690 



NICHOLS, JOHN BOWYER. 



Acres of land ..................... 28,207,142 



" assessed ......... 27,693,721 



ToUl valuation* 

 Equalixed 



Towntaxes .................... $3,421 ,SO 01 



County" ................... 12,852,72057 



School" .................... 1,090,84111 



.................... 6,181,43297 



$1,462,778,067 

 1,454,464,817 



Total Use. (15 mills por $1). 



$23,046,800 60 



The action of the Federal Government in es- 

 tablishing a system of National Banks based 

 upon public stocks exempt from taxation, ex- 

 cited much interest in the State, and became a 

 subject of legislative consideration. The views 

 entertained, and the action of that body, be- 

 long to the record of 1864. 



The question of allowing the volunteers from 

 the State to vote at election, was discussed dur- 

 ing the year, and resulted in an amendment of 

 the Constitution early in 1864, to secure to 

 them that privilege. 



The public schools and academies of the 

 State exhibited a small decrease in the attend- 

 ance, which was ascribed to the increased de- 

 mand for the services of the youth between 

 the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years. The 

 aggregate attendance upon all the schools, was 

 984,695. The number of teachers employed, 

 was 26,213. 



The charitable and other institutions of the 

 State manifested but little change from the 

 previous year; but the affiiirs of the citizens 

 advanced with unusual prosperity. 



NICHOLS, Joiix BOWYER, an English pub- 

 lisher and author, born in the parish of St. 

 Bride, Fleet street, London, July 15th, 1779, 

 died at his residence, Baling, Middlesex, Octo- 

 ber 19th, 1863. He was the only surviving son 

 of Mr. John Nichols, a distinguished literary 

 biographer of the eighteenth century, and for 

 forty-eight years the editor of the " Gentle- 

 man's Magazine." Owing to the death of his 

 mother during his childhood, his boyhood was 

 spent with his grandfather and his great- 

 uncle at Hickley, and his early education was 

 obtained at Stoke Golding and at St. Paul's 

 School, which he left in September, 1796, and 

 then joined his father in business. Among his 

 duties, fpom an early ago, was that of assist- 

 ing in the editorship of the "Gentleman's 

 Magazine," of which, in 1833, he became sole 

 proprietor. In 1834 he transferred a share to 

 Mr. William Pickering, of Piccadilly, which he 

 subsequently repurchased, and in 1856 convey- 

 ed the whole property to Mr. J. II. Parker, of 

 Oxford. Mr. Nichols was one of the oldest 

 members of the Linnaean Society, to which ho 

 was introduced in 1812, and was one of the 

 few survivors of those who took part in the 

 Sunday evening soir6es of Sir Joseph Banks. 

 He had also been from the first a supporter ot 

 the Horticultural and Zoological Societies. In 

 1818 he was elected a fellow of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, to which ho became printer in 

 1824, as his father had boon at a previous 



period. Ho was an original member of the 

 Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, of the 

 Numismatic Society, the Royal Society of Lit- 

 erature, and the Athenasum Club. He served 

 all the annual offices of the Stationers' Com- 

 pany, and attained that of master in 1850, as 

 his father had done in 1804, and to the last he 

 was a constant attendant at the meetings of its 

 Court of Assistants. In 1836 he presented to 

 the Court-Room a portrait of his father, by 

 John Wood, and in 1855 supplemented by a 

 gift of 500 consols, his father's benefaction for 

 pensions to three poor printers, raising them 

 thereby to 10 each. In 1821, on the resigna- 

 tion of his father, he succeeded to the office of 

 one of the three Registrars of the Royal Lit- 

 erary Fund. To the Royal Humane Society, 

 in the foundation of -which his father was an 

 active coadjutor, Mr. Nichols gave his services 

 for many years as one of the committee of 

 management. In his own neighborhood of 

 Westminster he was a Governor of the Grey 

 Coat and Green Coat Schools, and of St. 

 Margaret's Hospital. His library contained 

 large collections illustrative of English topogra- 

 phy, consisting not only of the county histories, 

 and other books of local history and genealogy, 

 but also of drawings, engravings, printed pa- 

 pers, and rubbings of sepulchral brasses, which 

 he arranged in parishes. Mr. Nichols was a 

 man of noble and generous impulses, and re- 

 markable for his equability of temper, as well 

 as for his great industry and assiduous appli- 

 cation both to private and public business. 

 Though in his latter years afflicted with loss 

 of sight, he retained remarkable power of mem- 

 ory and energy of purpose, and a judgment in 

 nowise diminished from its wonted accuracy. 

 His death resulted from congestion of the 

 lungs, after only three days' illness. The list 

 of his published works is large; among tho 

 most important are : " The Life and Errors of 

 John Dunton, Citizen of London ;" with tho 

 " Lives and Characters of more than a thou- 

 sand Contemporary Divines, and other Per- 

 sons of Literary Eminence." To which aro 

 added " Dunton 's Conversation in Ireland;" 

 " Selections from his other Genuine Works," 

 &c. ; " The Athenian Oracle Abridged," con- 

 taining the most valuable Questions and An- 

 swers in the Original Works in History, Phil- 

 osophy, Divinity, Law, and Marriage, pub- 

 lished by John Dunton " (1820) ; " A Brief Ac- 

 count of the Guildhall of the City of London ; " 

 " Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by 

 himself, with Essays on his Life and Genius, 

 and Criticisms on his Works, selected from 

 Walpole, Gilpin, Ireland, Lamb, and others," 

 to which are added a Catalogue of his Prints, 

 lists of Paintings, Drawings, &c. (1833) ; 

 "Literary Anecdotes of the Last Century;' 

 " Historical Notices of Fonthill Abbey, Wilt- 

 shire ; " " Illustrations of Her Majesty's Palace 

 at Brighton, formerly the Pavilion," published 

 in folio, 1838. The last literary task in which 

 Mr. Nichols engaged was the continuation and 



