UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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ance from 1900, were $5,832,033.45; disbursements, 

 $3,480,350.28; balance, $2,351,083.17. The receipts 

 of the school fund, including a balance from 1900, 

 were $759,080.87; disbursements, $(545,843.88; 

 balance, $113,830.99. The receipts from the State 

 school tax were $2,317,825; disbursements, $2,317,- 



825. The receipts 

 of the Agricul- 

 tural College fund 

 were $4,080, and 

 the disbursements 

 the same. The local 

 tax on railroad 

 corporations (re- 

 ceived and dis- 

 bursed) was $405,- 

 589.85. 



The principal dis- 

 bursements were : 

 Adjutant - Gener- 

 al's department, 

 $10,496.34; Agri- 

 cultural Experi- 

 ment Station, 

 $19,000; Attorney- 

 General's depart- 



FBANKLIN MURPHY, ment, $12,734.73; 



GOVERNOR or NEW JERSEY. blind and feeble- 

 minded, $78,554.- 



14; Board of Fish and Game Commissioners, 

 .$24,000; Bureau of Statistics, $9,995.12; col- 

 lateral inheritance tax, $14,943.21; county lunatic 

 asylums, $198,431.63; Court of Chancery, $76,- 

 823.37; Court of Errors and Appeals, $11,891.90; 

 deaf-mutes, $43,000; banking and insurance, $31,- 

 546.81; emergency, $16,988.30; executive depart- 

 ment, $15,230.40; geological survey, $13,000; 

 Home for Disabled Soldiers, $37,200; industrial 

 education, $43,000; inauguration of the President 

 of the United States, $10,000; law and equity 

 reports, $10,438.76; Legislature, $88,169.24; loans 

 to school fund, $194,000; National Guard, $106,- 

 S41.74; Naval Reserve, $14,543.47; Newark ar- 

 mory, $50,000; New Jersey Home for Disabled 

 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, etc., $15,198.61; New 

 Jersey Reformatory, $43,267.13; office of clerk in 

 Chancery, $33,679.33; office of clerk of the Su- 

 preme Court, $22,937.37; office of the Comptroller, 

 $13,982.17; 'office of the Secretary of State, $30,- 

 411.52; office of the Treasurer, $13,407.23; Pan- 

 American Exposition, $27,500; printing, $41,699.- 

 94; public roads, $155,605; Quartermaster-Gener- 

 al's department, $12,089.86; Riparian Commission, 

 $12,477.58; State Board of Assessors, $23,382.11; 

 State Board of Health, $15,737.68; State Board 

 of Taxation, $14,568.78; State Dairy Commission- 

 er, $13,000; State Home for Boys, $61,195.61; 

 State Home for Girls, $38,464.83; State Hospital, 

 at Trenton, $78,409.34; State Hospital at Morris 

 Plains, $135,705.46; State-House Building Com- 

 mission, $50,000; State-House Commission, $54,- 

 999.65; State-House Commission " Special," $14,- 

 255.16; State Normal School, $51,997.83; State 

 Oyster Commission (Delaware Bay, etc.), $17,- 

 155.42; State Prison maintenance, $89,974.08; 

 State Prison furniture, etc., $11,670.40; State 

 Prison salaries, $99,795.29; State school tax, 

 $800,588.25; Supreme Court, $107,248.84; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, $12,498.75; Tuber- 

 culosis Commission, $10,490.95; Village for Epi- 

 leptics, $63,886. 



The report of the Comptroller for the fiscal 

 year ending Oct. 31, 1901, shows a cash balance 

 in the treasury of $2,351,683.17, the largest in the 

 history of the State. 



Corporation taxes for the year, amounting to 

 $800,588.25, appropriated from the surplus of the 



lol lax by about one- 



>i i IIP S(;i.|<; Hoard ot 

 >w.-> an in- 

 <-r that of 

 io\v a j.'airi 



I imlcrdon, 



State fund, reduced tin- 

 third. 



Valuation. The x i 

 Taxation, presented in 

 crease in the total Stair valuation 

 1900 of $27,181,450. Sixteen - 

 and 5 a slight loss. The couu 

 crease were Burlington, CumlM-rhni'i 

 Salem, and Warren. 



The total tax exemptions for tin year wen- 

 $108,700,000, against $104,000,000 in J'.HHJ. 



Education. The apportionment of ~<:hoo! 

 moneys by the State Board of Education for 

 1901-1902 distributed among the counties $2 .12U - 

 781.61. 



The report of the State schools for the year 

 shows a slight increase in the enrolment of the 

 Normal School, at Trenton; 270 new student* 

 Avere received, and the limited accommodations 

 prevented the admission of a larger number. The 

 number of students enrolled in the year was 645, 

 and 177 were graduated. The entire enrolment 

 in September for the Normal and Model Schools 

 was about 1,200, the Normal having its full com- 

 plement and the Model a larger number than in 

 former years. Changes have been made in the 

 normal course, allowing a greater number of elect- 

 ive studies. The buildings of the Normal and 

 Model Schools were thoroughly renovated this 

 year. 



At Trenton a new high school was dedicated 

 in April, capable of accommodating 800 pupils. 

 The cost of the lot and building was more than 

 $138,000. 



An amendment of section 14 of the rules and 

 regulations relating to the indorsement of certifi- 

 cates from other States w T as made by the State 

 Board of Education in December, 1901, which 

 requires two years of satisfactory teaching in 

 New Jersey as a condition of such indorsement. 



There were 6 graduates at the School for the 

 Deaf in June. The building and grounds have 

 been much improved. The average attendance 

 for the year was 135. 



State Institutions. A new and commodious 

 building, of modern design, was dedicated at the 

 State Home for Girls in October, 1901. It con- 

 tains quarters for the administration, and sepa- 

 rate rooms for 60 to 100 girls. The underground 

 dungeons formerly used here have been torn 

 down, strait- jackets and straps abolished, other 

 means of punishment modified, and moral influ- 

 ence more firmly established in the discipline. A 

 report for the last year showed that all the 125 

 inmates were on the honor roll, and that not an 

 escape had been made for a year and a half. 

 These improvements have followed upon the exe- 

 cution of the new law for the government of the 

 home passed by the last Legislature. 



The annual report of the Board of Managers 

 of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Trenton, 

 submitted in December last, refers to the investi- 

 gation of the hospital during the previous sum- 

 mer, and says : " The visits to the hospital by 

 the board during the year, and the examinations 

 of the conditions of the patients and of the build- 

 ings and grounds, demonstrate the untiring ef- 

 forts both of the medical director and warden 

 to promote the comfort of the patients, and the 

 members desire to express their appreciation of 

 the manner in which these officers have performed 

 their duties. There were under treatment in the 

 hospital last year 1,371 patients, 245 having been 

 received during the year. Ninety-three patients 

 were discharged as recovered, 23 as improved, 9 

 as unimproved, 90 died, 1 escaped, and i 

 removed to other institutions, leaving at the close 



