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would warrant him in rejecting them as being " un- 

 true or insufficient," and yet, until he does this, the 

 statement of the company is required to be taken. 

 This difficulty can be remedied by vesting the power 

 and duty of examining and approving the reports, 

 and the facts upon which they are based, in an officer 

 specially appointed for that purpose. The law; doing 

 this should require annual report of the operations of 

 the office to be made to the Governor and Legislature. 

 If this be done, the proviso of the act of 1876 be 

 repealed, and the Legislature shall itself give such a 

 construction of the words "true value " as will clearly 

 show them to mean the full worth of the enterprise to 

 the company using it, the tax from this source can be 

 very materially increased, as it undoubtedly should 

 be. 



STATE INSTITUTIONS. The number of con- 

 victs in the State-Prison at the beginning of the 

 year was 803 ; received during the year, 454 ; 

 discharged and died, 459 ; leaving in the prison 

 at the close of the year, 798 ; being 5 less than 

 at the close of last year. Of this number 32 

 are females and 766 are males. Contracts 

 have been made, and are now in force, with 

 several parties for the labor of these men. 

 These contracts specify the minimum number 

 which the contractors agree to take and pay 

 for, with the right to use a larger number at 

 the same price. The following table shows, 

 in a condensed form, the several contracts; 

 the number which the contractors agree to pay 

 for, the number employed on each, and the 

 price paid per man per day : 



Of the 296 men not actually employed on 

 the several contracts, 41 are used as runners ; 

 20 in the kitchen and laundry ; 47 in different 

 trades and employment around the prison and 

 grounds ; 64 are crippled, old, and infirm ; sick 

 and attendants in hospital, 28 ; leaving 96 per- 

 sons capable of labor unemployed. 



By the report of the Supervisor, the expense 

 of maintaining the prison during the year was 

 as follows: 



Maintenance $62,502 80 



Repairs 5,784 33 



Paid discharged convicts 1,402 00 



Salaries of officers and inspectors 9,000 00 



Salaries of deputies 51,073 81 



Total $129,762 94 



Earnings of prisoners 68,599 6T 



Net loss to the State $61,1 63 27 



Net loss of previous year 68,888 94 



The number of inmates of the Reform School 

 for Boys at the beginning of the year was 266 ; 

 committed, 130; returned, 23; total, 419; 97 

 of these were discharged, leaving in the insti- 

 tution at the close of the year, 322, a very 

 marked increase over the number of last year. 



The amount of money from the State expended 

 in the maintenance of the school was $23,076.- 

 25 ; there was derived from the labor of the 

 boys in the shirt-factory, $14,859.92; from 

 the sale of farm products and miscellaneous 

 sources, $3,499.22 ; and from the board of boys, 

 $589.06. The farm products amounted to near- 

 ly $10,000, an increase over last year of about 

 $3,600 ; and over 400,000 bricks were manu- 

 factured, nearly 300,000 of which were used in 

 the construction of the new family building, a 

 saving of about $3,000. 



The number of pupils in the Industrial School 

 for Girls at the close of last year was 25 ; com- 

 mitted during the year, 20; returned to the 

 school, 6 ; making a total of 51. Of these, 7 

 were discharged and returned to friends, 10 

 indentured, and 3 out on trial, leaving at the 

 close of the year 31 inmates. For the support 

 and care of this number, the State has invested 

 in real estate and personal property, as shown 

 by the inventory of the institution, some $45,- 

 000. The cost of maintenance was $6,151.72, 

 leaving a balance on hand of $981.55. 



The State provides for the care of the insane 

 in its institutions at Morristown and Trenton, 

 and in the county asylums of Burlington, Cam- 

 den, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, and 

 Salem. Toward the support of these institu- 

 tions the State pays $1 per week for each 

 county patient in the several asylums ; and $7 

 per week for each convict patient in the Tren- 

 ton Asylum. The counties pay $3 per week 

 for each patient sent to the State asylums. 



The reports of the managers and superin- 

 tendent of the Trenton Asylum show that there 

 were in the institution at the beginning of the 

 year 577 patients; received during the year, 

 186 ; total, 763 ; of these, 77 were discharged 

 and 57 died, leaving at the close of the year 

 629 patients. Of these, 504 were county pa- 

 tients, 35 were convict patients, and 90 were 

 private patients, five of the last class being 

 from other States. 



The receipts for the year were : From the 

 State for county patients, $24,264.16 ; for con- 

 vict patients, $13,450.69; from the counties 

 for county patients, $79,955.68 ; from private 

 patients, $24,913.14; from sales of products, 

 etc., $7,860.14; from rents. $324; these, with 

 the balance on hand at the beginning of the 

 year, amounted to $166,584.20. The expendi- 

 tures were $151,061.52, leaving a balance on 

 hand at the close of the year of $15,522.68. 

 The annual inventory shows the property of 

 the institution to be $108,484.88, a falling off 

 from last year of about $6,000. 



The number of patients in the Morristown 

 Asylum at the beginning of the year was 641 ; 

 received during the year, 174; discharged, 93; 

 died, 55 ; remaining at the close of the year, 

 667. Of these, 524 were county patients and 

 143 private patients; of the private patients 

 66 were from other States. 



Besides the inmates of the State institutions, 

 there were in the county asylums 746 patients, 



