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NEW YORK. 



Number of children of school age attend- 



inn prlvte Kbools r:v.; 



Nnmberof volumes in school-district llbra- 



rle* MP 



Number of person* In the State between 



the ages of flre and twenty-one jreare l . '> ! '.-'''> 



The number of colleges in the State is as fol- 

 lows: I.iter.-iry, 22; medical, 13; law-schools, 5. 



The State Library now contains 90,844 vol- 

 umes, 2,800 of .which were added daring the 

 year. 



There are, in the State Asylums for the In- 

 sane, something less than 1,600 patients ; about 

 600 of whom are in the Utica Asylum, nearly 

 800 in the Willard Asylum at Ovid, and about 

 200 in the Hudson River State Hospital, at 

 Ponghkeepsie. There are believed to be fully 

 as many otherwise provided for or not pro- 

 vided for at all. The original estimated cost 

 of the Hudson River Hospital was less than 

 $800,000, and it was expected to accommo- 

 date 600 patients. Already over $1,100,000 

 has been expended on it, and it accommo- 

 dates only 200. The cost of the asylum 

 at Buffalo was estimated at $600,000; over 

 $600,000 has been spent on it, and $300,000 

 more will be required before it is ready for any 

 patients. Each of these institutions will cost 

 about $3,000,000 when finished. The new 

 asylum at Middletown will be ready for use 

 during 1874. It is to consist of detached build- 

 ings to which additions may be made as re- 

 quired. That now in progress of completion 

 will cost $240,000. The asylum at Utica which 

 was built over thirty-six years ago, and has 

 cost np to this time for construction and main- 

 tenance $1,200,000 accommodates 600 patients. 

 The institution at Ovid, which accommodates 

 800 patients, cost less than $1,000,000. The 

 Idiot Asylum at Syracuse cost $125.000, and 

 accommodates 200 inmates. The House of 

 Refuge at Rochester cost $165,000, and ac- 

 commodates 580 inmates. 



On the 80th of September there were 8,025 

 convicts in the State-prisons; 1,354 at Sing 

 Sing, 1,104 at Auburn, and 567 at Clinton. The 

 following statement shows tho expenditure* 

 and earnings of each of the prisons for tho 

 year ending September 30, 1878: 



The Clinton Prison report shows items of 



took on hand, and anpniil n< tints for tho 



last fiscal year, amounting to $153,043.42, and 

 that of Sing Sing $81,000.38 of unpaid ac- 

 counts. 



All the prisons are overcrowded, and tlicru 



is need of further provision for the confinement 

 of convicts. There are now 680 convicts se- 

 curely confined in the Albany Penitentiary, 

 and tut institution pavsalarge rereiuM to the 



county. The building" co ? t less than $200,000. 

 There has been paid from the Treasury on ac- 

 count of the Elmira lii-toniiatory, tin; sum of 

 $451,811.06, and it is raised but little above 

 the foundation-walls. 



The construction of the new Capitol has ad- 

 vanced only so far as the first story. The ori- 

 ginal estimate placed its cost at $4,000,000, and 

 already $4,961,620 has been expended on it. 

 It is now thought that its whole cost will not 

 fall short of $15,000,000. 



The number of immigrants who arrived at 

 New York during the year was 266,010, against 

 294,581 in 1872. 



The quantity of salt from the Onondaga Salt 

 Springs, inspected during the last fiscal year, 

 was 7,959,172 bushels less by 40.627 bushels 

 than the production of the preceding year. The 

 net revenue from this source was $21,765.75, 

 showing a falling off as compared with the 

 preceding year of $12,858.:i7. 



The National Guard consists of 8 divisions 

 and 20 brigades, distributed as follows, viz. : 

 One regiment, 1 battalion, and 9 separate troops 

 of cavalry; 12 batteries of artillery, 31 regi- 

 ments, 12 battalions, and 3 detached compa- 

 nies of infantry, making an aggregate force of 

 23,360. During the year two regiments of in- 

 fantry have been disbanded and mustered out 

 of service, six regiments of infantry liavo hccn 

 reduced to battalions, and one regiment has 

 been reorganized. Six arsenals, which had be- 

 come entirely useless, have been sold, producing 

 $25,550, of which $22.850 have been paid into 

 the Treasury, and $2,700 refunded to tho vil- 

 lage of Dunkirk and the city of Ogdensbur;;, 

 from which tho sites of two of the buildings 

 were obtained. 



The annual session of the Legislature, which 

 opened at Albany on tho 1st Monday in Jan- 

 uary, was brought to a close on the 80th of 

 May. The whole number of bills passed by 

 both Houses was 1,017, of which 883 were of 

 a private or local character. Very few of 

 the remaining 134 have any general interest. 

 During the last ten days of the session 852 bills 

 were sent to tho Governor for his signature. 

 Of tho whole number passed 147 failed tn re- 

 ceive the Executive approval. Much time was 

 spent in the consideration of a new charter for 

 tho city of New York, which, at'tor elaborate 

 discussion before committees and in tho two 

 Houses, and a complete transformation by 

 amendment, was finally defeated. Much timo 

 was also given to the subject of regulating the 

 traffic in intoxicating liquors. A bill was MI!.- 

 inittcil in the llnu-ie. providing for what is 

 known as "local option." It was entitled " An 

 act to enable the legal voters of any town i>r 

 city to determine hy ballot whether th. 

 giving away, or coffering in he exposed, sold, 

 or given away therein, of intoxicating liquors, 



