NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



661 



Whole number of savings banks In Now Hampshire. . 06 



NuintKtr of depositor* 87,887 



Decrease lu tho number of depositors the past year. . 4,IW4 



LIABILITIES. 



Total amount of deposit* $28,282,180 09 



Decrease In tho amount of deposits during the 



pastyear 2,507,41291 



Surplus, 1879 1,145,5<57 91 



Guarantee fund, 1879 704,28427 



Temporary loans, 1879 20,978 04 



Total liabilities, 1879 $28,152,961 81 



RESOURCES. 



Loans by note on real, personal, and collateral 

 security . .V/ $14,521,71948 



Investments In bonds and stocks 11,573,746 45 



Real estate, bank fixtures, and miscellaneous 

 items 1,222,05186 



Gash on hand 880,444 04 



Total assets $28,152,961 81 



The operations of insurance companies of va- 

 rious descriptions doing business in the State 

 appear to be exceedingly large. The gross 

 amount of premiums paid to fire-insurance 

 companies in 1878 was nearly $445, 000, of which 

 $417,764.92 wns paid to stock companies of 

 other States and countries licensed in New 

 Hampshire, and the remainder to mutual com- 

 panies in the State. The following is a sum- 

 mary of the operations of the stock companies 

 for 1878: Total risks written in 1878, $33,- 

 816,838; risks in force on December 31, 1878, 

 $50,646,552 ; amount of premiums received, 

 $417,764 ; amount of losses paid, $366,848 ; 

 proportion of losses to premiums, 86 per cent. 

 The receipts of life and accident insurance com- 

 panies upon their policies in New Hampshire 

 were $260,383.77, and the amount paid by 

 them to representatives of insured persons was 

 $219,484.28. These sums do not include the 

 receipts and payments of the " mutual relief 

 associations " organized among the members 

 of secret societies and others in the State. 



The education of youth in the State appears 

 to continue in its healthy condition. The State 

 Normal School at Plymouth is said to be in a 

 more satisfactory condition than ever before. 



The State Asylum for the Insane, at the be- 



S'nning of June, 1879, contained 275 patients, 

 esides these there are a great number of that 

 unfortunate class in the State, a large propor- 

 tion of whom are kept by their respective fami- 

 lies at home, because they can not afford to pay 

 the weekly rate for board and attendance at 

 the asylum. 



The indigent deaf-mutes, blind, and feeble- 

 minded of New Hampshire are kept at the 

 charge of the State in institutions or schools in 

 Oonnecticut and Massachusetts. Their number 

 in New Hampshire is increasing rather than 

 diminishing. For their support, clothing, and 

 education, the Legislature of 1879 appropriated 

 the annual sums of five thousand, four thou- 

 sand, and one thousand dollars respectively. 



The State Penitentiary continues under ex- 

 cellent management in all respects, the con- 

 victs being constantly employed in profitable 

 work, which is the making of bedsteads. 

 There were 68,000 beadsteads manufactured 



there last year, 15,000 of which were sold to 

 the New England States, 20,000 to New York, 

 New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and 83,000 to 

 Maryland, Virginia, and other Southern States 

 and California. The earnings of the prison for 

 the year were $23,618.05; the expenses, $17,- 

 492.51; leaving $6,126.54 as net earnings. 

 This seems to be a remarkably large sum, con- 

 sidering that the price received for prison-labor 

 is now 46 cents a day per man, whereas the 

 rate obtained for it a few years ago was 95 

 cents. The number of convicts in August, 

 1879, was 190, or 14 less than were reported 

 in 1878. 



The State militia, under the appellation of 

 " National Guard," as ordained by the Legisla- 

 ture of 1878, is composed of thirty companies 

 of infantry, four sections of artillery, and two 

 troops of cavalry ; all of these being organized 

 into three regiments. Three new companies 

 were organized last year. 



The members of the New Hampshire Tem- 

 perance Association met in State Convention 

 at Manchester on February 19th, and adopted 

 the following resolutions: 



Resolved 1. That moral suasion is one of tho great 

 instrumentalities for promoting the advancement of 

 the cause of temperance to bo constantly used and 

 never abandoned. 



2. That to the end that there may be any completo 

 triumph of the temperance cause, the places of temp- 

 tation must bo closed, the principles of prohibition 

 must be recognized, and the prohibitory law now on 

 our statute-books must be rigidly enforced. 



8. That we do most heartily approve of the detec- 

 tive system in enforcing the law, and recommend tho 

 organization of legal-suasion clubs in all parts of tho 

 State, and their cooperation in the detective system of 

 enforcing the kw, until such time as it shall be en- 

 forced by the regularly constituted authorities. 



4. That the interests of the temperance cause im- 

 peratively demand that the local-option clause of the 

 lager-bier law, passed at the last session of our Legis- 

 lature, should be repealed. 



5. That we condemn the practice of prosecuting offi- 

 cers in " hanging cases up '' over the violators of the 

 prohibitory law, and earnestly request tho full execu- 

 tion of the law in these as in all criminal cases. 



6. That we believe the temperance movement can 

 not complete its work till the manufacture as well as 

 the sale of intoxicants is prohibited by law. 



7. That a general mass convention of all who be- 

 lieve in the prompt and rigid enforcement of the law 

 be held, and that a committee of seven be appointed 

 to make all necessary arrangements for the same. 



With regard to the main object of the Con- 

 vention, which was the adoption of some meth- 

 od to secure the enforcement of the existing 

 liquor laws, arrangements were made for the 

 holding of another meeting, in which better- 

 matured plans of action might be presented and 

 decided upon. In accordance with this deter- 

 mination, they assembled again at Concord on 

 March 27th, when they formed themselves into 

 a " State Temperance League." A constitution 

 was adopted, which provides for the formation 

 of a "State Temperance League," in which 

 every church and temperance organization is 

 entitled to seven members ; and for a board of 

 prosecuting officers, whose duty it shall be to 

 prosecute all violations of the liquor law. The 



