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the year ending on the 1st of May. There are 

 six mutual fire-insurance companies incorpo- 

 rated under laws of the State, while 54 others 

 are licensed to do business within its limits. 

 There is no life-insurance company in the 

 State, but 30 belonging to other States are 

 licensed to do business in New Hampshire, and 

 their gross premium receipts for the year were 

 $722,325.47, and their losses $101,639.64. 

 There were 10,000 policies held in the State, 

 mostly by heads of families, and the Com- 



missioner calculates thtit these represent 40,- 

 000 people, or one-eighth of the population, as 

 interested pecuniarily in life insurance. A 

 law passed in 1869 requires foreign insurance 

 companies to pay a tax of one per cent, on 

 their receipts, and a law of 1870 authorizes 

 the Commissioner to exclude from the State 

 all companies which do not give satisfactory 

 evidence of their responsibility. The amount 

 received from the one per cent, tax during the 

 last fiscal year was $11,066.62. 



CENSUS OF 1870. 



Included in the census are 23 Indians. The 

 true value of property was $252,624,112. The 

 public debt, county, city, town, etc., amounted 

 to $8,335,504. The aggregate value of farm- 

 products, including betterments and addi- 

 tions to stock, was $22,473,547; 1,129,442 

 pounds of wool were raised; 9,926 persons, 

 ten years old and over, cannot write, of whom 

 1,992 are native, and 7,934 are foreign ; 4,581 

 are males, and 5,345 are females. Of those 

 twenty-one years old and over who cannot 

 write, 3,361 are white males. 



The educational interests of the State are 

 fairly attended to. An Agricultural College 

 has been established at Hanover, and the 

 building to be devoted to its use, known as 

 Culver Hall, was formally dedicated in June. 

 A Normal School has been opened at Plymouth, 

 and $10,000 were appropriated for its benefit 

 by the last Legislature. 



The State Insaue Asylum, on the 30th of 

 April, had 225 inmates. During the year pre- 

 ceding, there had been 388 persons treated, 

 192 men and 196 women. The largest num- 

 ber of patients at any time during the year 

 has been 260; the Smallest number 222. 

 Thirty-two, 16 of each sex, have died ; 131. 

 have been discharged in different states of 

 mental health. Sixty-five of those discharged 

 recovered; 37 were essentially improved, and 

 29 not materially changed in their mental con- 

 dition. 



NEW JERSEY. The session of the Legis- 

 lature of this State began on January 10th, 

 and closed on April 6th. The Senate was 

 composed of 12 Republicans and 9 Democrats, 

 and the House of 34 Republicans and 26 

 Democrats, making a Republican majority, in 

 joint convention, of 11. On January 19th it 

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elected, on the ninth ballot, Frederick T. Fre- 

 linghuysen, of Newark, Republican, to the 

 United States Senate. A number of impor- 

 tant measures were adopted. Among them 

 were a registry law, enforcing registering of 

 votes in all cities of 20,000 inhabitants and 

 over ; a charter for Jersey City, placing the 

 control of that city in the hands of a Republi- 

 can commission ; a new free-school law : and 

 bills for the prevention of bribery; appropri- 

 ating $50,000 for the erection of new legisla- 

 tive chambers and other offices, at the State- 

 House, and $150,000 for the beginning of work 

 on a lunatic asylum to be built in the northern 

 part of the State; allowing to criminals the 

 right to testify in their own behalf; legalizing 

 the lease of the railroads of the United Com- 

 panies to the Pennsylvania Railroad; and 

 appointing a commission to revise and con- 

 solidate the public statutes of the State. The 

 bill for the punishment and prevention of 

 bribery, as passed, provides that any person 

 receiving or offering any consideration what- 

 ever, by way of fee or reward for a vote, shall, 

 in addition to any punishment already imposed 

 by statute or the common law, be deprived of 

 the right of suffrage ; and any corporation al- 

 lowing its managers, officers, or agents, to offer 

 bribes for votes shall be deprived of its char- 

 ter. It also provides that whichever of the 

 parties to an act of bribery shall first complain, 

 under oath to a magistrate, of the other, shall 

 be exempt from the penalties inflicted, on the 

 condition, however, that he sends a copy of 

 said complaint to the prosecutor of the pleas 

 of the county in which the offence has been 

 committed, within one week. 



A few days previous to the fall election, 

 the Governor issued the following procla- 



