NEW IIA.MPSIIIUK. 



637 



mo iiaiiic arts tho frod D86 



..in, of all requisite huild- 



apparatus, 



.ma of said Dartmouth Goflege, and 



;.'h instruction, in addition to 



. its professors and teachers, as 



-u of tho students may require, 



and also as to any legacy Dartmouth Colle^u 



,o estate of tho luto David 



s arc also authorized and 



mnii-li, so far as may be practi- 



t'ree tuition to indigent students of the 



i to make provision for tho delivery 



:ures in diilVrent parts of tho State 



-ul >j cots pertaining to agriculture aud tho 



.mic arts. 



A resolution, giving $5,000 to the sufferers at 

 Portland, was passed unanimously, and each 

 manlier added one day's pay, making $5,981 in 

 the whole. Tho salaries of tho Supreme Judicial 

 ; Judges were increased to $2,400 for the 

 Justice, and $2,200 each for the associates: 

 that of tho Attorney-General was fixed at 

 $2,000. Tho salaries of the Judges and Regis- 

 i' Probate were also advanced, 

 attempt to tax United States bonds in 

 this State has failed. The Legislature of 1865 

 passed an act levying a tax of 25 per cent, upon 

 incomes accruing from notes, bonds, or other 

 securities, not otherwise taxed under the laws 

 of tho State. The Supreme Court of the State, 

 :-ch, decided that tho act was unconstitu- 

 :, so far as it relates to all classes of Gov- 

 ernment bonds. 



Tho condition of tho treasury during the last 

 financial year has been highly satisfactory. All 

 demands upon it have been promptly met, and 

 the credit of tho State materially improved. The 

 receipts into the treasury of tho State for the 

 fiscal year, ending June 1st, were $4,116,078.54. 

 Tho disbursements, during tho same period, 

 amounted to $3,958,199.69. The total debt, 

 Juno 1st, was $4,160,698.89. 



Tho subject of public education has always 

 been placed in deserved prominence in this 

 State, and tho school system has been fostered 

 by liberal appropriations. Tho withdrawal of 

 tho literary fund, heretofore derived from the 

 taxation of the State banks, and now lost in 

 consequence of their conversion into national 

 banking institutions, has very seriously dimin- 

 ished the aid formerly extended to schools, and 

 the great advance in prices has likewise had a 

 uental effect upon thorn ; but the clhYi.-nt 

 utl'orts of tho Board of Education have main- 

 tained tho high character the common schools 

 have always possessed. 



The State Asylum for tho Insano continues in 

 a most satisfactory condition. Tho appropria- 

 tions in its behalf have proved judicious, and 

 ictivo of great good, and have been nobly 

 seconded from time to time by benevolent indi- 

 viduals. During the year tho munificent legacy 

 of one hundred and forty thousand dollars was 

 asylum by Moody Kent, Esq., 

 the iucome of which will enable the trus.; 



supply the institution witli many improvements 

 and specific curative appliances long needed. 

 Tho asylum has accommodations for two hun- 

 dred and eighteen patients, though on the 1st 

 of May it contained two hundred and thirty-six. 



Now Hampshire has no asylum for tho deaf 

 and dumb, or the blind, but appropriations are 

 annually made for the support of these un- 

 fortunate classes at tho institutions of other 

 States. 



In the early part of tho year tho House of 

 Reformation for Juvenile Delinquents was par- 

 tially destroyed by fire, in consequence of which 

 its career of prosperity was for a time inter- 

 rupted. 



The financial standing and general condition 

 of tho State Prison are quite satisfactory. The 

 proceeds of the labor of the convicts have met 

 tho expenses of the institution, so that the 

 prison has been self-sustaining, and the State is 

 not called on for any appropriation in its be- 

 half. The number of prisoners May 1st was 

 101. 



In agricultural enterprise New Hampshire 

 keeps pace with her sister States, by the adop- 

 tion of new methods of improvement, and by 

 constant devotion to every means of rendering 

 the cultivation of her soil remunerative to the 

 farmer. There is universal evidence of grow- 

 ing prosperity, manifested in well-ordered and 

 comfortable buildings, cultivated fields, and do- 

 mestic animals well bred and wisely cared for. 



Increasing attention is given to manufactures, 

 and the growth of towns and villages along the 

 streams continues with great activity, and val- 

 uable water privileges are rapidly brought into 

 requisition, adding materially to tho wealth and 

 prosperity of the State. 



The measures inaugurated by the Legislature 

 two or three years ago, and which also ap- 

 pointed commissioners to other New England 

 States to request their cooperation in restoring 

 to the rivers migrating fish, bid fair to be suc- 

 cessful. The salmon spawn deposited nome 

 time ago is doing well, and it is believed tho 

 rivers will, in a few years, be abundantly sup- 

 plied with both salmon and shad as in olden 

 times. 



The mineral resources of the State are, at 

 this time, attracting an unusual degree of at- 

 tention, and tho increasing interest manifested 

 in them by capitalists and practical miners, with 

 tho very flattering results of their investiga- 

 tions, give fair promise that they may become 

 a source of profit and revenue. 



At the election for Governor, the total vote 

 cast was 65,636, of which Smyth, the Repub- 

 lican candidate, received 85,137, and Sinclair, 

 his opponent, obtained 30,481. T.ho Legisla- 

 ture is divided as follows : 



Senate. House. Joint Ballot 



lU-jHiblicuus 9 217 



Democrats 3 118 121 



Majority G 00 96 



An election for three members of Congress 



