The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-08


| COMMON SCHOOLS.
The superintendent of Public Instruction has fur
nished the following statistics for the year ending
September 80, 1879
Total receipts. including balance on hand
September 80, 1871. $1l, 49,, BOZ
Total expenditures. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1892, 69(
Amount paid for teachers wages. ....... 6,9533ls
Amount paid for school-houses, REPAIRS
sites Observation-Disclosures. 2s,es2 se
Total number Of schoohouses ........:. liza
Number Of school districts exclusive OF
Number OF teachers employed at the same
, time for the full legal term OF SCHOOL,. 1901
Number OF teachers employed during any
Number Of Of children attending public
Number Of persons attending normal
schools. Observation-Disclosures. 5657
Number of Chi ldren OF school age In pri-
vate schools. ,....-.. 1919
Number Of persons in the State between
1--WE and twentyone years OF ago.. 1,52o,62S
CHARITIES AND ASYLUMs.
The annual report OF the Commissioners Of
Charities will present to you information and sug-
| renew the Recommendation or my predecessor
that an inquiry be made into the condition of
view to some provision by which they may be saved
| from contamination by association with old and
incOrrigible Offenders
On the LIST or october last seventy banks were
! doing business under the Banking laws OF this
|
the amount Of $26,093 have been destroyed by the
Bank Department Forty-one banks have been
credited with lost circulation to the amount, in
all, OF $2l3 3A1, the time for redeeming the same
after the usual legal notice, having expired.
The amount OF circulation outstanding inclu ding
that OF Incorporated banks, banking associations
and individual bankers was, on the lst of October
last &c. OF this a amount the sum Of
| or stocks and mortgages. The residue, being cir
culaton issued prior to the passage of the general
banking law, is not secured by any deposit in the
| Bank Department
There were, on the 1st OF July last ISL savings
| banks reporting to the Banking Department 1.-TWO
Of which are closing, with assets to the amount,
IN the aggregate OF $2g2 1926. These assets may
at this time, be estimated upon the ratio OF in
crease OF the preceding SIX months at $3Ol S04
Iae number OF persons having deposits IN these in.
accounts on the ist Of January. 1872, 77e,7OO.
1t is very desirable that tho provisions Of law
| regulating savings banks should be uniform; and,
in my opinion, the object in view in the creation
OF these institutons-the security of deposits by
general law defining their powers, and by I the
repeal OF all special privileges in existing charters
inconsistent with it. AS they created for the
benefit OF persons in moderate circumstances and
which any one individual Should be allowed to
deposit should be limited. ! suggest further for
the S Of the Legislature whether the
invest should not be prescribed by law, and any
investment by trustees In violation Of 1t made a
| misdemean0r.
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT..
The number OF insurance companies subject to
| the supervision OF the Insurance Department
| ON the LIST day OF December, 1872, was 26a fol-
| New York Joint stock fire insurance companies 90
| New York mutual fire Insurance companies. ....
New York marine insurance companies. ........ o
New YORK life insurance companies. 80
Fire insurance companies Of other States. rs
Marine Insurance companies OF other States..... l
Life Insurance. companies of other States. 49,. 20
Casualty insurance companies OF other States. 8
Foreign Insurance companies. Observation-Disclosures. Is
|
The total amount Of stocks and mortgages nei Hi
by the department for the protection OF policy
holders OF life and casualty insurance companies
OF this State and OF foreign insurance companies
dsing business within it is 50, To-, 4s3 "a, as fol-
For protection of pollcyholders gener-
| ally, In life insurance companies OF
For protection OF registered policy
holders exclusively. .............. 2,S15,350 90
For protection or casually policy
holders exclusively. ........... 1000 90
foreign insurance companies, ...... 9o27, 900 90
For protection OF life policy in
foreign insurance companies. 49,. 100000 90
Total deposit. ................... s9.1o7.4 93 "a
The uniformed militia OF the state, known as the
divisions and twenty-five brigades, distributed
among the different arms as follows, viz. IL regi-
ment, battalion and separate troops OF cavalry;
II batteries OF artillery, 81 regiments and battal
ions OF infantry; making an aggregate OF 23,672
officers non-commissloned officers, musicians and
privates.
| need not say how important 1t is to give to the
different corps the greatest possible efficiency In
organization and the most effective armament.
without much opportunity for observation, never
theless have the Impression that little remains to
be done by law to accomplish both objects II is
my purpose to give special attention, through my
military stan, TO the inspection OF the troops,
arsenals and armories, and to the drill by brigades
when 1t Is practicable, so that regiments may be
prepared to act in larger bodies in OF sudden
for your information the following extract from
the annual report OF the late faithful and Jealous
AdJutant General:-"Ihe excellence OF the Ma
tional Guard in drill, discipline and general EN-
cheney has continued, and It may safely be said
that never before In Its history has it stood higher
In reputation or enjoyed In q greater degree the
good VIII OF the people,"
QUARANTINE.
During the past year hundred and nfty-two
vessels were detained in quarantine for sickness
which mad occurred on them while in port or on
their passage to New York.
one hundred and fifteen vessels had six hundred
ana eighty cases OF smallpox, OF which two hun
dred and seventy-four were fatal, nearly all the
deaths occurring before the vessels reached port
This extraordinary number OF deaths Is due TO the
use OF the old sailing packets from Germany where
the emigration, alter the close OF the war, was
greater than the capacity or the steamships.
on board OF these one hundred and fifteen vessels
there were exposed TO disease, In greater or less
degree, seventy-three thousand three hundred and
six persons, passengers and crews.
Tnirty-four vessels had yellow fever on them; on
these there were one hundred and sixty-nine cases
and forty-seven deaths, there being nine hundred
and five persons exposed.
Twenty-lour OF these vessels had yellow fever on
board at the time OF their arrival, and forty-nve
cases were sent from them to West Bank Hospital,
and nine OF them proved fatal
Four vessels brought six cases OF ship fever, TO
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