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lie Instruction. Amado Chavez : Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Thomas Sinitli: Associate Ill- 

 s'. C. Collier, N. B. Laughlin. G. I). Bant/. II. 

 B. Hamilton: Clerk, George L. Wyllys. 



Finances. The following statement, taken from 

 the report of the Governor, dated Sept. 02. IMHi. 

 shows the collections and expenditures from Sept. 

 2. l-!i5. to Aug. -'!. 1S90: Cash on hand Sept. 2. 

 1895, $105,971.03 : received from taxes. sl94,778.ii3 : 

 from fees paid by district clerks, $8,043.58 ; from 

 cattle sanitary board. s 14.000: from interest on 

 deposit >. $2,023.89; from Penitentiary. sO.079.99; 

 from insurance licen-es. si. 1-17.50; from Pullman 

 Palace Car Companv. $93.<>5 : from district attor- 

 ney. $1.880.25: total receipts, s:;:',4.n 17.97. The 

 warrants and coupons paid amounted to $265,195.15, 

 making the cash on hand Aug. 2H. \^W. $88,822.82. 



On Jan. 1. 1895. the bonded debt of the Territory 

 araounted to 909.500. The Legislature of 1895 

 provided for issuing bonds to the Territorial insti- 

 tutions to the amount of $80,000, and for the issue 

 7o,000 of bonds to rebuild the Capitol : but 

 these bonds have not been delivered except to the 

 normal schools to complete. their buildings, for the 

 reason that the Territory had reached its limit of 

 indebtediit --. 



Appropriations. The appropriations made by 

 Congress for the Territorial Government of Xew 

 Mexico for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897. in- 

 clude 20,400 for the executive and judiciary and 

 "10 for legislative expenses. An appropriation 

 of s2.000 was made " for repairs of the adobe pal- 

 ace at Santa Fe." It was provided that hereafter 

 the Legislature shall meet on the third Monday in 

 January of every odd-numbered year, and the num- 

 ber of officers of each house was limited to 7. in- 

 cluding a translator and an interpreter. In addition 

 to these, the last Legislature employed 23 minor 

 officers in the Council and 30 in the House. 



Valuation and Taxation. The total assessed 

 valuation of the real and personal property for 

 1895 was $43.178.280.17. an increase during the 

 year of $2.049.659.22. The exemptions amounted 

 to s2.6i.iO.232.50. and upon the remaining $40,518,- 

 047.67 the tax of 7 - 75 mills on the dollar produced 

 $314,014.87. The tax of half a mill on the assessed 

 valuation of cattle produced $2,305.68. 



Immigration. The extension during the year 

 of the Pecos Valley Railway 75 miles, to the head 

 of the valley, has resulted in the settlement of the 

 town of Hagerman, which, although not a year old, 

 has several business houses, a good school building, 

 a newspaper, and settlers on many thousands of 

 acres, the average size of each holding supporting a 

 family being 40 acres. 



Court of Private Claims. In this court only 4 

 cases were tried and determined during the year. 

 and 163 are still pending. In January the United 

 States grand jury returned 5 indictments against 

 James Addison Peralta-Reavis, who fraudulently 

 claimed over 12,000.000 acres in Arizona and New 

 Mexico ; his conviction of conspiracy to defraud 

 the Government followed, and in July he was sen- 

 tenced to two years in the Penitentiary and to pay 

 a fine of $5.000 Seven tenths of New Mexico is still 

 public land. 



Education. During the school year ending Oct. 

 1, 1895, the number of district and city schools 

 open in the Territory was 499, with 594 teachers, an 

 enrollment of 24.220. and an average attendance of 

 15.964. The number of children of school age was 

 48.733. For teachers' salaries. S128.7si.s3 was paid : 

 for rent, fuel, etc., $24.496.13 : for schoolhouses and 

 grounds. $20.642.23. The average cost for each pu- 

 pil in the district schools during the four months 

 they were open was $9.22 ; in the city schools, which 

 were open eight months, the cost was $24.42. The 



actual receipts for school purposes were $219,876.39, 

 to which must be added the balance on hand 1 1. . 



- ls.ln7.H-J: the total expenditure i 

 S225.02-J.s5. of which amount $54. < i7ti.?i I waa dis- 

 bursed on account of the 5 Territorial institutions 

 of learning. 



The university enrolled 93 students: the C< 

 of Agriculture, 161; the Normal School, at Silver 

 City. 73. The Asylum for the Deaf. Dumb, and 

 Blind had under instruction during the year 11 

 deaf and 5 blind pupils. On July 2 the Kainona 

 Indian School, at Santa Fe, was consolidated with 

 the Government Indian School, whose pupils num- 

 bered 200. 



Charities. The crowded condition of the In- 

 sane Asylum remains unchanged, as the proposed 

 issue of S35.000 of bonds to erect additional build- 

 ings has not yet been approved by Congress. The 

 balance to the credit of this institution Sept. 2. 

 1895. wa> $7.534.31 ; the expenditures amounted to 

 sl4.426.10: and the balance Aug. 29. 1896, was 

 $3,324.56. The aid granted to the other hospitals 

 is sufficient. St. Vincent Sanitarium was destroyed 

 by fire on June 14, but it is being rebuilt. 



Penitentiary. There were in the Penitentiary 

 June 30,1895. 191 prisoners. Ids were received dur- 

 ing the year, and there remained in prison June 

 30, 1896, 207, being an increase of 16 prisoners 

 over the number confined on the same day last 

 year. The daily cost of maintenance averaged 39'56 

 cents each, an increase of 0'72 of a cent. A large 

 and efficient electric-light plant has been established 

 in the prison and is operated entirely by convict 

 labor. 



Militia. To the effective militia of the Terri- 

 tory, which at the beginning of the year consisted 

 of 5 companies of infantry and 3 troops of cavalry, 

 2 strong troops of cavalry and 1 Gatling-gun com- 

 pany have been added. 



Coal Output. During the fiscal year 1.430 men 

 were employed in mining 666.619 tons of coal, the 

 estimated value of which was $1. 046.400. 



Farm Animals. The United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture gives as the number and value 

 of farm animals in New Mexico in 1896: Horses, 

 83,862. valued at $1,398.569; mules, 3.747, value 

 $129,850: milch cows. 18.383, value $422.809; oxen 

 and other cattle, 793.506, value $8,056,069 ; sheep, 

 2.7:^.030, value $2.732.554: swine. 31.787. value 

 $178.898: total value $12.918.749. 



Political. The first Territorial convention was 

 held by the Republicans at Las Vegas early in 

 June, when delegates to the national convention 

 were selected. On Sept. 26 they met again in the 

 same place and renominated Thomas B. Catron for 

 Delegate to Congress. A platform was adopted 

 which wanted artesian wells sunk at Government 

 expense: declared that the Republican party stands 

 for the nationality of the American Government ; 

 demanded New Mexico's admission as a State; and 

 commended Delegate Catron "for his able efforts in 

 behalf of the admission of Xew Mexico as a State. 

 and other interests beneficial to the people of our 

 Territory." It also declared: "We are in favor of 

 international bimetallism as a final and desirable 

 settlement of the money question. We believe it 

 to be the duty of the United States to coin free of 

 charge the product of its gold and silver mines so 

 long as the equality of the dollars coined can be 

 preserved." 



On June 15. at Las Vegas, the Democrats met in 

 convention, selected delegates to the national con- 

 vention, and adopted resolutions declaring in favor 

 of an income tax ; in favor of a tariff for revenue : 

 "in favor of taxing those articles that will be in 

 the interest of the masses of the people without 

 danger of fostering monopolies " ; approving Rich- 



