INDIVIDUAL STATES. I. MAINE. GOVERNMENT. HUGH J. ANDERSON, of Belfast, Governor, (term of office expires on the 1st Wednesday in Jan., 1846,) Salary. $1,500 [Extracted from the Report of the State Treasurer, Dec. 31, 1843. $739,516 42 550 300 150 125 125 Total amount received by the State in 1843, Balance in the Treasury, January 1, 1844, 350.920 54 388,595 88 Common Schools, 29,115 46 Education of indigent deaf, dumb, and blind persons, 3,891 68 Miscellaneous, 25,473 60 Public debt paid off, 61,931 45 Gratuities to Agricultural Societies, 1.391 00 State Prison, 2,325 34 Insane Hospital, 1,787 07 Printing, Binding, and Stationery, 11,089 70 Militia Pensions, 1.748 00 From the United States, on account of expenses on N. E. Boun 4,666,503 45 5,836,014 07 90,295 00 Deposits not on interest, 887,170 34 Notes discounted, &c., Total resources, Total due from Banks, 5,836,014 87 Last semi-ann. dividend, 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 1843, is 214,353; and School fund No. 11, 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. MILITIA. — An important change has been recently made in the militia system of this State. By an Act of the Legislature passed March 22, 1844, the enrolled militia are made subject to no active duty whatever, except for the choice of officers, or in case of insurrection, war, invasion, or to prevent invasion, or other public danger, or emergency; in which case, the governor and commander-in-chief is authorized and required to order out, from time to time, by draft or otherwise, as many of the militia as the necessity of the case may require. The enrolled militia consists, with the usual exemptions, of all ablebodied white male citizens, from 18 to 45 years of age. II. NEW HAMPSHIRE. GOVERNMENT. For the Year ending on the first Wednesday of June, 1845. Timothy Hoskins, President of the Senate. of Westmoreland, of Manchester, Clerk of the Senate. 1st District, { Rockingham and part Elijah R. Currier, of Newton. of Merrimack, Strafford, Belknap, and Carroll, Hillsborough and part of Merrimack, Cheshire and Sullivan, Francis Holbrook, of Surry. 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. |