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in this institution during tho year coat 

 tin- State a little over $42,000. About $81,000 

 wore received for private patients, and the bal- 

 ance of the receipts, amounting to a little less 

 than $170,000, cinno from the counties. Tim 

 State also paid fur care of tlio insane, to the 

 authorities of three counties in which asylums 



SITU established, $11,624. About thive 

 miles from Morri.-town 1.1 (' the largest and 



ii-raiurd iiistitutioiirt for the insane in the 

 country is approaching completion. It will 

 probably bo ready for occupying on or before 

 .January 1, 1*7<5, and with site and equipments 

 will cost about $2,000,000. The grounds em- 

 brace 410 acres. The entire length of the 

 building is 1,243 feet, and the depth, from the- 

 front of the main centre to the rear of the ex- 

 treme wing, 542 feet. The wings on the right 

 ami left of the centre building are throe stories 

 liL r h, except those at the extreme ends, which 

 are two stories. It is built principally of light 

 granite, quarried on the grounds, in ornamental 



style, and will accommodate about 1,000 pa- 

 tu-iits. 



Prior to 1870, $00,000 was annually appro- 

 1 by the Legislature for the maintenance 

 of convicts in the State-prison in Trenton; 

 but since that time the institution has been a 

 source of income to the State. The receipt* of 

 the prison during the year ending October 81t 

 amounted to $104,041.98, of which $101,818.71 

 was received for the labor of convicts on con- 

 tracts. The cost of maintaining the convi< is 

 was $68,807.05, not including the salaries of 

 officers or the amount expended by the Board 

 of Inspectors, prior to March 8d, for repairs 

 mid improvements. Of the net gain of the 

 prison ($45,284), $80,000 was paid into the 

 State Treasury, making, with two former pay- 

 ments, $80,000 that has been realized from 

 this source in three years. The number of 

 prisoners October 81st was 058. 



The State Reform School for Juvenile Delin- 

 quents is at Jamesburg. The number of boys 



INSAJSE ASYLUM, MORBISTOWN. 



at the close of 1874 was 184. The total num- 

 ber during the year was 235. They are chiefly 

 employed in making chairs and stools, and in 

 farm-labor. 



The State Industrial School for Girls has a 

 farm of 80 acres near Trenton. Since the 

 opening of the school in 1872, 40 girls have 

 been received, of whom 19 were remaining at 

 the close of 1874. 



A home for disabled soldiers is supported by 

 the State in Newark, in which 1,365 benefici- 

 aries were cared for in 1874 ; the number re- 

 maining at the close of the year was 844. 



The Soldiers' Children's Home in Trenton, 

 also a State institution, had at the close of 

 1874 155 children, of whom 96 were boys and 

 54 girls. 



Prior to April, 1871, New Jersey had no 

 free-school system, but its schools were then 

 made free. The tax for school purposes is 

 now assessed and collected by the State in- 



stead of the townships, and the funds are ap- 

 portioned among the different districts accord- 

 ing to the school population. Every district 

 is required to maintain a school for at least 

 nine months in the year, or forfeit its share of 

 the apportionment. The permanent school 

 fund amounts to $857,426. The amount of the 

 income from this fund that is devoted to 

 schools is determined by the Legislature, and 

 is now $35,000 annually; the remainder of the 

 income goes to increase the principal. In 1871 

 the State gave to the free-school fund the pro- 

 ceeds of sales and rentals of all riparian lands 

 lying between high and low water marks, and 

 chiefly in and near the harbor of New York on 

 the New Jersey shore. These lands will add 

 to this fund not less than $5,000,000, and pos- 

 sibly $10,000,000. The sources and amount 

 of the funds for the support of the schools for 

 the year ending August 31, 1874, were: 1. 

 The two-mill State tax, which amounted to 



