[639] Vindication of the Official Conduct of the Trustees, etc., and A True and Concise Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Church Difficulties, by Benoni Dewey, James Wheelock, and Benjamin J. Gilbert.
[640] Answer to the "Vindication," etc., by Josiah Dunham.
[641] Lord: History of Dartmouth College, 73-77.
[642] Lord, 78.
[643] In 1811 the salary of Chief Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for four of the counties was fixed at $200 a year; and that of the other Justices of those courts at $180. "The Chief Justice of said court in Grafton County, $180, and the other Justices in that court $160." (Act of June 21, Laws of New Hampshire, 1811, 33.)
[644] Acts of June 24 and Nov. 5, Laws of New Hampshire, 1813, 6-19; Barstow: History of New Hampshire, 363-64; Morison: Life of Jeremiah Smith, 265-67. This law was, however, most excellent. It established a Supreme Court and systematized the entire judicial system.
[645] This was the second time Plumer had been elected Governor. He was first chosen to that office in 1812. Plumer had abandoned the failing and unpatriotic cause of Federalism in 1808 (Plumer, 365), and had since become an ardent follower of Jefferson.
[646] The number of votes cast at this election was the largest ever polled in the history of the State up to that time. (Ib. 432.)
[647] See Act of June 27, Laws of New Hampshire, 1816, 45-48. This repealed the Federalist Judiciary Acts of 1813 and revived laws repealed by those acts. (See Barstow, 383, and Plumer, 437-38.)
The burning question of equality of religious taxation was not taken up by this Legislature. The bill was introduced in the State Senate by the Reverend Daniel Young, a Methodist preacher, but it received only three votes. Apparently the reform energy of the Republicans was, for that session, exhausted by the Judiciary and College Acts. The "Toleration Act" was not passed until three years later. (McClintock: History of New Hampshire, 507-29; also Barstow, 422.) This law is omitted from the published acts, although it is indexed.