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year on April 18th, a large number of specta- 

 in.r present to witness it. "The exer- 

 \voro in tlio rudiments of education, 

 :ii<, and declamation," all of which were 

 -lit to reflect great credit on both pupils 

 mi' I teachers. The children are made to spend 

 most of the time in learning and executing 

 ]>n>ti table work of various kinds, which, as it 

 {intended for their future benefit, is of some 

 use to the State at present. Their moral edu- 

 cation is also carefully attended to. Among 

 the offences for which they were committed 

 during last year, the following seem worthy 

 of mention : ''Attempt to set fire, 1; barn- 

 biirning, 1 ; house and shop breaking, 12 ; 

 stealing, 21." Previous to May, 1869, 2 juve- 

 nile offenders had been committed for " stealing 

 letters from the post-office," and 9 for "horse- 

 stealing." The receipts of this establishment 

 from May 1, 1869, to May 1, 1870, were $18,- 

 072.99, including above $8,000 paid for board 

 of children, and $8,000 appropriated by the 

 Legislature ; the expenses during the same 

 time wore $15,257. By a law of 1888, the 

 price of the weekly board for children was 

 increased from one to two dollars. 



The receipts from the labor of convicts in 

 the State-prison for the year ending April 30, 

 1870, were: in shoe-shop, $4,190.48; in cabi- 

 net-shop, $21,546.23. The Governor says, in 

 his message: "The experience of the year 

 leads to the conclusion that, with proper man- 

 agement, the prison may be made not only 

 self-supporting, but also a source of considera- 

 ble revenue to the State." The number of 

 convicts in confinement on May 1, 1870, was 

 118, of whom 111 were men and 7 women. 

 The number received on warrants from courts 

 from May 1, 1869, to April 30, 1870, was 32. 

 Those discharged, or removed during the same 

 time were: pardoned by the Governor and 

 Council, 15 ; by the President, 3 ; discharged 

 by expiration of sentence, and under the 

 commutation law, 20 ; deceased, 2 ; execu- 

 ted, 1 ; escaped, 1 ; removed to asylum, 1 ; in 

 all, 43. 



For the purpose of ascertaining the variety 

 and extent of the resources of her soil, a geo- 

 logical survey of the State was ordered and 

 provided for by the Legislature at the session 

 of 1868. This work having now been two 

 years in progress, the State geologist has ma- 

 terial sufficient on hand for the publication of 

 a new topographical map of New Hampshire. 

 In his second annual report he says : " Your 

 geologist is prepared to recommend that meas- 

 ures be taken, immediately at the present ses- 

 sion of the Legislature, to cause a new map 

 of the State to be engraved on copper the 

 plates to be the property of the State, and thus 

 available hereafter as well as for immediate 

 use." Together with his last report he pub- 

 lished a " map illustrating the distribution of 

 granite, and the progress of triangnlation in 

 New Hampshire." The publication of the new 

 topographical map was proposed to the Gen- 



eral Court at the session of June, 1870, bat 

 they indefinitely postponed the matter. 



Ihe Legislature adjourned on July 2, 1870, 

 having sat one month. Of the numerous laws 

 enacted at this session, the greatest part were 

 of small or local interest. " The most impor- 

 tant were: acts to enable towns to bond their 

 debt at a gold-bearing rate of interest ; to es- 

 tablish a Board of Agriculture ; to establish a 

 Normal School; to enable towns to abolish 

 school districts ; and to prevent the ' water- 

 ing ' of capital stock in corporations." 



NEW JERSEY. The Legislature of New Jer- 

 sey assembled in Trenton, on Tuesday, January 

 llth, and adjourned on Thursday, March 17th, 

 thus making the session the shortest that had 

 been held in twenty years. The principal 

 laws enacted were the following : An act au- 

 thorizing the United Railroad Companies to 

 consolidate with other companies; an act to 

 allow canal and railroad companies to insare 

 freight ; an act to consolidate Jersey City, 

 Hudson City, and other towns in Hudson 

 County ; an act to relieve the Erie Railway 

 Company from municipal taxation ; an act to 

 enable the Erie Railway Company to build a 

 branch road; and a joint resolution in favor of 

 Congress making Jersey City a port of entry. 

 Among the prominent measures which failed 

 were an act to give to Jersey City a right to 

 tax the property of the Erie Railway Com- 

 pany in that city, and an act to incorporate 

 the National Railway, a proposed line of road 

 between New York and Philadelphia. The 

 question of adopting the fifteenth amendment 

 to the Constitution of the United States was 

 introduced and a ratification refused ; the fol- 

 lowing being the wording of the joint resolu- 

 tion which was adopted, and which was signed 

 by the Governor on the 15th of February : 



Joint Resolution rejecting the. amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion, known as the Fifteenth Amendment. 



1. Be it resolved by the Senate and General Assem- 

 bly of the State of Jfew Jersey, That the Legislature 

 of this State refuse to ratify, and do hereby reject, 

 the amendment to the Constitution of the L'nited 

 States proposed at the third session of the Fortieth 

 Congress, oy a resolution of the Senate and House 

 of Eepresentatives of the United States of America, 

 in Congress assembled, to the several State Legisla- 

 tures ; said amendment being in the following words, 

 to wit : 



ARTICLE XV. SEC. 1. The right of citizens of the 

 United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by 

 the United States or by any State on account of race, 

 color, or previous condition of servitude. 



SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this 

 article by appropriate legislation. 



2. Resolved, That the right to regulate suffrage is 

 one of the reserved rights of the States, and the at- 

 tempt to vest this power in Congress is revolution- 

 ary, and destructive of our present form of govern- 

 ment. 



The question of Chinese labor excited much 

 attention, caused by the importation of a num- 

 ber of Chinamen to work in the laundry at 

 Belleville. The opposition to their employ- 

 ment was very bitter, but it did not show it- 

 self in the form of deeds of violence, and the 

 experiment has proved a success. 



