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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



NEW JERSEY. 



The necessity of adopting some legislation to 

 protect the people from endowment-order swin- 

 dles was earnestly discussed at this session; 

 arid an act was passed, known as the Barber bill, 

 which places these orders under the control of 

 the insurance commissioner. Under the pro- 

 visions of this law the commissioner early in 

 the year refused licenses to a large number of 

 endowment orders, practically making it impos- 

 sible for such orders to do business in the State. 



The levy of an annual State tax of $500,000 

 was authorized for each of the years 1892 .and 

 1893. In order to redeem such portions of the 

 war-loan bonds at their maturity as the revenue 

 of the State would not provide for, the Treasurer 

 was authorized to issue and sell new State bonds 

 not exceeding $800,000 in amount, at a rate of 

 interest not exceeding 4 per cent. 



The sum of $175,000 was appropriated for the 

 purchase of land and the construction of a build- 

 ing for the State Library, such sum to be raised 

 by the sale of State bonds to the amount of 

 $175,000, payable in twenty years, and bearing 

 not over 4 per cent, interest. 



For the purpose of securing an exhibit of the 

 resources of the State at the World's Columbian 

 Exposition, the sum of $25,000 was appropriated 

 to be expended under the direction of a State 

 board of managers. 



The State was redistricted for Senators and 

 for members of the Governor's Council. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Assenting to the act of Congress approved Aug. 30, 

 1890, appropriating money in aid of colleges of agri- 

 culture and the mechanic arts in the several States. 



Providing for the election by the alumni of Dart- 

 mouth College, of five additional trustees. 



Accepting the provisions of the will of Benjamin 

 Thompson, of Durham, which contemplate the estab- 

 lishment of an agricultural college in that town 

 under the control of the State. 



Making the day of each biennial election in the 

 State a legal holiday. 



To prevent the killing of moose, caribou, and deer. 



Making the first Monday of September-known as 

 Labor Day, a legal holiday. 



Establishing a new apportionment for the assess- 

 ment of public taxes. 



To prevent the sale of adulterated foods, drugs, and 

 other articles. 



Establishing a State board of cattle commission- 

 ers. 



Establishing a State board of registration of den- 

 tistry. 



Providing for the removal of the New Hampshire 

 College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts from 

 Hanover to the farm of the late Benjamin Thompson 

 in Durham. 



Providing that if any State shall by law deny any 

 insurance company or citizen of this State any rights 

 or privileges which are granted to insurance com- 

 panies or citizens of that State, then this State shall 

 111 like manner deny to insurance companies and 

 citizens of that State all such rights and privileges. 



Establishing a State board of library commission- 

 ers, which shall promote the establishment and effi- 

 ciency of free public libraries. 



Accepting the refund by Congress of the direct 

 tax of 1861. 



Establishing the city of Rochester. 



Charities. The State Insane Asylum at Con- 

 cord, which has accommodations for 350 patients. _ 

 was filled throughout the year. The receipts of 

 the institution for the year were $108,478, and 

 the expenditures $108,344. There is a perma- 



nent fund for the use of the asylum amounting 

 to $275,932. 



Prisons. At the Concord State Prison there 

 were 107 convicts on Dec. 30, 1890. During the 

 year following 61 convicts were received and 42 

 discharged, leaving 126 remaining on Nov. 30, 

 1891, of whom 122 were men and 4 women. At 

 the State Industrial School there were about 120 

 inmates during the year. 



Savings Banks. The aggregate of deposits 

 in the 73 savings banks of the State on Sept. 30 

 was $69,531,024.62, an increase of $3,804,005.58 in 

 one year. Their guarantee fund on that date 

 amounted to $4,139,476.62, their surplus to $2,- 

 396,367.98, and their miscellaneous debts to $24,- 

 650.75, making their total liabilities $76,091.519.- 

 97. The total number of depositors was 166,264, 

 an increase of 6,482 in one year, and the average 

 for each depositor was $418, against $411 in 

 1890. There are certain trust companies of the 

 State which are authorized to receive savings 

 deposits, and the amount held by such on Sept. 

 30 was $1,527,075.83. 



Insurance. During the past two years the 

 foreign insurance companies, which 'left the 

 State a few years ago after the passage of the 

 valued-policy law, have been gradually resuming 

 business. The following table shows the busi- 

 ness done by all companies in the State during 

 1890 and 1891. 



NEW HAMPSHIIiK STOCK COMPANIES. 



Risks written I $45,900.093 87 



Premiums collected 551,729 ] 7 



Losses paid | 285,552 59 



$40.229,761 55 

 513,850 06 

 217,385 66 



NEW HAMPSHIRE CASH MUTUAL8. 



Risks written . 



Premiums collected. 

 Losses paid 



Risks written .... 

 Premiums collected 

 Losses paid 



$7,919.902 23 

 120,791 26 



83,484 82 



FOREIGN STOCK COMPANIES. 



$19,385.^00 23 

 250,250 90 

 42.785 36 



FOREIGN MlTTrAT.S. 



Risks written $2,193.201 00 



Premiums collected 29.143 51 



Losses paid . 



5,058 48 



$5,089,533 22 

 9(1,402 56 

 42,023 98 



$22.382,386 29 



800.588 51 



89,880 21 



$2,265,474 00 

 2S171 24 

 5,120 35 



NEW JERSEY, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 D6c. 18, 1787 ; area, 7,815 square miles. The pop- 

 ulation, according to each decennial census, was 

 184,139 in 1790; 211,149 in 1800; 245,562 in 

 1810: 277,426 in 1820; 320,823 in 1830; 373,306 

 in 1840; 489,555 in 1850; 672.035 in 1860: 906,- 

 096 in 1870; 1,131,116 in 1880; and 1,444,933 in 

 1890. Capital, Trenton. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Leon Abbett, 

 Democrat ; Secretary of State, Henry C. Kelsey ; 

 Treasurer, John J. Toffey, succeeded by George 

 R. Gray ; Comptroller. Edward J. Anderson, suc- 

 ceeded by William C. Heppenheimer ; Attorney- 

 General, John P. Stockton ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Edwin 0. Chapman ; Com- 

 missioner of Banking and Insurance (an office 

 created by the Legislature this year, the first in- 

 cumbent being appointed in March), George B. 

 M. Harvey, who resigned early in June and was 

 succeeded by George S. Duryee ; Chief Justice of 



