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NEW JERSEY. 



will be held in March, 1867. The present mem- 

 bers are all Republicans. 



NEW JERSEY. The receipts from all sources 

 into the treasury of this State during 1866 were 

 $449,421, and the actual disbursements, $619,- 

 336. The deficiency of $169,914 was met by 

 the payment of certain sums to the State. The 

 transit duties paid by the railroad companies 

 were $87,658 less than during the previous year, 

 while those of the Delaware and Raritan Canal 

 increased $33,893. The indebtedness of the 

 State consists of the war debt, which is repre- 

 sented by bonds amounting to $3,305,200. 

 There are registered in the adjutant-general's 

 office the names of 3,358 naval recruits, and 

 2,516 colored troops still in the service of the 

 United States. The sum of $777,516 is due to 

 the State by the United States for advances 

 made to fit out troops. The indebtedness in- 

 curred in the several counties, towns, and cities 

 of the State for bounties, excepting several 

 townships not yet reported, amounts to $23,- 

 417,988. An act was passed by the Legisla- 

 ture at the beginning of the year to create a 

 Board of Education. This board commenced 

 its duties by codifying the various school laws 

 of the State with such additions as experience 

 had proved" to be advantageous in other States. 

 The income of the school fund from all sources 

 in 1865 was $79,146. Of this sum the banks 

 of the State paid $40,833. All of these insti- 

 tutions, excepting nine, have organized under 

 the national law or surrendered their charters, 

 and the amount from this source to the school 

 fund, in 1866, was only 6,000. The State, 

 however, appropriated $40,000, and the school 

 fund contributed also $40,000. The amount 

 of money raised by local tax for schools was 

 $506,662, and the total amount appropriated 

 for educational purposes was $746,794. The 

 number of public schools in the State is 1972. 

 The number of children in the State between 

 five and eighteen years of age is 197,456, while 

 the number who have attended school for the 

 year was 37,950, and the number who have not 

 attended school at all was 39,557. The Nor- 

 mal School has 151 pupils. 



The College of New Jersey shows a consid- 

 erable degree of prosperity. The number of 

 students was 238, of whom 86 were from New 

 Jersey, 45 from Pennsylvania, 38 from Mary- 

 land, 17 from Delaware, and the remainder 

 from 14 States. 



The apparatus of the college has been greatly 

 enlarged and improved by the purchase of Dr. 

 Torrey's chemical instruments and materials, 

 besides a well-selected mineralogical cabinet, 

 and specimens of natural history, fossils, &c. 

 These latter include over 5,000 specimens of 

 Alpine rocks, presented by Professor Guyot; 

 300 species of fossils collected in the State of 

 New York, and nearly a thousand specimens, 

 with numerous casts of large and rare reptiles. 

 The libraries altogether include 24,000 vol- 

 umes. A fund of $10,000 having been given 

 }y Gen. N. Norris Halsted, for the purpose 



of building an astronomical observatory, the 

 trustees have purchased a site for the building, 

 at an expense of $4,500. 



Besides the endowment of a large number of 

 scholarships by private individuals (at a cost of 

 $1,000 each, enabling the founder to select the 

 student to enjoy it), the Professorship of Geol- 

 ogy and Physical Geography has been endowed 

 by the donation of $30,000 from John I. Blair. 

 A family, whose name is withheld, has con- 

 tributed $35,000 as a fund for the support of 

 the president, and over $50,000 more have been 

 added to the sustentation fund, by donations 

 from other friends of the institution. These 

 amounts, with the scholarships, raise the entire 

 fund to more than $135,000. 



Rutgers College, which received the dona- 

 tion of Congress for an agricultural college, 

 has opened a scientific and agricultural de- 

 partment, which has advanced very favorably. 

 The first class of seven persons was organized 

 in 1865, atfd a second of fourteen persons in 

 1866. A class of three is pursuing a course 

 of analytical chemistry. An astronomical ob- 

 servatory for this institution has been com- 

 pleted. 



Seton Hall, at Orange, which suffered a great 

 loss in the burning of its most important build- 

 ing, has erected another, and continued! n op- 

 eration with increasing numbers. 



The agricultural districts of the State are 

 rapidly increasing in population. Within the 

 last fifteen years this increase has been faster 

 than the average of the whole United States. 

 The staple crops of corn, wheat, potatoes, etc., 

 compare well in the yield with any of the newer 

 States. The value of the market garden prod- 

 ucts of the State is below only one other State 

 in the Union. 



The Agricultural Society has been authorized 

 by the Legislature to hold the necessary real 

 estate, and has been located at Newark. The 

 protection of the cattle owned in the State from 

 rinderpest, was placed in the hands of this so- 

 ciety, by the Legislature, with complete suc- 

 cess. The society has also employed during 

 the year an entomologist, Dr. I. P. Trimble. 

 During the year he has issued one volume on 

 " Insect Enemies of Fruit and Fruit Trees." 

 treating chiefly of the curculio, a native, 

 and the apple-worm moth, or codling moth, 

 which is an imported enemy. Nearly twenty 

 years have been devoted to the preparation of 

 the work. A second volume is in progress. 

 Of the fruits of the State the society say : 



" Are we to abandon entirely the culture of 

 fruit in New Jersey ? Unless the evil is taken 

 in hand at once, we cannot but see that such 

 is to be the inevitable result. The great cause 

 of this evil is the insect enemies of fruit and 

 fruit-trees. They have multiplied to an extent 

 which threatens the annihilation of fruit in 

 New Jersey. Can this evil be arrested ? Our 

 entomologist bids us to take courage. Ho 

 shows us that there are means of baffling this 

 enemy. He assures us that ' the protection of 



