The Secretary of State is elected for two years; and the Comptroller and Treasurer annually; all by a joint vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly.

The Senate consists of 33 members, elected for three years, one third annually; the House of Representatives, of 100 members, elected annually. The pay of the members of both houses is $4 a day each.

The judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, and also the Chancellors, are elected by a joint vote of the two Houses of the General Assembly, for six years. The judges are the reporters of their own decisions, and are allowed to print, at their own expense, any number, not exceeding 500, of their reports, to be circulated out of the State.

The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction only, — and only upon points of law, taken up from the Circuit or County Courts, by writ of This Court sits at Tuscaloosa, the seat of government, on the 1st Mondays of January and June.

error.

Court of Chancery ;

· established in 1839, and remodelled in 1841.

Southern Division, Anderson Crenshaw, of Greenville, Butler

Salary.

$1,500

Co., Chancellor, This division includes the counties of Mobile, Baldwin, Washington, Clarke, Sumter, Marengo, Monroe, Conecuh, Covington, Butler, Dale, Coffee, Henry, Barbour, Pike, Montgomery, Lowndes, and Wilcox.

Middle Division, Joshua L. Martin, of Tuscaloosa, Chancellor, $1,500 This division includes the counties of Russell, Chambers, Randolph, Macon, Tallapoosa, Coosa, Autauga, Dallas, Perry, Greene, Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Fayette, Marion, Walker, Jefferson, Bibb, and Shelby.

Northern Division, Alexander Bowie, of Talladega, Chancellor, 1,500 This division includes the counties of Lauderdale, Franklin, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan, Blount, St. Clair, Marshall, Jackson, De Kalb, Cherokee, Benton, and Talladega.

One session of the Court is held annually in each Division, and the Chancellors are required to alternate with each other, so that neither may preside twice in succession in either Division. A Chancery Court is held in Montgomery, on the 1st Monday in July in each year.

The Circuit Court has original jurisdiction in all civil and criminal causes in the State; and appellate jurisdiction in all appeals and certioraris brought up from inferior tribunals. All Circuit Court judges and chancellors elected after the passage of an Act approved Dec. 29th, 1842, are to receive a salary of $1,500. This accounts for the inequality in the salaries mentioned above. The attorneys receive $250 and fees.

Two Criminal Courts are held in the city of Mobile, by the judge and solicitor of the sixth Circuit, on the 4th Mondays of February and June.

FINANCES.

The total amount of outstanding bonds of the State of Alabama, on the 1st day of Nov. 1842, was $9,834,555. This amount has not been increased.

The legislature, at its session in 1843, passed an act laying a tax of 20 cents per hundred dollars on real estate, and specific taxes upon other species of property, sales at auction, &c. The taxes assessed under this act amount to $234,429, exclusive of the counties of Franklin and Randolph, which will yield $3,000 more. Mobile paid $39,010.26; Montgomery $13,346.90. The circulation of the State banks is $4,319,858.

A rough statement of the Treasurer's operations in 1843: Cr.-Payment for valueless 16th sections for 1842,

Do. for previous years,

Expenses of government,

Expenses of banks,

Interest of State bonds,

University and school funds,

Dr.-Interest on debts due, rents, real estate, taxes,

$200,000

151,000

100,000

90,000

500,000

80,000

$1,121,000 900,000

The deficit has been paid from the capitals of the banks. The expenses of the year 1844 will be diminished. No money will be payable on account of valueless 14th sections. The expenses of the banks and government will be diminished, and we presume the interest on the schools and university funds will be reduced to six per cent. This will make a reduction of above $400,000.

This Court, which has no jurisdiction except what properly belongs to a Court of Errors and Appeals, holds its sessions annually at Jackson, commencing on the 1st Mondays in January and November.

This Court, which has jurisdiction over all matters, pleas, and complaints whatsoever, belonging to, or cognizable in, a Court of Equity, holds two sessions annually, at the city of Jackson, on the 1st Mondays of December and June, and continuing as long as business requires. It also holds two sessions a year, at Columbus and Pontotoc.

Time of holding Court.

For the counties of Lowndes, Winston, Octibbeha, Kemper, Noxubee, and Neshoba, 1st Monday in May and November. For the counties of Itawamba, Pontotoc, Monroe, Chickasaw, and Tishamingo, 3d Monday in May and November. For the counties of Marshall, Coahoma, Tippah, De Soto, Ponola, Lafayette, and Tunica, 1st Monday in January and July. For the counties of Carroll, Choctaw, Holmes, Yalabusha, and Tallahatchie, 3d Monday in June and December.

This Court has concurrent power and jurisdiction within the district with the Superior Court of Chancery, when the amount in controversy does not exceed $500,000. The Vice Chancellor is elected for the term of 4 years; appoints the Clerks, who hold their office for 4 years; he must be at least 30 years of age. Appeals may be made to the Superior Court of Chancery, unless by consent of both parties, when the same may be taken directly to the High Court of Errors and Appeals.

District or Circuit Courts.

The Judicial divisions were reorganized in 1840, and formed into 11 Districts, or Circuits. The salary of the Judges is $2,000 each.

Dist. Judges.

District Attorneys.

Counties of the Districts.

1. George Coalter, Elbridge G. Walker, Warren, Claiborne, Washington, and Bo

livar.

Yalabusha, Carroll, Choctaw, and Tallahatchie.

Adams, Wilkinson, and Jefferson.

Smith, Copiah, Simpson, Scott, Newton, and
Neshoba.

Jackson, Jones, Green, Perry, Wayne, Jas-
per, Clarke, and Lauderdale.

Noxubee, Lowndes, Kemper, Winston, and Octibbeha.

Hinds, Madison, and Rankin.

De Soto, Coahoma, Tunica, Ponola, Lafay-
ette, and Marshall.

Monroe, Itawamba, Tishamingo, Pontotoc,
Chickasaw, and Tippah.
Yazoo, Holmes, Attala, and Leake.
Hancock, Marion, Pike, Amite, Franklin,
Lawrence, and Covington.

A Circuit Court is holden in each county twice a year. This Court has original jurisdiction, in civil cases, in which the principal of the sum in controversy exceeds $50. It has chancery jurisdiction in all cases under $500; and has power to foreclose mortgages, without limit as to sum. It has also exclusive criminal jurisdiction.

Judges of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and the Chancellor, are chosen by the electors for six years; the Judges of the Circuit Courts. Attorney General, and District Attorneys, as well as all military officers, are chosen by the electors for four years; all other officers, for two years.

Salaries of Ex. officers, $8,869.99 Direct taxes,

Miscellaneous exp. of Exec. 2,701.36 Licenses to retail spiritu

$308,634.77

Expenses of Judiciary,

106,689.41

ous liquors,

8,635.78

Two millions bear 6 per cent. interest; a part of the remainder only bears interest.

The Legislature was not in session during that fiscal year; add $33,607.64 to $7,127.00, and we have $40,734.64 as the expense of legislation for the January session in 1842.

† $615,049.15 outstanding warrants and funded scrip, Dec. 30, 1843. The two millions are Planters' Bank bonds. There are also five millions of Union Bank bonds, which having been issued without warrant of constitution, the State refuses to acknowledge any liability to pay.

EDUCATION IN MISSISSIPPI.

Proportion and Number of Whites above the age of 20 who cannot read and write- of whites above 20-whites between 5 and 20 to educate, &c.