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NEW BRUNSWICK. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



University, and the Chief Superintendent of 

 Education twelve in all. 



The whole province is divided by the Board 

 of Education into small districts for local 

 school government. The salaries of teachers 

 are paid in part by the Chief Superintendent 

 of the Provincial Treasury and in part by the 

 trustees. School-buildings and grounds may 

 be paid for by loans extending over a limited 

 period, and poor districts are specially aided by 

 the Board of Education in providing buildings. 

 The law provides for the efficient grading of 

 schools wherever the number of pupils in the 

 district is sufficient. Besides the schools sup- 

 ported and governed as above detailed, there 

 are fourteen county grammar-schools, located 

 in most cases in the shire-towns. Except in 

 the city of St. John, pupils of both sexes attend 

 the same schools and departments. 



" The place occupied by the normal school 

 in our school system has no counterpart in 

 any school system of any other province or 

 State on this continent, unless it be in that of 

 Prince Edward Island. It is not, like the nor- 

 mal schools of Nova Scotia, Ontario, and the 

 American States, an adjunct of the system; it 

 is central and vital to it. It is not the head, 

 but in respect of agency by which the quality 

 of school instruction is to be guaranteed even 

 to the extremities of the province, it is the 

 heart of the system." Thus spoke the chief 

 superintendent, Dr. Rand, in his address at 

 the opening of the new building erected for 

 the institution at Fredericton. The building 

 provides ample accommodation for about 200 

 student-teachers, and for the four Model 

 School departments with about 200 pupils. 



The proportion of the population at school, 

 in the summer term of 1881, by the census of 

 the year, was 1 in 6*18. The average monthly 

 percentage of pupils daily present during the 

 term was 72-44. The number of teachers and 

 assistants employed was 1,453, of whom 1,289 

 had received normal-school training. The num- 

 ber of schools in operation was 1,386 ; the num- 

 ber of pupils enrolled that term was 51,921, 

 and for the whole year 64,267. The average 

 number of teaching days the schools through- 

 out the province were in session was 101, out 

 of 108 teaching days in the term. Total provin- 

 cial grant for education, for the year ended 

 April 30, 1882, $153,085. Total of county 

 fund drafts in the same year, $88,063. 



The College of New Brunswick was estab- 

 lished by provincial charter in 1800 ; found- 

 ed and incorporated by royal charter in 1828, 

 under the name^of King's College, Fredericton, 

 with the style and privileges of a university ; 

 reorganized under an amended charter in 

 1860, and denominated the University of New 

 Brunswick. The university derives certain 

 revenues from lands and other property origi- 

 nally granted by the province ; it also receives 

 an annual legislative grant of about $9,000. 

 The Faculty of Arts consists of five professors, 

 and the course occupies three years. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. State Government. The fol- 

 lowing were the State officers at the close of 

 the year : Governor, Samuel W. Hale, Repub- 

 lican, succeeding Charles H. Bell; Secretary, 

 Ai B. Thompson; Treasurer, Solon A. Carter; 

 Attorney-General, Mason W. Tappan ; Su- 

 perintendent of Public Instruction, James 

 W. Patterson; Insurance Commissioner, Oli- 

 ver Pillsbury ; Railroad Commissioners, Orren 

 C. Moore, E. B. S. Sanborn, and Edward J. 

 Tenney. Supreme Court : Chief- Justice, Chas. 

 Doe ; Associates, Clinton W. Stanley, Isaac N. 

 Blodgett, Wm. H. H. Allen, Isaac W. Smith, 

 Lewis W. Clark, and Alonzo P. Carpenter. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature convened 

 on the 6th of June, and adjourned on the 15th 

 of September. On the 7th of June Gov. Hale 

 was inaugurated. On the 2d of August, and on 

 the forty-third ballot, Austin F. Pike, Repub- 

 lican, was chosen United States Senator, by a 

 vote of 181 to 112 for Harry Bingham, Demo- 

 crat, and 22 for others. In both branches, 

 424 bills were offered, of which 201 failed to 

 pass ; and 66 joint resolutions, of which 19 

 failed to pass. Among the acts and joint reso- 

 lutions passed were the following : 



To establish a new apportionment for the assess- 

 ment of public taxes. 



To promote the welfare of the common schools. 



In relation to uniting, separating, forming dis- 

 solving, or changing the lines of school districts, in 

 amendment of chapters - 43 and 86 of the general laws. 



In relation to holding of teachers' institutes. 



To aid Dartmouth College in furnishing instruction 

 for indigent students from New Hampshire. 



In relation to savings-banks. By it the charters of 

 all savings-banks in the State incorporated for a term 

 of years are made perpetual. 



Providing for the compensation of the bank com- 

 missioners. 



To incorporate the New Hampshire Life Insurance 

 Company. 



To prevent fraudulent divorces. 



For the better registration of births, marriages, and 

 deaths. 



To prohibit the sale of toy pistols and other toy 

 fire-arms. 



For the punishment of parents who neglect to pro- 

 vide for the support of their minor children. 



To facilitate the detection and punishment of crime. 



The railroad consolidation bill was passed, 

 under the title of " an act to provide for the 

 establishment of railroad corporations by gen- 

 eral law." The act affects thirty-four railway 

 lines operating exclusively inside of New Hamp- 

 shire, and eight other lines. The principal 

 feature of this act is to authorize any two or 

 more, or all of the said railway lines, to con- 

 solidate by perpetual leases, or partnership- 

 contracts, into one corporation. It authorizes 

 also the building of new railroads, and the 

 taking of private property therefor, whenever 

 and wherever a railway corporation chooses 

 to do so. These things, besides the fixing and 

 mortgaging the capital stock, and other mat- 

 ters, the act allows the railway companies to 

 do, " provided the Supreme Court of the State, 

 or three referees appointed by the court, shall 

 decide that the public good requires such new 



