INDIVIDUAL STATES. I. MAINE. GOVERNMENT. HUGH J. ANDERSON, of Belfast, Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Wednesday in Jan., 1847,) Salary. $1,500 of Augusta, of Belfast, of Augusta, of Charleston, of Palermo, of Augusta, Samuel Belcher, J. O. L. Foster, of Farmington, Manly B. Townsend, of Alexander, President of the Senate. [Extracted from the Report of the State Treasurer, Dec. 31, 1844. Roll of accounts, No. 25, Agricultural Societies, Insane Hospital, Principal Items of Expenditure. [Printing, Binding, &c., Salaries Public debt paid off, State Prison, Militia Pensions, $21,462 20 Military Purposes, 2,551 00 1,764 00 1,413 87 5,144 11 10,002 94 Chief Sources of Income. $92,151 02 213,681 69 4,970 01 School Fund, No. 12, 26,131 88 Whole amount of State Debt, $1,590,931 22 Annual interest on this debt, COMMON SCHOOLS. The whole number of persons in the State, between the ages of 4 and 21 years, as returned to the Secretary of State's office for 1844, is 217,691; and School fund No. 12, amounting to $26,131 88, as apportioned by the State Treasurer, is at the rate of 13 cents to each child. In addition to this, the several cities, towns, and plantations are required by statute to raise by direct taxation a sum not less than 40 cents for each inhabitant. II. NEW HAMPSHIRE. GOVERNMENT. For the Year ending on the first Wednesday of June, 1846. Counties. Councillors. Rockingham and part Benjamin Jenness, of Deerfield, of Merrimack, Strafford, Belknap, and Carroll, }Josiah Bartlett, of Lee. Hillsborough and part} of Merrimack, William Parker, of Francistown. Cheshire and Sullivan, Amos Perkins, of Unity. Caleb Blodgett, of Canaan. The Governor, Executive Council, Senate, and House of Representatives, are elected annually on the 2d Tuesday of March; the official year commencing on the 1st Wednesday in June. The State is divided into five Districts for the choice of Councillors; and again divided into twelve Districts for the choice of Senators; the number composing these two bodies being limited by the Constitution, while the number of Representatives is unlimited-every town possessing 150 ratable male inhabitants being entitled to one Representative, and one for each additional 300. JUDICIARY. The Superior Court of Judicature consists of a chief justice and two associate justices, who hold one term annually in each of the ten counties of the State, for the hearing and determining questions of law, &c. This Court is also vested with Chancery jurisdiction for certain purposes. The judges of the Superior Court of Judicature are, ex officio, judges of the Court of Common Pleas. This Court, before whom all actions for the recovery of debts and the enforcement of contracts, and all jury trials are brought, consists of one of the justices of the Superior court, who sits as chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and of two county judges, generally appointed from among the yeomanry, whose principal duty it is to attend to the ordinary business of the county; its roads, expenses, &c. Terms are held semi-annually, in each of the counties. Samuel G. Berry, Warden, William Berry, Deputy Warden, Rev. John Atwood, Chaplain, Ezra Carter, M. D., Physician. Net income of the prison over its expenditure, during the year ending May 31, 1845, $356 79. Of 81 convicts in the prison, June 1, 1845, 52 were natives of New Hampshire, 17 of other parts of New England, 4 of the Middle or Western States, and 8 were foreigners. 38 were sentenced for stealing, 8 for burglary or store-breaking, 7 for rape, or assault with intent, 6 for arson, 8 for manslaughter or inferior degrees of murder, 8 for counterfeiting or passing counterfeit money, 4 for forgery, 1 for subornation of perjury, and 1 for murder, sentence commuted. Table of the number of Convicts in prison, committed, discharged, pardoned, deceased, and escaped, in each year since 1829. The prison is built and conducted on the Auburn plan. New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane, established at Concord, in October, 1842; Dr. George Chandler, Physician and Superintendent. The pa Escaped |