[Extracted from the Report of the State Treasurer, April 30, 1846.]

Total amount received from Jan. 1, 1845, to April 30, 1846, $610,891 46 Balance in the Treasury, January 1, 1845,

392,422 24

II. NEW HAMPSHIRE.

GOVERNMENT,

For the year ending on the first Wednesday of June, 1847.

The Governor, Executive Council, Senate, and House of Representatives are elected annually on the 2d Tuesday of March, the official year commencing on the 1st Wednesday in June. The State is divided into five Districts for the choice of Councillors; and again divided into twelve Districts for the choice of Senators; the number composing these two bodies being limited by the Constitution, while the number of Representatives is unlimited, every town possessing 150 ratable male inhabitants being entitled to one Representative, and one for each additional 300.

JUDICIARY.

The Superior Court of Judicature consists of a chief justice and two associate justices, who hold one term annually in each of the ten counties of the State, for the hearing and determining of questions of law, &c. This Court is also vested with Chancery jurisdiction for certain purposes.

The judges of the Superior Court of Judicature are, ex officio, judges of the Court of Common Pleas. This Court, before whom all actions for the recovery of debts and the enforcement of contracts, and all jury trials are brought, consists of one of the justices of the Superior Court, who sits as

chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and of two county judges, generally appointed from among the yeomanry, whose principal duty it is to attend to the ordinary business of the county, its roads, expenses, &c. Terms are held semi-annually, in each of the counties.

STATE PRISON.

Samuel G. Berry, Warden; William Berry, Deputy Warden; Rev. Elcazar Smith, Chaplain; Thomas Chadbourn, M. D., Physician.

of Enosburg,

Salary.

HORACE EATON,
Leonard Sargeant,
Elisha P. Jewett,
James McM. Shafter,
Geo. H. Beaman,
Silas H. Hodges,
De Witt C. Clarke,
Ebenezer N. Briggs,
Ferrand F. Merrill,
Gustav. H. Loomis,
Hiram Harlow,
F. W. Hopkins,
C. B. Adams,
Thomas Kidder,
Daniel Kellogg,

Governor, (term ends Oct. '47,) $750* of Manchester, Lieut.-Gov. and Pres. Sen., $4 a day.

of Rockingham, Commissioner of the Insane.

The Senate, established in 1836, consists of 30 members, each county being entitled to at least one, and the rest being apportioned according to population; and the House of Representatives is composed of about 230 members, one member from each town. Pay of the members of each House, $1.50 a day, during the session of the legislature.

* And $50 as Commissioner for the Deaf, Blind, Insane, &c.