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ployed is $12,000,000. During the year one new 

 trust company organized. There are ten cor- 

 porations for the safe-keeping and guarantee- 

 ing of personal property, two of which organ- 

 ized during the year ; the capital invested be- 

 ing $1,976,900. 



The total amount of suit inspected on the 

 Onondaga salt springs reservation for the fis- 

 cal year ending September 80th, was 7,633,- 

 394 bushels, and the financial operations of 

 the agenoy were as follows : 



Duties collected $76,834 47 



Penalties, rents, and sales 180 CO 



Total receipts $76,4(54 47 



Expenses incurred 59,470 24 



Surplus revenue $16,994 23 



The following are the common-school statis- 

 tics for the year ending September 30th : 



Total receipts $11,984,715 03 



Total expenditures 10,808,802 40 



Amount paid for teachers' wages 7,775,505 22 



Amount paid for school-bouses, repairs, fur- 

 niture, etc 1,467,361 00 



Estimated value of school -houses and sites. . 31,091,630 00 



Number of school-houses 11,894 



Number of school districts, exclusive of cities . 1 1,248 

 Number of teachers employed for the legal 



term of school 20,728 



Number of teachers employed during any por- 

 tion of the year 80,826 



Number of children attending public schools. . 1,021,282 



Number of persons attending normal schools. 5,944 

 Number of children of school age in private 



schools 108,309 



Number of volumes in school-district libraries. 707,155 

 Number of persons in the State between the 



ages of five and twenty-one years 1,662,818 



Reports received by the Regents of the Uni- 

 versity were from 22 literary colleges, compris- 

 ing 388 instructors, 4,389 students, and repre- 

 senting property to the amount of $17,240,400 ; 

 also returns from 236 academical institutions, 

 with 1,182 instructors and 31,036 pupils. 



For the first time in their history, the State 

 Prisons were self-sustaining during the year. 

 The earnings of the convicts were sufficient 

 for current expenses, leaving a small balance 

 to the credit of the prisons. The average 

 number of prisoners confined at Auburn, Clin- 

 ton, and Sing Sing, in the last four years, was 

 as follows : 



1S73 8,379 1830 .. 2,970 



1879 8,062 1881 2,997 



The following statement shows the amount 

 of the earniugs and expenditures on account of 

 the several prisons for the fiscal year : 

 SING SING. 



Earnings $229,254 14 



Expenses 187,127 20 



Surplus $42,126 94 



ACBURN. 



Earnings $113,658 63 



Expenses 118,78185 



Deficiency $5,123 22 



CLINTON. 



Earnings $01,443 14 



Expenses 97,88251 



The average number of inmates in the El- 

 mira Reformatory was 493. The cost of main- 

 tenance was $40,860.37. Thirty acres of land 

 have been purchased for $3,000, within the 

 corporate limits of the city of Hudson, for a 

 House of Refuge for Women, and $100,000 has 

 been appropriated for the establishment of the 

 institution. Expenditures in behalf of the in- 

 stitutions under the supervision of the State 

 Board of Charities amounted to $9,360,300, 

 derived from the following sources : 



State of New York $913,044 



Cities and counties 4,707,314 



Labor of inmates 126,978 



Paying patients 26S.669 



Donations 1,152,754 



Income of invested funds 879,216 



Loans 668,892 



Non-enumerated sources 1,148,883 



Total $9,860,800 



Expenses were divided as follows : 



SUte institutions $1,571.641 



County poor-houses 1,170,842 



City almsbouses 1,117,879 



Orphan asylums and other homes 4,085.885 



Hospitals 1,S02,158 



Dispensaries 161,946 



Total $9,360,300 



The constantly increasing number of insane 

 persons is exhibited by the following state- 

 ment of the number of inmates of the various 

 State and local asylums, poor-houses, and pri- 

 vate asylums, for the past five years: 



October 1, 1881 10.059 



" 1880 9,537 



" 1879 9,015 



" 1878 8,781 



" 1&77 7,921 



The new Asylum for the Insane at Bingham- 

 ton has been brought into use during the past 

 year, and contains a considerable number of 

 patients. 



The number of immigrants landed at Castle 

 Garden from January 1st to December 10th 

 was 423,350, and the estimated number at the 

 close of the year was 440,000. The number of 

 arrivals during each of the last ten years was : 



Deficiency 86,439 37 



$41,562 53 



Actual surplus for the year $564 35 



The work of the State Board of Health in 

 abating nuisances, improving the sanitary con- 

 dition of various localities, diffusing useful in- 

 formation, and promoting the establishment of 

 local organizations, has been of great and gen- 

 erally acknowledged value. 



The State Capitol is still unfinished, though 

 it is occupied by the Legislature and executive 

 officers. There was paid on its account during 

 the fiscal year ending September 30th, $1,392.- 

 328.75, and from October 1st to the end of the 

 year $250,000 was advanced to the commis- 

 sioners. Of this structure, the State Comp- 

 troller, in his annual report, says : " With the 





