NEW YORK. 



Auff. 5, 1861, OB follows: For the ue of the 

 S,-luM)l of Mines. $17,600; insane anylutnB, $17,X); 



World's ('oluiiil'iaii Commission, $17,000; San Juan 

 K\]Tiiii<-.ii!:il stution, $5,000; and Deaf and Dumb 

 Institute, $5,UOO. 



NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the 

 original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 

 Jti. 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each national decennial cen- 

 sus, was 340,120 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 959,- 

 049 in 1810; 1,372.111 in 1820; l,918,(!i)S in is::o ; 

 J.I-JN.921 in 1840; 3,097.394 in 1850 ; 3,880,7:15 in 

 isiiii; l.:;s-j,7o!) in 1870: 5.082,871 in 1880; and 

 rt.!)!>7,853 in 1890. According to a State census 

 taken in 1892, the population was 6,513,344. 

 Capital, Albany. 



(overnment. The following were the State 

 officers daring the year: Governor, Roswell P. 

 Flower. Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, Wil- 

 liam P. Sheehan; Secretary of State, Prank 

 Ui<v; Comptroller, Frank Campbell ; Treasurer, 

 Elliot Danforth ; Attorney-General, Simon W. 

 K'ox'iidale; State Engineer and Surveyor, Martin 

 Schciick : Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 James P. Crooker ; Superintendent of Prisons, 

 Austin Lathrop; Superintendent of Insurance, 

 James P. Pierce; Superintendent of Public 

 Works, Edward Hannan ; Commissioner of Sta- 

 tistics of Labor, Charles P. Peck, who was suc- 

 ceeded on Jan. 20 by Thomas J. Bowling ; Rail- 

 road Commissioners, Michael Rickard, S. A. 

 Beardsley, and Alfred C. Chapin ; Chief Judge 

 of the Court of Appeals, Charles Andrews; As- 

 sociate Judges, Robert Earl, John C. Gray, Ru- 

 fus W. Peckham, Denis O'Brien, Francis M. 

 Fitch, and Isaac H. Maynard. 



Finances. The balance in the treasury on 

 Dot 1, 1892, was $3,448,053. The receipts for 

 the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1893, were $17,- 

 779,470, while the payments were $18,034,174, 

 and the balance was $3,193.349. 



The receipts were distributed as follow : From 

 collateral inheritance tax, $3.071,687, of which 

 $2.078,278 were paid in from New York County 

 and $346.216 from Kings; notaries' fees, $46,- 

 221 ; salt duties, $34,729 : Auburn Prison earn- 

 ings, $3,535; Clinton Prison earnings, $10,773; 

 Sing Sing Prison earnings, $7,585; sales by 

 commissioners of the Land Office, $24,334 ; taxes 

 on corporations, $1,668,911 ; taxes on organiza- 

 tion of corporations, $298,241 ; and pool tax on 

 racing associations under the'Ives pool law, $21,- 

 574. The payments of the State ^Treasurer for the 

 year ended Sept. 30 were : General fund, $11,- 

 283.868: canal fund, $1,576,137; common-school 

 fund, $670,727; free-school fund, $3,911,568; 

 United States deposit fund, $300.453; college 

 land scrip fund, $229,800; literature fund, 

 $111,269; Normal University fund, $19.000; 

 and military record fund, $1,848; total, $18,- 

 053,174. The receipts for the last three months 

 of 1893 were $2,793,715, and the payments $4,- 

 715,289, leaving a balance in the treasury on 

 Jan. 1, 1894, of $1,271,675. 



The tax rate fixed by the Legislature was 

 made up of 0*98 mill for school purposes, 0-33J 

 mill for the support of the insane, 0'37f mill for 

 canals, and the remainder, 0'89 mill, for general 

 purposes, making a total direct tax rate of 2-58 

 mills. For the first time in seventy-five years 

 the State is entirely free from debt. It is esti- 



mate,] that the actual surplus on S-pt. 30, 1894, 

 will be $8,089,177. 



The active enforcement of the collection of 

 the amounts under the corporation tax laws and 

 the inheritance tax laws, for the fiscal year end- 

 ing Sept. :<). 1HM, exceeded the amount estimated 

 by Comptroller Campbell in making up the tax 

 rate by nearlv $2,000,000. 



Wealth of the State. At the meeting of the 

 State Board of Equalization, which is composed 

 of all the State "officers with the exception of 

 Governor, held in September, the assessors re- 

 ported that during the year they examined and 

 compared the values of about 5,000 parcels of 

 property, in various counties, with assessments 

 thereon. In 1891 the assessed value of real es- 

 tate was $3,526,645,815. In 1892 it was $3.626,- 

 -645,093, an increase of $99,999,278. In 1892 the 

 assessment of personal property amounted to 

 $405,095,684; in 1892, $411,413,856, an increase 

 of $6,318,172. The apparent full value of the 

 real estate for 1892 was fixed at $5,508,133,953. 



Savings Banks and Trust Companies. 

 From the annual statements of the New York 

 city savings banks for the year ended Dec. 31, 

 1893. issued by the State banking department, 

 it appears that the amount deposited in 25 banks 

 was $86,511,227, while the amount withdrawn 

 was $104,113,786. The returns of the trust com- 

 panies in New York and Brooklyn, compared 

 with the figures of 1892, show a gratifying im- 

 provement. Two more companies reported for 

 1893 than there were in operation in 1892. The 

 resources of New York and Brooklyn companies 

 in 1893 were $21,500.185 greater than in 1892. 

 And'of these resources the two new companies 

 contributed $17,529,674, but though the total 

 profits, amounting to $7,373.469 in 1892, jumped 

 in 1893 to $16,216,554, being an increase of 

 $8,843,085, the new companies furnished but 

 $640,937 of this increase. The total resources 

 of 28 companies in 1893 were $346,821,468, com- 

 pared with $325,261,283 for 1892. Dividends 

 from these companies declared during 1893 

 amounted to $3,370,000, compared with $1,672,- 

 500 in the year previous. Equally favorable is 

 the showing of the profits, for from these com- 

 panies the profits in 1893 was $16,216,554, while 

 in 1892 it was $7,373,469. 



Legislative Session. The one hundred and 

 sixteenth regular session of the Legislature be- 

 gan Jan. 3 and ended April 20. The number of 

 new laws was 726. The Senate held over from 

 the previous year, but the Assembly was the first 

 one elected under the new apportionment, which 



gave a greater representation to the cities and 

 >ss representation to the country districts. The 

 Senate stood: Democrats, 17; Republicans, 14; 

 Independent Republican, 1. The Assembly 

 stood : Democrats, 74 ; Republicans, 54. 



The act calling a constitutional convention was 

 superseded by a new act making the number 

 of delegates 165 instead of 171, all of them to be 

 elective. Each of the 32 Senate districts was to 

 elect 5 delegates, and the number of delegates 

 at large was fixed at 15. The election was held 

 Nov. 7, the Republicans electing 105 delegates 

 and the Democrats 70. The convention will be 

 held in Albany in May. isfll. 



The village 'of Olean, in Cattaraugus Co., was 

 given a city charter. 



