is appointed for three years. The Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the Trustees of the School Fund for two years. The Adjutant and Quartermaster General are appointed by the Governor. Senators, 21 in number, are elected for three years, one-third every year; and Representatives, 60 in number, are elected each year. The pay of a member of either branch is $3.00 a day for the first forty days, $1.50 a day afterwards. The presiding officers are paid $4.00 a day for the first forty days, and $2.00 a day afterwards. The Legislature meets annually at Trenton, on the second Tuesday of January. White male citizens of the United States, 21 years of age, who have resided one year in the state, and five months in the county, are entitled to vote. Paupers, idiots, and insane persons are excluded. The active military force of this state consists of 39 companies of riflemen, 1 company of cavalry, 3 of artillery, 7 of veterans, and 5 of the Hudson Brigade, organized as militiamen, and numbering about 3,000. JUDICIARY. The Court of Chancery is held by the Chancellor. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice, and six Associate Justices, who, with the Chancellor, are appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, and hold office for seven years. The Court of Errors and Appeals is composed of the Chancellor, the Justices of the Supreme Court, and six other Judges appointed by the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, for six years, one judge going out of office cach year. One Justice of the Supreme Court is assigned to each of the seven districts into which the state is divided. The Justices for the Districts hold Circuit Courts, and courts of Oyer and Terminer, three times a year in each county; they are also ex-officio Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, Orphans' Courts, and courts of Quarter Sessions of the several counties. UNITED STATES COURTS. Circuit Judge, Robert C. Grier. District Judge, Richard S. Field. District Attorney, Anthony Q. Keasby. Marshal, Benajah Deacon. Clerk of Circuit Court, A. Ducher. Clerk of District Court, R. H. Shreve. STATE COURTS. Chancellor, A. O. Zabriskie, Jersey City. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Mercer Beasley. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, L. Q. C. Elmer, Bridgeton; Peter Vredenberg, Freehold; Joseph D. Bedle, Jersey City; David A. Depue, Newark; Van Cleve Dalrimple, Morristown; George A. Woodhull, Camden. Lay Judges of the Court of Errors, George Vail, Morristown; John Clemens, Haddenfield; E. L. B. Wales, Tuckahoe; R. S. Kennedy, Stewartsville; James L. Ogden, Jersey City; Chas. S. Olden, Princeton. Clerk in Chancery, Barker Gummere. Clerk of Supreme Court, Charles P. Smith. Salaries, Chancellor, $4,000; Chief Justice, $3,600; Associate Justices, $3,500; Lay Judges, $8.00 per day during attendance at Court and mileage. TERMS OF COURTS. The Court of Chancery holds three terms annually at Trenton, on the first Tuesday in Febru ary, third Tuesday in May, and third Tuesday in October. The Supreme Court of New Jersey 'holds three terms annually at Trenton, on the fourth Tuesday in February, and the first Tuesday in June and November; and the Judges of this court also hold Circuit Courts and Courts of Oyer and Terminer three times a year. The Court of Errors and Appeals holds three terms annually at Trenton, on the second Tuesday in March, and the third Tuesday in June and November. FINANCES. The following consolidated statement shows the aggregate of moneys received and disbursed by the Treasury, during the fiscal year ending November 30, 1867. The last column includes former balances: The state debt which grew out of the exigencies of the civil war, The state had no debt at the commencement of 1861, and state taxes had been pretermitted for a series of years. The law, authorizing the war loans, provided for a tax to pay them. The value of taxable property in 1867, was $475,525,012, an increase of $27,050,333 in one year. EDUCATION. The College of New Jersey at Princeton, organized in 1746, is the oldest collegiate institution in the state. The State Agricultural College has been connected with Rutgers' College at New Brunswick. It is in successful operation, combining with theory and study, the practical results of the farmer, and experiments of the laboratory. The Professor of Chemistry and Agriculture has delivered lectures on these subjects in each county in the state. The Public School system was materially changed by the act of March 21, 1867. There is a State Board of Education, consisting of 17 persons, and a State Superintendent, who has the general supervision of schools. The office of town superintendent has been abolished; a County Superintendent is appointed in each county, whose duty it is to visit every school in his jurisdiction twice each year. The County Superintendent, with such persons as he may appoint, constitutes a Board of Examiners for each county, with power to issue three grades of Teachers' certificates. The State Board of Examiners, consisting of the State Superintendent and Principal of the State Normal School, also grants three grades of certificates, all higher than those granted by county examiners. The Normal School at Trenton, and the Normal Preparatory School at Beverly, are in a flourishing condition, having a larger number of students than ever before. Public Schools. In 1867 the number of children in the state between five and eighteen years of age, was 230,555. The receipts for school purposes were: Appropriated by the state, $100,000.00; received from surplus revenue, $26,531.54; from township and city tax, $726,264.09; from district tax, $32,534.79; appropriated for Normal School, $10,000.00; appropriated for Farnum School. $1,200.00; total, $896,530.42. Normal School. Trenton. JOHN S. HART, LL. D., Principal. Number of pupils in Normal School during 1867. was-males, 16; females, 200; total, 216; number in the Model School -males, 215; females, 310; total. 525; number in the Farnum Preparatory School, Beverlymales, 139; females, 142; total, 281; total number of pupils that have been under instruction, has been-males, 370; females, 652; total, 1,022; an increase of 230 as compared with 1866. CHARITABLE AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS. The state has provided liberally for the maintenance and support of her Deaf and Dumb, Blind and Idiotic, in humane institutions at New York, Philadelphia and Hartford. The State Lunatic Asylum is in successful operation with a largely increased number of patients. The Home for Disabled Soldiers and the Soldiers' Children's Home have been established and maintained by the munificence of the state. A State Reform School provides a home and education for juvenile delinquents. At the close of 1867, the State Prison had nearly 550 prisoners, with accommodations for only 350. The Governor and officers strongly urge the importance of increased room and other changes for the prison. At the commencement of the year, the labor of the prisoners was divided among several contractors. Under this plan the limited shop room could not be advantageously disposed of, and other inconveniencies existed. Some of the contractors having failed to fulfill their obligations to the State and stopped work, the Inspector cooperated with the Keeper in securing a contract with a single responsible party for the labor of all the prisoners now employed in shoe-making, excepting those making shoes for prison use. Another party contracts for the labor of a portion of the prisoners in chain-making. The remainder of those able to work are employed in cane-seating, or in work for the prison. The amount appropriated by the last Legislature for books for the Prison Library was expended, and the books are in use, and with manifest good effect. The Inspectors assert that the indiscriminate mingling of convicts is subversive of discipline and the proper training of the prisoners. State Lunatic Asylum, Trenton. H. A. BUTTOLPH, M. D., Superintendent. Number of patients in asylum November 30, 1866-males, 205; females, 204; total, 400. Received during the year-males, 85: females, 127; total, 212. Discharged-recovered, 72; improved, 54; unimproved. 8; died, 37; total, 171. Remaining November 30, 1867-males, 200: females, 250; total, 450. Of this number there are-private, 91; county, 359; total, 450. Whole number of cases received and treated from opening of the Asylum, 1848-males, 1,415; females, 1,571; total, 2,986. Discharged-recovered, 1,173; improved, 818; unimproved, 96; escaped, 9; not insane, 4; died, 436; total, 2,536. New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers, Newark. WM. WAKENSHAW, Superintendent. Total number of beneficiaries received during the year, 502. Discharged, 245; ex pelled, 23; died, 18; absented, 39; suspended, 4; sent to National Asylum, 16; total, 345. Number of beneficiaries December 1, 1867, 157. Soldiers' Children's Home, Trenton. MRS. W. L. DAYTON, President. Number of inmates December 1, 1867-males, 82; females, 57; total, 139. Of these, 12 are entire orphans; 12 have both parents; 107 only mothers living; 8 only fathers, who are disabled. State Reform School, Jamesburg. LUTHER H. SHELDON, Superintendent. Number of boys committed from July, 1867, to December, 1867, 26. Age-9 years, 2; 10 years, 4; 11 years, 5; 12 years, 4; 13 years, 3; 14 years, 4; 16 years, 2; 18 years, 1; total, 26. Cause of commitment-larceny, 12; insubordination and vagrancy, 11; arson, 3; total, 26. State Prison, Trenton. PETER P. ROBINSON, Keeper. Number in confinement November 30, 1866, 543. Received during the year, 342. Discharged-expiration of sentence, 132; pardoned, 195; died, 8; total, 338. Remaining in confinement November 30, 1867, 550. Of these, there are-white males, 449; white females, 26; colored males, 67; colored females, 8. Term of sentence-1 year and less, 107; from 1 to 3 years, 136; 3 to 5 years, 130; 5 to 10 years, 118; 10 to 30 years, 56; for life, 3; total, 550. Nativity-Americans, 357; foreigners, 193; total, 550. Age-20 and under, 106; 20 to 25, 150; 25 to 30, 127; 30 to 40, 79; 40 to 50, 53; 50 to 60, 17; 60 to 80, 9; total, 550. POPULATION, WEALTH AND INDUSTRY. The population of New Jersey at each decennial period was as follows: The situation of this state, the characteristics of its soil, and its proximity to New York and Philadelphia, have contributed to increase the value of its improved lands for agricultural purposes. In garden products, and in smaller fruits, it ranks as one of the first states in the Union. Great improvements have been made of late in the system of agriculture, and considerable attention has been given to draining and reclaiming the extensive marshes in the state. In minerals, the products of iron or zinc ore and marls have become an important source of wealth. The zinc mines yield more than half the product of the United States, and more than all the mines of Great Britain. In 1860, it ranked as the third state in the production of bar and rolled iron, and the value of iron founding. Its manufactures are rapidly increasing. Products. We take the principal products for 1867 from the Lecture of Prof. Cook of the Agricultural College, as follows: Bushels of wheat, 1,763,218; rye, 1,439,497; corn, 9,723,336; oats, 4,539,132; buckwheat, 877,386; potatoes, 4,171,690; sweet potatoes, 1,034,832; pounds of butter, 10,714,447; tons of hay, 508,726; value of orchard products, $429,402; market garden products, $1,541,995; of slaughtered amimals, $4,120,276. Acres in farms-improved, 1,944,441; unimproved, 1,039,084; cash value of farms, $180,250,338; value per acre, $6.04; of live stock, $16,134,693. Mining products-tons of iron ore, 275,064; zinc ore, 24,456; marl, 126,740. In 1860, the products of manufacture in New Jersey were valued at $81,000,000. Banks. There are 54 National Banks, with capital paid in of $11,583,450. Railroads. There were in 1864, 26 companies and 864 miles of railroad, costing $38,892,000. In 1867, there were transported on the Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company, 539,688 tons freight, besides 40,667 tons coal; and on the Delaware and Raritan Canals, 1,838,968 tons coal; 2,636,738 cubic feet of timber, 20,348,288 feet of lumber; 2,605,012 bushels grain and feed; 55,630 tons iron; and 365,751 tons merchandise. 25. NEW YORK. Capital, Albany. Area, 47,000 square miles. Population, (1860), 3,880,735. New York was settled at New York and Albany in 1613 and 1614 by the Dutch, was ceded to the English in 1664, retaken by the Dutch in 1673, and restored to the English at the treaty of Westminster in 1674. It was one of the original thirteen states, framed a constitution in 1777, and ratified the United States Constitution, July 26, 1788. The state constitution has been amended several times. In 1868, a constitutional convention was held, and a new constitution adopted, but this has not been submitted to the people for ratification. State Engineer and Surveyor....VAN RENSSELAER RICHMOND...Lyons. Supt. Banking Department....... ....GEORGE W. SCHUYLER. Supt. Insurance Department. ....WM. BARNES.. Canal Auditor..... 2,500 Utica .2,500 .Ithaca. .5,000 .Albany. .5,000 .JAMES A. BELL 2,500 Adjutant General, Franklin Townsend; Inspector General, James McQuade; General of Ordnance, Wm. H. Morris; Engineer in Chief, Wm. M. Tweed, Jr.; Judge-Advocate General, Jas. B. Craig; Surgeon General, Jacob S. Mosher; Quartermaster General, C. Fitch Bissell; Paymaster General, George J. Magce; Commissary General, William Seebach; Aides, Colonels Robert Lenox Banks, Walter P. Warren, J. Townsend Connolly, Wm. F. Moller, William Kidd. The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, State Engineer and Surveyor, are elected by the people, by a plurality vote, for two years; the Governor and Lieutenant Governor on one year, and the other officers on alternate years. The Canal Commissioners and Inspectors of State Prisons are elected for three years, one each year. The Canal Appraisers are appointed by the Governor and Senate for three years, and hold office until their successors are qualified. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is elected by the Legislature for three years. The Superintendent of the Banking Department and the Auditor of the Canal Department are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, for three years. The Adjutant General and other officers of his military staff, are appointed by the Governor. The legislative power is vested in the Senate and Assembly. The Senate consists of thirty-two members, who are elected for two years, one from each |