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NEW YORK (STATE). 



The Territory has a little over 78,000,000 

 acres of land; 70,000,000 acres are adapted 

 only to pasturage. Fifteen acres on an aver- 

 age will pasture an animal. On this basis 

 there is grass enough for four and two-third 

 million head of cattle. 



Penitentiary. The Territorial Penitentiary, at 



Santa Fe, was completed during the year, and 

 was immediately opened for the reception of 

 convicts. 



Population. A census was taken by the Ter- 

 ritorial authorities during the year. The fol- 

 lowing table gives the principal results by 

 counties : 



The total includes 127,957 whites, 4,660 In- 

 dians, 577 blacks, and 336 Chinese. Of the 

 Indians, 3,540 are in Bernalillo County, 494 in 

 Taos, 352 in Santa F6, and 145 in Rio Arriba. 

 Of the Chinese, 250 are in Grant County. Pop- 

 ulation in 1885, 133,530; in 1880, 119,565. 

 The population of the principal towns was as 

 follows: Santa Fe, 5,970; Las Vegas, 5,089; 

 Socorro,* 4,047; Albuquerque,* 3,000; Ar- 

 mijo (old Albuquerque), 1,870; Las Cruces, 

 2,100; Silver City,* 1,914; Raton, 1,097; 

 Springer, 1,038; Deming; 1,000; Anton Chi- 

 co, 1,306; Belen, 929; Taos, 1,287; Berna- 

 lillo, 1,520 ; Tierra Amarilla, about 1,100. 



NEW YORK (STATE). Meeting of the Legislature. 

 The annual session of the Legislature began 

 on the 6th of January. There was a warm 

 contest for the Republican candidacy for 

 Speaker of the Assembly, the leading aspir- 

 ants being George Z. Erwin, of St. Lawrence 

 County, and Walter S. Hubbell, of Monroe. 

 This was somewhat complicated with the con- 

 test for the nomination for United States Sena- 

 tor, the supporters of Erwin making common 

 cause with those of Levi P. Morton. Mr. Er- 

 win was nominated by the Republican cau- 

 cus and was chosen Speaker. Other candi- 

 dates for the Senate nomination were Frank 

 Hiscock, Leslie W. Russell, and William M. 

 Evarts, but before the caucus was held the 

 first two withdrew, and the opposition to Mor- 

 ton was concentrated in support of Evarts, 

 who, on Jan. 19, received the caucus nomi- 

 nation by a vote of 61 to 28 for Morton, and 3 

 for Chauncey M. Depew. At the election of 

 Senator on the 21st, Mr. Evarts received 19 

 votes in the Senate and 73 in the Assembly ; 

 and Edward Cooper, the Democratic candi- 

 date, received 13 in the Senate and 52 in the 

 Assembly. 



Freedom of Worship. On the first day of the 



* Incorporated. 



session a bill was introduced in both houses 

 " to provide for the better security of the free- 

 dom of religious worship in certain institu- 

 tions." Its chief purpose was to secure to 

 Roman Catholic priests not only the privilege 

 of visiting and ministering to inmates of insti- 

 tutions for various classes of delinquents and 

 unfortunates, but that of conducting worship 

 therein in accordance with the forms and cere- 

 monies of their Church. It caused much dis- 

 cussion both in and out of the Legislature, and 

 was vigorously opposed by the managers of 

 the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile 

 Delinquents, who had charge of the New York 

 House of Refuge. It finally passed the Senate, 

 with some amendments, on the 1st of April, by 

 a vote of 18 to 10, six Republicans voting in 

 the affirmative and one Democrat in the nega- 

 tive. Final consideration of the subject in the 

 Assembly was delayed from time to time, and 

 no vote had been reached on the passage of 

 the bill when the day of adjournment arrived. 

 The Census. The Constitution of the State 

 requires an " enumeration of the inhabitants " 

 to be made, under the direction of the Legis- 

 lature, in the middle of each decade, to serve 

 as the basis of apportioning representation. 

 In pursuance of this requirement a general law 

 was enacted in 1855 placing the work in charge 

 of the Secretary of State, who was authorized 

 to appoint the necessary enumerators, find pro- 

 viding for the collection of various industri 

 statistics at the same time. Under this, witt 

 certain special provisions in each case whe 

 the necessary appropriations were made, thm 

 State censuses had been taken. Near the be- 

 ginning of this session Gov. Hill submitted 

 special message recommending that the census 

 of 1885 be confined strictly to an enumeration 

 of inhabitants, and that the enumerators i 

 the several counties be appointed bv the 

 county clerks under the rules of the Civil- 



