There are 40 Senatorial districts, from each of The Supreme Judicial Court has exclusive cogniwhich one Senator is elected annually. The avezance of all capital crimes and exclusive chancery rage of legal voters for each Senatorial district is jurisdiction, so far as chancery powers are cou5282. The districts are distributed among the ferred by statute, and concurrent original juriscounties as follows: Suffolk (Boston, Chelsea, and diction of all civil cases where the amount in disWinthrop) has 5; Essex county, 5; Middlesex pute exceeds $4000 in Suffolk, and $1000 in the county, 6; Worcester county, 6; Hampden county, other counties. The Legislature of 1859 abolished 2; Hampshire and Franklin, 3; Berkshire, 2; Nor- the Court of Common Pleas and the Superior folk (without Cohasset), 3; Bristol (without Fair- Court for the county of Suffolk, and the Municipal haven), 3; Plymouth (with Fairhaven and Cohas- Court, and established in their place the "Superior set), 3; Barnstable, Nantucket, and Dukes coun- Court," consisting of a chief-justice and nine justies, 2. The number of Representatives is 240. tices. This court has criminal jurisdiction in all They are elected from 174 districts, some of the except capital cases, and civil jurisdiction in all districts sending 2 or 3 Representatives; the ave- cases above $20. It holds from two to twelve rage number of legal voters to a Representative is terms in each county annually. The district 880. They are distributed as follows among the attorneys are elected in the several districts for counties:three years; the assistant attorney in Suffolk county is appointed by the Governor. Police courts are organized in the following towns and cities: Adams, Boston, Cambridge, Chelsea, Chicopee, Fall River, Gloucester, Haverhill, Lawrence, 1 Lee, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, Newburyport, 32 Pittsfield, Roxbury, Salem, Springfield, Taunton,

The courts of the State are, the Supreme Judicial Court, consisting of a chief-justice and five associate justices, which holds terms for the decision of law questions, under the name of "the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth," at Boston for the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, or -Nantucket; at Lenox for Berkshire county; at Taunton for Bristol county; at Northampton and Greenfield for Hampshire and Franklin counties; at Springfield for Hampden county; and at Worcester for Worcester county. Under the name of "the Supreme Judicial Court" it holds two terms for the trial of jury cases in Suffolk county, and one in every other county in the State except Dukes, the court for which is held at Barnstable.

Sheriff's and Clerks of the Courts in the Several Counties.

The Sheriffs are elected for three years; their term of service expires in 1866. The Clerks of Courts, who are clerks both in the Supreme, Judicial, and Superior Courts, are chosen for five years, and their terms expire in 1867.

1,000

3,000

1,800

The amount of debts and liabilities of the State | $14,835,161 27, of which $3,205,744 98 is in real on the 1st Jan. 1862, was $10,988,919 65, of which $1,368,000 was floating and the remainder funded debt. Of the funded debt, $5,824,435 56 consists of bonds issued in aid of railroads, the interest of nearly $5,000,000 of which is paid by the roads themselves. The resources of the State amount to

estate and unproductive; $5,824,435 56 is in bonds and mortgages of sundry railroads for scrip issued; and $5,804,980 73 in railroad-stock, Massachusetts School Fund, &c., and is productive. The surplus of the resources of the State over its liabilities is $3,846,241 62.

1863.]

MASSACHUSETTS.

Pleuro-Pneumonia.

$14,118 43

2,006,000 00

984,376 15

1,000 00

Legislative Expenditure..

229,549 46

..$9,133,225 84

Taxation. The report of the Secretary of State | tal of the banks of the State was $66,395,000); on the returns of the Assessors gives the following statistics of taxables. Whole number of polls, 280,885; total tax on polls, $455,333 93; total value of personal estate, $309,397,669; total value of real estate, $552,087,749; total tax for State, county, city, town, and highway purposes, $7,600,501 28: total valuation, May 1, 1861, $861,547,583 (the census valuation of 1860 was $815,237,433); the total number of dwelling-houses was 178,194; total number of horses, 88,299; total number of cows, 149,090; total number of sheep, 81,110; total number of acres of land taxed, 4,062,035; value of all bank-stock taxed, $36,093,801 (the capi

value of Insurance Companies' stock taxed was $6,963,840 (the capital of the Insurance Companies of the State was $7,446,777); the value of all industrial corporate stock taxed was 8,210,934, and real estate and machinery of these corporations of the value of $35,797,919 was also taxed (the capital of these corporations in the State was $62,406,380); the value of all railroad corporate stock taxed was $19,339,459; the amount of savings deposits taxed was $9,655,796. (The entire amount of savings deposits in the savings-banks of the State was $45,016,470.)

BANKS. The following table exhibits the condition of the banks of the State on the 26th of October, 1861.