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NEW JERSEY. 



Education. The school census of 1890 shows 

 the number of children in the State between the 

 ages of five and eighteen years to be 409.762, an 

 increase of 10,710 over the previous year. Of 

 this number, there were enrolled in the public 

 schools 234,072, an increase of 6,631. The num- 

 ber of children attending private schools was 

 47.269, an increase of 1,504. The number of 

 children that do not attend any school is esti- 

 mated at over 100,000. 



The following are some of the principal ex- 

 penditures during the school year ending Aug. 

 31, 1890: Teachers' salaries, $2",227,131.68 ; fuel, 

 $111.388.52; building, repairing, and furnish- 

 ing school-houses. $593,083.73 ; janitors' salaries, 

 books, stationery, taking school census, and ex- 

 penses, $341,618.20. The total value of ordinary 

 school property was $8,629,493 ; the estimated 

 value of State. Normal, and Model schools, 

 boarding houses, and furniture, $300,000; and 

 the estimated value of Deaf Mute School and 

 furniture, $100.000. 



There are 4,464 teachers in the public schools, 

 of whom 822 are males, receiving an average sal- 

 ary of $76.02 per month, and 3.642 are females, 

 receiving an average salary of $43.82 per month. 



The total amount expended for all school pur- 

 poses during the year was $3,502,976.81. 



During the year 266 pupils were in attendance 

 at the Normal School. The number graduated 

 from the advanced course was 11 ; the number 

 graduated from the elementary course was 46. 



Charities. At the Morristown Insane Asy- 

 lum 1,070 patients were cared for during the last 

 fiscal year, of whom 539 were males and 531 

 females. During the year 182 patients were dis- 

 charged, leaving 888 remaining on Oct. 31. The 

 daily average was 868. The receipts for main- 

 taining the institution amounted to $243,583.09 ; 

 the expenditures were $231,894.15, leaving a bal- 

 ance Oct. 31 of $11,688.94. 



At the Trenton Insane Asylum there were 955 

 patients under treatment, 481 males and 474 fe- 

 males. There were 168 discharged during the 

 year, leaving 787 remaining on Oct. 31. The 

 daily average was 774. The receipts, including 

 the balance on hand Oct. 31, 1889, amounted to 

 $205,844.83; the amount disbursed was $191,- 

 043.34; leaving a balance Oct. 31, 1890, of $14,- 

 801.49. 



In the School for Deaf Mutes there were 119 

 pupils at the end of the fiscal year, an increase 

 of 14 over the previous year. The amount paid 

 for salaries of officers and teachers and all pur- 

 poses connected with the tuition and mainte- 

 nance of the inmates was $38.212. 



Soldiers' Home. There were 463 inmates at 

 the home on Oct. 31, an increase of 32 over the 

 number at the same date last year. There were 

 admitted during the year 428, and discharged, 

 396. The average number was 450. The re- 

 ceipts for the year amounted to $57,736.84, of 

 which $914 was on hand at the time of the last 

 report. The disbursements amounted to $56,- 

 723.11, leaving a balance at the end of the year 

 of $1.013.73. 



Prisons. The daily average number of pris- 

 oners confined in the Stare Prison during the last 

 fiscal year was 973, of whom 940 were males and 

 33 females. This is an average of 8 over the 

 daily average of the previous year. There are 



accommodations for only 706 prisoners, and the 

 provisions of the law requiring separate confine- 

 ment for each criminal are necessarily violated. 

 The Legislature of 1890 appropriated $100,000 

 for an additional wing to the prison and hospital, 

 and also $500 to purchase a library. There was 

 also appropriated in the act approved April 7, 

 1888, for drainage and water supply, $30,000, 

 making a total of $130,500 appropriated. The 

 condition of the State treasury has not permitted 

 the expenditures authorized by these acts. The 

 expenses for the fiscal year were $158.901.39, and 

 the earnings of prisoners were $61,082.64, leav- 

 ing a deficit of $97,878.75, which was supplied 

 from the State treasury. 



At the State Reform School there were 372 

 boys on Oct. 31, 1889 : 163 were received during 

 the year ensuing; 189 were discharged; and 346 

 remained on Oct. 31, 1890. There was received 

 for maintenance during the year the sum of 

 $50.849.61, and from sales of produce and other 

 sources $6,873.83, making a total of $57,723.44. 

 The expenses were $53.962.38. 



At the State Industrial School for Girls, on 

 Oct. 31, there were 63 inmates, and 16 were un- 

 der indenture. The total receipts were $10,083.- 

 82. and the expenditures $9,610.24. 



Militia. The National Guard consists of 325 

 officers and 3,895 enlisted men. There are 57 

 companies of infantry and 2 Gatling gun com- 

 panies. The expenses for the last fiscal year were 

 $91.502.78, being about $17.000 less than the ex- 

 penses for 1888. The range for rifle practice 

 was opened at Sea Girt July 15, 1890, and prac- 

 tice continued to and including Sept. 1, 1890. In 

 1889 there were 511 marksmen ; in 1890, 804. 



Riparian Commissioners. The grants in 

 fee made by the commissioners during the year 

 ending Oct. 31 amounted to $55,616.25,* the 

 leases converted into grants to $357.240.40, and 

 the rentals on leases heretofore made to $104,821.- 

 11, making the total cash received during the 

 year from these sources $517,677.76. The com- 

 mission, with the Governor, has visited person- 

 ally the shore fronts of the counties of Bergen, 

 Hudson. Essex. Union, Middlesex and Mou- 

 rn out h during the year for the purpose of ascer- 

 taining and determining prices which should be 

 obtained by the State for its lands under water, 

 and they have, in almost every case, advanced 

 the prices. 



Agriculture. On Jan. 29, 1890, the Governor, 

 urged by complaints of the farmers, requested 

 the State Board of Agriculture to appoint a 

 committee to co-operate with him and a com- 

 mittee to be appointed by the Legislature to in- 

 vestigate the present depressed condition of this 

 industry. The State Board responded by ap- 

 pointing a committee of one from each congres- 

 sional district. After conferences, it was decid- 

 ed to request the county boards, granges, and 

 other agricultural organizations throughout the 

 State, to hold special meetings for the consider- 

 ation of certain questions, which were formulated 

 by the committee, the Secretary of the State 

 board, and the Governor. The replies to these 

 questions developed the fact that farm lands had 

 depreciated about 40 per cent, in the past twenty 

 years, that they are now valued too high for pur- 

 poses of taxation, and that the fanners are suf- 

 fering from unjust discriminations in freight 



