The Governor, Councilors, five in number, and members of the Legislature are elected annually by the legal voters, on the second Tuesday of March. The Secretary of State and Treasurer are chosen each year by the Legislature in joint convention. The Attorney General is appointed by the Governor. The Senate and House of Representatives are together styled the "General Court of New Hampshire," which assembles annually in regular session, on the first Wednesday in June. The Senators are 12 in number, elected by districts; the Representatives are one for every town, parish or place having 150 ratable male polls, and one additional Representative for every additional 300 ratable male polls in excess of the first 150. Towns, parishes or places having less than 150 polls are classed together and elect Representatives by turns. Every male inhabitant of a town or parish with town privileges, or place unincorporated, in this State, of twenty-one years of age (excepting paupers, or persons excused from paying taxes at their own request), has a right to vote in the town, &c. wherein he dwells.

JUDICIARY.

The only court of general jurisdiction is the Supreme Judicial Court, which has full power as a court of equity-exercised at the law terms. The Judges are appointed by the Governor and Council, and hold their offices during good behavior; but no person can hold the office of Judge after he has attained the age of seventy years.

The State is divided into four Judicial Districts, as follows: No. 1, Rockingham, Strafford and Carroll counties; No. 2, Belknap, Merrimac and Hillsborough counties; No. 3, Cheshire and Sullivan counties; No. 4, Grafton and Coos counties.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

Circuit Judge, Nathan Clifford. District Judge, Daniel Clarke; District Attorney, Charles W. Rand; Marshal, J. N. Patterson; Clerk of Circuit and District Courts, A. R. Hatch.

SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

Chief Justice, Ira Perley, Concord. Associate Justices, Jonathan E. Sargent, Wentworth; Henry A. Bellows, Concord; Charles Doe, Rollinsford; George W. Nesmith, Franklin; Jeremiah Smith, Dover. Attorney General, William C. Clarke, Manchester. Reporter, Amos Hadley,

Concord. Salary of Chief Justice, $2,400, of Associate Justices, $2,200 each.

TERMS OF SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

Belknap county-Law Terms. At Manchester, 1st Tuesday of June, and at Concord, 1st Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Guilford, 4th Tuesday of March and 4th Tuesday of September. Carroll county-Law Terms. At Exeter, 3d Tuesday of June, and at Dover, 3d Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Ossipee, 3d Tuesday of April and October.

Cheshire county-Law Terms. At Keene, 4th Tuesday of December, and at Newport, 1st Tuesday of July. Trial Terms. At Keene, 1st Tuesday of April and October.

Coos County-Law Terms. At Lancaster, 3d Tuesday of July and at Haverhill, the Tuesday next after 4th Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Lancaster, 4th Tuesday of April and 1st Tuesday of November.

Grafton county-Law Terms. At Lancaster, 3d Tuesday of July, and at Haverhill, the Tuesday next after 4th Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Haverhill, 4th Tuesday of March and September for the Western Judicial District, and at Plymouth, 3d Tuesday of May and November for the Eastern Judicial District.

Hillsborough County-Law Terms. At Manchester, 1st Tuesday of June, and at Concord, 1st Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Amherst, 1st Tuesday of May, at Manchester, 1st Tuesday of January, and at Nashua, 1st Tuesday of September.

Merrimac county-Law Terms. At Manchester, 1st Tuesday of June, and at Concord, 1st Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Concord, 1st Tuesday of October and April. Rockingham county-Law Terms. At Exeter, 3d Tuesday of June, and at Dover, 3d Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Portsmouth, 3d Tuesday of October, and at Exeter, 3d Tuesday of January and 2d Tuesday of April.

Strafford county-Law Terms. At Exeter, 3d Tuesday of June, and at Dover, 3d Tuesday of December. Trial Terms. At Dover, 2d Tuesday of February and 1st Tuesday of September. Sullivan county-Law Terms. At Keene, 4th Tuesday of December, and at Newport, 1st Tuesday of July. Trial Terms. At Newport, 4th Tuesday of January and 1st Tuesday of September.

Large sums are annually received into, and paid from the Treasury, whose receipt is no income to the State, and whose disbursement is not an expenditure. The following exhibits the revenue separated from the receipts. It was derived from:

By the cancellation of certain worthless taxes and accounts, the assets were diminished $5,847.05, and the liabilities $1,918.98; so that the actual reduction of the debt during the year

$3,747,776.95

$3,508,027.96

20,615.99

$3,487,411.97

has been $264,293.05. The present liabilities of the State are, on account of Trust Funds, $17,823.96; Floating Debt, $33,404.00; Funded Debt, $3,456,800.00; Total, $3,508,027.96.

The Floating Debt is represented entirely by State notes, and was reduced during the year from $109,637.50 to $33,404.00. The Funded Debt consists of bonds issued by the State, and was reduced during the year, from $3,681,700 to $3,456,800. The Assets consist of income of State Prison, $867.22; Cash in the Treasury, $18,684.72; and uncollected taxes, June 1, 1868, $1,064.05. About $100,000 of the State Debt becomes due in 1869, and about $350,000 annually thereafter, until 1874, when the amount due annually is much lessened. During the year, the net reduction of the debts of the towns of the State was $220,324.93.

LITERARY FUND.

The receipts on account of this fund for the fiscal year ending June 1, 1868, were from nonresident Savings Bank Taxes, $12,019.24: Sale of public lands, $25,000; total, $37,019.24; and the payments were, for dividend to towns of fifteen cents per scholar, $11,811.00; balance to the credit of the Fund, $25,208.24.

EDUCATION.

This State has one college and about fifty academies in successful operation. Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, has, beside its Academical course, a Medical, a Scientific and Agricultural Department, and a School of Architecture and Civil Engineering. The scrip donated by Congress for an Agricultural College was sold for $80,000, and the avails appropriated to establish the "New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts," in connection with Dartmouth College.

The Legislature in 1867, established the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction. This officer has the supervision of the Public Schools of the State. School committees have supervision in the towns, and a prudential committee in each district, hires teachers, and is the general financial agent. County educational associations have been established, and numerous conventions of teachers and other friends of education have been held, whereby a new and increasing interest has been awakened in the public mind, and a fresh impetus given to educational progress.

Public Schools in 1868. Number of towns and cities, 230; number making returns, 220; number of school districts, 2,287; decrease for the year, 22; number of schools, 2,487; number of scholars attending, 77,138; decrease for the year, 709; average attendance, 52,476; decrease for the year, 590; ratio of average attendance to the whole number of scholars, .68; number of children between 4 and 14 years not attending, 3,228; increase for the year, 414; number of teachers-male, 477; female, 2,465; total, 2,942; average wages of teachers per month-male, $34.64; increase for the year, $1.55; female, $19.78; increase for the year, $1.34; number of teachers who have attended teachers' institutes, 1,018; average length of the schools in weeks, 16.83; estimated value of school-houses and lots, $1,130,698; increase for the year, $133,865; estimated value of school apparatus, $13,327.17; number of unfit houses, 427; decrease for the year, 55; expenditure in building and repairing school-houses, $86,191.73; încrease for the year, $10,225.55; number of volumes in libraries reported, 55,079; amount raised by tax for support of schools, $282,606.58; increase for the year, $39,890.62; amount raised by tax beyond what the law requires, $66,528,01; increase for the year, $8,010.19; amount contributed in board, &c. to prolong the schools, $24,599.41; increase for the year, $4,596.92; amount of income from the surplus revenue money reported as used for schools, $1,840.68; of the literary fund as reported, $10,824.07; of railroad tax reported as used for schools, $7,735.30; income from local funds, $5,869.58; total expended for schools, $333,465.62; increase for the year, $43,158.31 ; average amount to each scholar, $3.69; number of visits of school committees, 11,804; of prudential committees, 2,518; of others, 68,849; number of academies and other permanent schools reported for the year, 51.

CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

The Asylum for the Insane, incorporated in 1838, has a farm of 155 acres. Its accommodations were increased in 1867-68 by the erection of a new building, 79 feet long and 38 feet wide, for excited female patients. The success of the institution has increased its numbers beyond the original plan,、 and makes it necessary to secure further additions.

The Reform School, founded in 1856, has a farm of 100 acres, near Manchester. The institution has grown in public estimation, and has extended its influence and means of good to the State. It has provision for both sexes.

The State Prison has been much improved the last year, by effecting a thorough ventilation of the halls and cells, by better drainage, by securing a supply of good water, and by additions to the shops. The operation of the commutation law passed by the Legislature in 1867, has been very favorable on the discipline of the prison. An evening school has been established for the benefit of those unable to read and write, and a course of lectures was provided during the winter. The effect of both has been good.

Asylum for the Insane, Concord, J. P. BANCROFT, M. D., Superintendent. Number in the institution May 1, 1867-males, 122, females, 124; total, 246. Admitted during the year-males, 55, females, 63; total, 118. Whole number under care during year—males, 177, females, 187; total, 364. Largest number of patients at any one time-males, 121, females, 132; total 253; smallest number at any time-males, 114, females, 115; total, 229. The daily average for the yearfor men, 118.5, women, 121.27; total, 239.77. Number of patients discharged during the yearmales, 52, females, 56; total, 108: died-males, 12, females, 9; total, 21; leaving, May 1, 1868— males, 112, females, 123; total, 235. Of those discharged there were recovered-males, 21, females, 30; total, 51; improved-males, 19, females, 20; total, 39; not improved-males, 12, females, 6; total, 18. Age of those admitted during the year-under 15, 1; 15 to 20, 4; 20 to 30, 25; 30 to 40, 28; 40 to 50, 25; 50 to 60, 19; 60 to 70, 13; over 70, 3. Stage of disease at admission -attack recent, 59, disease confirmed, 59; first time, 71, subsequent admission, 47. Civil state, married-men, 26, women, 35; total, 61; single-men, 28, women, 21; total, 49; widowers, 1, widows, 7. Occupation-farmers, 24; household employment, 51; teachers, 4; carpenters, 4; traders, 5; clergymen, 2; laborers, 2; miscellaneous and no fixed occupation, 26. Committed by friends or guardians, 82; by cities or towns, 31; by order of courts, 5. Form of diseaseacute mania, 55; chronic mania, 19; melancholia, 15; dementia, 17; epilepsy, 5; miscellaneous, 7. Whole number ever admitted, 2,579.

Reform School, Manchester, ISAAC H. JONES, Superintendent. In the House, April 30, 1867, -males, 59, females, 20; total, 79. Committed since-males, 49, females, 4; total, 53. Escaped inmates returned, 3: total, 135. Discharged-before expiration of sentence, 8; at expiration of sentence, 16; to care of friends, 6; sent to alternate, 2; cscaped, 7. Remaining, April 30, 1868-males, 82, females, 14; total, 96. Term of commitment-1 year and less, 6; 2 years, 7; 3 years, 12; 4 years, 2; 5 to 10 years, 8; during minority, 18. Crimes-stealing, 27; stubbornness, 13; house and shop breaking, 5; attempt to set fire, 2; malicious mischief, 4; stealing letters from Post Office, 2; assault, 1; truancy, 1; total, 53. Age-10 years and under, 7; 10 to 15, 33; 16 years, 7; unknown, 1; total, 53. Nativity-New Hampshire, 34; other states, 12; foreign countries, 6; unknown, 1; total, 53.

New Hampshire State Prison, Concord, Joseph Mayo, Warden. Whole number of prisoners, May 1, 1867, 118. Received during the year, 46. Discharged-by expiration of sentence, 13; pardoned, 13; died, 3; total, 29. Remaining, April 30, 1868-males, 130, females, 5; total, 135. Whole number committed since establishment of the institution, 1,406.

Of the population in 1860, 256,982 were born in the State, 48,153 in other States, and 20,938 in foreign countries.

Agriculture is the predominant interest of this State.

More capital is invested in it than in all other interests combined, and the great majority of the people are engaged in its pursuit.

New Hampshire is largely engaged in manufactures, abundant water-power being furnished by the Merrimac, Cocheco, and other rivers, on whose banks are many flourishing manufacturing towns. There are extensive forests, and the production of lumber is an important branch of industry.

Farms. Improved land, 2,000,000 acres; number of farms, 30,000, averaging 123 acres each. Principal Products in 1866. Corn, 1,321,281 bushels, value, $1,810,155; wheat, 305,653 bushels, value, $788,585; rye, 161,559 bushels, value, $224,567; oats, 1,481,018 bushels, value, $1,007,092; barley, 105,038 bushels, value, $124,995; potatoes, 3,692,860 bushels, value, $1,809,501; hay, 665,395 tons, value, $11,897,263.

Manufactures. By the census of 1860, there were 3,211 establishments engaged in mining, manufacturing and the mechanic arts, each producing $500 and upwards annually, employing $23,274,094 capital, and 18,379 male and 13,961 female hands, consuming raw material worth $20,539,857, and yielding products valued at $37.586,453.

Banks. The State Banks are closing up their affairs. Their aggregate capital, May 13, 1868, was $237.300. There are 40 National Banks with a capital of $4,785,000; 31 Savings institutious, with resources amounting to $14,251,970.31; amount due depositors, $13,541.534.96; increase over last year, $3,078,116.46.

24. NEW JERSEY.

Capital, Trenton. Area, 7,576 square miles. Population, (1860), 672,035.

New Jersey was settled at Bergen by the Dutch and Danes in 1624, but it fell into the hands of the English in 1664. In 1674, it was divided into East and West Jersey, and soon after became the exclusive property of the Quakers of Pennsylvania. The two provinces were united in 1702, and the colony was dependent on New York until 1738, when it was erected into a separate royal province. It was one of the original thirteen states, adopted a state constitution July 2, 1776, and ratified the United States Constitution December 18, 1787.

The Governor is chosen by a plurality vote for three years. General election on the first Tuesday in November. The Secretary of State is appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. His term of office is five years. The Treasurer is elected by the Legislature on joint ballot for one year, and until his successor is qualified; and the State Librarian *$300 and fees.