566 



NEW JERSEY. 



Brought forward $497,31168 little as possible, the Commissioners of the 



MILITARY. 4 ^ Sinking Fund have not yet sold the foreclosed 



Kme'associations .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' .' 5,'6S4 63 property, anticipating a rise in its market val ue 



Ordnance 4,276 97 after the return of general prosperity. This 



Arsenal *' 959 13 82 24556 policy has received the approval of the Senate 



COURTS CRIMES ETC committee appointed to examine into the con- 



rt '$82 684 32 dition of that fund. 



Law and^ty reports '.'.'.'.'.'. '. '. '. '. '. '. 1^,277 76 The Sen ate passed a resolution requesting the 



Legal expenses 5,153 75 State Treasurer, George M. Wright, to give in- 



SstoS forfS'recognizances: ! ! .' to* ie formation as to his conduct in connection with 



Kequisitions 4,00321 the matter of the State Bank of New Bruns- 



Transportation and costs of convic- ^ ^ ^ wickj which failed in lS ff with $33^990 O f State 



statePrison salaries'. . '. '. . . ! .!.!!! .' ! 55<i29 50 funds in its hands. The Treasurer made the re- 



Statc-Prison maintenance 51,63668 quired statement of the dates and amounts of 



SS&J^cS 1 ^: ! ! ! ! " ! ! " ;: ?',?85 oo the deposits and drafts, and the legal steps taken 



Commission on prison-labor 3,063 44 to recover for the State. A petition was filed in 



257 > 752 55 the Court of Chancery after the closure of the 



EDUCATIONAL. Dan ^ praying that the State's claim should be 



Normal School ... $15,000 oo satisfied before any other one could be al- 



nS^JiMlvfi!*?:-: $$* lowed - The Chancellor decided in the May 



Education 15,315 21 term of 1878 that the State did not possess the 



SSSiS'S^:::::';:::::::: 1^008 prerogative which the common i aw gives to 



cs,99l 45 the Crown, of a preference before all other 



PUBLICATION. creditors, which decision was affirmed by the 



Printing $47,789 60 Court of Errors and Appeals in November of 



Advertising 52,89040 fu p comp vpor A rlrnft wn marlp hv tlif> 



Preservation of records 1.50000 Jf 6 same ^ ear - ^ ^ ialt Was maU< r b ^ ie 



Binding 925 oo Treasurer against the balance in the bank be- 



103,055 00 f ore the failure, which was deposited with the 



MISCELLANEOUS. Trenton Banking Company for collection. The 



Riparian commission $11,00000 question whether the latter rendered itself 



TrzSs^? 8 !!!!!!:!:!!!:! Settle liable for the amount of the check > $?" 



Washington headquarters..'...!!.!'. 2',500 oo through negligence, is in litigation. The alle- 



Wrecks.. 1,471 eo gation of the interlocutors against the Treas- 



Smkmg-fund expenses 2,33148 ,, , , 



incidentals 2,236 65 ur er was that the bank, which had once before 



28,023 10 suspended payments, was known by him to be 



Total $1,007 379 34 i nn " rm > and that he had kept a balance of the 



public moneys in the bank, and had increased 



The estimates of expenditures for 1881 are it with new deposits, while the State was bor- 



for charitable and reformatory, $251,200.29; rowing money at interest to meet current obli- 



courts, crimes, etc., $270,000 ; State govern- gations, from partisan motives, in order to in- 



ment, $131,878.30; scientific, sanitary, etc., Suence local elections. 



$45,058.05; military, $65,000 ; education, $38,-' The State Agricultural College is incorpo- 



000; publication, $103,500; miscellaneous, rated with Rutgers Scientific School. Of the 



$25,363.36. Total, $1,020,000. The estimated forty free scholarships, all but five were filled 



revenue for the year is, including available in 1880. The graduates are fitted to engage in 



balance on hand, $1,304,860.90. So that, if engineering, manufacturing, fanning, and other 



no appropriations outside the ordinary expen- occupations requiring a high degree of knowl- 



ditures are made, there will probably be a bal- edge and training. The farm carried on in 



ance at the close of the year of $284,860.90. connection with the school serves as a model 



New Jersey has contracted no floating debt for farmers; and the experiments to be made 



during the year. The only funded debt is the there promise to be of considerable practical 



remaining portion of the war loan, amounting value to the farming interests. The Agricul- 



at the close of the year to $1,996,300, and at tural Experiment Station was established by 



the date of the Governor's message to $1,896,- the Legislature of 1879. It has done a credit- 



300. Under the present arrangements for the able amount of work already in the analysis of 



redemption of these bonds, they will cease in fertilizers, of samples of milk, feed, fodders, 



about ten years to be a charge upon the State and soils, and the investigation of some ques- 



fund, after which time at the latest the sinking tions of practical importance in agriculture, 



fund will be sufficient to extinguish the debt. The results of the researches are regularly dk 



A number of lots, thirty-two in all, of valuable seminated in bulletins, 

 real estate, have come into possession of the The Adjutant-General, W. S. Stryker, 



State through the foreclosure of mortgages ports 3,147 men and 260 officers as the force 



which secured loans, made as an investment of of the National Guard, an increase of 182. 



the moneys of the sinking fund during the They have greatly improved in proficiency in 



speculative period preceding the crisis of 1873. the use of the rifle. The same uniform has 



In order that the loss to the fund should be as been provided for the entire body nearly the 



