NOTES, GEOKGE E. 



557 



SEO. 6. Any person who shall, with intent to 

 commit a fraud, vote at more than one time, shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall 

 be imprisoned not less than six nor more than twelve 

 months, or fined not less than one hundred nor more 

 than five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the 

 Court; and any registrar of voters or any clerk _ or 

 copyist, who shall make any entry or copy with in- 

 tent to commit a fraud, shall be liable to the same 

 penalty. 



SEO. 7. No registered voter shall be challenged on 

 the day of election, but those offering to register on 

 the day of election may be challenged, and every 

 person applying for registration before the election 

 may be challenged at that tune in like manner. 



The last two sections are from an act amend- 

 ing that which was first passed. The registra- 

 tion of legal voters under this law commenced 

 on the 15th of October, in preparation for the 

 presidential election in November. 



Both political parties held conventions to 

 ratify the nominations and approve the plat- 

 form of principles made at their respective na- 

 tional conventions for President and Yice- 

 President of the United States, and both acted 

 in harmony with the same parties throughout 

 the country in the excited campaign of the 

 autumn. 



The whole vote of the State in the presiden- 

 tial election was 165,841 ; of these 92,241 were 

 for the electors nominated by the Republican 

 party, and 73,600 for the Democratic electors; 

 giving a popular majority in favor of the elec- 

 tion of Grant and Oolfax of 18,641. 



Considerable was done in the course of the 

 year toward resuscitating the material interests 

 of the State, and establishing railroads from 

 point to point. The Commonwealth is bur- 

 dened with a debt which, on the 1st of Octo- 

 ber, amounted to $19,208,945, including bonds 

 issued for internal improvements to the 

 amount ' of nearly $4,000,000. The interest 

 which matured on the 1st of October was 

 promptly paid, and amounted to $112,104. The 

 interest falling due in the course of the present 

 fiscal year, ending September 30, 1869, will 

 amount to $1,032,596, while the expenses of 

 administering the State government for the 

 same period are estimated at $375,230, mak- 

 ing the demands on the treasury $1,407,826 for 

 the year 1868-'69. To meet these, the Treas- 

 urer has $50,034.84 on hand, and the remain- 

 der must be raised by taxation. The value of 

 property in the State on which this revenue is 

 to be levied is estimated at $250,000,000. 



The regular session of the General Assem- 

 bly commenced on the 16th of November, and 

 continued into^he year 1869. The principal 

 matters under consideration related to the 

 finances of the State and the reestablishment 

 of her material prosperity. 



NOTES, GEOBGE BAP ALL, D. D., an Amer- 

 ican Unitarian clergyman, professor, and 

 Orientalist, born in Newburyport, Mass., 



6, 1798; died in Cambridge, Mass., 

 }, 1868. His early training and prepa- 



March 

 June 3, 



ration for college were acquired~under* great 

 difficulties, but by zeal and energy he sur- 

 mounted them all, and entered Harvard Col- 

 lege, and, having sustained himself in part by 

 teaching during his course, graduated in 1818 

 with a debt of only $150. This he paid 

 from the salary received for teaching the 

 academy at Framingham the year after his 

 graduation. He then entered the Divinity 

 School at Cambridge, and passed through the 

 theological course of three years, but, having 

 some pupils there, and desiring to prosecute 

 further the philological and biblical studies in 

 which he had become deeply interested, he 

 did not seek a settlement at once, but remained 

 in Cambridge as a private teacher and college 

 tutor until 1827. He was ordained as pastor 

 of a small Congregational (Unitarian) Society 

 in Brookfield, Mass., October 31, 1827. The 

 salary was inadequate for his support, but he 

 remained in Brookfield for seven years, devot- 

 ing his leisure to studies not immediately con- 

 nected with the pulpit. In October, 1834, he 

 was installed pastor of the First Congrega- 

 tional (Unitarian) Society in Petersham, Mass., 

 where he remained until September, 1840, 

 when he accepted the Hancock professor- 

 ship of Hebrew and other Oriental languages 

 of sacred literature in Harvard College, and 

 the Dexter lectureship on biblical literature in 

 the Divinity School, as successor of Dr. Pal- 

 frey. The year previous he had received the 

 degree of D. D. from Harvard College. He 

 continued in the discharge of the duties of 

 this professorship until his death, officiating 

 occasionally also as college chaplain and preach- 

 er. Dr. Noyes had been long conspicuous as 

 the ablest Hebrew and Greek scholar and the 

 most thorough proficient in sacred literature 

 connected with the university, and ranking 

 with the best in the country. He had devoted 

 much of his time for many years to the trans- 

 lation of portions of the Old and New Testa- 

 ment scriptures, and their careful annotation. 

 He published some years since translations of 

 the poetical and prophetic books of the Old 

 Testament, which he had recently revised, and 

 to which he had added copious notes. These 

 were published in four volumes, by the Amer- 

 ican Unitarian Association, in 1866 and 1867. 

 His translation of the New Testament, on which 

 he had bestowed many years of critical labor, 

 was completed and passing through the press 

 at the time of his death. It constitutes a 

 fifth volume of his translations, and is a monu- 

 ment of careful and accurate biblical learning. 

 Besides these, he had published a Hebrew 

 Reader, and several occasional sermons and 

 addresses, and had edited a volume of theolo- 

 gical essays by various authors. 



