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NEW YORK (STATE). 



Estimated value of school-houses and sites. . $81,011,211 00 

 Number of teachers employed during legal 



term of school 21,122 



Number of teachers employed during any por- 

 tion of the year. 31,570 



Number of children attending public schools. 1,041,089 



Number attending normal schools 6.270 



Number of volumes in school-district libraries. 701^675 

 Number of persons in the State between the 



ages of five and twenty-one 1,631,500 



There has been a steady decrease in the num- 

 ber of books in school-district libraries. In 

 1880 the number reported was 1,286,536; in 

 1881, 707,155; in 1882, 705,812, and now 701,- 

 675. There are twenty-four literary and thir- 

 teen medical colleges connected with the Uni- 

 versity of the State. Of these, two were char- 

 tered during the year Oanisius College, of 

 Buffalo, and Niagara University, at Suspension 

 Bridge. There are under the visitation of the 

 Regents of the University 277 academies and 

 academical departments of union schools, com- 

 prising about 36,000 pupils and 1,400 teachers. 

 The instruction of common-school teachers was 

 carried on in 95 academical institutions, in 

 which 1,611 teachers were trained. 



Banks, Insurance, Railroads. Eight new banks 

 of discount were organized, under State laws, 

 during the year, and one failed, leaving the total 

 number eighty-four, the condition of which, on 

 October 1, was reported as follows: 



Of the increase in capital, $1,300,000 was the 

 result of the conversion of banks from the na- 

 tional to the State system. On the first day of 

 July 127 savings-banks reported to the Super- 

 intendent of the Banking Department. Dur- 

 ing the year one new savings institution was 

 organized, and one closed after paying its lia- 

 bilities in full. The condition of these sav- 

 ings-banks on the day named was as follows : 



The reports made July 1st by the sixteen 

 loan, mortgage, guarantee, and indemnity com- 

 panies doing business in this State exhibit the 

 following condition : 



Sixteen institutions for the safe-keeping and 

 guaranteeing of personal property, with a capi- 

 tal aggregating $2,886,900, were under the su- 

 pervision of the Banking Department on the 

 first day of October. 



On the first day of July there were doing 

 business in the Shite 147 joint-stock fire-insur- 

 ance companies, with total assets of $169,983,- 

 92456, including a net surplus of $51,978,- 

 273.33; fifteen marine-insurance companies, 

 with total assets of $23,253,860.86, including a 

 net surplus of $4,440,141.59 ; twenty-nine life- 

 insurance companies, with total assets of $449,- 

 602,347.17, including surplus as regards policy- 

 holders of $76,751,390.73 ; and seven casualty 

 insurance companies, with total assets of $3,- 

 617,413.41, and a net surplus of $1,331,038.81. 

 There were 131 co-operative insurance associ- 

 ations doing business in the State, Jan. 1, 1883. 

 Of these 119 were New York State companies, 

 and 12 were organized in other States; the 

 number of certificates in force issued by these 

 associations was 443,296. The amount of se- 

 curities on deposit with the Insurance Depart- 

 ment July 1st, for the protection of policy-hold- 

 ers insured by the various insurance companies 

 transacting business in this State, was in the 

 aggregate $13,488,347.68, as follows: 



New York State life-insurance companies $2,662,508 75 



New York casualty -insurance companies 301 ,567 78 



New York fire-insurance companies 1,693,000 00 



Fire-insurance companies of other States 100 00 



Foreign insurance companies 8,831,171 20 



Under the new law regulating the formation 

 and conduct of co-operative insurance associa- 

 tions and placing them under the supervision 

 of the Insurance Department, thirteen such as- 

 sociations were incorporated in the State, and 

 five organized in other States were admitted to 

 transact business in th.e State. A number of 

 old ones went out of existence. The adminis- 

 tration of the Insurance Department was ren- 

 dered more efficient and economical during the 

 year, the number of clerks being reduced from 

 thirty to seventeen, the services of an attorney 

 being dispensed with, and the annual expense 

 being reduced from $48,650 to $28,150. 



During the eight months ending September 

 30th the new Railroad Commission caused the 

 greater part of the 6,500 miles of railroad in 

 the State to be inspected, investigated seventy- 

 five complaints, and made a number of special 

 inquiries and examinations, the results of which 

 were embodied in a voluminous report to the 

 Legislature of 1884. Much attention was given 

 to the subject of accidents, their causes, and 

 the means of prevention. 



The following is the record of those killed or 

 injured in the operation of the railroads in this 

 State for the eight months ending Sept. 30th: 



* Decrease. 



