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NEW JEKSEY. 



there were pupils present from thirteen other 

 States who either paid tuition fees, or pledged 

 themselves to teach in the public schools of 

 New Jersey. At the close of the school year 

 in June, 38 pupils were graduated, nearly all 

 of whom became teachers in the State. Fifty- 

 three students have been in attendance in the 

 Agricultural College during the year. The 

 students of this institution received instruc- 

 tion that fits them for the practical work of 

 engineers, surveyors, architects, chemists, or 

 farmers. 



A hall for the use of the Scientific and Agri- 

 cultural Departments has recently been finished 

 at a cost of $60,000, and other buildings are now 

 in course of erection. The Experimental Farm, 

 containing nearly 100 acres, and costing about 

 $30,000, is used to test various methods of 

 underdraining, fertilizing, cultivation, and ro- 

 tation of crops. 



During the year, $36,596 was paid for the 

 education and maintenance, in the institutions. 

 of other States, of the deaf and dumb, blind, 

 and feeble-minded of the State. 



The Lunatic Asylum at Trenton is crowded 

 to such an extent as seriously to interfere with 

 its usefulness, and the attention of the Legis- 

 lature has been urgently called to the necessity 

 of increased accommodations for the insane. 

 Two hundred and twenty-nine patients were 

 received during the year, and the same num- 

 ber discharged, making the number of inmates 

 at the close of the year TOO, being 200 in ex- 

 cess of the proper accommodations of the 

 building. Four hundred acres of land have 

 been purchased at Morristown, at a cost of 

 about $78,000, for the erection of a new asy- 

 lum. The site is on elevated ground, com- 

 manding a magnificent view. 



The average number of convicts in the State- 

 prison, during the year, was 527. The disci- 

 pline of the prison is excellent, and its financial 

 management satisfactory. For the first time 

 in many years a surplus of earnings has been 

 paid into the State Treasury. The law of 1868, 

 which authorizes remission from the sentence 

 for the faithful performance of assigned labor 

 and good conduct, has produced most beneficial 

 results. The number of boys in the Keform 

 School, October 31st, was 120, being an excess 

 of 32 over the number of the preceding year. 



An Industrial School for neglected, way- 

 ward, and criminal girls, has been opened 

 during the year. Convenient buildings and 

 grounds have been leased in a secluded spot 

 near the city of Trenton, where on October 

 31, 1872, there were 17 young girls well cared 

 for and instructed. They are employed in 

 making their own clothing, and assist in sew- 

 ing for the Boys' Reform School. 



The State Library contains 18,407 volumes. 

 In March, 1872, the Legislature appropriated 

 $3,000, to be expended, under the direction of 

 the New Jersey Historical Society, to procure 

 copies of colonial documents, papers, and min- 

 utes of council, directly referring to the pro- 



vincial and colonial history of New Jersey, 

 from the State-Paper Office in the city of Lon- 

 don. Arrangements were at once perfected 

 for having copies made from the public ar- 

 chives in England. 



According to the census of 1870, of the total 

 population (680,687) ten years old and over, 

 there were engaged in all classes of occupa- 

 tions, 296,036 persons, of whom 251,625 were 

 males and 44,411 females. There were en- 

 gaged in agriculture, 63,128, including 62,943 

 males and 185 females; in professional and 

 personal services, 83,380, including 54,275 

 males and 29,105 females ; in trade and trans- 

 portation, 46,206, including 45,242 males and 

 964 females; in manufactures and mechanical 

 and mining industries, 103,322, including 89,- 

 165 males and 14,157 females. 

 _ The total number of manufacturing estab- 

 lishments was 6,636, using 984 steam-engines 

 of 32,307 horse-power, and 1,132 water-wheels 

 of 25,832 horse-power, and employing 75,552 

 hands, of whom 58,115 were males above six- 

 teen, 11,198 females above fifteen, and 6,239 

 youth. 



The total amount of capital invested was 

 $79,606,719 ; wages paid during the year, 

 $32,648,409; value of materials consumed, 

 $103,415,245 ; of products, $169,237,732. 



The whole number of newspapers and pe- 

 riodicals was 122, having an aggregate circula- 

 tion of 205,500, and issuing annually 18,625,740 

 copies. There were 20 daily, with a circula- 

 tion of 38,030; 95 weekly, circulation 120,670; 

 and 7 monthly, circulation 46,800. 



There were 2,413 libraries, having 895,291 

 volumes. Of these, 777, with 359,612 volumes, 

 were private, and 1,636, with 535,679 volumes, 

 were other than private, including 14 circulat- 

 ing libraries with 75,250 volumes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 1,402, having 1,384 edifices, with 573,308 

 sittings, and property valued at $18,347,150. 



The leading denominations were : 



The condition of pauperism and crime is 

 shown in the following statistics : 



Total population 906,096 



Number of persons receiving support during the 



year ending June 1, 1870 3,356 



Cost of annual suppqrt $283,841 



Total number receiving support, June 1, 1870. . . 2,390 



Native .....;..... 1.889 



White 1,368 



Colored 



Foreign 721 



Number of persons convicted during the year. . . 1,040 

 Total Dumber of persons in prison, June 1, 1870. 1.079 



Native 



White 



Colored 



Foreign 439 



