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NEW JERSEY. 



In the State Agricultural College every 

 opportunity is afforded to students for a 

 thorough scientific and practical education, for 

 which the trustees conduct an experimental 

 farm. The State is entitled to the free educa- 

 tion of 40 students at this college, they being 

 apportioned among the counties according to 

 legislative representation. The college has a 

 fund of $116,000, the proceeds from the sale of 

 Federal scrip for public lands. 



In the Asylum for the Insane at Morristown, 

 on October 31, 1877, there were 445 patients. 

 For their support, and the salaries of the em- 

 ployes in the institution, the State expended 

 during the year $26,441.67. To complete the 

 building of this asylum, and for its furniture, 

 the Legislature, by act of March 7, 1877, appro- 

 priated the sum of $150,000, under certain con- 

 ditions, depending on the Governor's judgment. 

 The money has been paid and applied as in- 

 tended, and the building will be completed 

 early in the year 1878. 



STATE CAPITOL, TRENTON. 



In the Lunatic Asylum at Trenton the num- 

 ber of patients on October 31, 1877, was 510. 

 This institution maintains its established repu- 

 tation " for thoroughness in its appointments, 

 and efficiency of treatment." For salaries and 

 county patients in this asylum the State Treas- 

 ury has paid during the year $37,807.15, in- 

 cluding $11,821.21 expended for insane con- 

 victs treated there, at the rate of $7 per week, 

 clothing included. 



Each of these asylums is supported by the 

 revenue from private patients, payments by the 

 counties for public patients, and a further sum 

 from the State Treasury of $1 per week for 

 every county patient. 



The feeble-minded of the State, as well as 

 her deaf mutes and blind, are kept in institu- 

 tions of other States for education. The re- 

 spective numbers of persons belonging to these 



three classes, and now kept abroad at the 

 charge of the State, are 32, 107, and 47. The 

 sums paid by the State for their support dur- 

 ing the year were for the feeble-minded, $7,- 

 968.60 ; for the deaf mutes, $30,368.39 ; for 

 the blind, $12,489.58. 



The Home for Disabled Soldiers continues 

 to be unexceptionably managed. The payments 

 from the State Treasury for this institution, 

 within the year, amounted to $44,743.27. The 

 Soldiers' Children's Home is closed. 



A law was enacted by the Legislature, and 

 approved March 9, 1877, entitled "An act 

 for the establishment of orphan asylums." It 

 provides that " it shall be lawful for any five 

 or more persons to form themselves into an 

 orphan-asylum association for the purpose of 

 receiving, supporting, and educating orphan 

 children ; " declares any such association in- 

 corporated in the locality where it intends to 

 establish itself, and entitled to bear the name 

 which it chooses to assume, upon filing in the 

 office of the Secretary 

 of State a certificate 

 in writing of its organ- 

 ization, previously re- 

 corded in the office of 

 the clerk of the county 

 where such asylum 

 shall be located; and 

 vests it, nnder certain 

 conditions, with pow- 

 er "to apply for and 

 accept the guardian- 

 ship of orphans, or 

 children who have no ' 

 mother; to bind out 

 such children as shall 

 have been under its 

 care for more than one 

 year; and to receive 

 and retain such chil- 

 dren as may be placed 

 under its charge, sub- 

 ject to such rules, by- 

 laws, and regulations 

 as may from time to 



time be passed by the managers of the said as- 

 sociation." Each of these associations "shall 

 be governed by a board of managers of not 

 less than five, nor more than fifteen, who shall 

 be elected by the members of the association." 

 The Reform School for Boys, at the end of 

 October, 1877, had 247 inmates, their average 

 number during the year having been 236. The 

 year's expenditure of the State for this school 

 was $31,500, $2,000 of which were for per- 

 manent improvements. The works at which 

 the boys are employed are farm labor, mak- 

 ing bricks and tiles, manufacturing shirts, and 

 laundry-work. 



In the Industrial School for Girls, their num- 

 ber, on November 1, 1877, was 28: Several 

 were indentured abroad during the year. The 

 sum paid from the State Treasury for this 

 school in the year was $7,000. Ninety-one 



