NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



NEW JERSEY. 



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every additional Representative." This rule, if 

 sanctioned by the people, will reduce the num- 

 ber of Representatives from about 890 to 800. 

 It fixes the official terms of Governor. Coun- 

 cil' >rs, and im-mbers of the Legislature, at two 

 years. It accordingly preicribes that the State 



DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, HANOVEK, N 



general elections and the sessions of the Leg- 

 islature shall be held once every two years, in- 

 stead of annually. It also changes the day for 

 such elections from the second Tuesday in 

 March to the first Tuesday in November. 



It prohibits the removal of public officers 

 from their places for political reasons. 



It authorizes the Legislature to provide for 

 the trial of causes without the intervention of 

 a jury, when the value in controversy does not 

 exceed $100, and title of real estate is not con- 

 cerned; also, to increase the jurisdiction of 

 justices of the peace to $100 ; also, to provide 

 that appeals from a justice of the peace may 

 be tried by some other court, without the in- 

 tervention of a jury. At present, all causes in 

 which the disputed value exceeds $13.33 are 

 to be brought to the Supreme Court. 



It strikes out the word " Protestant " in the 

 Bill of Rights; also the clause of the "reli- 

 gious test," so called, which prescribes that 

 all incumbents of the offices of Governor or 

 member of the Legislature shall be of the 

 " Protestant religion." After all of the amend- 

 ments had been adopted, a further resolution 

 was offered on the last-named point, purport- 

 ing "to strike out the words 'Protestant re- 

 ligion ' wherever they occur as a qualification 

 for office, in the constitution;" which also 

 was adopted. 



The amendments will be submitted to the 

 people at the election on the second Tuesday 

 of March, 1877. 



That any of the proposed amendments may 

 be regarded as adopted by the people, two- 

 thirds of the votes cast npon it must be in the 

 affirmative. 



The convention further ordains that " such 

 of the proposed amendments as shall receive 

 the requisite number of votes shall take effect 



and be in force at such time or times as the 

 General Court, at its June session for the year 

 1877, shall fix and determine;" the conven- 

 tion reserving to itself the power of determin- 

 ing the said time at a future meeting in case 

 the General Court should fail to do so. 



NEW JERSEY. The 

 outstanding bonded debt 

 of the State of New Jer- 

 sey, on the 1st of Jan- 

 uary, 1877, was $2,296,- 

 800. The bonds fall due 

 at the rate of $100,000 

 a year until 1891, after 

 which the amount va- 

 ries, but does not exceed 

 $200,000 in any one 

 year. The last become 

 payable in 1902. The 

 sinking-fund amounts to 

 $1,359,379.57. At the 

 beginning of the last fis- 

 cal year, November 1, 

 1875, there was a bal- 

 ance in the Treasury of 

 $308,769.05. The ' re- 

 ceipts of the year were $3,195,493; disburse- 

 ments, $3,386,186.04; leaving a balance, on 

 the 31st of October, of $118,076.01. Of the 

 disbursements, $218,500 was a permanent 

 addition to the school - fund. The balance 

 of $3,167,686.04 was expended as follows: 

 Payment of temporary loan and refunding of 

 taxes, $210,455.01 ; payment of State bonds 

 and interest, $176,348.70; for educational and 

 scientific purposes, $1,437,781.89; for benevo- 

 lent, charitable, and patriotic institutions and 

 purposes, including part in Centennial Exhi- 

 bition, $696,257.12 ; for criminal, penal, and 

 reformatory purposes, $186,328.10; for legis- 

 lative and judicial branches of the govern- 

 ment, $152,519.32 ; for printing and binding, 

 $112,929.37; for military purposes, $66,511.- 

 49 ; miscellaneous, $128,555,08. The sources 

 of revenue were a school-tax of two mills on a 

 dollar, which yielded $1,238,1 15.80 ; a State tax 

 of one and a half mill, yielding $905,678.88 ; 

 the tax on corporations, from which $585,558.- 

 85 was derived ; income of school-fund, $114,- 

 400.46 ; interest and dividends on stock and 

 bonds, $31,010 ; receipts from State-prison, 

 $34,206.65 ; and various others yielding smaller 

 sums. The State owns stock of the Camden & 

 Amboy Railroad Company, joint stock of the 

 Delaware & Raritan Canal and Camden & Am- 

 boy Railroad Companies, and other securities, 

 amounting in all to about $400,000 market 

 value. The school-fund amounts to $2,208,- 

 680.50, including $1,214,333.50 invested in 

 securities, $238,000 due from the State fund, 

 and the balance in the form of grants or leases 

 of land. 



The Insane Asylum, at Trenton, contained 

 472 patients on the 31st of October. The new 

 asylum at Morristown was opened in August, 

 though some of the buildings were not com- 



