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and another compels the equipment of freight 



car- with automatic couplers. 



A codification of all the agricultural laws was 

 passed. The supply bill gave $ 15,000 for the 

 maim. -nance of larmcrs' institutes, under the di- 

 rection of tin- State Agricultural Society ; $4.500 

 for the State Weather Bureau: and $50,000 to 

 Cornell University for dairy husbandry. Here- 

 after no State money shall be expended for any 

 substitute for butter. The keeper of a hotel or 

 rot an rant is forbidden to furnish imitation but- 

 ter or cheese to his employees. A charter was 

 given to the Beet Sugar Co-operative Community. 



The Legislature of 1892 appropriated $8,000 

 toward procuring an accurate topographical 

 map of the State, and this year an appropriation 

 of $30,000 for the same purpose was made. 

 The work is a joint one between the United 

 States and New York State. Nine surveying 

 parties are at work at various parts of the State 

 at Niagara Falls, at Oswego, at Watertown, in 

 Franklin County, in the Mohawk valley, and 

 along the route of the Champlain Canal. These 

 part ies are working under the scheme of co-oper- 

 ation between the State and the National Govern- 

 ment. The State pays the expenses of the engi- 

 neers, and the United States pays their salaries. 



A law was enacted which, in its first stages, 

 affected only Young Men's Christian Associations 

 and Catholic Unions, but afterward it was made 

 general. This provided that the real property 

 of a corporation organized exclusively for the 

 moral and mental improvement of men and 

 women, or for religious, charitable, missionary, 

 hospital, educational, patriotic, historical, or 

 cemetery purposes, and used exclusively for 

 such purposes, shall be exempt from taxation ; 

 if a portion only of a building is used for 

 such purposes, then that portion alone shall 

 be exempt. Church property is exempt, al- 

 though the title may be in the name of a bishop. 

 A law was passed to prevent a repetition of the 

 Tilden will case, providing that no gift, grant, 

 bequest, or devise to religious, educational, char- 

 itable, or benevolent uses, which shall in other 

 respects be valid under the laws of this State, 

 shall be deemed invalid by reason of the indefi- 

 niteness or uncertainty of the persons designated 

 as the beneficiaries thereunder in the instrument 

 creating the same. 



The sum of $100,000 was given for a new nor- 

 mal school in Jamaica. 



All attempts to replace the paster ballot with 

 the blanket ballot tailed, as did also a bill re- 

 quiring all voters in the rural districts to regis- 

 ter in person. 



The usual large appropriation for the im- 

 provement of the canals was not made. The 

 sum of $6,000 was appropriated for improving 

 the westerly channel of the Hudson at Cox- 

 sackie ; $6,000 for improving the easterly chan- 

 nel at Stuyvesant : and $4,000 for repairing the 

 dikes at Mull's Light, Pitoway Island, and 

 Greenbush. The appropriation for continuing 

 work on the Capitol was $700,000. 



The Legislature held memorial exercises for 

 James G. Elaine, George William Curtis, Fran- 

 cis Kernan, ex-Speaker James W. Husted, and 

 Senator Edward P. Hagan. 



Apportionment. The State apportionment, 

 based on the national census of 1890, after con- 



siderable legal agitation, was adjusted in compli- 

 ain-1- witli decitionfl by the ( 'ourt of AM-. 



The World's Fair. During March the 

 Legislature appropriated a second $300,000 for 

 the expenses of the State exhibit at Chicago, 

 ami in consequence New York had a building 

 which was said to be the finest single piece of 

 architecture at the fair. Efforts were made to 

 save the building, and it was given to the women 

 of Chicago, but they were unable to accept it. 

 It had served its purpose and was destroyed. 

 Among the exhibits of the Woman's Board at the 

 fair was the collection of a library of books writ- 

 ten by women. From this State went a collec- 

 tion of about 2,500 volumes written by New 

 York women. The claim was made for it that 

 it was absolutely complete. On its retuni, this 

 collection was given a permanent home in the 

 State library. 



Education. The number of children attend- 

 ing the common schools during 1893 was 1,083,- 

 228, an increase of 10,135 over the previous year. 

 The number of school age was 1,892,388, show- 

 ing that 809,160 children nearly half the chil- 

 dren of school age were educated in private or 

 parochial schools, or were not in school at all. 

 The total amount expended for public schools 

 during the year was $21,901,678.72, an increase of 

 $767,162.98 over the amount expended in the 

 previous year. The larger part of this sum was 

 raised by local taxation. 



Lunacy. The gradual transfer of the care of 

 the insane to the State commission, as provided 

 for by the law enacted in 1890, has been success- 

 fully accomplished, but not without considerable 

 difficulty. On Oct. 1, 1893, 8 great hosj.it a Is. 

 costing $10,426,127, containing about 9,000 in- 

 sane patients, became a State charge, and for 

 their support the Legislature appropriated $1,- 

 343,000 for the year beginning with that date. 



Crime. According to the report submitted 

 with the Governor's message, the number of 

 convicts in the three State prisons on Sept. :'(>. 

 1893, was 3,491, being 104 less than on the same 

 date of the previous year, and the lowest since 

 1889. Of this number 1.306 were employed in 

 productive industries on Sept. 30, 1893, compared 

 with 2,162 in 1892. This falling off could not. 

 but affect the prison receipts from industries. 

 At the same time the employment of convict 

 labor in building shops at Clinton and Auburn 

 prisons has saved the State about $46.000. The 

 average cost of care and maintenance for the 

 fiscal year was $137.04 for each convict. 



National Guard. The supervision of the 

 State militia is chiefly under the charge of the 

 adjutant-general on the (lovernor's stall. The 

 present incumbent is Maj.-(ici). Josiah Porter. 

 According to his annual report there are about 

 650,000 men in the State subject to military 

 duty. The State Guard comprises 11 regiments. 

 3 battalions, 44 separate companies, 5 batteries 

 of light artillery, 1 troop of cavalry, and X sig- 

 nal corps. During the year the (iltth Regiment 

 was reduced to a battalion of 5 companies, the 

 8th Regiment to a battalion of 4 companies, and 

 the :>~>th Separate Company. Ogdensburg. and 

 the 45th Separate Company, Cortland, were dis- 

 banded. The General Government has adopted 

 a new magazine small arm for the army. 



The strength of the guard at the time of the 



