license of the sale of liquors as the voters of the 

 several towns and cities shall deem best within 

 their respective limits." 



Charles F. Stone, of Laconia, was nominated for 

 Governor. 



The Prohibition party nominated Augustus G. 

 Stevens, of Manchester, for Governor. 



At the election, in November, the Republican 

 licket received 44,730 votes ; the Democratic, 35,653 ; 

 le Prohibition, 1,333 ; the People's, 104; the So- 

 iialist Labor, 263 ; the Socialist Democrat, 350 ; 



id scattering, 42. The Legislature of 1899 will 



ive 22 Republicans and 2 Democrats in the Sen- 

 ite, and 249 Republicans and 149 Democrats in 



NEW JERSEY. 



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NEW JERSEY, a Middle Atlantic State, one of 

 e original thirteen, ratified the Constitution Dec. 

 8,1787. Area, 7,815 square miles. The population, 

 cording to each decennial census, was 184,139 in 

 790; 211,149 in 1800; 245,562 in 1810; 277,426 in 

 820 ; 320,823 in 1830 ; 373,306 in 1840 ; 489,555 in 

 850; 672,035 in 1860; 906,096 in 1870; 1,131,116 

 1880 ; and 1,444,933 in 1890 ; by the State census 

 f 1895, 1,672,942. Capital, Trenton. 

 Government. The following were the State 

 cers during the year : Governor, John W. Griggs 

 til Jan. 31, followed by David 0. Watkins, who 

 ted until Foster M. Voorhees was elected ; Sec- 

 tary of State, George Wurtz ; Treasurer, George 

 Swain ; Comptroller, William S. Hancock ; At- 

 rney-General, Samuel H. Grey ; Adjutant Gen- 

 al, William S. Stryker ; Superintendent of Public 

 struction, Charles J. Baxter; Commissioner of 

 nking and Insurance, William Bettle all Re- 

 blicans. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 illiam J. Magie, Republican ; Associate Justices, 

 Gilbert Collins, Republican; David A. Depue, 

 Republican ; Jonathan Dixon, Republican ; Bennet 

 an Syckel, Democrat ; Charles G. Garrison, Dem- 

 rat ;" Job H. Lippincott, Democrat ; William S. 

 ummere, Republican : George C. Ludlow, Demo- 

 t ; Clerk, William Riker, Republican. Court of 

 rrors and Appeals: Judges, J. W. Bogart, G. 

 Krueger, William L. Dayton, John S. Barkalow, 

 Charles E. Hendrickson, and James H. Nixon. 

 Chancellor, Alexander T. McGill. 



Finances. The income of the State fund for 

 the year ending in 1896 was $2,138,532.88 ; for the 

 year ending in 1897 it was $2,298,777.88 ; an in- 

 crease of $160,245. The disbursements for 1897 

 amounted to $2,313,060.97 ; balance in bank to the 

 credit of the State fund Nov. 1, $945,345.89. Of 

 the total disbursements out of the State fund the 

 sum of $310,948.57 was expended for the erection 

 and improvement of public buildings and other 

 purposes not connected with the ordinary adminis- 

 ation of the State affairs ; these disbursements, 

 nominated extraordinary, were as follows : For 

 mpleting Camden Armory, $103,000; State Re- 

 formatory, $80,000; improvement at State Hos- 

 pital, Morris Plains, $74,995.23; constitutional 

 amendments, $17,123.87; new building, Reform 

 School for Boys, $8,000 ; National Guard expenses 

 at the inauguration of the President, $7,376.51 ; 

 equipment and furnishing Camden Armory, $6,000 ; 

 Chickamauga and Chattanooga Commission, $5,000 ; 

 new building at Deaf-Mute School, $4,953.96; 

 Trenton Battle monument, $4,500. Ordinary dis- 

 bursements amounted to $2,002,112.40. The net 

 increase in revenue was $160,245 from official 

 fees, $53,299.55 ; from State tax on railroad corpor- 

 ations, $35,776.77; from sinking fund, $35,000; 

 from collateral inheritance tax, $31,584.96 ; from 

 State Prison, $11.551.77; from which amounts a 

 decrease of $6,968.05 in judicial fees, from miscel- 

 laneous corporations and from minor sources, was 

 deducted. During the year the sum of $189,400 of 



the war bonds fell due and was paid out of the 

 ordinary income ; this, as against $57,000 paid on 

 the same account of 1896, was an increase of $132,- 

 400 in the reduction of the bonded debt of the 

 State. The sum of $200,000 was appropriated by 

 the Legislature for the payment of that amount of 

 bonds falling due 

 Jan. 1, 1898, which 

 sum was paid, leav- 

 ing the total bond- 

 ed debt $194,000. 

 Besides the war 

 debt, there was ow- 

 ing $48,000 to the 

 Agricultural Col- 

 lege, which made 

 the entire debt of 

 the State $242,000. 

 The only direct tax 

 for State purposes 

 levied was the 

 school tax, amount- 

 ing to $2,124,795, 

 which amount, to- 

 gether with theadd- 

 ed income from the 

 school fund, was FOSTER M. VOORHEES, 



distributed among GOVERNOB F NEW JERSEY ' 



the counties. The total receipts from the office of 

 the Clerk in Chancery were $44,097.90; expenses 

 of running the office, $29,031.03 ; net balance paid 

 into the treasury, $15,066.87. 



Valuation. The total assessment of real and 

 personal property for 1897 was $812,616,240, an in- 

 crease of $15,211,738 over 1896 ; of this sum, $714,- 

 015,890 represented real estate and $138,577,197 

 personal property ; the assessment of real estate for 

 1897 was an increase of $14,614,211 over that of 

 1896, and the assessment of personal property was 

 an increase of $177,508. The total amount of ex- 

 empt property for 1897 was $88,392,689. 



The ratables for 1898 show an increase in the 

 total valuations of $31,756,106 over those of 1897, 

 the aggregate valuations for 1898 being $844,365,- 

 198. The largest increase in any one county was 

 in Bergen, where the valuations rose from $25,325,- 

 603 in 1897 to $44,130,645 in 1898, because the 

 State Board of Taxation called the local assessors 

 to account for undervaluing all property in Bergen 

 County. In all the counties excepting Burlington,' 

 Camden, Gloucester, Hunterdon, and Warren there 

 was a notable increase ; in the five counties named 

 there was an aggregate decrease of $998,857 a de- 

 crease attributed to depression in agriculture. The 

 sum of $844,365,198 was the net valuation of the 

 combined real and personal property after deduc- 

 tion of $35,707,935 of debts. The gross valuation 

 of real estate was $740,657,371, and of personal 

 property $139,415,762. 



The aggregate assessed valuation of railroad and 

 canal property was $236,464,356 ; the tax for State 

 uses was $1,182,321, and for local use $403,788.85, 

 making the total tax $1,586,110.14. 



Banks. There were in 1898 26 savings banks, 

 21 State banks, and 23 trust companies operating in 

 the State, their aggregate resources being $87,327,- 

 728, a net increase for the year of $8,443,882. The 

 total resources of the savings institutions exceeded 

 $50,000,000, the increase for the year being $3,944,- 

 711, which was greater by $1,563,874 than the in- 

 crease for 1896 ; the amount deposited during the 

 year, excluding interest credited, was $2,002,800 in 

 excess of the amount withdrawn, which was more 

 than three times the excess for the preceding year ; 

 the net gain in the number of depositors or open 

 accounts was 8,387 ; the average amount of each 

 deposit or open account had increased $7.02 ; the 



