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ployment as will be both remunerative and 

 practically profitable. Topics are to be given 

 them at the close of the spring term, on which, 

 from observation, experiment, or study, during 

 the summer, papers are to be prepared for the 

 fall term." In the division of the varied stud- 

 ies to be pursued during the triennial course, 

 the programme provides " for three classes, 

 junior, middle, and senior. Only the junior 

 class is to be formed in 1868, taking the studies 

 of the first year. A partial course may be 

 pursued by any who choose." The requisites 

 for admission are, " at present, only the stud- 

 ies pursued in the common schools. Candi- 

 dates must be at least sixteen years of age, 

 and, with testimonials of good moral charac- 

 ter, will be required to pass a satisfactory ex- 

 amination in English grammar, geography, and 

 arithmetic." 



By a joint resolution of the Legislature, ap- 

 proved July 3, 1868, the Governor was au- 

 thorized " to appoint a State geologist, whose 

 duty it shall be to commence and carry on, 

 with as much expedition and dispatch as may 

 be consistent with minuteness and accuracy, a 

 thorough geological and mineralogical survey 

 of this State, . . . make an annual report of his 

 progress to the Secretary of State, who shall 

 submit the same to the Legislature, and for- 

 ward from time to time such specimens of 

 mineralogical substances as may be proper and 

 necessary to form a complete cabinet collection 

 of specimens of the geology and mineralogy 

 of the State ; one complete set to the Secre- 

 tary of State, for preservation at the capital, 

 and one complete set to the Agricultural Col- 

 lege, to be used in the instruction of the young 

 men who may resort thither for an agricul- 

 tural education." They appropriated at the 

 same time a yearly sum of $3,500 "for the 

 purpose of carrying into eifect the provisions 

 of this act." 



A suitable room for the State Library, with 

 shelving for 15,000 volumes, having lately been 

 fitted up at a cost of $3,000 appropriated for it 

 in the previous session of the Legislature, the 

 Governor requests them to provide for the 

 purchase of books, especially those for " refer- 

 ence in law and legislative matters, and of the 

 missing volumes in law reports."" He also asks 

 them to forbid the removal of books from the 

 library. By a joint resolution, approved July 

 3, the sum of $500 was appropriated u for 

 the purpose of supplying missing volumes and 

 filling incomplete sets of the statutes and di- 

 gests." The removal of books from the library 

 was also forbidden, with some necessary ex- 

 ceptions, limited to the time when the Legisla- 

 ture is in session, and subject to such condi- 

 tions as the trustees may impose. 



In respect to charitable institutions, the 

 Board of Visitors of the New Hampshire 

 Asylum for the Insane, the Board consisting 

 of the Governor, the Executive Council, the 

 President of the Senate, and the Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives, presented to 



the Legislature their official report for the 

 year ending May 1, 1868, stating that "they 

 have made a personal examination of the con- 

 dition of the patients, buildings, farm, and 

 finances of the institution, and find it highly 

 prosperous and satisfactory. The patients 

 afford every appearance of being well and 

 kindly cared for. The new building for the 

 accommodation of excited female inmates has 

 been finished, and will be furnished and ready 

 for occupancy in a few weeks. Additional 

 room is greatly needed for lodging apart- 

 ments for employe's of the asylum, for a new 

 and larger kitchen, for a cellar, and for a con- 

 venient chapel. The finances are in a sound 

 condition, and the institution is now, as it has 

 ever been, self-supporting ; being no charge to 

 the State, except for the erection of such build- 

 ings as are necessary for the successful prose- 

 cution of its beneficent work." In order to 

 meet the pressing wants of a new kitchen, a 

 cellar, sleeping-rooms for employe's, and a 

 more spacious chapel, the trustees recommend 

 the erection of a building of brick, three stories 

 in height, seventy-five feet long and forty-eight 

 feet wide. The estimated expense of the de- 

 signed structure is $17,000, which amount is 

 asked of the Legislature. This appropriation 

 is recommended also by the Governor in his 

 message, besides a further one of $5,000 ex- 

 pended in the erection of the above-mentioned 

 new building for excited female patients, be- 

 yond the amount previously provided for. 

 Both these sums have been appropriated by 

 an act of the Legislature approved June 24th. 

 As to the expense of the asylum and the num- 

 ber of its inmates, the reports of the treas- 

 urer and superintendent give the following 

 items : "On the first day of May, 1867, the 

 number of patients was 246. Of these 122 

 were males, and 124 females. The number 

 on the roll May 1, 1868, was 235, eleven less 

 than one year before, though the number of 

 women was only one less. The decrease in 

 the number of inmates is attributed to the re- 

 moval of patients to county almshouses, as 

 these establishments go into operation, for the 

 purpose of reducing the cost of their support. 

 The Asylum was opened in 1843, and the 

 whole number of patients ever admitted is 

 2,579. On the 1st of May, 1867, there was a bal- 

 ance in the treasury of the institution of 

 $44.97. During the ensuing financial year 

 there were received from various sources 

 $64,942.41. Whole amount expended during 

 the year, $63,351.73, leaving cash on hand 

 May 1, 1868, $1,635.65." 



By two other acts, approved July 2d and 

 4th respectively, the Legislature appropriated 

 $2,000 "for the education of indigent deaf^and 

 dumb persons of the State, at the American 

 Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Hartford," with 

 $500 more for others laboring under the same 

 misfortune, to be educated "at such other 

 similar institution as the Governor and Council 

 may select ;" and $2,700 " for educating the 



