INDIVIDUAL STATES. I. MAINE. Government for the Year ending the 1st Wednesday in January, 1853. Samuel Cony, Salary. of Phillips, Albert Tracy, of Newry, President of the Senate, $4 per day. Secretary of the Senate. Speaker of the House, of East Corinth, Clerk of the House. of Oldtown, 4 " By an act of the last Legislature an important change was made in the Ju 66 1,800 Attorney-General, 1,000 1,000 diciary of this State. The District Courts, which took the place of old Courts of Common Pleas, were abolished; and all their jurisdiction transferred to the Supreme Judicial Court, to which bench three additional judges were authorized by the above act. The State is now divided into three Judicial Districts, denominated the Western, Middle, and Eastern Districts; and for the purpose of hearing and determining questions of law and equity, the terms are held for these districts, instead of being held, as heretofore, in the several counties. These terms are held annually in Portland for the Western, in Augusta for the Middle, and in Bangor for the Eastern District. The other cases are tried, as heretofore, in the several counties where they are commenced. Municipal and Police Courts. Luther Fitch, of Portland; Jacob Smith, of Bath; Spencer A. Pratt, of Bangor; Benj. A. G. Fuller, of Augusta; William Palmer, of Gardiner; Solyman Heath, of Belfast; George W. Dyer, of Calais; John C. Cochran, of Rockland; and John Rogers, of Brunswick, are Judges in these places respectively. Some are paid by salaries, others by fees. [Extracted from the Report of the State Treasurer.] Amount of receipts from May 1, 1850, to April 30, 1851, inclusive, Somerset, Penobscot, Waldo. Belfast, Franklin, Piscataquis, Dover, Aroostook, Houlton, Norridgew'k, L. Kidder. Bangor, W. T. Hilliard. Farmington, G.W. Whitney. E. Flint. B. L. Staples. N. Patterson. $426,196.30 125,924.07 552,120.37 Amount of expenditures from May 1, 1850, to April 30, 1851, inclusive, 507,450.30 44.670.07 552,120.37 * There have been no new reports made since the Almanac for 1852 was published; the time for the meeting of the Legislature having been extended to January, 1853. The resources of the State, consisting principally of direct taxes and income from the Land-Office, are estimated at $ 688,692.41. Common Schools. -The Board of Education, and the office of Secretary thereof, have been abolished, and an act has been passed authorizing, instead thereof, the appointment by the Governor of a School Commissioner for each county, to hold office for one year from the 1st of May, at a salary of $200 per annum. It is made the duty of each Commissioner to spend fifty days at least in his county, during the winter term of the schools, in visiting and examining the schools, &c. The following is a list of the Commissioners for the several counties: In 1828 twenty townships of public land were reserved as a basis for a school fund. The proceeds of the land already sold are $104,363.63, which constitute the permanent school fund of the State. In 1850 twenty-four half-townships of the undivided lands of the State were set apart and added to the permanent school fund. The banks are required to pay into the treasury of one per cent. semiannually on their capital stock for the use of schools. This tax for 1850 was $27,230.27. Add to this six per cent. interest of the school fund, $6,216.81, and there is the sum of $33,492.10, which was apportioned among the towns making returns during the past year. Towns are obliged by law to raise an amount of school money equal to 40 cents for each inhabitant. In the 3,948 districts, and 279 parts of districts, which made returns for 1850, there were 2,706 male and 3,921 female teachers. Average monthly wages of male teachers, $16.66; of female teachers, $5.92; average length of schools in weeks, 18.8; schools suspended by incompetency of teachers, 152; number of good school-houses, 1,596; number of poor ones, 2,012; number built the past year, 120; whole number of scholars, 230,274; whole attendance in winter, 151,360; average attendance, 91,519. The whole amount of school money raised by tax was $264,351.17, which was $41,010.37 more than required by law. $ 29,921.46 were expended for private schools. There are school libraries in nine towns. There are 92 chartered academies in the State, of which 64 sustain schools during a greater or less part of the year. The teachers' institutes have been in successful operation for several years; 1,732 teachers attended them in 1850; 801 males, 931 females. The session of each institute was ten days. Insane Hospital, Augusta. -The two south wings and most of the main building were destroyed by fire, Dec. 4, 1850. Twenty-seven of the inmates and one of the assistants perished in the flames. The library, books, and papers of the institution were saved. The north wing was made inhabitable by the first of January, 1851, and has since been occupied. II. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Government for the Year ending on the 1st Wednesday of June, 1853. Salary. $1,000 of Weare, Secretary of State, 800 of Concord, of Concord, Deputy Sec. of State, Fees. 600 of Exeter, Attorney-General, $1,200 of Meredith, Adjutant-General, Pres. of the Senate, $2.50 per day. 400 of Exeter, of Newmarket, Speaker of the House, $2.50 per day. of Keene, Clerk of the Senate, Fees. Cheshire and Sullivan, James Bachelder, of Marlborough. Russell Cox, of Holderness. JUDICIARY. The Supreme Court consists at present of a chief justice and four associate justices. At the session of the Legislature in June, 1851, provision was made for appointing four circuit justices of the Common Pleas. Two only are appointed now. If a vacancy, other than in the office of the chief justice, occurs in the Superior Court, it is not to be filled, but an additional cir |