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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



NEW JERSEY. 



VALUATION AND ASSESSMENT OF RAILROADS, 1880. 



of students in attendance is 49 females 47, 

 males 2. 



In the State Asylum for the Insane there 

 were, at the beginning of the last corporate 

 year, 285 enrolled patients males 129, females 

 156. Admitted during the twelve months, 134 

 males 71, females 63. Whole number under 

 care during the year, 419 men 200, women 

 219. Discharged within the year, 95 men 54, 

 women 41 ; died, 22 males 10, females 12 ; 

 number of patients at the year's close, 302 

 men 136, women 166. This has been the 

 largest number of patients within the institu- 

 tion since its establishment in 1843. 



The Asylum's farm proper consists of about 

 100 acres. Its income in 1843, the first year 

 of the institution, was $561.67; in 1880 it had 

 been $8,827.37. Among the products of the 

 farm last year were 100 tons of hay, 950 bush- 

 els of potatoes, 2,500 pounds of cabbage, 3,000 

 heads of celery, 8.400 pounds of pork, and 22,- 

 812 gallons of milk. 



An act was passed at the session of the Leg- 

 islature for a new apportionment of representa- 

 tives in that body, enumerating all the towns 

 and wards of cities entitled to elect one or 

 two representatives each, according to the re- 

 spective number of its inhabitants, as shown 

 by the State census of 1880. To towns having 

 less than the constitutional number of inhab- 

 itants required for the election of a representa- 

 tive the act gives a proportional representation. 



The June session of 1881 was closed byfinaJ ad- 

 journment on August 19th, having lasted eighty 

 days the longest sitting of a New Hampshire 

 General Court on record. As to the laws of 

 a general importance enacted at this session 

 there were the following : " To aid ship-build- 

 ing " ; " Providing for a report of the number 

 and causes of divorces " ; " To legalize the erec- 

 tion of telegraph and telephone poles and wires, 

 and similar structures for electric lighting"; 

 " To establish a State Board of Health." The 

 board is to consist of the Governor, the Attor- 



ney-General, and four other members three 

 of them physicians and one a civil engineer 

 all to be appointed by the Governor, with the 

 advice and consent of his Council. 



The population of the State by counties, in 

 1880 and in 1870, was as follows: 



NEW JERSEY. The Legislature for 1881 

 consisted of 15 Republicans, 5 Democrats, 

 and 1 Independent in the Senate, and of 34 

 Republicans and 26 Democrats in the House. 

 It assembled at the beginning of the year, and 

 remained in session until the close of March. 

 On the 25th of January, William J. Sewell, 

 Republican, was chosen United States Senator 

 over Theodore F. Randolph, Democrat, by a 

 vote of 12 to 5 in the Senate, and 32 to 26 in 

 the House. On the 18th of January, George 

 C. Ludlow delivered his inaugural address as 

 Governor. He called attention, among other 

 things, to the necessity of a revision of the tax 

 laws, and to the importance of preparing and 

 adopting a system of general laws for the gov- 

 ernment of municipalities. These measures 

 had been considered at previous sessions, and 

 commissions to investigate and report upon 

 the subjects had been appointed and had re- 

 ported, but no final action had been taken by 

 the Legislature. 



The income and expenditures of the State 

 are divided by the Treasurer into four general 

 accounts, viz. : Agricultural College Fund, State 

 Library Fund, School Fund, and State Fund. 



