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the Legislature changed this date to September lation of the State, were born within the coun- 

 1, 1877, since which time that part of the re- ties where they were enumerated ; 301,240 

 vised system has been in operation, under the ^ *- - Ll --- --* -*- - "- 



name of " The Code of Civil Procedure." The 

 remainder of the proposed code, containing 

 1,800 sections, was passed by the Legislature, 

 and sent to the Governor with more than 250 

 other bills to be acted upon during the 30 days 

 following the adjournment. Through want of 

 time to read the act, the Governor did not ap- 

 prove it, and it failed to become a law. 



The Legislature, at the session of 1877, ap- 

 propriated $500,000 for the new Capitol. It is 

 now about 10 years since the construction of 

 this building was begun. Up to December 15, 

 1877, $8,276,615 had been expended on it, and 

 there is not a department of it yet completed. 



During the year the returns of the census 



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taken in 1875 were completed, and the results 

 published. The total population of the State, 

 June 1, 1875, was 4,698,958 an increase upon 

 the Federal census of 1870 of 316,199, or 7.21 

 per cent., representing an average annual in- 

 crease of 1.4 per cent. From computations 



were born in other States of the Union, and 

 1,195,658 in foreign countries. Of the latter, 

 the State has received 73,340 from Canada, 

 119,090 from England, 367,351 from the Ger- 

 man Empire, 517,337 from Ireland, 27,364 from 

 Scotland, and 91,176 from other foreign coun- 

 tries. 



Of the total population of the State, 1,267,- 

 522 were males of the voting age 21 years 

 and upward. Of these, 747,280 were native 

 of the United States ; 394,182 were naturalized 

 citizens, and 126,060 were aliens. Subtracting 

 the latter, it leaves 1,141,462 as the aggregate 

 population of the State entitled to vote, unless 

 disfranchised for crime. 



Of the entire population, there were 956,874 

 males between the ages of 

 18 and 45, or the usual 

 period for military ser- 

 vice. The number be- 

 tween the ages of 5 and 

 18 is about equally di- 

 vided : 639,980 males, 

 639,477 females, making 

 an aggregate of 1,279,457 

 persons in the State of 

 school age. 



The number of blind 

 returned was 2,256 ; deaf 

 and dumb, 2,483 ; idiotic, 

 2,392; insane, 8,091. The 

 total mortality of the 

 State, as returned for the 

 year ending June 1, 1875, 

 was 53,860, or about 1.15 

 per cent, of the total pop- 

 ulation. 



The population of the 

 State is set down in 995,- 

 602 families, occupying 

 712,388 separate dwell- 

 ing-places ; making 6.60 persons to an inhab- 

 ited dwelling, and 4.72 persons to a family. 

 There were 598,013 frame dwellings in the 

 State', which had a total value of $996,320,437 ; 

 brick dwellings to the number of 98,298, and 

 valued at $1,049,873,803 ; stone dwellings to 



based on the rate of increase in the population the number of 19,718, which were valued at 

 since 1790, it is estimated that the total popula- $417,800,721 ; and 12,659 log dwellings, valued 

 tion of the State will be 5,032,225 in 1880, - 1 ""* nnn a " n ^-- ~ - -*^- j 

 5,348,450 in 1885, 5,641,642 in 1890, 5,905,939 

 in 1895, and 6,136, 000 in 1900. The population 

 of 1875, according to nativity, race, and sex, is 

 classified as follows : 



Total population 4,698,953 



Native 8,508.300 



Foreign born 1.195.658 



White 4,642.837 



Colored 56,121 



Males. 2.820,178 



Females 2,873,780 



Of the total population, 3,202,060 were born 

 within the State, leaving a population of 1,496,- 

 898 born in other States and countries ; 2,505,- 

 710, or a little more than half the entire popu- 



at $1,038,673. About one-quarter of the dwell- 

 ings in New York City are frame structures. 



There were in the State on June 1, 1875, 6,320 

 ecclesiastical organizations of all denomina- 

 tions, occupying 6,243 edifices, which furnished 

 sittings for 2,537,470 people, and having an en- 

 rolled membership of 1,146,537. The aggre- 

 gate value of the church edifices and the lots 

 which they occupied is returned at $101,105,- 

 765, and the value of other real estate belong- 

 ing to the various denominations at $16,491,- 

 385, making an aggregate of ecclesiastical 

 property of $117,597,150. The sums annually 

 paid for salaries of clergymen are returned at 

 $5,308,231, or an average to each organization 



