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The local tax on railroad corporations amounted 

 to $407,173.06. 



The disbursements were as follow: Adjutant 

 General's department, $10,276.37 ; advertising, $2,- 

 498.13; Agricultural College fund, interest, $2,400; 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, $16,849.79; As- 

 sembly Committee of Investigation, $2,941.38; 

 Attorney-General's department, $13,796.51; blind 

 and feeble-minded, $79,078.34; Board of Fish and 

 Game Commissioners, $21,500; Board of Pilot 

 ( nmmissioners, $1,100; Board of Visitors to Agri- 

 cultural College of New Jersey, $139.54; Bradley's 

 New Jersey Citations, $1,500; Bureau of Statistics, 

 $9,700.11; collateral inheritance tax, $9,819.84; 

 commissions, $249.50; county lunatic asylum, 

 $187,800.15; Court of Chancery, $72,178.68; Court 

 of Errors and Appeals, $10,510.50; Court of Par- 

 dons. $1,740.48; deaf-mutes, $43,000; Delaware 

 Bay and Maurice River Cove Oyster Commission, 

 $23,985.68 ; Department of Banking and Insurance, 

 $22,161.16; discharged convicts, $2,000; emergen- 

 cy, $9,991.65; Executive Department, $15,208.80; 

 factories and workshops, $9,967.73; Farnum Pre- 

 paratory School, $1,456.86; feeble-minded, $4,885.- 

 89 ; free school libraries, $5,290 ; geological survey, 

 $12,999.68; Home for Disabled Soldiers, $20,000; 

 Home for Feeble-minded Women Vineland, $7,- 

 002.25; industrial education, $43,192.80; Industrial 

 School for Girls, $12,174.34; insurance, $200; \su\\ 

 and equity reports, $7,687.60; Legislature, $83,- 

 753.78; loans to school fund, $193,000; Manual 

 Training and Industrial School at Bordentown, 

 $5,000; Monmouth battle monument. $437.84; 

 National Guard, $134,994.15; Naval Reserve, $16,- 

 403.61; Newark armory, $50,000; New Jersey 

 Home for Disabled Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and 

 their Wives, $20,496.30; New Jersey State Horti- 

 cultural Society, $400; office of clerk in Chancery, 

 $33,281.24; office of clerk of the Supreme Court, 

 $23,048.23; office of the Comptroller, $13,683.99; 

 office of the Secretary of State, $28,848.42; office 

 of the Treasurer, $12,885.13; Oyster Commission, 

 $9,890.62; Oyster Commission (clams), $1,961.32; 

 Palisades, $2,500 ; pensions, $4,743.72 ; presentation 

 of sword, $302.50; preservation of records, $3,500; 

 printing, $41,897.64; public roads, $153,432; Quar- 

 termaster General's department, $9,946.93; Rah- 

 way Reformatory, $260,000; Reform School for 

 Boys, $32,248.40; refunded taxes on exempted mis- 

 cellaneous corporations, $131.81; Riparian Com- 

 mission, $12,875.79; riparian lands, $20,575.52; 

 school census, $1,500; school fund expenses, $3,- 

 513.68; sinking fund account, $4,260; sinking 

 fund legal expenses, $836.88; soldiers' State pay, 

 $9; Spanish-American War medals, $30.75; State 

 Board of Agriculture, $6,912.24; State Board of 

 Arbitration, $6,216.50; State Board of Assessors, 

 $22,562.70; State Board of Children's Guardians, 

 $2,819.56; State Board of Education, $3,102.25; 

 State Board of Health, $15,126.70; State Board 

 of Taxation, $13,589.84; State Charities Aid Asso- 

 ciation, $600; State Dairy Commissioner, $13,460.- 

 29 ; State Home for Boys, $29,946.57 ; State Home 

 for Girls, $27,561.56; State hospitals, $923.59; 

 State Hospital at Trenton, $75,859.72; State Hos- 

 pital at Morris Plains, $225,435.09; Statehouse 

 Commission, $55,000; Statehouse Commission 

 special, $500; Statehouse Building Commission, 

 $46,000; State Library, $7,599.92; State Museum, 

 $1.922.20; State Normal School, $49,999.05; State 

 Prison maintenance, $93,001.06; State Prison fur- 

 niture, appliances, and repairs, $11,880.28; St;itc 

 Prison salaries, $100,064.59; State Sewerage Com- 

 mission, $9.118.48; Slate 1 raveling libraries, $2,000; 

 Supreme Court. *I06.73S.90 ; Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, $12,943; Teachers' Institute, 

 $3,000; teachers' libraries, $400; transportation of 



prisoners, $308.20; Trenton battle monument, 

 $500; Tuberculosis Commission, $10,500; village 

 for epileptics, $46,961.67; Washington Association 

 of New Jersey, $2,500; Weather Service, $1,000; 

 total, $2,871,726.97. 



The Comptroller gives the following statement 

 of the State debt: "The last installment of the 

 civil war debt, amounting to $71,000, falls due 

 Jan. 1, 1902. Certificates of the State issued to 

 the Commissioners of the Agricultural College 

 amount to $48,000, which sum added to the bal- 

 ance of the war debt makes the entire debt of the 

 State $119,000. The assets of the State fund con- 

 sist of 1,887 shares of the stock of the United 

 Railroad and Canal Companies of New Jersey, the 

 market value of which amounts to $505,716, inde- 

 pendent of the assets of the sinking fund, which 

 the State Treasurer reports amount to $207,- 

 526.45." 



Under an act to tax intestates' estates, gift-. 

 legacies, and collateral inheritance in certain ca-e>. 

 $177,074.54 was received from estates, upon assess- 

 ments made by the surrogates and Register of the 

 Prerogative Court, being an increase over the pre- 

 vious year of $91,553.86. 



State Institutions. The number of convicts 

 received at the State Prison in the year was 47 -. 

 the whole number in the prison, Nov. 30, 1900, 

 was 1,091. The average number of patients in the 

 hospital was 31. There were 5 deaths. The total 

 expenditure was $206,707.43. Extensive repairs 

 and improvements were made, and these cost $11,- 

 880.28. The average number of men employed in 

 the shops during the year was 599, and the amount 

 earned by their labor was $75,952.04. The average 

 number of prisoners employed was 57 less than in 

 the preceding year, and the decrease in the earn- 

 ings, compared with preceding year, was $790.2.~>. 

 This decrease was due to the fact that more of 

 the contractors during the last fiscal year than 

 in the preceding year availed themselves of the 

 privilege accorded in their contracts of suspending 

 work at times. 



The State Hospital for the Insane, at Trenton, 

 received in 1900 265 patients; it discharged 160 

 men and 158 women. Of those discharged, 84 were 

 reported recovered, 30 improved, 104 died, and 91 

 were removed to other institutions. At the close 

 of the fiscal year, Oct. 31, the whole number in 

 the hospital was 1,117, which was 277 more than 

 the normal capacity of the building. Considerable 

 improvements were made in the buildings. 



The State Village for Epileptics, at Skillman, 

 had 25 patients, Oct. 31 17 men and 8 women. 

 Three were discharged (insane), 2 escaped, and 1 

 died. The managers say in their report: "There 

 are many patients in the hospitals for the insane. 

 kept there to their own detriment and that of the 

 class of persons for whom those institutions an- 

 maintained. There are others in the aliiishnuse-. 

 and many who are in private families where they 

 are a grievous burden to those who are abmi't 

 them, families in many cases who are unable to 

 support themselves under the most favorable cir- 

 cumstances, and when embarrassed with the care 

 of epileptics are discouraged. A long list of appli- 

 cations is on file, including many earnest appeal* 

 from the parents of children. . . . While the dis- 

 ease is not ordinarily directly amenable to medi- 

 cine, it has been conclusively proved that a regu- 

 lar method of living and open-air occupation, with- 

 out the imposition of exhausting tasks, diminish 

 to a great degree the number and severity of the 

 sei/ures, and recovery in an increasing ratio 

 ensues." 



The trustees of the State Home for (Jirls. at 

 Trenton, say in their annual report: "During the 



