NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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within her limits only, or in connection with 

 lines worked in other States, and the tax as- 

 sessed on each of them by the State Board of 

 Equalization; also the names of her several 

 telegraph companies, and the amounts of the 

 taxes levied on them respectively, are given in 

 the following lists, published in October, 1882 : 



Amount of tax : 

 RAILROADS. on each road. 



Eastern $3,997 25 



Boston and Maine 16,811 14 



Ashuelot 1,696 23 



Boston, Concord, and Montreal 25,762 78 



Fitchburg. 192 60 



Nashua and Lowell 4,275 12 



Wilton 2,890 90 



Cheshire 12,914 90 



Grand Trunk 6,352 05 



Northern 16.490 43 



Concord 27,762 20 



Manchester and North Weare 901 84 



Concord and Portsmouth 5,459 52 



Dover and Win nipesaukee 3,839 43 



Portsmouth, Great Falls, and Con way 2,502 05 



Manchester and Lawrence 17.196 67 



Concord and Clarernont 5,356 59 



Sullivan County 5,781 00 



Worcester and Nashua. 1,937 34 



Mount Washington 1,595 56 



Suncook Valley 1,618 63 



Portland and Eochester 173 43 



Monadnock 1,141 40 



Portland and Ogdensburg 445 14 



Total $170,003 85 



The taxes assessed upon the several telegraph 

 companies are shown in the following table : 



Amount of tax assessed 

 TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. on each line. 



Western Union $657 81 



American Union 83 88 



Atlantic and Pacific 22 94 



Northern 19 20 



Maine 49 43 



Montreal 24 75 



New Hampshire 917 



Chester and Deny 8 00 



American 45 00 



Stratfordand Colebrook 8 05 



Total $867 73 



The valuation of the railroads for assessment 

 purposes has been reduced this year to $82 on 

 $100 of supposed actual value; and that has 

 been the average rate of their taxation through- 

 out the State. The aggregate amount of rail- 

 road-tax for 1882 is about $13,000 less than in 

 1881, because of the said undervaluation, and 

 because the lower rate of taxation has now 

 been assessed on other property within the 

 State generally. 



The land and water areas of New Hamp- 

 shire have been ascertained, from accurate 

 measurements by Henry Gannett, the geogra- 

 pher of the tenth census, as follows : 



" The total land area of New Hampshire, by 

 counties, in square miles, is, Rockingham, 740 ; 

 Strafford, 320; Belknap, 400; Carroll, 780; 

 Merrimack, 920 ; Hillsborough, 980 ; Cheshire, 

 780; Sullivan, 580; Grafton, 1,525; Coos, 

 1,980=9,005. Water area of the State, 300. 

 Total gross area, 9,305 square miles." (For 

 the details of State institutions, see " Annual 

 Cyclopedia," 1881.) 



STATE CONVENTIONS. The Prohibitionists of 

 the State held a convention at Nashua, on June 

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7th and 8th. Some weeks prior to the meet- 

 ing the purpose of the convention was pub- 

 licly stated to be " to devise some more effect- 

 ive way than the ' spotter system ' to suppress 

 the sale of intoxicating liquors." It was also 

 announced that in the local committee of ar- 

 rangements all parties were represented by 

 their respective adherents as members, and 

 that delegates from all were invited to take 

 part in the convention, which was to be, as it 

 were, " a mass-meeting of temperance men, 

 who desire to confer together concerning the 

 suppression of an evil." At various times 

 during its proceedings, the convention was 

 addressed by a number of prominent citizens, 

 devoted to the interests of prohibition; and 

 the chief result of its deliberations, character- 

 ized throughout by earnestness and harmony, 

 was a new constitution, which, without chang- 

 ing the character and purpose of the associa- 

 tion, gives it a somewhat different form. Soon 

 after the first meeting of the delegates had 

 been organized, a committee of nine was ap- 

 pointed, with Governor Bell at its head as 

 chairman, and two women among its mem- 

 bers, " to prepare a plan for the organization 

 of a State association." This committee, on 

 the second day of the session, reported the 

 following constitution, which was unanimously 

 adopted by the convention : 



NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE TEMPERANCE UNION. 



To promote the cause of temperance, both by moral 

 and legal means ; to secure unity and vigor of action 

 among the bodies engaged in promoting this cause, 

 and to aid in diffusing useful information on the sub- 

 ject, by lectures and in print, this constitution is 

 formed. 



ARTICLE I. This association shall be known as the 

 New Hampshire State Temperance Union. 



ART. II. The officers shall consist of a president 

 and three vice-presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, 

 and an executive committee of fifteen. 



ART. III. The president shall preside at all meet- 

 ings of the Union, and in his absence the vice-presi- 

 dents in order of election. The secretary shall keep 

 a record of all meetings of the Union ; shall attend to 

 the necessary correspondence, and also perform any 

 other duties that shall devolve upon him by action of 

 the Association or Executive Committee. The treas- 

 urer shall receive all moneys due the Union, and dis- 

 burse the same as directed, taking vouchers for all 

 expenditures, and keeping an accurate account of the 

 same. All the officers shall constitute a board of di- 

 rection, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum 

 for the transaction of business. They shall meet as 

 often as they may elect, and as often as once in six 

 months. The Executive Board shall adopt such meas- 

 ures for the promotion of the objects of the Union as 

 shall seem to be prudent and effective. 



ART. IV. Any person may become a member of the 

 Union by the payment of one dollar or more to the 

 treasurer, and thereby authorizing the secretary to 

 append his name to the constitution. 



ART. V. The Executive Board may make all ne- 

 cessary by-laws to carry out this constitution, which 

 shall be subject to revision by the Union at its annual 

 meeting. 



The following declaration of principles was 

 subsequently reported from the committee on 

 resolutions, and unanimously adopted : 



1. "We believe that there is no reform calling for 

 greater exertion and sacrifice than that which seeks to 



