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MAINE. 



Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council in 

 July, 1872, and sworn in August, 1879. Since 

 his decease, his widow has been created a baron- 

 ess in her own right. This is, with one exception, 

 the first instance of a colonial peer, or peeress, 

 being created by the British sovereign. The ex- 

 ception was Lord Mount Stephen, ex-President 

 of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. A 

 steel-plate portrait of Sir John was published in 

 the " Annual Cyclopaedia " for 1882." 



MAINE, a New England State, admitted to 

 the Union March 15, 1820; area, 33,040 square 

 miles. The population, according to each" de- 

 cennial census, was 298,269 in 1820; 399.455 in 

 1830; 501,793 in 1840; 583,169 in 1850; 628,279 

 in 1860; 626,915 in 1870; 648,936 in 1880; and 

 661,086 in 1893. Capital, Augusta. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Edwin C. 

 Burleigh, Republican ; Secretary of State, Nich- 

 olas Fessenden ; Treasurer. George L. Beal ; At- 

 torney-General, Charles E. Littlefield; Commis- 

 sioner of Industrial and Labor Statistics, Sam- 

 uel W. Matthews; Superintendent of Common 

 Schools, Nelson A. Luce; Railroad Commission- 

 ers, Asa W. Wildes. Roscoe L. Bowers, and Da- 

 vid M. Mortland ; Board of State Assessors, 

 chosen by the State Legislature in April, Frank 

 Gilman, Otis Hayford, and B. F. Chadbourne ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John A. 

 Peters ; Associate Justices, Charles W. Walton, 

 William W. Virgin, Artemas Libbey, Lucilius 

 A. Emery, Enoch Foster, Thomas H. Haskell, 

 and William P. Whitehouse 



Finances. The treasury statement for 1890 

 is as follows : Cash on hand Jan. 1. 1890, $62,- 

 678.41 ; receipts during the year, $1,495,367.03 ; 

 expenditures $1,382,579.27; cash balance on 

 Dec. 31, 1890, $175,466.17. During 1890 a tem- 

 porary loan of $300.000 was negotiated, as au- 

 thorized by chapter ccxlvi of the Resolves of 1889, 

 it being found that the receipts would not meet 

 the expenditures, owing to the extraordinary 

 appropriations made by the Legislature of 1889. 

 Of this loan, $250,000 was negotiated with the 

 German Savings Bank in New York and $50,000 

 with the German Savings Bank of Brooklyn, 

 both loans bearing interest at 4 per cent, per 

 annum, payable semi-annually. There is. in ad- 

 dition to this temporary debt, a permanent 

 bonded debt of $2,602,300. 



For 1891 the estimated receipts of the State 

 treasury were $1,266.298.17, and the estimated 

 expenditures $1,457.303.85. The State tax rate 

 is 2 - 25 mills on the dollar 



Valuations. The first report of the Board 

 of State Assessors, created this year by act of the 

 Legislature, shows the total valuation of prop- 

 erty, as fixed by the local assessors, to be $260,- 

 716,167. 



Savings Banks. At the close of 1891 there 

 were 53 savings banks in the State, having de- 

 posits amounting to $50,278,452.44, a gain dur- 

 ing the year of $2,497,285.54. The total number 

 of depositors was 146,668, a gain of 6,147. 



Twelve trust and banking companies are trans- 

 acting business in the State, with a capital stock 

 of $1,008.900. They have deposits amounting 

 to $2,516,143.38, an increase of $390,112.09; and 

 total assets of $1.279.477.44, a gain of $649.- 

 581.67. The loan associations show a total of 



6,710 shareholders, and total assets of $1,032,- 

 301.53, an increase in the past year of $399,242.22. 



Legislative Session. The sixty-fifth Legis- 

 lature convened on Jan. 7 and adjourned on 

 April 3. An important result of the session was 

 the passage of an Australian ballot law which 

 applies to all elections after Sept. 1, 1892. The 

 olhcial ballots to be used under this act shall be 

 printed at the expense of the State, except in 

 municipal elections, when the expense shall be 

 borne by the city. Candidates for office may be 

 nominated by a convention or caucus of any 

 political party that polled at least 1 per cent, of 

 the total vote cast in the last gubernatorial elec- 

 tion in the State or in the district for which they 

 are to be elected, or by nomination papers duly 

 signed by at least 1,000 voters, if the candidate 

 is to be voted for through the State at large, or 

 by at least 1 for every 100 persons voting at the 

 last gubernatorial election within the district 

 for which the nomination is made, in case of 

 other candidates, provided that the number of 

 signers shall not be fewer than 25. Such nomi- 

 nation papers shall be filed with the city clerk, if 

 the candidate seeks a municipal office; in other 

 cases, with the Secretary of State. Each candi- 

 date must signify in writing his acceptance of 

 the nomination. The names of candidates nom- 

 inated by any party shall be grouped together 

 upon the ballot, headed by the name of the 

 party. A blank space shall be left after the 

 names of candidates for each office, in which the 

 voter may write other names for whom he de- 

 sires to vote, and questions submitted to the 

 people shall be printed below the list of candi- 

 dates. Each ballot shall be not less than 4 inches 

 wide and not less than 6 inches long, and shall 

 be so folded in marked creases that the width 

 and length shall be uniform. On the back and 

 outside shall be printed the words, " Official bal- 

 lot for," followed by the designation of the poll- 

 ing place for which the ballot is prepared,' the 

 date of the election, and a/ac simile of the sig- 

 nature of the Secretary of State or the city clerk 

 preparing the ballots. Cards of instruction and 

 specimen ballots on tinted paper shall be printed 

 for the guidance of voters. Lists of candidates 

 nominated shall be published prior to the elec- 

 tion. The municipal officers in each city, town, 

 or plantation shall cause the polling places there- 

 in to be provided with voting shelves or com- 

 partments in which voters may mark their bal- 

 lots screened from observation. The voter shall 

 prepare his ballot secretly at the voting shelf or 

 compartment by marking a cross opposite the 

 name of the candidate for whom he wishes to 

 vote, writing in any name if he wishes, or he may 

 place his cross opposite the name of a party or 

 political designation, and he shall then be deemed 

 to have voted for all the candidates of that partv 

 or designation grouped thereunder. He shall 

 fold his prepared ballot as it was when he re- 

 ceived it, and deposit it forthwith. 



To avoid any question respecting the scope of 

 the prohibitory law growing out of the "origi- 

 nal-package " decision of the United States Su- 

 preme Court and the passage of the Wilson bill 

 by Congress, an act was passed declaring that 

 the statutes in force respecting intoxicating 

 liquors shall be " made to apply to all intoxicat- 

 ing liquors imported in the original package." 



