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to the Ku-klux among voters of the South, until the 

 working-men of these corporations know they must 

 vote the Republican ticket or be discharged. 



For Congress, George Chandler was nomi- 

 nated in the First District, and Hosley in 



the Second. 



The result of the general local election, on 

 November 7, 1882, was almost entirely favora- 

 ble to the Republican nominees. The aggre- 

 gate vote for Governor numbered 76,218; of 

 which Mr. Hale received 38,399, Mr. Edgerly 

 36,879, and 840 were scattering. 



With reference to the other officers, the Re- 

 publicans elected the three Railroad Commis- 

 sioners, both of the two Congressmen, and the 

 first four of the five State Councilors, the 

 Democrats having elected Mr. Aldrich, their 

 nominee for the Fifth District, as Councilor. 



The General Assembly at its next session 

 will be divided as follows: Senate of 24 mem- 

 bers Republicans 17, Democrats 7 ; Lower 

 House, composed of 307 Representatives Re- 

 publicans 188, Democrats 114, Independents 3, 

 Greenbackers 2. 



NEW JERSEY. STATE GOVERNMENT. The 

 following were the State officers during the 

 year: Governor, George C. Ludlow, Demo- 

 crat; Secretary of State, Henry C. Kelsey; 

 Treasurer, George M. Wright; Comptroller, 

 Edward J. Anderson ; Attorney-General, John 

 P. Stockton; Adjutant-General, William S. 

 Stryker ; Chancellor, Theodore Runyon ; Vice- 

 Chancellors, Abraham S. Van Fleet and Amzi 

 Dodd ; Clerk of Supreme Court, Benjamin F. 

 Lee; Clerk in Chancery, George S. Duryea; 

 Chancery Reporter, John H. Stewart; Law 

 Reporter, Garret D. W. Vroom ; State Libra- 

 rian, James S. McDanolds; State Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Ellis A. Apgar ; 

 State Geologist, George H. Cook; Chief of 

 Bureau of Statistics, James Bishop ; Secretary 

 of the State Board of Health, Ezra M. Hunt, 

 M. D. ; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Mercer Beasley. 



LEGISLATURE. The Legislature met on the 

 9th of January, and adjourned on the 31st of 

 March. An act to prevent vending, using, or 

 exploding of guns, pistols, toy-pistols, or other 

 fire-arms, to or by persons under the age of 

 fifteen years, makes violations thereof misde- 

 meanors. An act amending the school law 

 provides that an annual meeting for the election 

 of school trustees shall be held in each district 

 on the Tuesday of the week following the an- 

 nual town meeting ; that women shall be eligi- 

 ble as school trustees; and that there shall be 

 an annual census taken in May of all children 

 residing in each district between the ages of 

 five and eighteen. An act was also passed 

 providing for the examination in certain cases 

 of applicants for admission as attorneys to the 

 Supreme Court. Other acts were the follow- 

 ing: An act to encourage the establishment of 

 public libraries in any town or municipality in 

 the State, and to provide for taking care of and 

 perpetuating the same; an act to authorize 



cities and boroughs to provide by ordinance 

 for the licensing, regulating, restraining, and 

 taxing of auctions and auctioneers ; an act to 

 provide for the better protection of the drivers 

 of horse-cars on street passenger-railroads in 

 the cities and towns of the State; an act to 

 provide for the licensing and regulating of 

 milk-dealers and their agents in cities, incor- 

 porated boroughs, or police, sanitary, and 

 improvement commissions, and incorporated 

 camp-meeting associations or sea-side resorts ; 

 an act to prevent the adulteration and to regu- 

 late the sale of milk; an act to regulate fares 

 on horse-cars in cities of the first class (fixing a 

 maximum of five cents) ; and an act to regulate 

 the sale of petroleum and its products. Anoth- 

 er act divides the cities of the State into four 

 classes, viz.: first class, over 100,000 inhab- 

 itants; second class, 12,000 to 100,000; third 

 class, all other cities, except sea-side resorts on 

 the Atlantic coast ; fourth class, such sea-side 

 resorts. An act was also passed providing that 

 corporations may increase their capital stock 

 to provide means for the payment of bonds 

 that are due or about to become due. 



FINANCES. The financial transactions of the 

 State are kept by the Treasurer under four 

 general accounts, viz : Agricultural College 

 Fund, Library Fund, School Fund, and State 

 Fund. 



The income of the Agricultural College Fund 

 is entirely derived from the interest on $116,- 

 000 of State bonds, purchased with the pro- 

 ceeds of the sale of lands donated by the Gen- 

 eral Government. It amounts to $6,960, and 

 is paid over to the Agricultural College, as de- 

 signed by the donors of the land. 



The State Library Fund is small. 



The Treasurer includes in the operations of 

 the School Fund the amount received by him 

 as the result of the State school-tax, but the 

 whole of this amount is returned to the several 

 counties. 



Under the law of 1881, the rate of the school- 

 tax was changed from two mills on the dollar 

 of property to four dollars for each child be- 

 tween five and eighteen years of age. The 

 sum produced was to be paid into the Treasury 

 on the 1st of January ; 90 per cent of it was 

 to be returned within ten days to the counties 

 paying it, and the remaining 10 per cent was 

 to be distributed by the State Board of Edu- 

 cation, according to their discretion, among 

 the several counties. 



The amount produced by this tax and paid into 

 the Treasury during the year 1880 was $1,322,740 00 



And for the preceding year, under the former 

 system...:. 1,017,78468 



Increase $804,955 82 



The school-tax for 1882 amounts to $1,342,- 

 656, a further increase of nearly $20,000. 



The assets of the School Fund at the close of 

 the fiscal year embrace railroad stocks and 

 bonds, United States bonds, State and city 

 bonds, bonds of school districts, bonds and 

 mortgages and other items of value, as follow : 



