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The pay of each member of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, is $2 for each day's attendance, and $2 for every ten miles' travel.

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1. Justices of the Peace have original and exclusive jurisdiction in all civil cases in which the debt or damages demanded do not exceed $20, except where the title to real estate comes in question. They have concurrent criminal jurisdiction as to breaches of the peace, not aggravated in their nature, and in cases of larceny, where the goods stolen do not exceed the value of $5.

2. The Court of Common Pleas has appellate jurisdiction in all civil and criminal cases tried originally before a justice of the peace. It has original and exclusive jurisdiction in all civil, common-law cases, where the debt or damage demanded exceeds the sum of $20; and final jurisdiction where the damages demanded do not exceed $100. Its criminal jurisdiction depends generally on particular statutes. In relation to offen

ces at common law, its jurisdiction includes every thing, where the punishment does not extend to life, member, or banishment, except where the punishment is, by statute, to be administered by the Supreme Court. In case of mortgages and forfeitures annexed to contracts, this court has a concurrent chancery jurisdiction.

3. The Supreme Judicial Court has appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases where the debt or damage exceeds $100, and in all criminal cases originally tried in the Court of Common Pleas or the Municipal Court of the city of Boston. It has concurrent jurisdiction in all criminal cases cognizable by the inferior courts, and original and exclusive jurisdiction in all capital cases. It has also original and exclusive jurisdiction in all cases of alimony and divorce; and chancery powers in cases of trusts, specific performance of contracts in writing, mortgages, settlement of partnership accounts, waste, nuisance, and forfeitures annexed to contracts. It is the Supreme Court of Probate, entertains appeals from the Probate Courts of the counties, and has a general superintending power over all inferior tribunals by writ of error, certiorari, quo warranto, &c.

4. The Probate Courts, of which there is one in each county, consisting of a single judge, have original and exclusive jurisdiction in the probate of wills, settlement of estates, and guardianship of minors, idiots, lunatics, &c.

5. There is, in Boston, a court consisting of three justices, styled the Police Court for the city of Boston, and a Justices' Court for the county of Suffolk, which has the same civil jurisdiction as justices of the peace in other counties, and the same criminal jurisdiction as justices of the peace, concurrently with the Municipal Court.

6. There is also in Boston a Municipal Court, consisting of one judge, which has cognizance of all crimes, not capital, committed within the county of Suffolk, and appellate jurisdiction in all criminal cases tried before the Police Court.

BANKS.

The state of the Banks as reported to the General Court in January,

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Aggregate of 66 Banks, $20,420,000 14,747,784) 987,210 471 583,125,000 The Bank of the United States has an Office of Discount and Deposit at Boston.

EDUCATION.

The principal literary institutions are Harvard University in Cambridge, connected with which there are medical, theological, and law schools; Williams College at Williamstown; Amherst College at Amherst; Massachusetts Medical College in Boston connected with Harvard University; Berkshire Medical Institution connected with Williams College; the Theological Seminaries at Andover and Newton; Round Hill School at Northampton, Berkshire Gymnasium at Pittsfield, and Mount Pleasant Classical Institution at Amherst. There are also 56 incorporated academies, of which Phillips Academy at Andover, the oldest and best endowed, was incorporated in 1780, and has educated 2,025 scholars.

Common schools are well supported throughout the state. The laws require that every town or district, containing 50 families, shall be provided with a school or schools equivalent in time to six months for one school in a year; containing 100 families,12 months; 150 families, 18 months; and the several towns in the state are authorized and directed to raise such sums of money as are necessary for the support of the schools, and to assess and collect the money in the same manner as other town taxes. Each town is also required to choose annually a school committee of 3, 5, or 7 persons, to take the general charge and superintendence of the public schools.

According to the report of the school committee of Boston, in November, 1829, the number of public schools in that city was 80; pupils 7,430; expense for tuition, fuel, &c. $52,500; the estimated rent of school houses, $10,000; making the whole expense amount to $62,500. Private schools in the city, 155; pupils 4,018; expense of tuition $107,702 Total number of schools 235; pupils 11,448; expense for tuition, fuel, books, &c. $196,829 25.

V. RHODE ISLAND.

THE settlement of this state was commenced at Providence, in 1636, by the celebrated Roger Williams, a minister who was banished from Massachusetts on account of his religious opinions; and in 1638, the settlement of the island of Rhode Island was begun by William Coddington, John Clarke, and others.

In 1643, Mr. Williams went to England, and obtained, in 1644, a Charter, by which the settlement of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

were united under one government, and which continued in force till 1663, when a new Charter was granted by Charles II., which has ever since formed the basis of the government.

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