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NEW JERSEY. 



Hags. For the better protection of the colors 

 of the State war regiments. 



To regulate the practice of embalming. 



A State highway was authorized to be laid 

 out between Nashua and Manchester: also one 

 between the State line at Salisbury Beach and 

 Newcastle. 



NEW JERSEY, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Dee. 18, 1787. Area, 7.815 square miles. The 

 population, according to each decennial census, 

 was 184.139 in 175)0 : 211.140 in 1800: 245.502 in 

 1810- "774->0 in 1820: 320.823 in 1830: 373.306 

 in 1840- 489.555 in 1850; (572.035 in I860: 900.096 

 in 1870: 1.131,110 in 1880: and 1,444.933 in 1890; 

 by the State census of 1895, 1.672,942. Capital, 

 Trenton. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers duriiiir the year: Governor, Foster M. 

 YtKirhees; Secretary of State, George Wurtz; 

 Treasurer. George It! Swain; Comptroller, William 

 S. Hancock: Attorney-General, Samuel H. Grey; 

 Adjutant General. William S. Stryker; Superin- 

 tendent of Public Instruction, Charles J. Baxter; 

 Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, William 

 Mettle all Republicans. Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court. William J. Magie, Republican; 

 Associate Justices, Gilbert Collins, Republican; 

 David A. Depue, Republican; Jonathan Dixon, 

 Republican; Bennet Van Syckel, Democrat; 

 Charles G. Garrison, Democrat; Job H. Lippin- 

 cott. Democrat; William S. Gummere, Repub- 

 lican; George C. Ludlow, Democrat; Clerk, Wil- 

 liam Riker, Republican. Court of Errors and 

 Appeals: Judges, J. W. Bogart, G. Krueger, Fred- 

 eric Adams, W. H. Vredenburgh, Charles E. Hen- 

 drickson, and James H. Nixon. Chancellor, Alex- 

 ander T. McGill. 



Finances. The income and disbursements of 

 the State fund for 1898-'99 were as follow: Gross 

 receipts, $3,049,700.82; balance on hand Oct. 31, 

 1898, $1,001,524.45; total, $4,051,225.27; gross dis- 

 bursements, $2,798,071.85; balance in bank Oct. 

 31, 1899, $1,253,153.42. 



Payments were made during the year classed 

 as " extraordinary disbursements," amounting to 

 $778.706.91, an increase over the preceding year of 

 $587,536.57, largely due to the expenditure of 

 nearly $400,000 for expenses incurred in aiding 

 the United States to raise the volunteer army. 



The " civil war debt " has been reduced by the 

 payment of $123,000, leaving a balance of $71,000 

 of 'the "war debt," which falls due Jan. 1, 1902. 



Valuation. The assessed value of real and 

 personal property taxable locally for all purposes 

 for 1899 is as follows: Real estate, $755,276,846; 

 personal property, $141,456,551; making the to- 

 tal, less the deductions for debts, $864,516,527. 

 The increase of the assessments of 1899 over those 

 of 1898 shows a net gain of $20,151,329. The 

 total valuation of exempt property in the State 

 for 1899 is $97.096,589. 



Corporations. There were 1,945 corporations 

 chartered and authorized to issue capital stock 

 to the amount of $3,500,000,000 in New Jersey 

 during the fiscal year of the corporation depart- 

 ment. Nearly 200 of these are each capitalized 

 at $2,000,000 and upward. Six hundred of them 

 each have a capitalization of $1,000,000 or more. 

 Fifteen thousand corporations in every section of 

 America are to-day operating under the laws of 

 New Jersey. By the incorporating of these con- 

 cerns, the State has legalized the issuance of 

 stock aggregating nearly $8,000,000,000. This 

 year has witnessed the formation of more cor- 

 porations in New Jersey than any other in the 

 history of the State. 



Banks. The Legislature of 1899 changed the 

 system of taxing bank shares by providing that 

 " every person shall be assessed in the township 

 or ward where he resides for all shares of the 

 stock of any national bank in this State, or of 

 any bank organized under the laws of this State, 

 owned by him or in his possession or control 

 as trustee, guardian, executor, or administrator; 

 and in case said owner, trustee, guardian, execu- 

 tor, or administrator shall be a nonresident of 

 this State, then and *in that case such bank 

 shall be assessed in the township or ward where 

 said bank has its principal place of business, to 

 the amount of such shares so owned or held by 

 nonresidents as aforesaid in the manner now pro- 

 vided by statute in the case of other corporations,, 

 and except as aforesaid the property, real and 

 personal, of such banks, shall not be subject to 

 assessment or tax." This act apparently excludes 

 the bank building and the real estate of the bank 

 from taxation, and its constitutionality is likely 

 to be passed upon by the Supreme Court in 

 certiorari proceedings brought before it by the 

 Mechanics' National Bank of Trenton. 



Education. The annual enrollment in the 

 Normal School was, through the raising of the 

 standard of admission, brought within the range 

 of efficient management. The Model and Farnum 

 schools each show an increased enrollment. The 

 total annual enrollment was 1,455, or 5 more than 

 last year. The Normal School graduated 273 stu- 

 dents, all of whom are teaching. The average 

 salary was $40.66. 



State Prison. At the close of the fiscal year,. 

 Oct. 31, 1898, there were 1,228 inmates of the 

 prison, against 1,131 a year before. The daily 

 average for the year was 1,207. There were re- 

 ceived under commitment during the year 640. 

 There were received at the institution during the 

 following year 478 felons. Of this number 445 

 males were received from the State courts, 22 

 females were received from the same source, 9 

 males were received from the Federal courts, and 

 2 males were returned from the insane asylums 

 as cured. There were discharged during the year 

 by the expiration of sentence 469 State prisoners 

 and 99 United States prisoners. 



Riparian Commission. The commission,, 

 during a large part of the year, suspended the 

 making of grants and other conveyances while 

 it considered a change in the method of dealing 

 with the riparian lands. Its receipts, therefore, 

 were less than they would have been had the 

 old policy been pursued. They report having 

 received: From grants in fee, $11,884.17; from 

 leases, $1,726; from licenses, $710; from conver- 

 sions, $41,813.50; from rentals from leases, $46,- 

 609.85; total, $102,743.52. The State realized 

 in all from the sale of its lands under waters- 

 about $4,000,000 and from rentals therefor about 

 $1,000,000. 



Sewerage Commission. The Legislature 

 created a State Sew r erage Commission, and the 

 following were appointed commissioners: William 

 T. Hunt, president ; John Hinchcliffe, treasurer ; 

 Charles A. Fuller, Charles T. Harrington, and 

 David L. Wallace. The Legislature gave to the 

 members a veto power upon new sewerage sys- 

 tems which they might deem injurious to the 

 public. 



Manufactures. The following statement of 

 leading manufactures having a capital invested 

 of $1,000,000 or more has been issued from the 

 Bureau of Statistics. The results given are for 

 1898. Artisans' tools: 22 establishments; capital, 

 $2,317,144; product, $1,529,630. Brewing: 26 es- 

 tablishments; capital, $10,722,417; product, $9,- 



