In Stone-shop State Prison. STATEMENT of RECEIPTS and DISBURSEMENTS in the New Hampshire State Prison, for the Year ending May 31, 1829. Receipts. $13,066 34 In Stone-shop Disbursements. $9,325 49 3,978 46 Smith's Shop Cooper's Shop 461 07 Cooper's Shop 3,168 14 329 80 Shoe, Tailor's, & Weav Shoe, Tailor's, & Weav er's Provisions 684 16 533 19 Clothing and Bedding Furniture and Fuel 181 78 Expenses for Pay and Sub- Total of Receipts 19, 489 28 Expenses for Repairs for Hospital 1,894 98 322 59 62 33 Total of Disbursements $17,348 72 632 99 144 25 Militia. By the returns of the militia, made to the governor on the 12th of June, 1829, the number was as follows. The number in the preceding year was 28,415; thus making an increase of 485 for the last year. VERMONT. Names of Officers and their Salaries. EXECUTIVE. The governor is chosen annually by the people, and his term of office expires on the second Thursday in October, on which day the session of the Legislature commences. His salary is $1150. The Lieutenant-Governor's pay is $4 a day during the session of the Legislature, and six cents a mile for travel. a court for the determination of questions of law and other matters not triable by jury, and has powers and jurisdiction, are five in number, annually by the Legislature. Including an all per annum to each judge, for preparing reports of the Supreme Court, to be published by the S of the judges are $1175 each. Richard Skinner, Chief Justice. Titus Hutchinson, Ephraim Paddock, Assistant Justic The Legislature appoints annually two ass each county, who, with one judge of the Supr pose the County Court. The County Court clusive jurisdiction in cases triable by jury, v or thing in question exceeds the value of one and in some cases where smaller damages ar assistant judges of this court have no salarie vary probably from $50 to $250 per annum, business done in the respective County Co thirteen counties. LEGISLATURE. The Counsellors and Re paid $1,50 a day, and six cents, going and co The Speaker of the House receives $2,50 a d allowance for travel. Receipts and Expenditures. The revenue of the State is derived chiefly from d auditor's report for the year ending Sept. 30th, 1829, c results. RECEIPTS. Balance in the Treasury at last settlement Interest on arrearages Cash received of the several State's Attorneys * On Bonds given Commissioners of Deaf and Dumb Of Clerk of Windsor County, balance of County Court *This item is made up chiefly of fines, and forfeited recognisa of criminals. President and Vice-President the Secretary of State, Clerk of the House, SecreGovernor and Council, Auditor of Accounts, EnClerk, Governor, and Commissioners of School ed to School Fund the Treasury $14,302 00 1,619 72 15,987 14 3,725 93 260 10 2,400 00 2,205 40 569 08 78 36 2,475 30 8,060 00 7,809 32 Total $59,492 05 Valuation for Tax List. rand List, as it is called, for assigning the ratio of taxmade as follows. The polls of all males, except of colleges, and persons properly equipped and doing luty, between the ages of 21 and 60, are set in the list improved land, at 6 per cent. upon its value as ascer ges of the Supreme Court, when sitting with the assistant judges of the rt for County Court business, receive the same fees as the assistant they account with the treasurer for the money thus received, as part of their reme and County Courts, by their clerks, draw orders on the State Treasury ises of conveying convicts to the State Prison, the fees of witnesses, and expenditures in those criminal cases where the penalty (if a fine may be es to the State, and for the fees of State's attorneys, grand jurors, and clerks itor of accounts against the State is empowered to audit, examine, allow, ders for the payment of accounts between the State and persons acting hority, in all cases not required to be examined by the courts, or referred to lar board by special enactment; a sort of appeal from the decision of the be taken to the General Assembly. nty on each wolf is twenty dollars. bursements of the State Prison exceeded the income received from it, by the 08. The superintendent in his report gives the State credit for $168-67 remission of visitors. tained by appraisers; houses and lots appurtenant at 4 per cent.; mills, stores, distilleries, &c. at 6 per cent.; oxen at $2; cows and other cattle of three years old, at $1.25; cattle of two years old, at 75 cents; horses and mules of three years old, and of the value of $25 or less, at $1; horses and mules worth more than $25, and less than $75, at $3; horses and mules worth more than $75, at $6; horses and mules of two years old, at $2; do. of one year old, at $1.25; jack-asses at $40; sheep at 10 cents per head; carriages at 6 per cent. upon their appraised value; brass clocks and timepieces at $3; gold watches at $4; other watches at $1. Money on hand and debts due to (deducting debts due from) persons assessed, at 6 per cent.; bank and insurance stock (within the State) at 3 per cent.; attorneys, physicians, and surgeons, mechanics and manufacturers, and merchants and traders, in addition to their property, at such sum as the listers [assessors] think fit, (generally from $10 to $200.) Upon the list so made up, all taxes, school, state, town, district, and those for highways and bridges, are assessed. Common Schools. An act was passed in 1827 to provide for the support of common schools. The 4th section of the act was repealed in 1828, and in lieu of its provisions it was enacted, that the superintending committees should recommend (instead of direct) suitable class-books to be used in the schools; that the committee should not be required to visit each school more than twice during the term (generally three or four months), and that teachers may, at the request of any particular district, be licensed, though not possessing the qualifications specified in the first section. Very few town committees made the report prescribed by the act, the last year, and the number of schools or scholars cannot be ascertained, with any tolerable degree of accuracy. The money raised by the general law for the support of schools, at 3 per cent. on the Grand List, would amount to $51,119-42. Perhaps as much more is raised by district taxes, and a considerable sum is paid for the support of private schools. In 1825 an act was passed, imposing upon all the banks in the State a tax of 6 per cent. upon their annual profits, and appropriating the money thus received, together with that derived from pedlars' licenses, and the remaining property of the old Vermont State Bank, to the creation of a fund for the |
