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during the same time were $82,017, leaving a 

 balance on hand of $88,198. The whole amount 

 of the "School fund," securely invested and 

 drawing interest, was, on the 30th of Novem- 

 ber, including the cash balance on that day, 

 $538,205. 



The receipts and expenditures of the " War 

 fund" during the fiscal year were $984,933. 

 The entire debt of the State on account of the 

 war, nearly all incurred for the payment of the 

 monthly bounty to discharged men and the 

 families of volunteers, was $2,818,119. Claims 

 of the State against the United States for 

 money advanced during the war, amounting to 

 about $800,000, when paid will reduce the entire 

 indebtedness of the State, all of which was in- 

 curred for war purposes, to about $2,000,000. 



The number of men mustered into the 

 United States service from this State during 

 the war, exclusive of the militia sent to 

 aid in the defence of Maryland and Penn- 

 sylvania in 1864, was 79,348 a total greater 

 than that of all the able-bodied men in 

 the State between the ages of eighteen and 

 forty-five at the commencement of the war 

 all of whom, with the exception of one regi- 

 ment, have been mustered out and discharged. 

 The amount paid by the State during the year 

 to soldiers honorably discharged, was $126,472, 

 and to families and dependent mothers $416,- 

 205, the total for these purposes from the be- 

 ginning of the war being $2,317,375. Besides 

 these amounts, an aggregate of more than 

 $2,300,000 was transmitted during the war by 

 soldiers in the field for the benefit of their 

 families in the State. The remains of seventy- 

 seven New Jersey soldiers were entombed at 

 the Gettysburg cemetery, the graves being 

 all regularly graded, headstones erected, the 

 avenues macadamized, and trees and shrubbery 

 planted. Measures having been taken for the 

 establishment of a similar cemetery at Antie- 

 tam, an agent was sent by the Governor of 

 New Jersey to visit all the battle-fields in 

 Maryland, and mark the graves of the New 

 Jersey dead, so that their remains might be 

 identified, with the view of reinterment at 

 Antietam. 



On the 23d of March the Legislature passed 

 an act incorporating the " Soldiers' Children's 

 Home " at Trenton, and on the 6th of April 

 an appropriation of $5,000 'was made in aid 

 of the institution. To this was added a 

 further sum of $8,000, donated by the "Dela- 

 ware and Raritan Canal " and the " Camden 

 and Amboy Railroad" Companies. "The 

 Home " is under the management of an associ- 

 ation of ladies, who have now under their care 

 forty-one homeless orphan children, all of 

 whom are clothed and instructed at the ex- 

 pense of the institution. From statistics of 

 orphanage returned to the Secretary of State, 

 it appeared that there were recently in the 

 State 1,805 orphan or half-orphan children of 

 soldiers or sailors, and that of this number 

 1,539 were under twelve years of age. An act 

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was also approved on the 23d of March to aa 

 thorize the establishment of a home for disabled 

 soldiers. 



The law passed at the session of the Legis- 

 lature in 1865, for the more effectual organization 

 of the militia of the State, has had the effect of 

 reducing it to a better state of discipline and 

 placing it in a more effective condition than at 

 any former period. Several new companies 

 were added to the rifle corps during the year, 

 so that that organization now includes nearly 

 2,000 rank and file, well armed and equipped, 

 and ready to be concentrated for active service 

 at any point within the State at a few hours' 

 notice. 



The interest of the people in the cause of 

 education is steadily increasing, and the amount 

 of money raised and appropriated for the main- 

 tenance of public schools was larger than in 

 any previous year, being $704,694, an increase 

 of $67,614 over the expenditures for 1864. The 

 number of children attending the public schools 

 during the year was larger than in 1864. In 

 compliance with an act passed by the Legisla- 

 ture on the 2d of February, the Governor pur- 

 chased for the State the Model and Normal 

 School buildings at Trenton, as well as the land, 

 library, and other property connected with 

 them, and the Normal School became one of 

 the permanent institutions of the State. The 

 number of pupils under instruction during the 

 year, in these schools and in the Farnum Pre- 

 paratory School at Beverly, was as follows : 



Males. Females. Total. 



KormalSchool 11 114 125 



Model School 203 102 865 



Farnum Preparatory School 112 125 237 



Total. 



326 401 727 



The " College for the Benefit of Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts," organized in conform- 

 ity with the act of Congress of July 2, 1862, 

 donating public lands to provide colleges of 

 this class in the several States, went into oper- 

 ation in September, by the opening of a Scien- 

 tific School in connection with Rutgers College 

 at New Brunswick. The course of instruction 

 includes civil engineering, mechanics, chemis- 

 try, the theory and practice of agriculture, 

 modern languages, and military tactics. Gov- 

 ernor Parker, in his third annual message, says : 



The farm attached to the institution has, during 

 the past year, been greatly improved by under- 

 draining, fencing, and the use of fertilizers. All the 

 cleared land not in meadow, has been ploughed and 

 prepared for cropping. The price originally paid 

 for the tract, containing one hundred acres, was fif- 

 teen thousand dollars, and the improvements since 

 made have cost more than three thousand dollars. 

 The President of the Board of Trustees has given 

 assurance that this farm shall be made all that the 

 warmest friends of scientific agriculture can desire. 

 Special attention will be paid to market gardening 

 and the cultivation of fruits. The best implement 

 of husbandry will be used, the most approved meth- 

 ods of culture adopted, and each pupil instructed 

 to keep a full account of all experiments, with ex- 

 penses and income. 



Under the provisions of an " act to establish 



