dinary repairs, $8,811.38; making the total expenditures for the year, $103,577.85. The indebtedness of the institution was $197.57, for money borrowed, and the assets $1,117, due from counties, towns and cities; $1,082.50 from individuals; $6.95 due from sale of manufactures; $50 from sale of products of farm; a total of $2,256.45.

Of the ordinary expenditures during the year 35.5 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor; 26.2 per cent. for provisions and supplies; 9.4 per cent. for clothing; 9.9 per cent. for fuel and lights; 1.4 per cent. for medicines and medical attendance; 5.3 per cent. for furniture, beds and bedding and household supplies; 1.7 per cent. for ordinary repairs; .2 of 1 per cent. for expenses of trustees or managers and 10.4 per cent. for all other ordinary expenses, including very small expenditure for transportation and traveling expenses.

Chapter 593, Laws of 1898 (Appropriation bill), appropriated for maintenance and ordinary repairs, $80,000.

Chapter 606, Laws of 1898 (Supply bill), appropriated for excavation for and the construction of an underground tunnel or conduit for the steam and other pipes between the boys' building and the stable, $1,400; for new floors and steel ceilings in various parts of the building, $1,000, or so much thereof as necessary; said sums to be paid from the unexpended balance, October 1, 1897, of the appropriation of $81,000 made by chapter 948, Laws of 1896, for the maintenance and ordinary repairs to said institution.

The special appropriations amounted to $2,400, and the total appropriations to $82,400.

There have been no important changes in or additions to this institution during the past year, and the school continues to maintain its excellent standing. A considerable number of unteachable inmates should be removed as soon as possible to the asylums

at Newark and Rome, they being retained for want of accommodations in these institutions. When this is accomplished it will be possible to receive other teachable feeble-minded children for whom this school is primarily designed.

In connection with the school is a farm house where about 15 of the larger boys reside. This building was moved to its present site about 35 years ago and has for 34 years been continuously occupied. The building has no cellar, and the sills are in such a state of decay that they must soon be replaced, rendering excavation necessary. The house has been heated by stoves and lacks plumbing facilities. The Board believes that as repairs are now necessary, the house should be refitted and such modern improvements made as will more satisfactorily adapt it to its purposes, and accordingly will recommend an appropriation for this purpose.

The Board does not recommend an appropriation of $5,000 asked for by the managers for the erection of a house for the steward, believing that this would establish an undesirable precedent.

The Board recommends the following appropriations, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for this institution, the plans, specifications and contracts for the improvements to be subject to the Board's approval: For repairs and improvements to farm house, $2,500; conduit for steam and other pipes with necessary alterations and changes, $1,150; maintenance, $81,000; making the special appropriations approved of, $3,650, and the total appropriation, $84,650.

STATE CUSTODIAL ASYLUM FOR FEEBLE-MINDED WOMEN, NEWARK, WAYNE COUNTY. [Established 1878.]

The asylum has capacity for 400 inmates.

The number of inmates present October 1, 1897, was 391, and 44 were admitted during the year, making the total number under

care, 435. During the year 24 were discharged and 5 died, leaving the number present October 1, 1898, 406. The average number present during the year was 392, and the average weekly cost of support, including the value of home and farm products consumed, $2.46; excluding the value of home and farm products consumed, $2.34.

The receipts during the year ending September 30, 1898, were: From cash balance at the close of the previous year, $438.73; from special appropriations and check refunded, $5,995.13; from general appropriations, $49,000; from all other sources, $60.25; total, $55,494.11.

The ordinary expenditures for the year were: For salaries of officers, $6,933.36; for wages and labor, $12,345.20; for provisions and supplies, $17,898.60; clothing, $860.14; fuel and lights, $4,354.62; medicines and medical supplies, $386.02; furniture, beds and bedding, $67.24; ordinary repairs, $1,016.30; for expenses of trustees or managers, $743.45; and for all other ordinary expenditures, $3,339.62; total ordinary expenditures, $47,944.55. The extraordinary expenditures are reported as $6,405.80, of which $4,545.95 was for buildings and improvements and $1,859.85 for extraordinary repairs, making the total of ordinary and extraordinary expenditures for the year, $54,350.35; and leaving the balance in cash at the close of the present fiscal year, $1,143.76. There was no outstanding indebtedness, and the only asset was the cash balance.

Of the ordinary expenditures during the year, 40.2 per cent. was for salaries, wages and labor; 37.3 per cent. was for provisions and supplies; 1.8 per cent. was for clothing; 9.1 per cent. was for fuel and lights; .8 of 1 per cent. was for medicines and medical supplies; .1 of 1 per cent. for furniture, beds and bed

ding; 2.1 per cent. for ordinary repairs; 1.6 per cent. for expenses of trustees or managers; and 7 per cent. for all other ordinary expenditures.

Chapter 593, Laws of 1898 (Appropriation bill), appropriated for the service of the attendants, for other necessary expenses, and the ordinary repairs of the asylum, $50,000.

Chapter 606, Laws of 1898 (Supply bill), appropriated for the purpose of building a cottage dormitory similar to the "D" building now in use, and furnishing, heating, lighting and equipping the same for the accommodation of not less than fifty inmates, $18,000, or so much thereof as necessary. For maintenance, $5,000, or so much thereof as necessary.

The special appropriations amounted to $23,000, and the total appropriations to $73,000.

This institution is in urgent need of enlargement in a careful and business-like manner. It occupies a beautiful site on the outskirts of the village of Newark, but its managers have not hitherto carefully planned for its extension on definite lines. The Board has requested them to do so and hopes soon to have a carefully outlined plan for the institution's future development, which should be followed in extending it.

The sewerage system of the institution is crude and inadequate, and has been complained of by the local board of health. This condition of affairs the managers have been requested to remedy, and steps have been taken in compliance.

The proposed new dormitory building for which an appropriation was made by the Legislature of 1898, has not been built, owing to the failure of the managers to agree among themselves, or with this Board, as to a suitable location for the building, but it is hoped that the completion and adoption of the general plan referred to, will prevent similar delays in the future.

This asylum should in the opinion of this Board, eventually make provision for a thousand inmates, and the earlier the State can provide for them the better.

In view of the fact that the dormitory building for which appropriation was made by the last Legislature, is not yet under oonstruction, the Board does not accede to the managers' request to recommend an appropriation for another such building, but, in the interest of economy, recommends the amounts necessary for the extension of the lighting, heating and water facilities of the institution so that it may eventually provide for a greatly increased number of inmates, without the necessity of making costly changes in these facilities with the erection of every new building. To the superintendent and the matron of this institution much credit is due for the excellent condition in which the buildings and grounds are maintained and for the good care taken of the unfortunate inmates.

Many feeble-minded women of child-bearing age are still to be found in the almshouses of the State, where they are practically unprotected, and the Board hopes that at no very distant day they will all be able to find shelter within the walls of this beneficent asylum.

The Board recommends the following appropriations, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to this institution, the plans, specifications and contracts for buildings and improvements with their location to be subject to the Board's approval: For boilers, engines, dynamos and other electrical apparatus, $12,000; water system, $8,000; conduits, $12,500; piping for the same for steam, water and lights, $3,000; land for track, $200; track to coal shed, $2,500; wiring buildings for electric light, $1,200; ex