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sociate Judge of the Court of Appeals in the 

 place of Judge Miller, neither party held a 

 State Convention. The Republican State Com- 

 mittee nominated Charles Daniels, and the 

 Democratic State Committee Rufus W. Peck- 

 ham, both having seats on the bench of the 

 Supreme Court. The Greenbackers nominated 

 Lawrence J. McParlin and the Prohibitionists 

 William J. Groo. Judge Peckham was elected 

 by a plurality of 7,797. The vote was as fol- 

 lows: Democratic, 468,815; Republican, 461,- 

 018; Prohibition, 36,437 ; Greenback, 2,766. 



On the question of calling a Constitutional 

 Convention, submitted to the people in pursu- 

 ance of a provision of the Constitution, 574,- 

 993 affirmative and 30,766 negative votes were 

 cast. Only two counties, Otsego and Scho- 

 harie, gave negative majorities. In the fol- 

 lowing fifteen districts Democrats were elected 

 to Congress, viz. : First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, 

 Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Elev- 

 enth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Eight- 

 eenth, and Nineteenth. In the other nineteen 

 districts Republicans were returned. The Leg- 

 islature consists of 20 Republicans and 12 

 Democrats in the Senate (elected in 1885), 

 and 74 Republicans and 54 Democrats in the 

 House. 



NEW YORK (CITY). Debt. The total city 

 debt at the close of the year amounted to 

 $131,601,103.57, from which is to be deducted 

 the sinking-fund at that date, amounting to 

 $38,294,958.10, leaving the net bonded indebt- 

 edness of the city at the beginning of the new 

 year, $93,306,145.47. This amount includes 

 revenue bonds, but excludes the cash in the 

 treasury and all unpaid and unliquidated ac- 

 counts. 



Of the funded debt not held by the sinking- 

 fund, $10,383,800 bears interest at the rate of 

 5 per cent., $31,016,900 at 6 per cent., and 

 $35,480,300 at 7 per cent. 



It also appears that of the total debt, bonds 

 to the amount of $77,689,681.49 are payable 

 from the proceeds of taxation, as distinguished 

 from the revenues pledged to the sinking-fund. 



Schools. The following figures exhibit the 

 educational statistics of the city. During the 

 year the total amount received and expended 

 for common-school education was $4,178,541.- 

 13, as follows: 



Teachers' wages $2,943,908 50 



School apparatus 151,344 23 



Sites, buildings, repairing and furnishing school- 

 houses, etc 623,048 93 



All other incidental expenses, viz. : 



Fuel $94,278 25 



Incidental expenses 87,191 34 



Janitors of ward schools, evening 



schools, and Normal College 126,826 22 



City superintendent and assistants, 

 agents of truancy, officers, etc., of 

 Board of Education, Nautical 

 School, and clerks to trustees 107,801 50 



Corporate schools 



866.092 31 

 94,147 16 



Total $4,178,541 18 



The amount of public moneys apportioned 

 to the city by the State Superintendent was 



$589,310.96. The amount expended for school 

 purposes is $206,710.53 less than that expend- 

 ed for the previous year. 



During the year five new departments or 

 schools were organized, and four were consoli- 

 dated, making a total of 302. The classes of 

 schools and the number of schools in each class 

 are shown in the following table : 



Normal College and training department 2 



Grammar-schools for males 47 



Grammar-schools for females 47 



Grammar-schools for both sexes 18 



Primary departments of grammar-schools 7T 



Primary schools (separate) 89 



Corporate schools (industrial schools, reformatories, or- 

 phan asylums, etc.) 48 



Evening schools 23 



Nautical school (on board ship St. Mary's) 1 



Total 302 



For the year ending Aug. 20, 1886, the daily 

 average attendance, in all the schools, was 152,- 

 936 ; the number of teachers, 4,098. The in- 

 crease in daily attendance was 2,376, and the 

 increase in the number of teachers employed 

 was 122. The returns show that the whole 

 number of different pupils taught was 234,320. 



During the year there were erected three 

 school-buildings, and extensive additions were 

 made to two schools already organized. There 

 will thus be obtained increased accommodation 

 for 3,943 pupils. 



The compulsory education act is enforced. 

 During the year, 3,312 reported as truants, 

 and 1,432 non - attendants were placed in 

 school. 



The great majority of the appointments of 

 female assistant teachers are made from among 

 the graduates of the Normal College. At the 

 commencement of that institution, held in 

 June, there were 284 graduates, of whom 263 

 have been licensed to teach, the remaining 21 

 being under age. 



The 28 evening-schools are conducted on a 

 plan that has been thoroughly tested and found 

 adapted to the needs of a great cosmopolitan 

 city. Junior schools have a graded course, 

 and admit pupils from thirteen to eighteen 

 years of age. Senior schools have a course in 

 which each pupil has an option of any two of 

 the subjects taught ; pupils in these schools 

 must be at least sixteen years of age. In all 

 evening-schools there may be formed classes in 

 which foreigners may study English. 



Savings-Banks. The savings - banks reports 

 for 1886 show that the resources of these 

 banks in New York city are $320,475,726, as 

 against $301,147,831 in 1885, an increase of 

 $19,327,895 in the twelve months. The amount 

 deposited is $270,569,399, as against $255,946,- 

 181 in 1885, an increase of $14,623,218, and 

 the total number of depositors is 669,433, as 

 against 640,524 in 1885, an increase of 28,913. 



Vital Statistics. The deaths in the city during 

 1886 numbered 35,330, the births 31,319, and 

 the marriages 12,216. In 1885 the record was 

 35,682 deaths, 30,030 births, and 11,716 mar- 

 riages. Of the 24,432 persons married in 1886, 

 7,425 men and 6,660 women were of foreign 



