NEW YORK. 



611 



expressing sympathy with and gratitude to tho 

 soldiers, insisting on the full payment of tho 

 promised Government bounty, opposing mili- 

 tary arrests, favoring freedom of elections and 

 the restoration of the habeas corpus, and severe- 

 ly criticising the management of the national 

 debt. 



The election took place on November 6th 

 with the following results : 



Governor. Number of Vote*. 



Marcus L. Ward, Republican 67,522 



Gen. Theodore Runy on, Democrat W,731 



Majority for Ward 2,791 



The Legislature chosen at this election stood : 



Senate. 



Republicans 11 



Democrats 10 



80 



24 



Joint ['.allot. 



47 

 84 



Republican majority 1 12 13 



NEW YORK. The great wealth and re- 

 sources of the Empire State were strikingly 

 manifested in its uninterrupted and increasing 

 prosperity, notwithstanding the heavy burdens 

 entailed upon it by the late war. The soldiers 

 furnished to the General Government by this 

 State alone were sufficiently numerous for mili- 

 tary operations on a great scale. The total num- 

 ber whose term of service varied from three 

 months to three years was 457,456 ; to which 

 must be added 15,987 militiamen mustered for 

 a less term of service than three months, making 

 a grand total of 473,443 men. The total num- 

 ber of years' service supplied by the State since 

 the commencement of the war was 1,148,604 

 years, equal to 382,868 three years' men. Of 

 these there remained in the service of the 

 United States at the end of the year, only seven 

 regiments of infantry and two of cavalry. 

 The total sum disbursed by the State for boun- 

 ties from July 17, 1862, to January 1, 1866, 

 was $35,088,999. 



The organizations of the National Guard as 

 they existed at the close of the year, including 

 officers and men of all arms, were of an aggre- 

 gate strength of 49,906 men, of whom 31,170 

 were fully armed, equipped, and uniformed. 

 The amount expended out of the sum appro- 

 priated by the last Legislature for the purchase 

 of arms, accoutrements, and uniforms, for the 

 National Guard, was $216,651, the total pay- 

 ments having been, according to the Comp- 

 troller's report, $643,359, or one-half as much 

 as the entire amount of the other ordinary ex- 

 penses of the State Government. 



The number of men furnished by the city of 

 New York during the war was, according to the 

 report of the chairman of the Board of Super- 

 visors, 116,382, for terms of one, two, three, 

 and four years, the total number of years' ser- 

 vice being 267,551. The average cost per man 

 under each call was for bounties, $80.06 ; for 

 bounties and hand-money, $84.81 ; for bounties 

 and hand-money and expenses connected and 

 not connected with bounties, including ex- 

 penses for the family relief fund, $150.47. 



The Legislature at its session in 1865 author- 

 ized the erection of a fire-proof edifice, to be 



called the " Hall of Military Record," as a re- 

 pository for the records of the war, and for 

 the collections of the Bureau of Military Sta- 

 tistics, provided 1 the sum of $75,000 should be 

 voluntarily contributed for the puq>ose. The 

 authorities of the city of Albany offered an 

 appropriate site, and contributions were made 

 by the people of various sections of the State 

 for the erection of the building. This institution 

 it is hoped will secure the careful preservation 

 of the records of the military services pf indi- 

 viduals and of regiments, and of the part taken 

 by the counties, cities, and towns, in raising 

 troops, and at the same time afford a safe place 

 for the deposit and display of flags, trophies, 

 and other objects of military interest, belonging 

 to the collection of the State, as well as for the 

 preservation and convenient use of newspapers, 

 books, pamphlets, and other papers belonging 

 to the Bureau of Military Record, which al- 

 ready has in its custody eight hundred battle- 

 flags of regiments, batteries, and ships, besides 

 numerous relics from all the great battle-fields 

 of the late war. 



The receipts into the treasury during the fis- 

 cal year ending September 30, 1865, on ac- 

 count of all funds except the canal fund, were 

 $16,273,666 ; the payments on account of all 

 the funds except the canal fund were $16,183,- 

 096,. leaving a balance in the treasury at the 

 end of the fiscal year, of $90,570. The receipts 

 on account of the general fund revenue from 

 all sources, were $11,912,936 ; the payments, 

 including the deficiency from the previous year, 

 were $13,092,330, leaving a deficiency on the 

 30th of September, 1865, of $1,179,394. This 

 was owing to the fact that the sum of $2,667,- 

 437, taxes due from the city of New York, was 

 not collected till the fall, which, if it had been 

 paid before the end of the fiscal year, would 

 have made the balance in the treasury $2,758,- 

 007; and instead of a deficiency in the general 

 fund, there would have been a surplus of 

 $1,448,043. 



The funded debt of the State on the 30th of 

 September, 1860, including the canal and gen- 

 eral fund debts, was $33,612,976; on the 30th 

 of September, 1865, it was, not including the 

 county debt, $25,475,540, showing a diminu- 

 tion of the debt as it existed before the war, of 

 $8,137,436. The State would within a very 

 few years have been entirely free from debt, 

 but for the large bounty loan made during 1 865 ; 

 the certificates on account of which issued up 

 to the 10th of December, amounted to the sum 

 of $25,566,000, the canal and general find debts 

 added to which made the total debt of tho 

 State on the 10th of December, 1865, $51,041,- 

 540. The direct tax levied during the year was 

 4 f mills : of a mill for. schools, 2^ mills for 

 general purposes, and 1 f *- of a mill for canals. 



During the fiscal year the receipts on account 

 of the canals from tolls and other sources wore 

 $3,577,465, and the payments $1,927,374, leav- 

 ing a surplus revenue of $1,650,091 to be paid 

 into the sinking fund. A comparison of the 



