NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



593 



miles; the Tobique Railway, 28 miles. The 

 following is the mileage of railway in opera- 

 tion in the province during the year: Inter- 

 colonial and branches, 374 miles; New Bruns- 

 wick, 44:J miles; Northern and Western, 121 

 miles; Grand Southern, 80 miles; Albert, 48 

 miles; Kent Northern and St. Louis, 33 miles; 

 Elgin, 14 miles; Chatham, 9 miles ; St. Martin's 

 and Upham, 30 miles; Havelock, Elgin, and 

 Petitcodiac, 12 miles; Caraquet, 66 miles; New 

 Brunswick and Prince Ed ward Island, 30 miles; 

 Mondon and Buctouche, 40 miles; St. John 

 Bridge and Railway, 2 miles; Riviere du 

 Loup and Temisconata, 13 miles ; Fredericton 

 Bridge, 1 mile total, 1,317 miles. The in- 

 crease since 1886 is 297. 



Finances. The revenue of the province dur- 

 ing the year was as follows: From Dominion 

 subsidies, 487,306.53 ; territorial revenue, 

 $134,604.17; other sources, $67,968.98 total, 

 $689,879.68. The principal items of expendi- 

 ture were: Education, $165,676.38; road*, 

 bridges, and public buildings, $218,432.81 ; in- 

 terest, $95,187.50; agriculture, $30,599.17; 

 executive and legislative expenses, $50.912.70; 

 care of the insane, $35,000. The minor items 

 swell the expenditure for the year to $676,- 

 093.22. The provincial debt on Dec. 31, 1888, 

 was $768,000 at 6 per cent. ; $148,200 at 5 per 

 cent. ; $280,000 at 4J per cent. ; $910,000 at 

 4 per cent. total, $2,106,200. The average 

 interest is 4*86^ per cent., entailing a future 

 charge of $102,490. 



Ship-building was at a comparatively low 

 ebb in New Brunswick in 1888 ; only 2 steam- 

 ers and 20 schooners, aggregating 1,967 tons, 

 were built in the province during the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1888. The additions to the ship- 

 ping register of the province in the same period 

 included 39 vessels, aggregating 3,865 tons, and 

 there were sold to other countries 5 vessels, 

 aggregating 4,638 tons and valued at $55,643. 



The arrivals and departures at New Bruns- 

 wick ports during the same period including 

 vessels engaged in the foreign and coasting 

 trade were : 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. State Government. The 



following were the State officers during the 

 year : Governor, Charles Henry Sawyer (Re- 

 publican) ; Secretary of State, Ai B. Thomp- 

 son ; Treasurer, Solon A. Carter ; Attorney- 

 General, Daniel Barnard ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, James W. Patterson ; Insur- 

 ance Commissioner, Oliver Pillsbury, who died 

 on February 22, and was succeeded by Henry 

 H. Huse ; Railroad Commissioners, Henry M. 

 Putney, Edward B. S. Sanborn, Benjamin F. 

 Prescott ; Chief- Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Charles Doe ; Associate Justices, Isaac "W. 

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Smith, William TI. H. Allen, Lewis W. Clark, 

 X. Blodgett, Alonzo P. Carpenter, and 

 George A. Bingham. 



Finances. The annual report of the State 

 Treasurer, for the fiscal year ending May 31, 

 1888, shows the following facts : 



Cash on hand, June 1, l->7 $240,616 11 



Total receipts during the year 1,170.990 48 



Total $1,411,606 59 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



Total disbursements during the year $1,31 



Cash on hand, June 1, lisa 10< 



Total $1,411.606 59 



STATE DEBT. 



Liabilities. June 1, 1888 $-2.966.368 24 



Aiaets, June 1, 1888 i:. 



Net indebtedness... .. $-'.-58,660 57 



Liabilities, June 1. 1SS7 $3,079.161 30 



Assets, June 1, 18S7 247,860 51 



X.-t indebtedness $2,881.300 79 



Increase of debt during the year 27,359 73 



The total receipts of the Treasury from ordi- 

 nary revenue were $534,523.36, and the total 

 State expenses $561,883.14. Among the larger 

 receipts were : From State tax, $400,000 ; from 

 railroad tax, $99,757.61 ; from insurance tax, 

 $6,930.22; and from charter fees, $15,088.50. 

 The disbursements include $322,288 for ordi- 

 nary State expenses, $63,998.24 for extraordi- 

 nary charges, and $175,596.90 for interest on 

 the'State debt. 



Education. The report of the State Superin- 

 tendent for the school year of 1887 shows that, 

 under the recent law permitting town manage- 

 ment of schools, five school districts gave up 

 their special organization during the year, and 

 went into the town system, leaving only 270 

 districts reported in the State. 



The average length of the schools in week?, 

 for the whole State, was 22-9. For 1885, un- 

 der the old system, it was only 19'95. Tims 

 the new law gives on the average three weeks 

 additional to every school of the State. The 

 whole number of enrolled scholars for 1887 was 

 61,826. The whole number in 1877 was 68,- 

 035. This is a decrease of 6.209 in ten years. 

 The whole number reported in private schools 

 in 1887 was 7,652. The number reported in 

 1877 was 1,493. This shows an increase of 

 6,159 in ten years, and measurably to what 

 extent children have been drawn into parochial 

 schools in that time. It does not vary materi- 

 ally from one tenth of the entire school popu- 

 lation of the State. As yet this movement 

 has been confined to the cities and larger towns. 



There has been an increase of twenty-two 

 graded schools resulting from a union of small 

 schools. Twenty-eight new school-houses have 

 been built, and the average attendance npon 

 the schools was 45,877*72, an increase of 2.738-- 

 72 over the previous year. Of the town sys- 

 tem, the Superintendent says : 



Towns that have abolished their unnecessary schools 

 have given to the children more schooling than ever 



