deemed a deodand, or in any wise forfeited on account of such misfortune.

90. All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used and approved in the province, colony or State of New-Hampshire, and usually practiced on in the courts of law, shall remain and be in full force until altered and repealed by the Legislature; such parts thereof only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and liberties contained in this constitution: provided that nothing herein contained, when compared with the twenty-third article in the bill of rights, shall be construed to affect the laws already made respecting the persons or estates of absentees.

91. The privilege and benefit of the habeas corpus shall be enjoyed in this State, in the most free, easy, cheap, expeditious and ample manner, and shall not be suspended by the Legislature except upon the most urgent and pressing occasions, and for a time not exceeding three months. 92. The enacting style in making and passing acts, statutes and laws, shall be, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court convened.

93. No governor or judge of the supreme judicial court shall hold any office or place under the authorities of this State, except such as by this constitution they are admitted to hold, saving that the judges of the said court may hold the offices of justices of the peace throughout the State; nor shall they hold any place or office, or receive any pension or salary from any other State government or power whatever.

94. No person shall be capable of exercising at the same time more than one of the following offices in this State: namely, judge of probate, sheriff, register of deeds; and never more than two offices of profit, which may be held by appointment of the Governor, or Governor and Council, or Senate and House of Representatives, or superior or inferior courts; military offices and offices of justices of the peace excepted.

95. No person holding the office of judge of any court, except special judges, Secretary, Treasurer of the State, Attorney-General, Commisary-General, military officers receiving pay from the continent or this State, excepting officers of the militia, occasionally called forth on an emergency, register of deeds, sheriff, or officers of the customs, including naval officers, collectors, of excise and State and continental taxes, hereafter appointed, and not having settled their accounts with the respective officers with whom it is their duty to settle such accounts, members of Congress, or any person holding any office under the United States, shall at the same time hold the office of Governor, or have a seat in the Senate or House of Representatives, or Council; but his being chosen and appointed to and accepting the same, shall operate as a resignation of their seat in the Chair, Senate, or House of Representatives, or Council, and the place so vacated shall be filled. No member of the Council shall have a seat in the Senate or House of Representatives.

96. No person shall ever be admitted to hold a seat in the Legislature, or any office of trust or importance under this government, who in the due course of law, has been convicted of bribery or corruption in obtaining an election or appointment.

97. In all cases where sums of money are mentioned in this constitution, the value thereof shall be computed in silver at six shillings and eight pence per ounce.

98. To the end that there may be no failure of justice or danger to the State, by the alterations and amendments made in the Constitution, the General Court is hereby fully authorized and directed to fix the time when the alteration and amendments shall take effect, and make the necessary arrangements accordingly.*

*See Act of December 14, 1792.

99. It shall be the duty of the selectmen and assessors of the several towns and places in this State, in warning the first annual meetings for the choice of senators, after the expiration of seven years from the adoption of this constitution as amended, to insert expressly in the warrant this purpose among the others for the meeting; to wit, to take the sense of the qualified voters on the subject of a revision of the constitution; and the meeting being warned accordingly, and not otherwise, the moderator shall take the sense of the qualified voters present as to the necessity of a revision; and a return of the number of votes for and against such necessity shall be made by the clerk, sealed up and directed to the General Court at their then next session; and if it shall appear to the General Court by such return, that the sense of the people of the State has been taken, and that in the opinion of the majority of the qualified voters in the State, present and voting at said meetings, there is a necessity for a revision of the constitution, it shall be the duty of the General Court to call a convention for that purpose; otherwise the General Court shall direct the sense of the people to be taken, and then proceed in the manner before mentioned; the delegates to be chosen in the same manner and proportioned as the representatives to the General Court; provided that no alterations shall be made in this constitution before the same shall be laid before the towns and unincorporated places, and approved by two thirds of the qualified voters present and voting on the subject.

100. And the same method of taking the sense of the people as to a revision of the constitution, and calling a convention for that purpose, shall be observed afterward, at the expiration of every seven years.

101. This form of government shall be enrolled on parchment, and deposited in the Secretary's office, and be a part of the laws of the land; and printed copies thereof shall be prefixed to the books containing the laws of this State, in all future editions thereof.

IN CONVENTION, HELD AT CONCORD THE FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, ANNO DOMINI 1792.

The returns from the several towns and unincorporated places being examined, and it appearing that the foregoing Bill of Rights and Form of Government, as amended by the convention, were approved by more than two thirds of the qualified voters present in town meetings, and voting upon the question, the same are agreed on and established by the delegates of the people in convention and declared to be the civil Constitution of the State of New-Hampshire.

Be it known, that I, Noah Martin, Governor of the State of NewHampshire, in obedience to the request of the Constitutional Convention, do hereby proclaim to the people of this State, that the constitution of the same is amended by striking from it in part 2d, section 14th, the words, "shall have an estate within the district where he may be chosen to represent of the value of one hundred pounds, one half of which to

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be a freehold whereof he is seized in his own right;" and from section 29th the words, "and seized of a freehold estate in his own right of the value of a hundred pounds, being within this State;" and section 42d the words, and unless he shall at the same time have an estate of the value of five hundred pounds, one half of which shall consist of a freehold in his own right within this State."

The foregoing property qualifications are stricken out, and the constitution is thus amended by the suffrages of more than two thirds of the legal voters present in town meeting and voting upon the questions. [L. S.] Given under my hand, and the seal of the State affixed, at the Council Chamber, September the sixteenth, A. D., 1852, and of the independence of the United States of America the seventyseventh.

New-Hampshire is entitled to three members in the National House of Representatives, and the State is divided into three districts, as follow:

DISTRICT NUMBER ONE-Rockingham, Strafford, Belknap, and Carroll counties.

DISTRICT NUMBER Two-Merrimack and Hillsborough counties. DISTRICT NUMBER THREE-Cheshire, Sullivan, Grafton, and Coos counties.

COUNCILOR DISTRICTS IN 1873.

The State is divided into five Councilor districts, each of which may choose one Councilor annually.

Council District Number One contains the county of Rockingham, except the city of Portsmouth and the towns of Gosport. Greenland, Hampton, Newcastle, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Rye, South Newmarket, and Stratham, and the county of Merrimack, except the towns of Bradford, Newbury, New-London, Sutton, Warner and Wilmot.

Council District Number Two contains the county of Strafford, the county of Belknap, except the towns of New Hampton, Sanbornton, and Tilton, and the city of Portsmouth, and the towns of Gosport, Greenland Hampton, Newcastle, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Rye, South Newmarket, and Stratham, in the county of Rockingham. Council District Number Three contains the county of Hillsbo

rough, except the towns of Antrim, Bennington, Deering, Francestown, Greenfield, Hancock, Hillsborough, New Boston, and Windsor.

Council District Number Four contains the counties of Cheshire and Sullivan, the towns of Bradford, Newbury, New London, Sutton, Warner and Wilmot in the county of Merrimack, the towns of Antria, Bennington, Deering, Greenfield, Francestown, Hancock, Hillsborough, New Boston, and Windsor, in the county of Hillsborough, and the town of Lebanon, in the county of Grafton.

Council District Number Five contains the counties of Coos and Carroll, the county of Grafton, except the town of Lebanon, and the towns of New Hampton, Sanbornton, and Tilton, in the county of Belknap.

SENATORIAL DISTRICTS.

The State is divided into twelve Senatorial Districts, each of which may elect one Senator to the legislature annually.

Senatorial District Number One contains Durham, Gosport, Green land, Hampton, Hampton Falls, Newcastle, Newington, Newmarket, North Hampton, Portsmouth, Rye, South Newmarket, and Stratham.

Senatorial District Number Two contains Atkinson, Auburn Brentwood, Candia, Chester, Danville, Deerfield, Derry, East Kingston, Epping, Exeter, Fremont, Hampstead, Kensington, Kingston, Londonderry, Newton, Northwood, Nottingham, Pelham, Plaistow, Raymond, Salem, Sandown, Seabrook, South Hampton, and Windham.

Senatorial District Number Three contains the city of Manchester. Senatorial District Number Four contains Allenstown, Bow, Chichester, Concord, Dunbarton, Epsom, Hooksett, Loudon, Pembroke and Pittsfield.

Senatorial District Number Five contains Barrington, Dover, Farmington, Lee, Madbury, Rochester, Rollinsford, and Somersworth.

Senatorial District Number Six contains Alton, Barnstead, Belmont. Brookfield, Canterbury, Center Harbor, Effingham, Gilford, Gilmanton, Holderness, Laconia, Madison, Meredith, Middleton, Milton, Moultonborough, New Durham, New Hampton, Northfield, Ossipee, Sanbornton, Sandwich, Strafford, Tamworth, Tilton, Tuftonborough, Wakefield, and Wolfeborough.

Senatorial District Number Seven contains Brookline, Fitzwilliam, Greenville, Hollis, Hudson, Jaffrey, Mason, Nashua, New Ipswich, Rindge, Sharon, Temple, and Wilton.

Senatorial District Number Eight contains Amherst, Bedford, Bennington, Bradford, Deering, Francestown, Goffstown, Greenfield, Henniker, Hopkinton, Litchfield, Lyndeborough, Merrimack, Milford, Mount Vernon, New Boston, Peterborough, Warner and Weare.

Senatorial District Number Nine, contains Antrim, Chesterfield, Dublin, Gilsum, Hancock, Harrisville, Hillsborough, Hinsdale, Keene, Marlborough, Nelson, Richmond, Roxbury, Stoddard, Sullivan, Surry, Swanzey, Troy, Westmoreland, Winchester and Windsor.

Senatorial District Number Ten contains Acworth, Alstead, Charlestown, Claremont, Cornish, Croydon, Goshen, Grantham, Langdon, Leb

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anon, Lempster, Marlow, Newport, Plainfield, Springfield, Sunapee, Unity, Walpole, and Washington.

Senatorial District Number Eleven contains Alexandria, Andover, Ashland, Boscawen, Bridgewater, Bristol, Campton, Canaan, Danbury, Enfield, Franklin, Grafton, Hanover, Hebron, Hill, Lyme, New London, Newbury, Orange, Orford, Piermont, Plymouth, Salisbury, Sutton, Webster, and Wilmot.

Senatorial District Number Twelve contains all the towns and places in the county of Coos, and the towns of Albany, Bartlett, Bath, Benton, Bethlehem, Chatham, Conway, Dorchester, Eaton, Ellsworth, Franconia, Freedom, Groton, Hart's Location, Haverhill, Jackson, Landaff, Lincoln, Lisbon, Littleton, Lyman, Monroe, Rumney, Thornton, Warren, Waterville, Wentworth, and Woodstock.

The Election for the choice of Governor, Councilors, Senators, Representatives to the General Court, and members of Congress, is holden on the second Tuesday in March, in all the respective towns and voting places in the State.

STATE OFFICERS IN NEW-HAMPSHIRE, 1873—4.

EZEKIEL A. STRAW, Manchester, Governor; BENJAMIN F. PRESCOTT, Epping, Secretary of State; A1 B. THOMPSON, Concord, Dep. Secretary of State; SOLON A. CARTER, Keene, Treasurer; EDWARD A. JENKS, Concord, State Printer; JOHN M. HAINES, Concord, Adjutant General; JOHN C. PILLSBURY, Concord, Warden of State Prison; JOHN W. SYMONDS, Franklin, Superintendent of Public Instruction; NATHANIEL BOUTON, Concord, State Historian; WILLIAM H. KIMBALL, Concord, State Librarian.

COUNCIL, 1873-4.

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2, John J. Morrill, Gilford.

3, William P. Newell. Manchester.

4, Bolivar Lovell, Alstead.

5, Nathan R. Perkins, Jefferson. Janitor of State House, Lewis L. Mower, Concord.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, IN 1873.

District Number 1, William B. Small, Newmarket.

STATE SENATE FOR 1873.

President, David A. Warde, Concord.

Clerk, Luther S. Morrill, Concord.

Assistant Clerk, Tyler Westgate, Haverhill.

Door-Keeper, Zelotus Stevens, Concord.

District Number 1, Warren Brown, Hampton Falls.