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which $100.000 became payable on Jan. 1, 1888. 

 The reduction during the year amounted to 

 $100,000, paid out of moneys deposited in the 

 sinking fund. This fund has increased during 

 the year from $671,322.60 to $725,422.86. 

 There was received into it $241,197.75 and 

 paid out $187,097.49. 



The following statement exhibits- the finan- 

 cial condition of the treasury during the year : 



RECEIPTS. 



State tax on railroad corporations $1,083,487 24 



Tax on miscellaneous corporations 196,701 05 



State Prison receipts 71,1 71 34 



From other sources 67,759 91 



Total revenue $1,419,069 54 



On hand Oct. 81, 1886 125,404 43 



DISBURSEMENTS. 



On account of public debt $90,00000 



Charitable and reformatory institutions 288,960 05 



Courts, State Prison, etc 826,045 62 



State government, including legislature 816,121 50 



Military 108,597 16 



Printing, advertising, etc 137,995 27 



Other expenses 173,824 99 



Total... .. $1.436,044 59 

 Balance on hand Oct. 81, 18S7 $108,429 48 



There are unpaid railroad taxes remaining 

 uncollected for the last three years to the 

 amount of $203,943.68. The greater portion 

 of this sum is involved in cases before the 

 Court of Errors and Appeals, which have been 

 argued, and in which decisions are awaited. 

 During the year the Morris and Essex Railroad 

 Company paid to the Comptroller, in accord- 

 ance with a joint resolution of the Legislature 

 passed in March, the amount of taxes assessed 

 against that company, under the law of 1884, 

 for the year 1885 for State tax $157,640.19, 

 and for local tax $67,808.45, and for 1886 for 

 State tax $164,719.12, and for local tax $68,- 

 437.35, amounting in all to $458,614.11. The 

 joint resolution provided for the submission 

 of all other questions between the company 

 and the State to two arbitrators, one to be ap- 

 pointed by the -Governor on the part of the 

 State, and the other to be named by the com- 

 pany. These arbitrators were appointed, but 

 have not yet rendered their decision. 



The total receipts from the State school tax 

 for the year were $1,511,820.56 and the dis- 

 bursements $1,465,268, leaving a balance on 

 October 31 of $46,552.56. The public schools 

 also derive support from the income of the 

 State school fund, which this year amounted 

 to $196,882.29. The principal of this fund 

 consists of $1,089,833.16 of riparian leases, 

 and $2,532,442.50 of United States bonds, 

 real estate mortgages, cash balances, and other 

 securities, a total of $3,22,6275.66. 



Riparian Commission. The foldo wing is a sum- 

 mary of the doings of this commission during 

 the year. The grants, leases, and leases con- 

 verted into grants, amount to $33,173 84. The 

 rentals which have been paid to the State dur- 

 ing the past year on leases heretofore made by 

 legislative act and by the commission amount 

 to $61,024.38. The amount that represents 



the principal for lands disposed of by grant or 

 lease from April 4, 1884, to Oct. 31, 1887, is 

 $3,158,784.56. 



Education. The sum of $2,698,185.17 was 

 expended by the State and local boards for 

 public schools during the last fiscal year, of 

 which the amount expended for building and 

 repairing school-houses was $628,893.57. The 

 school property of the State is valued at $7,- 

 486,206. The school census shows that there 

 are 374,011 children between five and eighteen 

 years, and that there were 224,107 children in 

 attendance during the year. The number of 

 male teachers is 825 and of female teachers 

 3,177. The average monthly salary of male 

 teachers is $64.07, of female teachers, $41.34. 



The whole number in attendance at Normal 

 School during the year ending June 30, 1887, 

 was 239 ; average attendance, 205$ ; number 

 graduated from advanced course, 20 ; number 

 graduated from elementary course, 24. The 

 whole number in attendance in the Model 

 School during the year was 486 ; average at- 

 tendance, 396. 



Charities. At the Morristown Insane Asy- 

 lum there have been under treatment during 

 the year 1,073 patients, and there were re- 

 maining on the 31st day of October 873 pa- 

 tients, 743 of whom were public and 130 pri- 

 vate. The total receipts for maintenance for 

 the year were $252,359.30 ; the total expense 

 for the same time, $229,631.54. 



The Trenton Insane Asylum cared for 865 

 patients, of whom 707 remained at the close of 

 the fiscal year. The receipts were $187,192.95, 

 and the expenditures $147,494.36. The Legis- 

 lature this year made an appropriation of 

 $100,000 for the construction of an additional 

 building at this asylum, for which contracts 

 have been made looking to its completion in 

 November, 1888. 



The blind children supported at the expense 

 of the State are placed in the institutions in 

 the cities of New York and Philadelphia, 31 

 being in the New York and 10 in the Pennsyl- 

 vania institution. The amount paid during the 

 year to the former was $9,277.18; to the lat- 

 ter, $5,412.51. 



There have been 89 feeble-minded children 

 provided for by the State during the year, 78 

 of these at the Pennsylvania Training-School 

 at Elvvyn, 5 at the Connecticut Institution for 

 Imbeciles. The amount expended for the 

 maintenance, support, and care of the children 

 in these two institutions has been $23,491.81. 



The State also supports a school for deaf- 

 mutes, containing over 100 pupils. 



The Soldiers' Home contained 328 inmates 

 on October 31, the average number during the 

 year being 329. The Home has cared for 

 14,725 soldiers since its establishment. The 

 total receipts for the year were 33,814.29, and 

 the expenses, $32,592.79. Provision was made 

 by the last Legislature for the establishment of 

 a separate home for disabled soldiers, at a cost 

 not exceeding $125,000. The institution was 



