pended, leaving a balance to the credit of the home at the end of the year of $63,478.74. From the United States an additional amount of $23,822.70 was received. Pensions. The State paid during the year on account of pensions $5,877.13, and the United States $2.608.215.34 to 19,675 pensioners. State Prison. For this institution the net amount disbursed was as follows: For maintenance of convicts, $77,491.38; for salaries, $78,081.27; for repairs, $5,645.54; payment to discharged convicts, $1,390; total, $162,608.19. The sum received from the proceeds of convict labor was $49,282.15. An average of 1,000 prisoners was maintained during the year. In February a convict, while trying to escape, shot and killed a keeper. For this murder he was hanged. Reform School. The balance of the special appropriation for the new family building, $8,775.65, was this year paid to this institution, as well as $58,761.20 for support of the school, and $232.36 expenses of trustees; a total of $67,769.21, an increase over last year of $3,981.46. Industrial School for Girls. - For maintenance and repairs of this school $18,350.83 was this year expended. By an act of the Legislature of 1894 a special appropriation of $17,000 was made for building an addition to the school. Of this appropriation $9,455.75 was paid over. The disbursements for maintenance and repairs show an increase over last year of $2,373.28. The Oyster Industry. In 1893 an act was passed to promote the propagation and growth of seed oysters, and to protect the natural oyster beds of the State, and an oyster commission was appointed. The act appropriates $5,000 annually for three years, $4,000 of which was to be expended in the various districts, and $1,000 of which was to meet incidental expenses not specially provided for. For several years controversies have existed between persons interested in the oyster industry in Delaware Bay. In the winter of 1893-'94 these culminated in a violent outbreak, and this occasioned the appointment by the last Legislature of a commission of 3 to examine into the difficulty. The report of this commission strongly recommends that the ovster lands in Maurice river cove and Delaware Bay be placed under State control, as necessary to their preservation. Other protective legislation is also advised. Electric Road. - The New York and Philadelphia Traction Company has secured a charter and has filed in the Secretary of State's office the surveys, routes, and descriptions of the proposed electric road, which is to stretch diagonally across New Jersey from New York to Philadeldelphia, with lateral branches taking in many of the principal towns of the State. The entire system will comprise about 150 miles of electric railway, and will accommodate the travel of fully 5.000.000 people. The road is designed not only to carry passengers, but to transport farming truck, manufactured products, and general merchandise. The capital stock of the two companies managing the road is $10,500,000. It is intended to consolidate into the system the local electric lines. These embrace about 70 miles of road outside of Jersey City and Newark, Proposed Ship Canal.-Pennsylvania and New Jersey are considering the practicability of constructing a ship canal across New Jersey. The trip between Philadelphia and New York by the existing route, by way of Delaware river and bay, and up the New Jersey coast, covers a distance of 256 miles. With the proposed canal in operation the distance would be about 90 miles, which could be made in a fifteen-hour run. This inland route would do away with the host of marine disasters in the coastwise trade. Decisions. The Chancellor, on June 12, filed an opinion of much importance in reference to electric railways. He decided that a street railway constructed in a highway, under authority of law, with a roadbed that will admit of the free use of the highway by all other lawful means, is but a modification of the public use to which the highway was originally devoted, and is not an additional burden on the land, for which compensation may be required. The Chief Justice, on June 11, rendered a decision to the effect that females have not the right to vote for any officers in the State, elective by the people, whether members of the local or State government, and that the Legislature, under the present Constitution, can not enact laws of any kind that will give the privilege of voting to women. On June 13 the AttorneyGeneral rendered an opinion that women can vote at school meetings on the question of what money is to be expended, and that the Chief Justice's opinion can not be interpreted to deny to women the right to vote on other matters than election of officers. On Nov. 8 Judge Dixon, of the Supreme Court, handed down a decision in the Vineland school case, which involved the right of women to vote at school elections, that, "school trustees are officers within Article II, paragraph 1, of the Constitution; so that, if they are made elective by the people, only males can vote for them." The Supreme Court refused admission to the New Jersey bar to Miss Mary Philbrooke. A bill providing for her admission is to be submitted to the next General Assembly. NEW MEXICO, a Territory of the United States, organized Sept. 9. 1850; area, 122,580 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census, was 61,547 in 1850; 93,516 in 1860; 91,874 in 1870; 119,565 in 1880; and 153,593 in 1890. Capital, Santa Fé. Government. -The following were the Territorial officers during the year: Governor, William T. Thornton, Democrat; Secretary of State, Lorion Miller: Auditor, Demetrio Perez: Treasurer, Rufus J. Palen; Solicitor-General, Edward L. Bartlett; Adjutant General, W. S. Fletcher; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Amado Chavez; Secretary of the Bureau of Immigration, Max Frost; Chief Justice, Thomas Smith; Associate Justices, William D. Lee, Albert B. Fall, Edward P. Seeds until July, when N. B. Laughlin was appointed, and Alfred A. Freeman until December, when II. B. Hamilton was appointed. Finances. The fiscal year in New Mexico begins in March. The Auditor's report, issued in December, 1894, contains the accounts from Dec. 5, 1892, to Dec. 1, 1894. He reports the amount of warrants issued from Dec. 5, 1892, to March 4, 1893, as $81,878.62. The amount of warrants issued during the forty-fourth fiscal year, from March 6, 1893, to March 3, 1894, was as follows: Penitentiary, $30,124.90; Capitol cur 1 rent expense, $233.26; salary fund, $39,154.58; court fund, $7,965.14; miscellaneous fund, $28,256.01; compensation of assessors, $9,225.25; transportation of convicts, $2,527.25; license fund, $828.12; school fund, $743.12; Territorial institutions, $33,875.50; normal schools, $868.33; normal institutes, $458.50; old district court certificates, $21.70; to pay employees of the 30th Legislative Assembly, $48; deficit 1889 and 1890 fund, $357.12; sinking-fund redemption, to pay interest on warrants, $7,726.14; general fund, to pay accounts prior to March 4, 1889, $3,138.04; total, $165,576.96, of which $151,698.13 was from annual appropriations and $13,878.83 from special deficit of the forty-fourth fiscal year. The amount of warrants issued during the first three quarters of the forty-fifth fiscal year, from March 4, 1894, to Dec. 1, 1894, was: Penitentiary, $33,392.47; salary fund, $29,465.96; miscellaneous fund, $31,547.88; court fund, $738.65; compensation of assessors fund, $15,558.62; transportation of convicts fund, $2,875.65; license fund, $390; Territorial institutions fund, $3,575.28; normal schools, $11,978.37; normal institutes, $1,350; branch agricultural experiment stations, $1,400; public-school fund, $117.41; sinking-fund redemption, to pay interest on warrants, $144.45; general fund, to pay old claims prior to March 3, 1889, $575.62; total, $162,106.36, of which $143,657.23 was from annual appropriations and $18,449.13 from special deficit of the forty-fourth fiscal year. The Legislature of 1893 tried to provide for the funding of all claims against the Territory duly audited and allowed, or to be audited and allowed after the passage of the act, by the issue of casual deficit bonds at 5 per cent. The amount represented by these is $95,700. Under another act of the last Legislature, refunding bonds at 6 per cent., to the amount of $99,000, have been issued, and Penitentiary refunding bonds at 6 per cent., to the amount of $71,000. In the Treasurer's report the bonded debt of the Territory, Dec. 1, 1894, is given as follows: Penitentiary bonds, 7 per cent., $37,000; Capitol building bonds. 7 per cent., $200,000; Capitol contingent fund bonds, 6 per cent., $50,000; current-expense bonds, 6 per cent., $150,000; provisional indebtedness bonds, 6 per cent., $200,000; insane asylum bonds, 6 per cent., $25,000; casual deficit bonds, 5 per cent., $96,000; refunding bonds, 6 per cent., $99,000; Penitentiary refunding bonds, 6 per cent., $71,000; total, $928,000, the average annual rate of interest being about 6 per cent. The cash balance in the treasury, June 30, 1894, was $139,899.24. The balance in banks holding Territorial funds, Dec. 1, 1894, was $150,627.40. Taxation. The value of property assessed for taxes in 1893, for expenses of the forty-fourth fiscal year, was $43,630,244.81; in 1894 the value was $41,128,620.95. The levy for expenses during the forty-fourth fiscal year was: For Territorial purposes, 6.5 mills on the dollar; for Territorial institutions, 1 mill; for interest on the bonded debt, 17 mill; total rate, 9.2 mills on the dollar. The levy of taxes in 1893, to meet the expenses of the forty-fifth fiscal year, was: For Territorial purposes, 6 mills on the dollar; special deficit, forty-fourth year, 2.25 mills; normal schools, 0.4 mill; normal institutes, 0.1 mill; branch agricultural experiment stations, 0-25 mill; casual deficit bond interest, 0-25 mill; Territorial insti tutions, 1.75 mill; total, 11 mills on the dollar. The tax levy in 1894, to meet the expenses of 1895, was: Territorial purposes, 6 mills on the dollar; casual deficit bond interest, 1.5 mill; Territorial institutions, 1.5 mill; total rate, 75 mills on the dollar, to which must be added a tax of 0.5 of a mill on the assessed value of cattle. The receipts from sheriffs and other collectors, from March 6, 1893, to March 3, 1894, amounted to $278.131.19; the receipts from March 3, 1894, to Dec. 1, 1894, were $186,281.06. Tax collections are made twice a year. At Education. The total receipts from taxation for school purposes to July 1, 1894, were $192,496.44. There was expended during the year, for teachers, $92,068.76; for rent, fuel, etc., $19,457.52; for schoolhouses and grounds, $19,541.76. The last Legislature provided for the establishment of normal schools at Las Vegas and Silver City; at the former point the building will be opened during the coming year. Silver City the corner stone of the building was laid Sept. 14, 1894. The building is to cost $10,800, the ground having been given by the city. The building is to be ready in February. 1895; in the meantime the first session opened in September, in rented quarters, with 57 pupils. To this school $9,998.36 has been paid. The Agricultural College at Las Cruces has an enrollment of 147, an increase of 75 per cent, over last year. Since March, 1893, it has received $14,199.98. This college is open to both sexes, and is nonsectarian. The entrance fee is $3. The School of Mines at Socorro did not open in September. It was determined to use the $3,974.21 appropriated to it for the year to purchase and equip a laboratory, to be ready for use in 1895. The New Mexico Military Institute has an enrollment of 57. The Ramona Indian School is adapted to the instruction of only 65 pupils, but twice during the year the attendance was so large that numbers of Indian children were turned over to the United States school at Santa Fé. The intention to make this latter solely a normal training school has been abandoned, and it is now an Indian industrial training school, normal-school attachment, where 40 a with pupils under instruction during the year. The Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind instructed 24 pupils during the year. An annual appropriation of $5,000 was granted by the last Legislature for its full maintenance. To other institutions annual appropriations have been made as follow: To St. Vincent's Hospital at Santa Fé, $6,000; to the Grant County Charity Hospital at Silver City, $3,000; to the Sisters of Mercy Hospital at Silver City, $3,000; to the Ladies' Relief Society of Las Vegas, $3,000; and to the Orphan School at Santa Fé, $5,000. On the insane asylum, up to March 31, 1894. the sum of $57.276.50 had been expended. Penitentiary. There remained in the Penitentiary, June 30, 1894, 154 prisoners, 228 being the total in confinement during the year, a daily average of 130. Improvements of the value of $29,778.55 were made during the year, all labor being done by convicts. The cost of convicts' subsistence is 12 cents a day. The cost of their clothing is 2 cents. Court of Private Land Claims. By this court 38 cases have been determined during the year, and grants of 779,611 acres have been confirined. Among these is the grant of 4 square leagues to the city of Santa Fé, measuring from the center of the plaza in each direction. Surveys of 10 grants, covering 218,282 acres, have been made. Public Lands. - During the year ending June 30, 1894, the entries at the various land offices of the Territory embraced 130,807-27 acres. There remain vacant and surveyed in the Santa Fé and Roswell districts 20,081,800 acres; unsurveyed, about 9,857,860 acres. About 600,000 acres have been reserved by the Territory. The immigration during 1894 was greater than in any preceding year. Irrigation. The reclaiming of arid lands by irrigation has made about 450,000 acres available for settlement, and large irrigation plants are being established in all parts of the Territory. It is estimated that the acreage under cultivation by means of irrigation is 400,000, and 900,000 acres are under works for ditches. The general law of the Territory is that all water courses, large or small, are to be considered in the light of public acequias, or irrigation canals. The sundry civil appropriation acts of the last Congress gives to each of the public-land States, except Colorado and South Dakota, 1,000,000 acres of arid land, patents for any part thereof to be issued only on proof that the lands so granted are irrigated, reclaimed, and occupied by actual settlers, the requirement being that not less than 20 acres in each 160-acre tract shall be cultivated. Mining. As silver and lead are the two metals most largely produced in New Mexico, mining has suffered from their depreciation in value; but new mining districts, rich in gold, silver, and copper, have been discovered, and are being developed rapidly. The Cochili district, about 30 miles west of Santa Fé, is especially rich in the deposit of gold, all ore shipped being worth more than $100 a ton. Since the discovery of this great mineral wealth, last January, about 2,500 locations have been made. There are 21 coal mines in the Territory, with a force of 1,472 employees. The total coal output during the year was 615,415 tons, a decrease of 23,902 tons from last year's output, caused by the mining strikes. Railroads. The only railroad built during the year is that from Eddy to Roswell, of the Pecos Valley line. This was opened by a grand celebration at the latter town. Statehood.-A bill for the admission of New Mexico passed the House of Representatives during its last session, and the Senate Committee reported it favorably: so it is hoped that the new State will be admitted early in 1895. Census Statistics. - The census bureau report, dated Feb. 20, 1894, gives the statistics of manufactures in the Territory as follows: Number of establishments, 127; value of land, $60,507: value of buildings, $185,295; value of machinery, etc., $471,948; value of live assets, $248,188; average number of employees, 944: total wages, $691,420; value of products, including receipts from custom work and repair ing, $1,516,195. The valuation of real and personal property is given by the report of March 13, 1894: Real estate, including improvements, $113,729,183; live stock on farms, etc., implements, and machinery, $7,538,320; mines and quarries and products on hand, $21,692,388; gold, silver coin, and bullion, $2,524,943; machinery of mills and product on hand, $471,948; railroads (including street railways) and equipment, $75,469,333; telegraphs, telephones, shipping, and canals. $614,372; miscellaneous, $9,419,410; total, $231,459,897. The bonded indebtedness had increased from $46,179 in 1880 to $2,595.988 in 1890. The average rate of interest had decreased from 8.33 in 1880 to 6:59 in 1890. NEW YORK, a Middle State, one of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution July 26, 1788; area, 49,170 square miles. The population, according to each decennial census, was 340,120 in 1790; 589,051 in 1800; 959,049 in 1810; 1,372,111 in 1820; 1,918,608 in 1830; 2,428,921 in 1840; 3,097,394 in 1850; 3,880,735 in 1860; 4,382,759 in 1870; 5,082,871 in 1880 ; and 5,997,853 in 1890. According to a State census taken in 1892, the population was 6,513,344. Capital, Albany. Government. -The following were the State officers during the year: Governor, Roswell P. Flower, Democrat; Lieutenant-Governor, William F. Sheehan; Secretary of State, John Palmer; Comptroller, James A. Roberts; Treasurer, Addison B. Colvin; Attorney-General, Theodore E. Hancock; State Engineer and Surveyor, Campbell W. Adams; Superintendent of Public Instruction, James F. Crooker; Superintendent of Insurance, James F. Pierce; Superintendent of Banking Department, Charles M. Preston; Superintendent of State Prisons, Austin Lathrop; Superintendent of Public Works. Edward Hannan; Commissioner of Statistics of Labor, Thomas J. Dowling; Railroad Commissioners, Michael Rickard, S. A. Beardsley, and Alfred C. Chapin; Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, Charles Andrews; Associate Judges, John C. Gray, Rufus W. Peckham, Denis O'Brien, Francis M. Finch, Edward T. Bartlett, Robert Earl. Finances. The balance in the treasury on Oct. 1, 1894, was $1.548,286.57; the receipts to Dec. 31, 1894, were $2,772,641.56; and the payments, $3,927,119.93; leaving a balance, on Jan. 1, 1895, of $713,708.20. The treasury receipts during the year ending Sept. 30, 1894, were $18,357,948-as follow: State tax, $6,018,170; tax on inheritances, $1,688,954; fees received from county clerks, $37,885; tax on organization of corporations, $150,761. The receipts from the corporation tax levied annually were $1,645,878-as follow: From insurance companies, $132,511 transportation companies, $839.489; telegraph and telephone companies, $61,597; gas, mining, and miscellaneous companies, $565,419; banks, $46,860. The pool-tax receipts, which are distributed among the agricultural societies throughout the State, amounted to $22.752. The expenses of the Legislature were $528,010; of the Constitutional Convention, $338,301; printing payments, $319,020. The balance in the State treasury on Oct. 1, 1894, was $3,193,349; the receipts during the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1894, were $18,537,948; the payments were $20, 183,011. The balance in the treasury on Oct. 1, 1894, was $1,928,383. The State tax rate, as announced by the Legislature, is 2.18 mills. Last year it was 2:58 mills. There has been a reduction, therefore, in the rate of taxation. The total amount of the appropriations made by the Legislature is $15,102,636.47. In 1893 the total appropriations were $17,426,335.98. The Legislature of 1894 therefore appropriated $2,323,699.51 less than the previous Legislature. Wealth of the State. The State assessors are William A. Wood, Henry D. Brewster, and John A. Mason, each of whom receives a salary of $2,500. Their report transmitted to the State Legislature on April 25 showed that the local assessors of the respective counties returned the sum of $4,302,388,319 as the total amount of property in the State of New York in 1893. This sum consisted of $3,761,679,384 real estate and $540,708,935 personal property. Of the personal estate, $102,506,261 was corporate property, not subject to taxation. The total amount of personal property subject to taxation for State purposes was $438,202,674, making $4,199,882,058 the total amount of property in the State subject to taxation. A comparison of the assessment of 1892 with the assessment of 1893 shows an increase in taxable property of $161,823,109, distributed as real estate $135,034,291 and personal property $26,788,818. Legislative Session. The one hundred and seventeenth regular session of the Legislature began on Jan. 2 and continued until April 27. At the opening of the session the Senate was composed of 18 Republicans, 13 Democrats, and 1 Independent Democrat, and the Assembly of 74 Republicans and 54 Democrats. The organization was therefore in the hands of the Republicans, who promptly chose Charles T. Saxton President pro tem. of the Senate, and George R. Malby Speaker of the Assembly, both being candidates named by the caucus. Contestants for 3 seats in the Senate and 14 in the Assembly promptly filed petitions for the removal of the persons declared elected. In the Senate, Henry Wolfert, of the Sixth Senatorial District in Kings County, was given the seat of the Democrat occupant. This resulted in some trouble, owing to the arbitrary course of the Democrats, under the lead of Lieut.-Gov. Sheehan, who attempted to prevent the unseating of John McCarty in favor of Henry Wolfert. The adoption of a closure rule prevented the minority from frustrating the purpose of the majority. It was upon this occasion that two historical incidents occurred. The minority, baffled and beaten through the instrumentality of Judge Maynard, procured from Jacob H. Clute, county judge of Albany Connty, an order restraining Clerk John S. Kenyon from calling the roll of the Senate. Thereupon Charles T. Saxton, president pro tem., called the roll himself and declared McCarty's seat vacant, Subsequently the Senate investigated Judge Clute for his interference with the prerogatives of the Senate, and in its report recommended that the law be amended, rendering such offenses punishable by fine and imprisonment. In the Assembly, Michael McGuire, William Hughes, and James Graham, Democrats, were unseated in favor of the Republican candidates. During the session there were introduced in the Assembly 1,497 bills, as against 1,400 the year previous; it printed 1,753, as against 1,576 in 1893. Its records of bills passed reached close upon 700, as against 654 passed in 1893. In the Senate there were introduced 1,037 bills, as compared with 830 last year. Of this number, there were passed up to the hour of adjournment over 700, leaving untouched over 1,000 bills. Of the bills sent to the Governor, there were signed over 350 laws, and there remained in his hands at adjournment over 400. Among the more important measures adopted are the following: A bill taxing foreign corporations doing business in this State of 1 per cent.; also one imposing a tax upon all the receipts of the incorporated racing associations of this State. taining to educational and charitable institutions were the following: One appropriating $100.000 to rebuild the Oneonta Normal School, which was burned early in the year; one appropriating $150,000 for the Rochester State Hospital, which was damaged by fire. An appropriation of $125.000 was made to create the Eastern Reformatory, to relieve the overcrowded Elmira Reformatory from some of its inmates. Appropriations were made for the Western Reformatory for Women, in Albion, and for the Eastern Reformatory for Women, in Westchester County. An appropriation of $100,000 for a normal school in Jamaica was approved. An appropriation of $12,000 was made to establish an epileptic colony, and the sum of $101,000 was appropriated for the Oneida Custodial Asylum. Other measures were: Forbidding hazing; providing for the appointment of a commission to examine law students: providing for conditional pardons; allowing annexation of Flatbush to Brooklyn; forbidding the sale of condensed milk unless of a certain degree of fatty strength; extending the term of office of the New York City Board of Electrical Control; allowing convicts from each prison to be employed on State roads: submitting the question of a Greater New York to a vote of the people; allowing foreign corporations to hold property within this State and to dispose of the same: forbidding any bank to erect a building that shall cost more than 25 per cent. of the net surplus of the corporation; compelling banks to publish in January of each year, in the news papers, a list of deposits from which no sums have been drawn within the five preceding years; providing that the State Board of Canvassers may be reconvened by an order of the Supreme Court: providing for nonpartisan boards of inspectors of elections throughout hroughout the State: providing nonpartisan boards of election inspectors for Albany; restoring the charter of Lansingburgh to its original shape; making the terms of supervisors extend for one year; making it a felony to vote illegally, or to assist an illegal voter; allowing the Attorney-General to enter grand jurors' rooms; abolishing the shore inspector's office; creating nonpartisan boards of park commissioners and police commissioners for the city of New York; allowing one inspector of election to order the arrest of a person obstructing the polls; compelling all work on New York docks to be done by contract; forbidding mortgage brokers to take more than 6 per cent. interest on lands; incorporating the Provident Among Loan Society of New York city; compelling all stone used on municipal works to be dressed and carved in this State; compelling the State or any city to pay to laborers or mechanics such wages as are fixed by the recognized labor organizations, and forbidding the use of contract labor upon any State or municipal work at less than such contract price; prohibiting the manufacture of brushes in the Albany Penitentiary. That the canal interests were not ignored is shown by the following bills, all of which were signed by the Governor: General maintenance funds for the canals, $700,000; extraordinary repairs, $300,000; $5,000 for drain under the canal at Whitesboro; $10,000 for canal bridges in Washington and Saratoga Counties: $15.000 for repairing the towpath at Glens Falls; $60,000 for dredging the Ohio basin, Buffalo; $75,1000 for claims arising on account of the canal: $5,000 for work on the bank at Schenectady. Several investigating committees were appointed that have rendered notable service. The Senate Lexow Police Investigating Committee discovered by a careful investigation that the police of New York were interfering seriously with elections in that city, and as a result of that investigation a nonpartisan board of police bill was passed. The Committee on Elections showed to the public the gigantic election frauds that had been committed at Coney Island by John Y. McKane and his henchmen, which resulted in depriving Senator John McCarty of his seat in the Senate. The Senate Committee on Public Health, by an investigation, exposed the expensive management of the State Board of Health. The Senate Finance Committee, by an investigation, showed that the expenses of several State departments could be materially reduced. Banking Department. This is under the care of a superintendent, who is appointed for three years and receives a salary of $5,000. The present incumbent is Charles M. Preston. His report for the year ending Sept. 30, 1894, shows that 207 State banks and 4 individual bankers of the State are in a flourishing condition, as evidenced by the following detailed statement: Resources Loans and discounts, less due from directors, $159,438,635; liability of directors as makers, $5,971,285; overdrafts, $250,823; due from trust companies, State, national, and private banks and brokers, $24,623,361; real estate. $7,391,053; bonds and mortgages, $2,270,990; stocks and bonds, $14,870,139; specie, $16,456,677; United States legal tender notes and circulating notes of national banks, $23,311,980; cash items, $15,605,921; loss and expense account, $538,455; assets not included under any of the above heads, $718,231; add for cents, $750; total, $271,448,300. Liabilities-Capital, $32,504,000; surplus fund, $16,148,856; undivided profits, $11,136,005; due depositors on demand, $178,331,859; due to trust companies, State, national, and private banks, and brokers, $20.499.822; due to individuals and corporations, other than banks and depositors, $447,235; due savings banks. $11,061,846; due the Treasurer of the State of New York, $409,027; amount not included under any of the above heads, $909,317; add for cents, $333; total, $271.448,300. During the year 10 new banks were formed. Insurance. This department is under the care of a superintendent, who is appointed for three years and receives a salary of $7,000. The present incumbent is James F. Pierce. The annual report for 1893 shows there were 32 "straight" life insurance companies doing business in New York, of which 12 are home companies, and last year took in as premiums $123,559,156. The 20 companies of other States are credited with premiuins of $69,147,682 for the the New York The dividends of same period. companies compan to stockholders aggregated $257,277, while those of the foreign companies amounted to $511,285. There were $47,329,075 of claims paid by New York companies, and $28,574,745 by foreign companies. The total surplus of the home companies on hand on Dec. 31, 1893, was $70,798,226, and of the foreign companies, $45,750,956; total, $116,549,186. The expense of conducting the department was $102,257, of which $81,727 was for general expenses. Claims. This department is controlled by a board of 3 commissioners, each of whom is appointed for six years and receives a salary of $5,000 and $500 in lieu of expenses. The present incumbents are George M. Beebe, Wilbur F. Porter, and Hugh Reilly. The annual report of the board for 1894 shows that since it was organized, in 1883, it has heard and decided, to Jan. 1, 1895, 2,030 claims against the State, amounting to $4,783,895, and has awarded thereon $1,231,723. This number of decisions is exclusive of those made on appeals from the Board of Canal Appraisers to the Canal Board, 273 of which were pending in 1884, and were transferred to this board. The whole number of original claims filed since the board was organized is 2,789, and there are now pending 831 claims, varying from $30 to $200,000. The number of claims filed with the board during 1894 was 744, of which 508 were decided, in which the aggregate claimed was $700,078. The entire awards allowed amounted to $120,273. Several hundred of the claims pending arise under the $2 a day law, and await final decision upon test cases now before the Court of Appeals. The whole number of appeals from the awards of this board to the Court of Appeals is 129, the reversals 22. The reversals on appeal by the State were 3. Education. This department is under the supervision of a superintendent, whose salary is $5,000, and whose term of office is three years. The present incumbent is James F. Crooker. His report for 1893 was presented to the Legislature on March 12. It showed the existence of 12,015 public schools, of which over 90 per cent. are outside of cities. There were 32,476 teachers employed, and the attendance of pupils was 1,083,228. The amount paid to teachers in the public schools during the year was $11,883.094. This amount exceeds that of 1892 by $262,028. To teachers in city schools $7,146,693 was paid, an increase of $98,280. The teachers in country districts received $4,736,401, which sum was $163,747 greater than was paid in 1892. The average salary paid to each teacher in city schools was $728, being $12.40 less than the average of 1892, while that for teachers employed in the country schools was $303, an average increase over 1892 of $6. |