NEW MEXICO. 



rent expense, $233.2(5; salary fund, $39,154.58; 

 court fund, $7,965.14 ; miscellaneous fund, $28,- 

 250.01 ; compensation of assessors, $9,225.25 ; 

 transportation of convicts, $2.527.25 ; license 

 fund, $828.12; school fund, $743.12; Territorial 

 institutions, $33,875.50; normal schools, $868.- 

 33 ; normal institutes, $458.50 ; old district court 

 certificates, $21.70 ; to pay employees of the 30th 

 Legislative Assembly, $48 ; deficit 1889 and 1890 

 fund, $357.12 ; sinking-fund redemption, to pay 

 interest on warrants, $7,726.14 ; general fund, to 

 pay accounts prior to March 4, 1889, $3,138.04 ; 

 total, $165,576.96, of which $151,698.13 was from 

 annual appropriations and $13,878.83 from spe- 

 cial deficit of the forty-fourth fiscal year. 



The amount of warrants issued during the 

 first three quarters of the forty-fifth fiscal year, 

 from March 4, 1894, to Dec. 1, 1894, was : Peni- 

 tentiary, $33,392.47 ; salary fund, $29,465.96 ; 

 miscellaneous fund, $31,547.88 ; court fund, 

 $738.65 ; compensation of assessors fund, $15,- 

 558.62 ; transportation of convicts fund, $2,875.- 

 65 ; license fund, $390 ; Territorial institutions 

 fund, $3,575.28; normal schools, $11,978.37; 

 normal institutes, $1,350; branch agricultural 

 experiment stations, $1,400 ; public-school fund, 

 $117.41 ; sinking-fund redemption, to pay inter- 

 est on warrants, $144.45 ; general fund, to pay 

 old claims prior to March 3, 1889, $575.62 ; to- 

 tal, $162,106.36. of which $143,657.23 was from 

 annual appropriations and $18,449.13 from spe- 

 cial deficit of the forty-fourth fiscal year. 



The Legislature of 1893 tried to provide for 

 the funding of all claims against the Territory 

 duly audited and allowed, or to be audited and 

 allowed after the passage of the act, by the issue 

 of casual deficit bonds at 5 per cent. The 

 amount represented by these is $95,700. Under 

 another act of the last Legislature, refunding 

 bonds at 6 per cent., to the amount of $99,000, 

 have been issued, and Penitentiary refunding 

 bonds at 6 per cent., to the amount of $71,000. 

 In the Treasurer's report the bonded debt of the 

 Territory, Dec. 1, 1894, is given as follows: Peni- 

 tentiary bonds, 7 per cent., $37,000; Capitol 

 building bonds. 7 per cent., $200,000; Capitol 

 contingent fund bonds, 6 per cent., $50,000 ; cur- 

 rent-expense bonds, 6 per cent., $150,000 ; pro- 

 visional indebtedness bonds, 6 per cent., $200,- 

 000 ; insane asylum bonds, 6 per cent., $25,000 ; 

 casual deficit bonds, 5 per cent., $96,000; re- 

 funding bonds, 6 per cent., $99,000; Peniten- 

 tiary refunding bonds, 6 per cent., $71,000; to- 

 tal, $928,000, the average annual rate of interest 

 being about 6-^ per cent. The cash balance in 

 the treasury, June 30, 1894, was $139,899.24. 

 The balance in banks holding Territorial funds, 

 Dec. 1, 1894, was $150,627.40. 



Taxation. The value of property assessed for 

 taxes in 1893, for expenses of the forty-fourth 

 fiscal year, was $43,630,244.81 ; in 1894 the value 

 was $41,128,620.95. 



The levy for expenses during the forty-fourth 

 fiscal year was : For Territorial purposes, 6-5 

 mills on the dollar ; for Territorial institutions, 

 1 mill; for interest on the bonded debt, 1*7 

 mill; total rate, 9-2 mills on the dollar. The 

 levy of taxes in 1893, to meet the expenses of 

 the forty-fifth fiscal year, was : For Territorial 

 purposes, 6 mills on the dollar; special deficit, 

 forty-fourth year, 2'25 mills; normal schools, 0*4 



mill ; normal institutes, 0*1 mill ; branch agri- 

 cultural experiment stations, 0'25 mill; casual 

 deficit bond interest, 0-25 mill ; Territorial insti- 

 tutions, 1-75 mill; total. 11 mills on the dollar. 

 The tax levy in 1894, to meet the expenses of 

 1895, was : Territorial purposes, 6 mills on the 

 dollar; casual deficit bond interest, 1-5 mill; 

 Territorial institutions, 1-5 mill ; total rate, 7'5 

 mills on the dollar, to which must be added a tax 

 of 0'5 of a mill on the assessed value of cattle. 



The receipts from sheriffs and other collect- 

 ors, from March 6, 1893, to March 3, 1894, 

 amounted to $278.131.19; the receipts from 

 March 3, 1894, to Dec. 1, 1894, were $186,281.- 

 06. Tax collections are made twice a year. 



Education. The total receipts from taxa- 

 tion for school purposes to July 1, 1894, were 

 $192,496.44. There was expended during the 

 year, for teachers, $92,068.76 ; for rent, fuel, etc., 

 $19,457.52; for schoolhouses and grounds, $1!),- 

 541.76. The last Legislature provided for the 

 establishment of normal schools at Las Vegas 

 and Silver City ; at the former point the build- 

 ing will be opened during the coming year. At 

 Silver City the corner stone of the building was 

 laid Sept. 14, 1894. The building is to cost 

 $10,800, the ground having been given by the 

 city. The building is to be ready in February, 

 1895 ; in the meantime the first session opened 

 in September, in rented quarters, with 57 pupils. 

 To this school $9,998.36 has been paid. The 

 Agricultural College at Las Cruces has an en- 

 rollment of 147, an increase of 75 per cent, over 

 last year. Since March, 1893, it has received 

 $14,199.98. This college is open to both sexes, 

 and is nonsectarian. The entrance fee is $3. 

 The School of Mines at Socorro did not open in 

 September. It was determined to use the 

 $3,974.21 appropriated to it for the year to pur- 

 chase and equip a laboratory, to be ready for use 

 in 1895. The New Mexico Military Institute has 

 an enrollment of 57. The Ramona'lndian School 

 is adapted to the instruction of only 65 pupils. 

 but twice during the year the attendance was so 

 large that numbers 'of Indian children 

 turned over to the United States school at Sant 

 F6. The intention to make this latter solely 

 normal training school has been abandoned, am 

 it is now an Indian industrial training school 

 with a normal-school attachment, where 

 pupils under instruction during the year. 



The Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind 

 instructed 24 pupils during the year. An an- 

 nual appropriation of $5.000 was granted by the 

 last Legislature for its full maintenance. 



To other institutions annual appropriations 

 have been made as follow: To St. Vincent's 

 Hospital at Santa Fe, $6,000; to the Grant 

 County Charity Hospital at Silver City, $3.000; 

 to the Sisters of Mercy Hospital at Silver City. 

 $3,000; to the Ladies' Relief Society of Las 

 Vegas, $3,000; and to the Orphan School at 

 Santa Fe, $5,000. 



On the insane asylum, up to March 31, 1S(M, 

 the sum of $57.276.50 had been expended. 



Penitentiary. There remained in the Peni- 

 tentiary, .Time 30, 1894, 154 prisoners, 228 beine: 

 the total in confinement during the year, a daily 

 average of 130. Improvements of the value of 

 $29,778.55 were made during the year, all labor 

 being done by convicts. The cost of convicts' 



