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pended, leaving a balance to the credit of the 

 home at the end of the year of $63,478.74. From 

 the United States an additional amount of $23,- 

 #22.70 was received. 



Pensions. The State paid during the year 

 on account of pensions $5,877.13, and the United 

 States $2.608,215.34 to 19,675 pensioners. 



State Prison. For this institution the net 

 amount disbursed was as follows : For mainte- 

 nance of convicts, $77,491.38 ; for salaries, $78,- 

 081.27; for repairs, $5,645.54; payment to dis- 

 charged convicts, $1,390 ; total, $162,608.19. The 

 sum received from the proceeds of convict labor 

 was $49,282.15. An average of 1.000 prisoners 

 was maintained during the year. In February 

 a convict, while trying to escape, shot and killed 

 a keeper. For this murder he was hanged. 



Reform School. The balance of the special 

 appropriation for the new family building, $8,- 

 775.65, was this year paid to this institution, as 

 well as $58,761.20 for support of the school, and 

 $232.36 expenses of trustees; a total of $67,- 

 769.21, an increase over last year of $3.981.46. 



Industrial School for Girls. For mainte- 

 nance and repairs of this school $18,350.83 was 

 this year expended. By an act of the Legisla- 

 ture of 1894 a special appropriation of $17,000 

 was made for building an addition to the school. 

 Of this appropriation $9,455.75 was paid over. 

 The disbursements for maintenance and repairs 

 show an increase over last year of $2,373.28. 



The Oyster Industry. In 1893 an act was 

 passed to promote the propagation and growth 

 of seed oysters, and to protect the natural oyster- 

 beds of the State, and an oyster commission was 

 appointed. The act appropriates $5,000 annually 

 for three years, $4,000 of which was to be ex- 

 pended in the various districts, and $1,000 of 

 which was to meet incidental expenses not spe- 

 cially provided for. For several years controver- 

 sies 'have existed between persons interested in 

 the oyster industry in Delaware Bay. In the 

 winter of 1893-'94 these culminated in a violent 

 outbreak, and this occasioned the appointment 

 by the last Legislature of a .commission of 3 

 to examine into the difficulty. The report of 

 this commission strongly recommends that the 

 oyster lands in Maurice river cove and Delaware 

 Bay be placed under State control, as necessary 

 to 'their preservation. Other protective legisla- 

 tion is also advised. 



Electric Road. The New York and Philadel- 

 phia Traction Company has secured a charter 

 and has filed in the Secretary of State's office 

 the surveys, routes, and descriptions of the pro- 

 posed electric road, which is to stretch diagonally 

 across New Jersey from New York to Philadel- 

 delphia, with lateral branches taking in many of 

 the principal towns of the State. The entire 

 system will comprise about 150 miles of electric 

 railway, and will accommodate the travel of fully 

 5.000,000 people. The road is designed not only 

 to carry passengers, but to transport farming 

 truck, manufactured products, and general mer- 

 chandise. The capital stock of the two com- 

 panies managing the road is $10.500,000. It is 

 intended to consolidate into the system the 

 local electric lines. These embrace about 70 

 miles of road outside of Jersey City and Newark. 



Proposed Ship Canal. Pennsylvania and 

 New Jersey are considering the practicability of 



constructing a ship canal across Now Jersey 

 The trip between Philadelphia and Nt-w York 

 by the existing route, by way of Delaware river 

 and bay, and up the New Jersey coast, covers a 

 distance of 256 miles. With the proposed canal 

 in operation the distance would be about 90 

 miles, which could be made in a fifteen-hour run. 

 This inland route would do away with the hott 

 of marine disasters in the coastwise trade. 



Decisions. The Chancellor, on June 12, filed 

 an opinion of much importance in reference to 

 electric railways. He decided that a street rail- 

 way constructed in a highway, under authority 

 of law, with a roadbed that 'will admit of the 

 free use of the highway by all other lawful 

 means, ... is but a modification of the public 

 use to which the highway was originally devoted, 

 and is not an additional burden on the land, for 

 which compensation may be required. 



The Chief Justice, on June 11, rendered a de- 

 cision to the effect that females have not the 

 right to vote for any officers m the State, elec- 

 tive by the people, whether members of the local 

 or State government, and that the Legislature, 

 under the present Constitution, can not enact 

 laws of any kind that will give the privilege of 

 voting to women. On June 13 the Attorney- 

 General rendered an opinion that women can 

 vote at school meetings on the question of what 

 money is to be expended, and that the Chief 

 Justice's opinion can not be interpreted to deny 

 to women the right to vote on other matters than 

 election of officers. On Nov. 8 Judge Dixon, of 

 the Supreme Court, handed down a decision in 

 the Vineland school case, which involved the 

 right of women to vote at school elections, that, 

 "school trustees are officers within Article II, 

 paragraph 1, of the Constitution ; so that, if 

 they are made elective by the people, only males 

 can vote for them." The Supreme Court refused 

 admission to the New Jersey bar to Miss Mary 

 Philbrooke. A bill providing for her admission 

 is to be submitted to the next General Assembly. 



NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the United 

 States, organized Sept. 9, 1850; area, 122,580 

 square miles. The population, according to each 

 decennial census, was 61,547 in 1850; 93,516 in 

 1860; 91,874 in 1870 ; 119,565 in 1880; and 153,- 

 593 in 1890. Capital, Santa Fe. 



Government. The following were the Terri- 

 torial officers during the year : Governor, Wil- 

 liam T. Thornton, Democrat ; Secretary of State, 

 Lorion Miller : Auditor, Demetrio Perez : Treas- 

 urer, Rufus J. Palen ; Solicitor-General, Edward 

 L. Bartlett ; Adjutant General, W. S. Fletcher ; 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, Amado 

 Chavez ; Secretary of the Bureau of Immigration, 

 Max Frost: Chief Justice, Thomas Smith; As- 

 sociate Justices, William D. Lee, Albert B. Fall, 

 Edward P. Seeds until July, when N. B. Laugh- 

 lin was appointed, and Alfred A. Freeman until 

 December, when II. B. Hamilton was appointed. 



Finances. The fiscal year in New Mexico 

 begins in March. The Auditor's report, issued 

 in December, 1894, contains the accounts from 

 Dec. 5, 1892, to Dec. 1, 1894. He reports the 

 amount of warrants issued from Dec. 5, 1892, to 

 March 4, 1893, as $81,878.62. The amount of 

 warrants issued during the forty-fourth fiscal 

 vear from March 6. 1893. to March 3, 1894, was 

 as follows : Penitentiarv, $30,124.90 ; Capitol cur- 



