Albro L. Robinson, Lancaster,

135

Grafton,

Eleazer Martin,

Canaan, 300 Nathan B. Felton,

Haverhill,

400

Hillsborough, Wm. C. Clark,

Merrimack, Horace Chase,

Manchester, 425 Wm. Wetherbee,
Hopkinton, 300 Isaac A. Hill,

Amherst,

575

Concord,

400

Rockingham, Ira St. Clair,

Strafford, Hiram R. Roberts,

Deerfield, 412 Wm. B. Morrill,
Rollinsford, 225 John H. White,

Exeter,

550

Dover,

300

Sullivan,

John L. Putnam,

Cornish, 175 Henry G. Carlton,

Newport, 225

Railroad tax for 1854,

Civil commissions (fees),

FINANCES.

[From Treasurer's Report, June 1, 1855.]
Chief Sources of Income.

$61,480.01 Loan: Additions to Insane Asylum, 15,420.00
41.00 Balance in treasury, June 1, 1854, 28,136.73

State tax for 1854, and previous years, 69,853.75
Miscellaneous,

3,550.00

Total receipts,

Principal Items of Expenditure.

Salaries, Executive, Judiciary, &c. $ 24,416.28 N. H. Reports,

Legislature,

State printers,

Publishing laws,

Additions to N. H. Asylum,

$ 179,488.18

$ 5,300.43

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Deaf and dumb, blind and insane,

Total receipts for the same period,

Total expenditures for the year ending June 1, 1855,

Balance in the Treasury, June 1, 1855,

State of the Treasury, June 1, 1855.

Total indebtedness, June 1, 1855, all floating,

Deduct available funds, viz. cash in treasury and taxes outstanding,

Amount of indebtedness above available funds,

Banks. -The condition of the banks, on the first Monday in June, 1855, was as follows: -Capital actually paid in, $3,826,000; real estate, $59,615.48; debts due the banks, $7,130,589.35; specie, $184,949.49; bills of other banks, $ 136,236.81; deposits, $ 836,758.47; deposits in other banks for the redemption of bills, $ 641,830.24; circulation, $3,090,891.00.

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