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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



rials used, $523,355; value of products, $807,- 

 340. Fisheries persons engaged, 914; capital 

 invested, $209,465 ; value of products, $176,- 

 684. Quarries, 29 ; capital invested, $128,800 ; 

 product, 1880, 1,920,340 cubic feet; value, 

 $303,066. Gold, 532 ounces produced ; value, 

 $11,000. Silver, 12,375 ounces; value, $16,000. 

 Paper, 5,480 tons; value, $1,731,170. 



Persons engaged in all vocations, all ages, 

 142,468: in agriculture, 44,490; professional 

 and personal services, 28,206 ; trade and trans- 

 portation, 11,735; manufactures, mechanical, 

 and raining industries, 58,037. Assessed value 

 of real estate, $122,733,124; personal, $42,022,- 

 057; total, $164,755,181. Taxation State, 

 1880, $395,372; county, $483,978 ; city, town, 

 and school, $1,818,290; total, $2,697,640. 



Number of insane in the State, 1,056 ; blind, 

 412 ; persons ten years old and upward, 286,- 

 188; unable to read, 11,982; unable to write, 

 14,302. Foreign-born persons, ten years old 

 and upward, 42,783; unable^ to write, 11,498, 

 or about 27 per cent. Native white persons, 

 ten years old and upward, 242,811 ; unable to 

 write, 2,710, or I'l per cent. 



State Government* Biennial elections are held 

 in November of even years ; biennial legisla- 

 tive sessions are held in June of odd years. At 

 the close of 1884 Samuel W. Hale (Republican) 

 was Governor; Ai B. Thompson, Secretary; 

 Isaac "W. Hammond, Deputy-Secretary; So- 

 lon A. Carter, Treasurer; Parsons B. Cogs- 

 well, Printer ; Oliver Pillsbury, Insurance Com- 

 missioner; William H. Kimball, Librarian; 

 James W. Patterson, Superintendent Public 

 Instruction ; Augustus D. Ayling, Adjutant- 

 General ; Irving A. Watson, Secretary of Board 

 of Health ; James O. Adams, Secretary of Board 

 of Agriculture ; John M. Hill, Secretary of Board 

 of Equalization of Taxes ; Orrin C. Moore, Ed- 

 win B. S. Sanborn, Edward J. Tenney, Railroad 

 Commissioners ; Buel C. Carter and George E. 



Gage, Bank Commissioners ; Charles C. Rounds, 

 Principal of Normal School ; Charles P. Ban- 

 croft, Superintendent of Asylum for Insane; 

 John C. Ray, Superintendent of Industrial 

 School ; Frank S. Dodge, Warden State Prison. 

 Supreme Court: Charles Doe, Chief-Justice; 

 Isaac W. Smith, William H. H. Allen, Lewis 

 W. Clark, Isaac N. Blodgett, Alonzo P. Car- 

 penter, and George A. Bingharn, Associates; 

 Mason W. Tappan, Attorney-General ; William 

 S. Ladd, Law Reporter. Henry W. Blair and 

 Austin F. Pike, Senators in Congress ; Martin 

 A. Haynes and Ossian Ray, Representatives. 

 Governor - elect, June, 1885, to June, 1887, 

 Moody Currier. In June a Senator is to be 

 chosen for the term expiring March 4, 1885. 



Finances. During the fiscal year ending May 

 31, 1884, the State receipts from all sources 

 amounted to $1,000,977.83, and the disburse- 

 ments for all purposes to $1,016,217.44; leav- 

 ing in the treasury, June 1, an available cash 

 surplus of $189,382.88; such surplus, June 1, 



1883, having been $204,622.49. 



Careful estimates, prepared by the State Sec- 

 retary, show six preceding years of annual legis- 

 lative sessions, to have cost the State $376,- 

 188.06; six years of biennial sessions, $285,- 

 386.67 a saving of $90,801.39. Few members 

 are chosen for more than a term of two years. 

 The State debt, June 1, 1884, was $3,176,- 

 609.20. As to a portion of its principal, 

 amounting to $450,000, falling due Sept. 1, 



1884, the Governor, in his message to the 

 Legislature in 1883, observed that unless large 

 sums should be appropriated for extraordinary 

 expenses in the intervening time, this sum 

 would be paid at maturity with the surplus of 

 revenue. It has been so paid. 



Railroads. Following are the corporate 

 names of the railroads operating in New Hamp- 

 shire, the length and value of each road, and the 

 tax assessment on it for 1884: 



