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entitled to charge for the same, during the past 

 year, were: 



To the Home for Disabled Soldiers the State 

 has contributed in the last nine years over 

 $369,000. The report of the institution for 

 1881 shows that there were 860 inmates on 

 October 81, 1880; new admissions during the 

 year, 112; re-admissions, 221; total, 693. 

 There were discharged, 272 ; expelled, 21 ; and 

 86 have died, leaving, at the close of the year, 

 864 inmates. Of the total number of inmates 

 during the year, 556 served in the New Jersey 

 regiments, and 138 in those of other States and 

 the regular Army and Navy. Out of a total 

 expenditure of $35,000, $10,000 was for "out- 

 patients." 



The number liable to militia duty in the 

 State is 223,094. The National Guard is or- 

 ganized as one division of two brigades. The 

 First Brigade is composed of four regiments, 

 two battalions of infantry, and one battery of 

 artillery, numbering 156 officers and 1,801 

 men, and the Second Brigade of three regi- 

 ments of infantry and one Gatling gun com- 

 pany, numbering 111 officers and 1,374 men. 

 One Gatling gun company, with four officers 

 and 54 men, is unattached. The entire force 

 of the National Guard, including the general 

 field and staff officers, is, therefore, 312 officers 

 and 3,229 men, being an increase of 132 over 

 the previous year. The entire expenses of 

 the National Guard during the past year, as 

 reported by the Quartermaster-General, were 

 $73,515.22, against $79,225.69 for the previous 

 year. 



The Agricultural College is supported with- 

 out expense to the State, the income from the 

 fund derived from the sale of lands donated 

 by the General Government being used in 

 part payment of salaries, and Rutgers College 

 providing the rest. The annual report shows 

 that the institution is well managed; there 

 were on the rolls last year forty-six pupils, 

 thirty-seven from thirteen counties of this 

 State and nine from other States. 



The Agricultural-Experiment Station has 

 been in successful operation. 



By the report of the Labor Bureau it is shown 

 that there are in the State 6,959 manufacturing 

 establishments, with a capital of $105,838,951 ; 

 employing an average of 120,532 persons; 

 paying $43,757,753 in wages, and producing 

 annually $245,000,000 worth of wares. 



There was paid from the State Treasury 

 during the year, on account of pensions, the 

 sum of $7,837.22. The law of 1874 provided 

 for the payment of a pension of $100 per year 

 to soldiers and sailors of the War of 1812, until 

 the United States Government should take upon 



itself the burden. This was done in 1878 ; and 

 the pensioners of New Jersey were all placed 

 on the Government rolls, except twenty-eight, 

 who, while they had been mustered into the 

 service of the State in the defense of the coast, 

 had not been made a part of the national 

 forces. To these the State continues to pay 

 the pension of $100 per annum. It was made 

 known to the Legislature, in 1880, that there 

 were certain persons who, having been entitled 

 to the pension under the act of 1874, had not 

 presented their claims, and were, therefore, 

 debarred from the benefits of the law of that 

 year. By the acts of 1880 and 1881 it was 

 provided that such persons should be entitled 

 to receive the pension for the period between 

 the passage of the act of 1874 and of the 

 United States law in 1878 within a few days 

 of four years. To the Adjutant-General was 

 assigned the duty of authenticating these 

 claims ; and he has approved eleven of them 

 and rejected one. There was paid to these 

 claimants the sum of $4,268.66. This, with 

 the claims of the first-mentioned list, and about 

 $200 expenses in collecting claims from the 

 United States Government, makes up the 

 amount paid from the Treasury. 



The abstract of ratables returned by the 

 Boards of Assessors for the several counties 

 shows the valuation of the taxable property as 

 follows : Valuation of 1881 Atlantic, $4,577,- 

 238; Bergen, $16,097,571; Burlington, $25,- 

 856,143; Camden, $19,217,640; Cape May, 

 $3,525,265; Cumberland, $12,111,000; Essex, 

 $108,494,000; Gloucester, $13,736,260; Hud- 

 eon, $91,901,996.50; Hunterdon, $21,067,571; 

 Mercer, $29,890,820; Middlesex, $18,326,000; 

 Monmouth, $27,991,000; Morris, $21,040,447; 

 Ocean, $3,228,998 ; Passaic, $27,953,345 ; Sa- 

 lem, $13,396,976 ; Somerset, $16,300,000 ; Sus- 

 sex, $9,960,657; Union, $24,016,100; Warren, 

 $18,762,295. Total, $527,451,222.50. This 

 shows an increase over 1880 of $8,833,703.86. 



The United States census report shows that 

 $1,742,198 was raised by tax in New Jersey 

 for school purposes in 1880. Of the total pop- 

 ulation, 1,131,116 in the State, 39,136 over ten 

 years of age can not read, and 53,249 can not 

 write; of the latter, 44,049 are white, and 

 9,200 colored. . The percentage of white is 4*03, 

 and of colored 23 - 53. 



Within the past ten years a large number of 

 summer resorts has sprung up along the coast. 

 From Sandy Hook to Cape May are Port Mon- 

 mouth, Highlands, Sea Bright, Island Heights, 

 Long Branch, Deal Beach, Asbury Park, Ocean 

 Grove, Ocean Beach, Spring Lake, Sea Girt, 

 Squan, Point Pleasant, Squan Beach, Lavalette 

 City, Sea-side Park, Island Beach, Long Beach, 

 Beach Haven, Brigantine Beach, Atlantic City, 

 Absecom Beach, Peck ? s Beach, Learning's 

 Beach, Five-Mile Beach, Seaville, Ocean View, 

 and Cape May. The largest of these sea-side 

 resorts are Long Branch, Asbury Park, Atlan- 

 tic City, and Cape May. 



A commission to propose amendments to the 



