INDIVIDUAL STATES. I. MAINE. First settlement, 1625. Capital, Augusta. Area, 31,766 square miles. Population, 1860, 628,276. Government for the year ending the first Wednesday in January, 1865. The Governor of Maine, and the Senators and Representatives, are chosen annually at an election held by the people on the second Monday of September. The Councillors, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney-General, Adjutant-General, and Land Agent are chosen annually by the Senators and Representatives in joint convention. The Senate consists of 31 members, and the House of Representatives of 151 members; and both constitute the "Legislature of Maine." The Legislature meets annually, in regular session, on the first Wednesday in January. Each member of the Gorham... Saco Calais........ Brunswick Portland. Georgetown.. Oxford.. Carmel... Augusta. Rockland... Mt. Desert.... Senate and House is entitled to $150 for attendance at a regular session, and $2 for every ten miles of travel. For attendance at an extra session the compensation is $2 per day. The Councillors are 7 in number, and are chosen to advise the Governor in the executive part of the Government. All male citizens of the United States of the age of 21 years and upwards, excepting paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed, who have an established residence in the State three months next preceding the election, are electors of the State of Maine. JUDICIARY. The judicial power of Maine is vested in a Supreme Judicial Court, and such inferior courts as the Legislature may establish. The judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the Governor, with the advice of the Council, and hold their offices for seven years. The original jurisdiction of the Supreme Judicial Court embraces all suits in equity-all suits at common law-where the title to real estate is involved or where the damages demanded exceed twenty dollars. It has jurisdiction of all criminal offences except those cognizable by a justice of the peace or a police or municipal judge. Its appellate jurisdiction extends to all cases, civil or criminal, which may have been originally brought before inferior magistrates, and to appeals from the decrees of the Judge of Probate. For the purpose of hearing questions of law and cases in equity, the State is divided into the Easteru, the Middle, and the Western Districts. The Eastern District includes Aroostook, Washington, Hancock, Piscataquis, Waldo, and Penobscot counties. The Middle District includes Somerset, Knox, Sagadahoc, Lincoln, and Kennebec counties. The Western District includes Franklin, Oxford, Androscoggin, York, and Cumberland coun ties. The Law Terms are held as follows: Eastern District at Bangor, on the fourth Tuesday of May. Middle District at Augusta, on the third Tuesday of June. Western District at Portland, on the third Tuesday of July. For the trial of cases, civil and criminal, terms are held in every county at least twice in every year, and in some of the counties still more frequently. The remainder was from loans for war purposes, soldiers' allotments, miscellaneous sources, and balance in the Treasury ......... 289,096 02 STATE DEBT. On the 1st of January, 1863, the bonded debt of the State of Maine was... Debt incurred during the Aroostook War, and prior thereto..... $1,472,000 $449,000 250,000 $699,000 800,000 $1,499,000 making the total debt of the State, January 1, 1864, $2,422,000. Expenditure for War Purposes. The total outlay from the Treasury on account of the war, up to the close of the past year, amounts to $1,127,767.52. Primarily, the whole sum thus expended constitutes a claim against the United States, and up to January 8, 1863, accounts in detail, to the amount of $1,091,069.61, had been presented to the Federal Treasury for auditing and liquidation, leaving a balance of $36,697.91 to be presented. On these accounts the Secretary of the Treasury paid $320,000. He has further ordered the State to be credited with the payment of its share of the direct tax under the twenty million bill of August 5, 1861. This tax, after the deduction of 15 per centum for the State's assumption of its payment, amounted to $357,702.10, and its credit to the State, together with the $320,000 just named, make an aggregate payment, from the Federal Treasury, of $677,702.10 on account, leaving still a balance in favor of the State of $450,065.42, to be further increased, as just mentioned, by the sum of $36,697.91. Amount of matured debts unpaid..... 554,103 30 On the 1st day of January, 1862, the circulation of the above banks was.... $1,075,433 $6,019,156 Increase of circulation $1,943,723 SAVINGS-BANKS. The following will show the important figures relating to the Savings-Banks of Maine: The abstract of railroad returns for the State | tle or no use for statistical purposes. It is, thereof Maine, published March 17, 1863, is without fore, omitted. essential dates, and so fragmentary as to be of lit [For last previous report, see National Almanac, 1863, p. 345.] COMMON SCHOOLS.-The report of the School Superintendent for 1862 omits nearly all the usual statistics. From the meagre tables remaining in the report the following are extracted as the only particulars of general interest. Whole number of pupils returned.......... 241,571 Interest of school fund...... Bank tax for school purposes...... Warden. $408,272 forgery, 1,-for two years; for indecent exposure, 2,-1 for one year, and 1 for two years; for incest, 1,-for ten years: for larceny, 17,-for one year 6 (including two against the same person), for a year and a half 2, for two years 4, for three years 2, for five years 1, for six years 1-(three years on each of two indictments); for robbery, 2,-both against the same person, who was sentenced for seven years; for rape, 1,-for life. MAINE INSANE HOSPITAL, AUGUSTA-Dr. Henry M. Harlow, Superintendent.-On the 30th of November, 1861, there were 252 patients remaining in the MAINE STATE PRISON, THOMASTON-Richard Tinker, hospital,-133 males, and 119 females. There were Sentences of Convicts.-Of the sentences to the State Prison there were: for adultery, 3,-1 for one year, 1 for a year and a half, and 1 for three years; for arson, 2,-1 for four years, and 1 for seven years; for compound larceny, 3,-1 for two years, and 2 for three years; for counterfeiting. 2-1 for one year, and 1 for a year and a half; for felonious assault, 2,-each for two years: for admitted in 1862, 125,-69 males, and 56 females; making a total under treatment to that time of 377,-202 males, and 175 females. 119 were discharged during the year,-74 males, and 45 females; leaving 258 patients in the hos pital at the close of the year,-129 males, and 129 females. The condition of those discharged was as follows:-57 recovered,-34 males, and 23 females; 24 were improved,-13 males, and 11 females; 19 were unimproved,-12 males, and 7 females; 19 died,-15 males, and 4 females. The prominent causes of death of those deceased were: exhaustive mania, 3; apoplexy, 3; consumption, 4; general paralysis, 1; congestion of the lungs, 1; typhoid fever, 1; epilepsy, 1; dysentery, 1; chronic diarrhoea, 1; serous apoplexy, 1; delirium tremens, 1; old age and chronic insanity, 1 The per cent. of deaths during the year was considerably less than for several years previous, especially among the female patients, only four having died out of 170 under treatment. Fourfifths of the male patients who deceased were incurable cases of insanity of many years' standing. 1 died in December, 4 in February, 1 in April, 3 in June, 2 in July, 1 in August, 3 in September, 2 in October, and 2 in November. The civil condition of the patients admitted during the year was as follows: 36 males and 30 females were married; 29 males and 21 females were single; 4 were widowers, and 5 were widows. The assigned causes of insanity in those admitted during that year, were: ill health, 32; intemper ance, 10; masturbation, 9; puerperal state, epilepsy, 6; domestic affliction, 6; taking cold, 5; disappointed affection, 5: pecuniary trouble, 5: injury of head, 4; domestic trouble, 3; religions excitement, 3; over exertion, 4: spiritualism, 2; military excitement, 1; disappointment in business, 1; turn of life, 1; unknown, 21. The hospital was first opened for the reception of patients in October, 1840. Since that to December, 1862, 2523 were admitted. Of these, 2265 were discharged in the following condition: recovered, 1046; improved, 440; unimproved, 435; died, 344. THE PUBLIC LANDS OF MAINE.-The State owns about 2,000,000 of acres of land, of which about onefourth is timber land, and the other three-fourths are denominated "settling lands." The land agent paid into the treasury, during 1862, $25,777.27, from the proceeds of sales of these lands. SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF THE STATE.-The Legislature of 1861 passed a resolve providing for a Scientific Survey of the State. In January, 1863, the second report was made by the gentlemen employed on the survey. It is an octavo of 447 pages, embracing valuable papers on the geology of Maine, by C. H. Hitchcock, and on the botany and zoology of Maine, by Dr. E. Holmes and A. S. Packard, Jr. AGRICULTURE.-By a recent act of the Legisla ture of Maine, assessors are required to make returns of the products of agriculture. Some of the tables made up from these returns are in the report of the Board of Agriculture for 1862, but, as 192 of the towns were not returned, the tables possess but little statistical value. MAINE AND THE WAR.-From May 3, 1861, the date of muster of her 1st Infantry under the President's call for 75,000 volunteers for three months, until December 31, 1862, the date of the latest-printed Adjutant-General's Report, the State of Maine furnished to the armies of the United States 33,105 men, as follows: for three months 779, for nine months 7493, for three years 24,771, for defence of the State-coast guard-262, total 33,105. In addition to the foregoing, 5409 persons were reported to the Adjutant-General as enlisted in the organizations of other States, in the Regular Army, and in the Navy. The 33,105 above enumerated were organized into 28 regiments of infantry, 2 regiments of artillery, 1 regiment of cavalry, 6 batteries of artillery, 1 company of sharpshooters, and 4 companies of coast guards. Full details are in the annexed table. the several Regiments and Corps in service from Department and Returns from Regiments to TABLE giving Statistics of general interest relating to Maine, condensed from Records of Adjutant-General's the close of 1862. Mustered out of service August 5, 1861. + Discharged July 8, 1861. Date called into service by authority from War Department. Companies A and B were at a later date regularly mustered into United States service by Lieutenant-Colonel Eastman. Since date of organization, as shown by the returns from regiment or corps. |