562 



NEW HAMPSHIKE. 



NEW JEESEY. 



number of patients admitted into the asylum 

 was 4,423, and that of patients discharged as 

 recovered, 1,593. 



The number of indigent persons who belong 

 to other unfortunate classes, and whom the 

 government of New Hampshire keeps as its 

 beneficiaries in institutions of other States, is 

 as follows: Twenty deaf and dumb at the 

 American Asylum in Hartford, Conn., two 

 at the Clarke Institute in Northampton, and 

 two at the Horace Mann School in Boston, 

 Mass. Of blind persons, there are ten at the 

 Perkins Institution for the Blind in South Bos- 

 ton ; and at the Massachusetts School for the 

 Feeble-Minded the State keeps three benefi- 

 ciaries. For the education of the deaf-mutes 

 the State pays annually $175 per capita. 



Correctional Institutions. In the State Indus- 

 trial School, opened twenty -five years ago, for 

 the correction of wayward youth, there were 

 at the beginning of June 110 inmates boys, 

 92; girls, 18. The total number received in 

 this institution since its establishment is 1,100, 

 of whom two only died of disease. 



The State Penitentiary contains 121 prison- 

 ers, all males except one. No escape from 

 it lias occurred during the past thirteen years. 

 Owing to the diminished number of prisoners 

 who might be employed at work, the results 

 of the labor-contract system in 1882 were not 

 so satisfactory for the prison's income as be- 

 fore. The earnings amounted to $16,845.19, 

 and the expenditures to $20,366.20, leaving a 

 deficiency of $3,522. 



Legal Reform. Concerning the present sys- 

 tem of the State laws, the Governor lays be- 

 fore the Legislature several of its defects, both 

 in substance and procedure, and earnestly 

 urges their immediate correction. In regard 

 to some among such defects he says: "Theo- 

 retically, the Executive Department is respon- 

 sible for the administration of the laws, the 

 officers directly charged with prosecutions be- 

 ing the Attorney- General and the county so- 

 licitors ; but it is a fact that, outside of the 

 law reports, and the fragmentary chronicles 

 of the newspapers, there is no published re- 

 port whatever of the administration of either 

 criminal or civil laws." He suggests that the 

 Legislature should provide for an annual re- 

 port by the county solicitors to the Attorney- 

 General, and for a report by the Attorney- 

 General to the Governor. The legal pro : 

 ceedings which are now used in the State^ 

 with regard to the relations existing between 

 debtors and creditors, the Governor charac- 

 terizes as subject to manifest and frequent 

 injustice. 



Divorce. In regard to divorces, the Governor 

 plainly says that during the past forty years 

 their number has steadily and alarmingly in- 

 creased, in proportion to the increased num- 

 ber of the causes for which the Legislature has 

 successively allowed them to be granted. He 

 says: "Of the fourteen causes for which di- 

 vorces may be granted in this State, there are 



five that render the marriage relation a matter 

 of option, and under cover of which it is robbed 

 of all its obligation and solemnity." 



NEW JERSEY. State Government. The f olio w - 

 ing were the State officers during the year : 

 Governor, George C. Ludlow, Democrat; Sec- 

 retary of State, Henry C. Kelsey ; Treasurer, 

 George M. Wright; Comptroller, Edward J. 

 Anderson ; Attorney-General, John P. Stock- 

 ton ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Ellis A. Apgar. Judiciary, Supreme Court : 

 Chief-Justice, Mercer Beasley ; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Manning M. Knapp, Edward W. Scud- 

 der, Bennet Vansyckel, David A. Depue, Alfred 

 Reed, Jonathan Dixon, Joel Parker, William 

 J. Magie. Court of Errors and Appeals, the 

 Chancellor, the Justices of the Supreme Court, 

 and Lay Judges : John Clement, Martin Cole, 

 Caleb S. Green, William H. Kirk, William Pat- 

 erson, Jonathan S. Whitaker ; Chancellor, The- 

 odore Runyon ; Vice-Chancellors, Abraham V. 

 Van Vleet and John T. Bird. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature met on 

 January 9th, and adjourned on March 23d. 

 On January 24th, John R. McPherson, Demo- 

 crat, was re-elected United States Senator, by 

 a vote of 43 against 36 for Garret A. Hobart, 

 Republican, and 2 for Gov. Ludlow. Among 

 the acts of the session are the following : 



Enabling corporations incorporated under special 

 charter to increase the amount of their capital stock, 

 and also tLe number of their directors ; an act which 

 enables horse railroads to increase their capital stock 

 to double the present amount ; relating to the con- 

 solidation of docks and stores for the keeping of live- 

 stock ; an act providing for the cancellation of defective 

 conveyances made by attorneys and agents ; supple- 

 ment to an act to appoint harbor-masters and inspect- 

 ors, approved March 31, 1869, which provides that no 

 ship or vessel shall be anchored within 300 yards of 

 the end of a pier extending from the shore of New 

 Jersey into the waters of New York Harbor, between 

 Ellis Island and Castle Point, in Hoboken, and re- 

 quires all harbor-masters to enforce -the law ; author- 

 izing the Governor to appoint six persons to consti- 

 tute a Board of State Charities and Correction, of which 

 the Governor shall be president. 



There were filed in the Secretary of State's office, of 

 Senate bills, 97 bills and 2 joint resolutions approved ; 

 2 bills passed over the veto and 1 bill filed without 

 approval total, 100 bills and 2 joint resolutions ; and 

 or the House bills, 108 bills and 4 joint resolutions 

 approved. 



The Legislature provided for the limiting of the 

 hours of labor of children. 



Finances. The accounts are divided and kept 

 under the four headings of Agricultural Col- 

 lege Fund, the Deaf and Dumb Fund, the 

 School Fund, and the State Fund. The Agri- 

 cultural College fund consists of $116,000 of 

 State bonds. The Deaf and Dumb fund con- 

 sists of $58,793.58, derived from the sale of the 

 Stevens Battery, and appropriated by the Le- 

 gislature to the Institution for the Deaf and 

 Dumb. There has been expended from this 

 amount $45,000, leaving $13.793.58. The 

 school fund amounts to $3,235,767.11. The se- 

 curities of the State fund consist of stock of 

 the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Dela- 

 ware and Raritan canal companies, with a 



