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and underwent an active discussion in the Sec- 

 ond Chamber. A motion for reestablishing 

 capital punishment was rejected. Provisions 

 were adopted, imposing life-long and limited 

 terms of imprisonment, the latter not to ex- 

 ceed twenty years ; fixing the minimum term 

 cf imprisonment for any offense at one day ; 

 founding a conditional release to be bestowed 

 upon prisoners who should conduct themselves 

 well after three years of imprisonment, and 

 when three fourths of their punishment should 

 have been endured ; defining the crime of in- 

 citing minors to immorality, and affixing a 

 punishment to it; and imposing a punishment 

 for the offense of cruelty to animals, whether 

 the maltreatment takes place publicly or not, 

 with an exemption in favor of vivisection. 

 The code was adopted, November 9th, by a 

 vote of fifty-eight to ten. The Chamber de- 

 cided, after protracted debates, that a priest 

 who should anticipate a civil marriage, by per- 

 forming the religious ceremonies before it takes 

 place, should be punished for a contravention 

 of the law. An appropriation was voted for 

 the equipment of the vessel William Barentz 

 for an Arctic voyage in 1881. 



The Minister of the Colonies had stated, in 

 the Second Chamber, before its adjournment in 

 1879, that, although the war in Acheen might 

 be considered as terminated, a considerable 

 force must still be maintained there. A dis- 

 patch was received by the Colonial Office in 

 January, which was dated from Kotta Radja, 

 December 15th, stating that Tengkoe Arab, the 

 spiritual chief of the XXVI, Moekims, and 

 several other chieftains had made their sub- 

 mission and taken the oath of allegiance. The 

 " Staats Courant," the official journal, in Sep- 

 tember published a statement on the war, show- 

 ing that the principal Acheenese fort had been 

 only partially razed by the Dutch troops. 

 General Van der Heyden had returned to 

 Kotta Radja because the forces under his com- 

 mand were insufficient to inflict a decisive de- 

 feat upon the enemy. Kraton and its environs 

 in Acheen were visited in November by a sud- 

 den inundation, which caused great damage. 



A statue erected in memory of Spinoza at 

 the Hague was unveiled, September 14th. The 

 Prince of Orange was represented at the cere- 

 mony by the Minister of the Interior, and the 

 novelist Herr Berthold Auerbach was men- 

 tioned as among the foreign persons who were 

 present. M. Van Vloten delivered an address 

 eulogizing the character and writings of Spi- 

 noza, whom he described as the promoter of 

 civilization and of the progress of humanity. 

 The Cosmophile Club of Leipsic sent a wreath 

 to place on the statue, which is the work of 

 the sculptor Hexamer. 



NEVADA. The financial condition of this 

 State seems to have undergone a change, and 

 not for the better, the various sources of her 

 revenue since 1878 having materially decreased 

 in amount, and even in number, as not a few 

 of them are considered exhausted. 



The State Comptroller's report for 1879 

 shows the public receipts and expenditures 

 during that year to have been as follows: 



Receipts from all the counties, $225,888.82 ; 

 from payments on State land, $45,058.61 ; 

 from miscellaneous sources, $652,312.50 ; mak- 

 ing a total of $923,159.53. 



Aggregate expenditures for all purposes, in- 

 cluding the three departments of the State gov- 

 ernment, interest on the public debt, schools, 

 charitable institutions, and State Prison, $1,- 

 276,050.79. 



Assets, after paying all State debts $286,975 71 



State and Territorial bonded debt 600,000 00 



In the list of payments made to the public 

 Treasury in 1879, the item from the proceeds 

 of mines is $34,969.53, exceeding but little the 

 poll-tax item, $31,841.73. 



The amount of all State taxes collected from 

 the fourteen counties in 1879, including $54,- 

 456.28 of delinquent taxes, was $766,288.47 ; 

 of which sum the county of Storey alone con- 

 tributed more than one fourth, $195,404.26. 



An additional statement embodied in the 

 said report, exhibits the annual State expendi- 

 tures of Nevada from its organization in 1865 

 to December 31, 1879. For the fifteen years 

 together, these expenses amount to $8,566,- 

 917.43, but vary considerably from year to 

 year; the smallest among them belonging to 

 1868, $288,463.58, the largest to 1879, $1,276,- 

 050.79. 



Pursuant to a call published by the Central 

 Committee in February, the Republicans of 

 Nevada held a State Convention at Austin on 

 May llth, for selecting delegates to the Na- 

 tional Republican Convention that was to meet 

 at Chicago on June 2d, to nominate its candi- 

 dates for President and Vice-President of the 

 United States. The following persons were 

 appointed as such delegates : E. Strother and 

 C. C. Stevenson, of Storey County ; J. J. Meigs, 

 of Elko; W. W. Bishop and M. D. Foley, of 

 Eureka ; and T. D. Edwards, of Ormsby. 



By a resolution adopted in this Convention, 

 the delegates were instructed to vote in the 

 National Convention as a unit, and also to use 

 all proper means in their power to secure the 

 nomination of James G. Blaine, of Maine, for 

 President, so long as his name should be be- 

 fore the National Convention as a candidate 

 for that office. 



The November election for State officers in 

 Nevada being limited this year to a Supreme 

 Judge in the place of William H. Beatty, the 

 present Chief Justice, to a State Representa- 

 tive in the Lower House of Congress to suc- 

 ceed Rollin H. Daggett, whose official term is 

 to expire on March 3, 1881, and to the Presi- 

 dential electors, the Nevada Republicans met 

 in State Convention at Carson, on August llth, 

 to nominate their candidates, with the follow- 

 ing result : 



For Congressman, Rollin H. Daggett was 

 nominated by acclamation. 



For the nomination of a candidate for Su- 



