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NEW YORK. 



Amount of floating debt 11,670,270 



Amount of funded and floating debt 70,788,254 



Total cost of construction and equipment of roads 145,186,963 



Total cost excluding city roads 136,559,727 



Length of roads tn miles 3,319 



' jaid 2,800 



" in operation, <fcc., ex- 

 cluding city roads 2,700 



Miles run by passenger trains . . 10,850,907 



" ' city 6,448,777 



Total 17,299,684 



Number of passengers of all classes carried in 



cars. . . . 59,690,601 



Same, excluding city cars 12,870,455 



Number of miles travelled by passengers, city 



roads not included 844,380,369 



Miles run by freight trains 9.596,696 



Number of tons carried 6,506,183 



Total earnings $29,507,180 



Of city roads 2,844,051 



Total payments, including dividends, amount to 



surplus funds, Ac. 26,221,180 



Of which city roads . '. 2,431,007 



Number of passengers killed 22 



Of which on city roads 



Number of passengers injured 45 



Of which by city roads 



Number of employed killed 61 



Others than employes and passengers killed .... 80 



u " " " injured... 42 



Total killed (city roads, 12) 153 



* injured (city roads, 31) 115 



Average cost per mile of road and equipment, 



excluding city roads $50,396 04 



Do. of single track 82,386 52 



Of the 82 companies 26 are passenger roads 



employing horse power only. Seven of these, 

 being Buffalo, Syracuse, Brooklyn, and Troy 

 roads, are formed under the general law and 



are therefore not required to report to the State 

 engineer. The business of the two Grand 

 Trunk roads for the year was comparatively as 

 follows : 



The gain on the Erie in freight is very large, 

 and in both roads the aggregate for the year is 

 25 per cent, in excess of the previous year, 

 showing not only the effect of the war in send- 

 ing produce East, but also the large share 

 which New York gets of the business. 



A report of a Senate committee on the manu- 

 facture of salt, states that, allowing nothing for 

 the use of the salt works, which are private 

 property, nor for the lands on which the salt 

 works stand, the wells, pump-houses, machin- 

 ery, aqueducts, &c., all of which belong to the 

 State, the cost of producing salt did not ex- 

 ceed 11 cents per bushel for fine or boiled, and 

 5 cents per bushel for coarse or solar. 



The amount of salt inspected was 5,315,694 

 bushels of fine, and 1,884,697 bushels of coarse, 

 making 7,200,391 bushels, producing, at 19 

 cents per bushel, $1,368,074.29, the cost of 

 which was, for 5,315,694 bushels fine at 

 Hi cents, $606,304.81 ; for 1,884,697 bushels 

 coarse at 5 cents, $94,234.70. Total, $700,539. 

 51 . Showing that it sold for $667,534.78 more 



than it cost to produce it, leaving out of the 

 estimate all compensation for the use of the 

 property, public or private, which contributed 

 to its production. 



The State of New York continued its gigan- 

 tic exertions in support of the Federal Govern- 

 ment and appropriated men and money with a 

 lavish hand. It sent 120 regiments into the 

 field in 1862, when th.e President made two 

 successive calls, one for 300,000 men for the 

 war, and the other for 300,000 men for nine 

 months. New York offered and paid a bounty 

 of $50 per head to each volunteer, and the 

 disbursements for 73,000 men amounted to 

 $3,650,000. carrying the State war expenditure 

 to nearly $10,000,000, making with town and 

 county subscriptions fully $20,000,000, paid by 

 the people of the State of New York for boun- 

 ties and for the support of the families of the 

 troops. The entire number of regiments sent 

 to the field was as follows : 



23 infantry regiments, S months 15,838 



88 " " 2years 80,131 



123 " " 8 years 112,411 



Eecruits for old regiments 29,690188,070 



11 cavalry regiments, 1 battalion 9,642 



Artillery: 5 regiments, 6 battalions, 13 batteries 9.679 



Engineers : 1 regiment 855 



Eicketts' battalion 168 



Total 208.409 



Eecruits in the State 10,650 



Total 219,059 



The recruits niade for the regular army and 

 for the regiments of other States may raise 

 these figures to 225,000 men. Of the regiments 

 raised, about 70 had their headquarters in New 

 York City. 



The Legislature passed a militia law, to en- 

 rol the citizens of the State, under State officers 

 in accordance with the Federal Constitution. 

 So far as it relates to the enrolment of persons 

 subject to military duty, it differs but little from 

 the old law. All persons in the army or navy 

 or volunteer force of the United States, minis- 

 ters of the Gospel, public officers and their offi- 

 cial employes, Shakers and Quakers, profes- 

 sors, teachers and pupils in all institutions of 

 education, firemen, and all persons who are by 

 laws of the State or United States exempt from 

 military duty, are exempted by this bill. So 

 are all idiots, lunatics, paupers, habitual drunk- 

 ards and persons convicted of infamous crimes. 

 All other white male citizens shall be enrolled 

 at least once in two years, by the command- 

 ant of the company district. Such enrol- 

 ment shall be divided into two reserves. The 

 first reserve comprises all white males between 

 the ages of 18 and 30 years. The second re- 

 serve all between the ages of 30 and 45. This 

 force, as enrolled, constitutes the reserve mili- 

 tia of the State. 



There must be an annual inspection ; fine for 

 absence, $1. The bill provides for the organi- 

 zation of a national guard. This includes the 

 present uniformed militia of the State, and all 

 volunteer companies that shall hereafter be or- 

 ganized in the several company districts of the 



