INDIVIDUAL STATES. I. MAINE. Government for the Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1853. of Ellsworth, Warden of State Prison, 700 of Augusta, 800 Samuel Cony, Anson P. Morrill, Edmund W. Flagg, Leander Valentine, John Babson, of Houlton, of Newry, Sup't of Insane Hospital, President of the Senate, $4 per day. Speaker of the House, 4 " 66 of East Corinth, Clerk of the House. of Oldtown, of Westbrook, Simeon Strout, Samuel F. Hersey, Adams Treat, Darius Howard, of Bangor, of Frankfort, of Phillips, JUDICIARY. Supreme Judicial Court. of Portland, Chief Justice, Ether Shepley, $1,800 John S. Tenney, of Portland, of Norridgewock, Justice, 1,800 1,800 of Augusta, Municipal and Police Courts. Luther Fitch, of Portland; Jacob Smith, of Bath; Spencer A. Pratt, of Bangor; Frederic Greene, of Saco; Benj. A. G. Fuller, of Augusta; Geo. W. Batchelder, of Gardiner; Solamyn Heath, of Belfast; George W. Dyer, of Calais; John C. Cochran, of Rockland; and John Rogers, of Brunswick, are Judges in these places respectively. Some are paid by salaries, others, by fees. Amount of receipts from May 1, 1850, to April 30, 1851, inclusive, $426,196.30 125,924.07 552,120.37 Amount of expenditures from May 1, 1850, to April 30, 1851, inclusive, 507,450.30 44.670.07 552,120.37 The resources of the State, consisting principally of direct taxes and income from the Landoffice, are estimated at $ 638,692.41. Common Schools. -In 1828 twenty townships of public land were reserved as a basis for a school fund. The proceeds of the land already sold are $104,363.63, which constitute the permanent school fund of the State. In 1850 twenty-four half-townships of the undivided lands of the State were set apart and added to the permanent school fund. The banks are required to pay into the treasury of one per cent, semiannually on their capital stock for the use of schools. This tax for 1850 was $27,230.27. Add to this six per cent. interest of the school fund, $6,216.81, and there is the sum of $33,492.10, which was apportioned among the towns making returns during the past year. Towns are obliged by law to raise an amount of school money equal to 40 cents for each inhabitant. In the 3,948 districts, and 279 parts of districts, which made returns for 1850, there were 2,706 male, and 3,921 female, teachers. Average monthly wages of male teachers $ 16.66; of female teachers $5.92; average length of schools in weeks 18.8; schools suspended by incompetency of teachers 152; number of good school-houses 1,596; number of poor ones 2,012; number built the past year 120; whole number of scholars 230,274; whole attendance in winter 151,360; average attendance 91,519. The whole amount of school money raised by tax was $264,351.17, which was $41,010.37 more than required by law. $ 29,921.46 were expended for private schools. There are school libraries in nine towns. There are 92 chartered academies in the State, of which 64 sustain schools during a greater or less part of the year. The teachers' institutes have been in successful operation for several years; 1,732 teachers attended them in 1850; 801 males, 931 females. The session of each institute was ten days. Insane Hospital, Augusta. —The two south wings and most of the main building were destroyed by fire Dec. 4, 1850. Twenty-seven of the inmates and one of the assistants perished in the flames. The library, books, and papers of the institution were saved. The north wing was made inhabitable by the first of January, and has since been occupied. II. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday of June, 1852. Henry F. French, Bank Commissioners. за 66 4th 66 5th 66 Executive Council. Counties. Rockingham, and part Strafford, Belknap, and Councillors. Greenleaf Clark, of Atkinson. Joseph H. Smith, of Dover. Hillsborough and partSamuel Butterfield, of Andover. Cheshire and Sullivan, George Huntington, of Walpole. During the past year a convention was had for amending the constitution. Various amendments were made, and were submitted to the people at the general election in March, 1851, and were all rejected. JUDICIARY. The Supreme Court consists at present of a chief justice and four associate justices. At the last session of the legislature, provision was made for appointing four circuit justices of the Common Pleas. Two only are appointed now. If a vacancy, other than in the office of the chief justice, occurs in the Superior Court, it is not to be filled, but an additional circuit justice of the Common Pleas is to be appointed, until the whole number of four is filled up, and after that the Superior Court will consist of the chief justice and two associate justices, any two of whom will be a quorum. Two terms of the Superior Court are held annually at Concord, on the 2d Tuesdays of July and December, for the hearing and determining of questions of law and petitions for divorce from all the counties in the State. This court is also vested with chancery powers. At the trial of capital cases two justices of the Superior Court, or one justice of the Superior Court and one circuit justice, are required to be present. 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, enforcement of contracts, &c., and all jury trials are brought, consists of one of the justices of the Superior Court, or one of the circuit justices of the Court of Common Pleas, and of the two county justices, who are generally appointed from among the yeomanry, whose principal duty it is to attend to the ordinary business of the county, expenses, &c. Terms of the Common Pleas are held semiannually in each county. Grafton County is divided into two judicial districts, and terms are held semiannually, in each district. John J. Gilchrist, Superior Court. of Charlestown, Chief Justice, Associate Justice, 1840 1,200 of Concord, 66 Ira A. Eastman, Samuel D. Bell, William L. Foster, of Keene, Reporter. |