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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



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that the tavern is not required in the neigh- 

 borhood. Every tavern is required to provide 

 hotel accommodation, and every tavern-keeper 

 to furnish bonds as security for good behavior. 

 The number of licenses to be granted is re- 

 stricted; in cities and incorporated towns, to 

 one for every 250 of the tirst thousand of the 

 population, and one for each 500 additional; 

 in the parishes to one for each four hundred 

 up to 1,200, and one for each 1,000 beyond. 

 One license may be granted in each parish, no 

 matter ho\v small the population. The council 

 of any municipality may, during the month of 

 January, by by-law, prohibit the granting of 

 any licenses during the year, and until the 

 by-law is repealed. The parent, child, master, 

 guardian, or creditor of any person who has 

 contracted the habit of drinking to excess, may 

 require the chief inspector to give notice to 

 any liquor-seller not to supply such person 

 with liquor, under penalty of fifty dollars. 

 Whenever any person comes to his death by 

 suicide, drowning, perishing from cold, or 

 other accident, while intoxicated, the tavern- 

 keepers supplying the liquor that caused the 

 intoxication are held liable to suit for damages 

 from $100 to $1,000 by the legal representa- 

 tives of the deceased. In case an intoxicated 

 person commits an assault, or damages prop- 

 erty, the tavern-keeper who sold him liquor 

 may be held jointly responsible with him. 



Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. 

 An act was passed requiring every clergyman, 

 teacher, minister, or other person authorized 

 by law to baptize, marry, or perform funeral 

 services in the province, to keep a register of 

 the persons whom he has baptized or married, 

 or who have died within his cure ; also re- 

 quiring the father of any child born in the 

 province, or in case of his death or absence the 

 mother, or in case of the inability of both par- 

 ents, then any person standing in their place, 

 the occupier of the house in wh'ich the birth 

 occurs, or the nurse attending, to register the 

 birth of the child within thirty days. In the 

 case of an illegitimate child, it is not lawful to 

 register any person as the father, unless at the 

 joint request of the mother and of the person 

 acknowledging himself to be the father. The 

 penalty for failure to comply with the act by 

 any of the persons referred to is a fine of from 

 one to twenty dollars and costs. The Provin- 

 cial Secretary is appointed Registrar-General 

 of the Province, and the Lieutenant-Governor 

 in council is authorized to appoint a division 

 registrar in each county. 



NEWFOUNDLAND. Government. Governor, 

 Sir George William Des Doeux, K. 0. M. G. 

 Executive Council : Robert Thorburn, Premier; 

 M. Fenelon, Colonial Secretary, William S. 

 Donnelly, Receiver-General; James S. Win- 

 ter, Q. C., Attorney - General ; Augustus F. 

 Goodridge and Charles R. Ayre. 



Commerce. The total imports in 1886 were 

 valued at $6,020,035 ; the total exports at $4,- 

 862,951. Of the exports, those produced in the 



colony were valued at $4,833,735. The exports 

 to the United States were valued at $288,453 ; 

 the imports therefrom at $1,672,810. 



The principal article imported is flour; the 

 total value of flour imported in 1886 was $1,- 

 285,758, of which $682,528 was from Canada, 

 and $601,686 from the United States. The 

 principal export is dried cod-fish, the total ex- 

 port of which was valued at $3,431,987. 



Shipping. During the year 1886, 106 vessels 

 were built in Newfoundland, of 3,784 total 

 tonnage ; $11,352 bounty being paid thereon. 

 The shipping on the register of the Receiver- 

 General of the colony, on Dec. 31, 1886, was 

 as follows: 2,019 sailing-vessels, 85,588 tons; 

 25 steam-vessels, 5,291 tons ; total, 2,044 ves- 

 sels, 90,879 tons. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. State Government. Elec- 

 tions occur biennially in November of even 

 years ; legislative sessions bienially in June of 

 odd years. Governor, Charles Henry Sawyer, 

 Republican ; Governor's Council Nathaniel 

 Clark, Republican ; John C. Linehan, Republi- 

 can; Charles Williams, Republican; John B. 

 Smith, Republican; Albert S. Batchellor, Demo- 

 crat ; Secretary, Ai B. Thompson ; Editor and 

 Compiler of State Papers, Isaac W. Hammond ; 

 Indexer of State Papers, Edward Aiken ; Treas- 

 urer, Solon A. Carter; Public Printer, John B. 

 Clarke, Manchester; Insurance Commissioner, 

 Oliver Pillsbnry; Librarian, William II. Kim- 

 ball ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 James W. Patterson ; Adjutant-General, Au- 

 gustus D. Ayling; Secretary of Board of 

 Health, Irving A. Watson ; Secretary of 

 Board of Agriculture, Nahum J. Batchelder. 

 Board of Equalization of Taxes John M. Hill, 

 Chairman ; Charles A. Dole, Secretary. Board 

 of Railroad Commissioners Henry M. Putney, 

 Chairman ; Edward B. S. Sanborn, Edward J. 

 Tenney (succeeded by Benjamin F. Prescott). 

 Board of Bank Commissioners George E. 

 Gage (succeeded by Alonzo I. Nute), James O. 

 Lyford. Supreme Judicial Court Chief- Jus- 

 tice, Charles Doe ; Associate Justices, Isaac W. 

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

 Isaac N. Blcdgett, Alonzo P. Carpenter, and 

 George A. Bingham ; Attorney-General, Dan- 

 iel Barnard ; Law Reporter, William S. Ladd. 



Political. Official votes, election of 1886 : For 

 Governor, whole vote, 77,394. Charles Henry 

 Sawyer, Republican, had 3Y,799 votes; Thomas 

 Cogswell, Democrat, 37,338 ; Joseph Went- 

 worth, Prohibitionist, 2,137; scattering vote, 

 120. Sawyer's plurality, 461. There being no 

 majority for Governor the choice from the 

 constitutional candidates (the two having the 

 largest number of votes) devolved upon the 

 Legislature of 1887, which, in convention of 

 both houses, voted as follows: Whole vote, 

 324; Sawyer, 178; Cogswell, 146. 



Legislative Session. Senate, 24 members 15 

 Republicans and 9 Democrats; President, 

 Frank D. Currier. House of Representatives, 

 308 members 167 Republicans and 141 Demo- 

 crats ; Speaker, Alvin Burleigh. Both bodies 



