NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



NEW JERSEY. 



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the Commissioners point at the injustice re- 

 sulting from the want of due proportion in the 

 rates for through and local freight; an evil 

 much complained of by local shippers, and 

 greatly aggravated by the multitude of private 

 freight-car companies everywhere established, 

 whose business does also interfere with that of 

 the regular railway companies ; these being 

 thereby deprived of the possibility of earning a 

 fair income on the capital invested, and the 

 amount of current expenses necessary to oper- 

 ate their roads. 



Twenty-two railway lines are in actual oper- 

 ation in New Hampshire, some of them having 

 both their termini at different places within 

 its limits, others passing through various por- 

 tions of it from, and into, other States. Their 

 names, and the amount of State tax assessed 

 on each for the present year, appear from the 

 following table, prepared by the State Board 

 of Equalization : 



Amount of tax 

 NAMES OF RAILROADS. asessed on each road. 



1. Eastern $4,OS5 12 



2. Boston and Maine 17,600 00 



3. Ashuelot 1,715 00 



4. Boston, Concord and Montreal 25,424 73 



5. Fitchburg '217 50 



6. Nashua and Lowell 4,68375 



7. Wilton 8,111 50 



8. Cheshire 11,421 25 



9. Grand Trunk, lessee of the Atlantic and St. 



Lawrence 5,000 00 



10. Northern 28,253 32 



11. Concord 30,455 62 



1 2. Manchester and North Weare 975 00 



18. Concord and Portsmouth 5,558 12 



14. Dover and Winnepesaukee 4,168 75 



15. Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Conway 2,036 87 



16. Manchester and Lawrence 17,458 42 



17. Concord and Claremount, New Hampshire. . . . 4,375 00 



18. Sullivan County , 6,250 00 



19. Worcester and Nashua 2,372 50 



20. Mount Washington 1,750 50 



21. Monadnock 1,865 00 



22. Suncook 1,593 75 



The total of the taxes here set down is nearly 

 forty thousand dollars less than it was in the 

 preceding year; which reduction is caused 

 " by a general undervaluation of property for 

 taxation throughout the State, the undervalua- 

 tion in some places amounting to about fifty 

 per centum." 



The fish-culture appears to succeed well in 

 New Hampshire. The Fish Commissioners, 

 in their report for the year ending June 30, 

 1880, refer to the 100,000 eggs of Atlantic 

 salmon, which they collected from mature fish, 

 and planted in the Pemigewasset River, be- 

 tween five and eight years ago; the 60,000 

 eggs of landlocked salmon, received from the 

 Penobscot River, having also been placed in the 

 Pemigewasset. They anticipate a fully stocked 

 river by June 14, 1882, the last day of the 

 period during which the fishing of salmon is 

 prohibited by law. From the "Grand Lake 

 Stream " enterprise, the Commissioners have 

 received and planted 67,000 eggs of landlocked 

 salmon. As to brook-trout, they have collected 

 150,000 eggs from spawners at the hatching- 

 house, one half of which was sent to Massa- 

 chusetts, the other half distributed into differ- 

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ent parts of New Hampshire to replenish ex- 

 hausted streams. The Commissioners propose 

 to stop the distribution of black bass after the 

 present season, above a hundred brooks having 

 been stocked already with this fish. 



On November 30, 1880, the State prisoners 

 under sentence in New Hampshire, numbering 

 about one hundred and fifty, were safely re- 

 moved from the old Penitentiary into the more 

 capacious one erected and enlarged by acts of 

 the Legislature within the last three years. 



NEW JERSEY. The annual sessioniof the 

 Legislature began January 13th and ended 

 March 12th. Sherman B. Oviatt was elected 

 speaker of the Assembly, and William Sewell 

 President of the Senate. There was a Republi- 

 can majority in both Houses, the number of 

 Republican Senators being fifteen ; of Demo- 

 cratic Senators, six ; of Republican Assembly- 

 men, thirty- four; of Democratic Assemblymen, 

 twenty-six. 



The Legislature did not take action upon the 

 important subjects of tax-reform and the reg- 

 ulation of municipalities, as was expected. A 

 new bribery law was enacted, making bribery 

 at any election, consisting in the promise or 

 gift of money, preferment, or other considera- 

 tion for giving or withholding any vote, a 

 misdemeanor, punishable with a fine not to ex- 

 ceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for 

 not more than one year, or both, and working 

 the disfranchisement of the person convicted, 

 and, if a candidate, his disqualification for of- 

 fice if elected ; subjecting to the same punish- 

 ment any person marking a ballot-ticket for 

 the purpose of corruptly identifying it; and 

 requiring a party to bribery to give evidence 

 against the other party by depriving him of 

 the immunity from giving testimony which 

 may be self-criminating. The latter provision 

 is the novel feature of the bill. A new judi- 

 ciary salary bill was passed, which prevents 

 the bill enacted in 1879 from going into opera- 

 tion. That bill curtailed the salaries of the 

 judges to such an extent that the eight Asso- 

 ciate Judges, the Chief-Justice, and the Chan- 

 cellor would receive together $31,000, instead 

 of $50,400, the amount of their pay in 1880 

 under the old law. The new law requires the 

 fees to be paid into the Treasury, and fixes the 

 salary of the Chancellor at $10,000, that of the 

 Chief- Justice at the minimum rate of $7,500, 

 and those of the other justices at the minimum 

 of $7,000, with additions proportionate to the 

 excess of the population of their judicial dis- 

 tricts over eighty thousand. The aggregate 

 salaries, computed on the basis of the census 

 of 1875, will amount to $79,777. A bill was 

 passed in 1879, the object of which was to 

 break up the store-order system, .but it was so 

 loosely drawn that the law was easily evaded. 

 A Senate bill for the same purpose was intro- 

 duced in the session of 1880. A proviso, which 

 was added by amendment, is sufficient to de- 

 feat the intention of the law. This is to the 

 effect that debts due to employers may be off- 



