NEW JERSEY. 



by the Legislature of 1889, and which will ma- 

 terially reduce the amount applicable to pay- 

 ment of the temporary debt. The Governor 

 :n his message, in January, 1889: "The 

 restoration of the State Capitol and the addi- 

 tion to the Trenton asylum have made imper- 

 ative demands upon the treasury during the 

 last t\vo years, and the amounts paid tor these 

 purposes, as well as the appropriations and 

 payments for the Soldiers' Home. Gettysburg 

 Monuments. Reform and Industrial School, 

 Home for Feeble -Minded Women, and State 

 Prison improvements, all extraordinary ex- 

 penditures, have not only exhausted the annual 

 revenues for those years, but some of the an- 

 ticipated receipts of the next.'' 



Education. The amount raised by State tax 

 and appropriated to the public schools during 

 the year was $1.870.055, to which was added 

 the $100,000 annual appropriation from the 

 school fund, making an increase of $413,395 of 

 receipts over those of the preceding year. The 

 operation of the law of last winter, raising the 

 State school-tax from four to five dollars to each 

 child, has proved satisfactory. The amount of 

 township school-tax ordered to be raised was 

 '2.01. The amount received from the 

 interest of the surplus revenue fund was $32,- 

 OS4.49. The amount of district and city tax 

 for teachers' salaries was $474.293.45. The 

 total amount devoted during the year to the 

 maintenance of the schools was $2.525,424.95. 

 In addition to this amount $590,016.46 was or- 

 dered to be raised for building and repairing 

 school-houses. The school accommodation has 

 been increased, and the buildings improved ; 

 there were 30 new school-houses erected and 

 45 enlarged or remodeled. The total value of 

 the school property in the State is $7,837. 7'^. 

 an increase of $351.500 during the year. Nine 

 hundred schools have established libraries. 

 There were at the close of the school year 

 1,615 public schools, employing 4.121 teachers, 

 and giving instruction to 387.847 pupils. There 

 have been in attendance at the Normal School 

 during the school year ending in 1888, 241 

 pupils. The average attendance was 189. The 

 number graduated from the advance course, 

 22 : the number graduated from the elementary 

 course. 13; total graduates. 35. The whole 

 number in attendance at the Model School 

 during the year was 471, and the average at- 

 tendance. 39*0; graduates, 18. The attendance 

 at the Farnum School, Beverly, amounted to 

 139: the average attendance. 129. 



Charities. The number of patients under 

 treatment at the Trenton Insane Asylum dur- 

 ing the year was 905. and there remained there 

 on October 31, 761. The total amount of re- 

 ceipts, including balance on hand, Oct. 31, 

 1219,908.29. The amount disbursed 

 was $186,954.43. At the Morristown asylum 

 there were 1.111 parieiits. of whom 904 re- 

 mained on Oct. 31. 772 being public, and 131 

 private. The receipts for the year were $241.- 

 494.86, and the expenditures. $229.764.08. 



The Legislature at its session this year ap- 

 propriated $10,000 to the establishment of a 

 home for feeble-minded women, with an addi- 

 tional $2,000 for its maintenance. The man- 

 agers purchased a property in Vineland, and 

 report that they require additional accommo- 

 dation. 



There were under instruction at the School 

 for Deaf Mutes during the year 117 pupils, 

 with an average daily attendance of 96. The 

 amount expended in the maintenance of the 

 school has been for the fiscal year $26.1 >2 : for 

 improvements and repairs, $5,000. This school 

 is in that part of the city of Trenton which 

 was formerly Chambersburg, and consists of a 

 large building which was erected for other 

 purposes, and is not especially well adapted to 

 the use of this institution. 



The blind children who are supported at 

 the expense of the State are placed in institu- 

 tions in the city of New York and Philadel- 

 phia, 31 being in New York and 8 in Phila- 

 delphia. The amount paid during the year for 

 the former was $8,704.73 ; for the latter. *2.- 

 410.83. 



There have been 108 feeble-minded chil- 

 dren provided for by the State during the 

 year, 82 of these being at the Pennsylvania 

 Training-School for Feeble-minded Children at 

 Elwyn ; 5 at the Connecticut Institution for 

 Imbeciles, and 21 at the Educational Home for 

 Feeble-minded Children at Yineland, N. J. 

 The amount expended for the maintenance and 

 support of these children was $24.821.87. 



By the report of the managers of the Sol- 

 diers' Home, it appears that there were 367 in- 

 mates on Oct. 31, 1888. There were admitted 

 during the year, 266; discharged, 190; ex- 

 pelled, 11 ; died, 26. The average number of 

 inmates was 349 per day. Since the home 

 was opened there have been 15,318 inmates 

 cared for by the institution. The total receipts 

 for the year, including the balance on hand 

 Oct. 31, 1887, \\ ','.58. The expenses 



for the same time were $36.837.73. The bal- 

 ance on hand Oct. 31, 1888, $931.85. 



The commissioners appointed to erect a suit- 

 able home for the disabled soldiers, report that 

 their work has been substantially completed, 

 and that in October the inmates of the old 

 home were removed to their new quarters. 



Prisons. There were in confinement at the 

 State Prison on Oct. 31, 1888, 881 prisoners. 

 The total number during the year was 1,305, 

 and the daily average 874, of whom 835 were 

 males and 39 females. There was expended 

 for maintenance the sum of $67.000.76, and 

 the total expenditures were $151,048.81, a per 

 capita cost of 47-,^ cents per diem and $17_. V 2 

 per annum. The earnings for the year were 

 -.13. 



Concerning prison labor the Governor - 

 "The contracts made to put the piece-price 

 system in operation will expire during the year 

 1889. The supervisor reports that, in his opin- 

 ion, the trial of the system has not been en- 



