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NEW JERSEY. 



NEW MEXICO. 



an increase of $35,139.51 over the amount 

 expended in the previous year by the State and 

 localities for this purpose. The total amount 

 of the district and city taxes for the building 

 and repairing of school-houses was $568,388.68, 

 showing an increase over the previous year of 

 $43,843.54. The school property of the State 

 is valued at $6,832,926, showing an increase 

 over the valuation of the previous year of 

 $482,119. 



The number of children between five and 

 eighteen years of age is 366,317, an increase 

 of 10,256 over the previous year. The num- 

 ber in attendance at the schools during the 

 school year was 222,317, an increase of 5,525. 



School for Deaf-Mates. The total expenditures 

 for repairs to buildings, furniture, etc., amount 

 to $4,054.79, and for maintenance and other 

 expenses, $26,048.31, making a total of $30,- 

 103.10. The number in attendance in the 

 school during the year was 119, of whom 67 

 were males and 52 females. 



Reform School for Boys. This had 425 inmates 

 during the year ending Oct. 31, 1885. The 

 number remaining at the end of the year was 

 269, and the average attendance was 277*59, a 

 decrease of 46 in the average attendance. The 

 amount of money received from the State was 

 $46,494.04, and from the sale of farm produce 

 and the labor of the inmates $9,815.20, making 

 a total of $59,686.61. The total expenditures of 

 the institution, including $4,456.67 for the com- 

 pletion of the new granary, was $59,041.73. 



Industrial School for Girls. The number in this 

 institution at the close of the year was thirty- 

 one, an increase of four. The cost of mainte- 

 nance was $5,968.94, of which amount $5,500 

 was paid by the State, the balance having been 

 received from the sale of farm products and the 

 work of the inmates, who during the year made 

 1,397 dozen shirts and earned $440.01. 



Morristown Insane Asylum. At the close of the 

 fiscal year there were 826 inmates in this insti- 

 tution, an increase of 83. The private patients 

 number 153. The total cost of maintenance 

 during the past fiscal year was $203,771.96, an 

 increase of $9,834.37. 



Asylum at Trenton. This had 646 patients un- 

 der treatment at the close of the year. The 

 cost of maintenance for the past fiscal year 

 was $155,454.50, and the managers had in 

 their hands at the close of the year a balance 

 of $24,866.45. 



National Guard. The National Guard has 284 

 commissioned officers and 3,253 enlisted men, a 

 total of 3,537. This is an increase of 5 officers 

 and 199 men. 



Riparian Commission. The commissioners re- 

 port that^the result for the year of the sales 

 of lands in fee, and the principal sums named 

 in leases, of leases heretofore made turned into 

 absolute grants, of rental on leases heretofore 

 made, and of interest received, is the sum of 

 $294,288.63. The total amount of absolute 

 grants made since April 1, 1864, is $1.890,- 

 570.71. The total amount of the principal 



sums of leases convertible into grants, made 

 during the same period, is $1,234,341.14, mak- 

 ing together the sum of $3,124,911.85. 



Agricultural College. The Agricultural Col- 

 lege receives annually from the State $9,960. 

 This sum is derived from a fund established in 

 1863, which now amounts to $116,000, and is 

 invested in the war bonds of the State. 



State Prison. The average number of con-, 

 victs during the past year was 863, an increase 

 of 48. The total expenses were $134,651.84, 

 the earnings amounted to $57,541.85, making 

 the cost of the State Prison $77,109.99. 



Population. A State census was taken this 

 year. The following table gives the population 

 by counties, according to this enumeration and 

 the next preceding Federal and State census: 



Hudson County has over one third of the 

 Irish population of the whole State. Hudson 

 and Essex have nearly two thirds of the Ger- 

 man population. There were 210,267 dwelling- 

 houses and 267,394 families. 



The following statement gives the popula- 

 tion of every municipality in the State having 

 upward of 5,000 inhabitants in 1885 : 



Population. 



Jersey City 153,518 



Newark 152,988 



Paterson 68,278 



Camden 52,884 



Hoboken 87,721 



Trenton 84,386 



Elizabeth 82,119 



New Brunswick 18,253 



Orange 15.231 



Bayonne 18,080 



Bridgeton 10,065 



Plainfleld 8,913 



Millville 8,824 



8,760 



Population. 



Chambersburg 8,54-2 



Town of Union 8,393 



Passaic 8,326 



Phillipsburg 8,068 



Atlantic City 7.942 



Rahway 6.861 



Town of Harrison 6,806 



Burlington 6,6.53 



Perth Amboy 6,311 



Gloucester City 5,966 



Salem 5,516 



Long Branch 5,140 



Mount Holly 5,006 



Morristown . 



In 1880, Jersey City had 120,722 inhab- 

 itants ; Newark, 136,508 ; Paterson, 51,031 ; 

 Camden, 41,659; Hoboken, 30,999; Trenton, 

 29,910 ; Elizabeth, 28,229. 



NEW MEXICO. Territorial Government 

 following were the Territorial officers dunn 

 the year: Governor, Lionel A. Sheldon, si 

 ceeded by Edmund G. Ross ; Secretary, Samuel 

 A. Losch, succeeded by George W. Lane ; Aud>- 

 tor, Trinidad Alarid; Treasurer, Antonio Ortiz 



