The Jersey City news., 1890-01-20
FINANCES OF THE State.
Figures from Comptroller
Anderson's Report.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES,
Division of the School Money--Coun-
ties That Are Worth Less This
Year Than Last.
epecial g the .1erseu citu Ms1us.

lCdI iu1U Ddols
Special to the Jersey City Nerus.
TRENTON, Jan, 20. 1890. State Comp
troller E. j. Anderson has prepared his
report for the year ending October 81,
1889 At the beginning of the fiscal year
there was in the hands Of the treasurer q
balance Of s532. 1881. The receipts dur
ing the year were s., ,124, ,917. SO, and the
disbursements for all purposes, s., ,Os5,-
22355, leaving balance now on hand to
the credit of all funds of S571. .972. .25.
There is a balance to the credit of the
State fund of S241, ,9722 25. which is the
whole amount now available for State
expenditures.
THE RAILROADS PAYMENTS
The railroads have paid into the treas
ury Of the State during the period covered
by the report $685., SIS. SO, and the property
upon which this was paid was valued at
Sl96, ,S63, ,694. The Pennsylvania and the
Central were the heaviest taxpayers, the
former paying sos, 1885, 10, and the latter
$207, ,73306. The Philadelphia and Read
ing system paid So, ,22B. %; New York,
Lake Erie and Western Railroad system,
$66, ,994. 90; Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad system, s191 470 81;
New York, Susquehanna and Western
Railroad system, $21 ,279 59 Lehigh VAL
ley Railroad system, s54, a5L2s; West
s., 131. 81; New Jersey Junction, SC, 1886. so;
New Jersey and New York, 81 051. .5S; New
York and Greenwood Lake, S., ,976 IA: and
the West Shore and Ontario Term nxs
Company, $24.60347. The Jersey City
and Bergen road paid 81, sos. SO.
The corporations doing business within
the State, both native and foreign, paid a
tax of $272, ,368. II; the labor of the con-
victs In the State prison brought in S64,
267.22, and SIS, $40 was received from divi-
dends on railroad stock owned by the
State The official fees amounted to $18,-
230.55; and the judicial fees footed up
S13, ,597.1l.
There was collected in fines 81 IA. 80.
and the sale of copies of the revised sta
tutes brought in S412.50. Commissioners
fees were collected to the amount of 800
and S95. were received through escheats.
EXPENDITURES.
On the other side of the ledger is 500, 600
$50. 19 expended in maintaing the 4unatic
asylums throughout the State; S6& S46. .97
for the Soldiers Home; $52, 1858. .0g f&r the
Reform School, and 50, ,056.97 for theSs In
dustrial School.
Pensions to the amount of So. .246. 80 we7pa<
paid and the soldiers State bounty
amounted to $6S 65, while 300 went to the
Board of Charities and Correction. 1t
took $158, 14.25 to maintain the State
Prison; the legal machinery of the State
was operated at cost of S324, 260. .26, and
it required $685., ,37S.S 80 to administer the
governments in q manner becoming the
dignity Of the State. Advertising laws,
proclamatfons, etc, and printing and
binding laws consumed sl03.14637. and
our gallant militia was provided for at
an expenditure OF $123 516.04
The State expended S47, loo. 81 for educa-
tton of it's blind and feeble-minded, and
for scientific, sanitary and similar pur-
poses S7S, .03 was consumed.
There are confined in the various lunatic
asylums throughout the State 2,49s per-
sons. Seven hundred and sixteen of
these are in the Trenton asylum and 805
at Morris Plains. OF the county asylums
the largest number, 406, is in that of
Essex, and the smallest, eight, in Salem.
Hudson has 283.
THE SCHOOL FUND.
A large part of the report is devoted to
the conditions and transactions of the
School Fund. The total assets of the
fund at the present time amount to
SO, 709, $40. 49, The income of the fund
this year was s776, ,233. 48, and the disburse-
ments $446, ,546.41, leaving balance OF
1929, ,904S2. OF the fund $16S,20O is In
vested in railroad stocks, $481, 800 in
United States Government bonds, SliS,00O
in New Jersey State bonds, and $66S, 600
in municipal bonds. sOf the latter amount
$4,000 is in Jersey City bonds. The
bonds, OF New Jersey School districts
held by the Fund amounts to $16i, ,782. so.
Citizens of the State are indebted to the
fund for 500, ,875, loaned them on bond
and mortgage. Only two of these are in
Hudson County and amount to SIS, 900.
OF the $976, ,246.Sl Of riparian leases the
greater parta held in Hudson County.
( The school tax is levied at the rate of
IS for each child of lawful school age as
shown by the school census. The num-
Der of such children last year was
3S7, SAT, and the tax was apportioned
among the several counties upon the
basis of the taxable property The ag
gregate amount of such property was
$603, ,676, ,953.22, and the amount raised for
the school tax thereon was 1888, 1856.
Essex's valuation, $126, ,970, 600. was the
largest, and Oceans, 81, ,243, ,492, was the
smallest. Hudson came second with e
valuation of Sic, ,252, 764
AS soon as the tax was paid into the
State treasury ninety per centum of that
received from each county was repaid to
the county, and ten PEI centum was held
as a reserve fund to be distributed to the
several counties according to the appor-
tionment made by the State Board of
The reserve fund amounted
last year to $l93, 1928 so.
Bergen, Burlington, Cape May, Hud-
son, Morris, Passaic, Union and Warren
received from the reserve fund the same
they were required to contribute
TO it. Atlantic, Camden, Cumber-
land, Middlesex, Sussex and Ocean
will receive more than they pay, while
Essex, Gloucester, Hunterdon. Mercer,
Salem and Somerset will
have to pay more than they receive.
THE STATE RATABLEs.
The total value of the ratabIes of the
State is $61s, ,704, 763. IS, an increase over
The previous year of s16,996, 314.5 53 This
of Burlington, Hunterdon, Mid
llesex, Ocean, Somerset, Sussex and
Warren have decreased, while that Of the
other counties have increased. The
greatest decrease, $685., ,3l2, has been in
and the largest increase,
s., III, 1856, was in Hudson.
Hudson Circuit Court.
Calendar, Wednesday, January %, 1890. SUI
preme and Circuit Court cases. Nos SO, 60, 81,
Cali for Tuesday, January 81, 1890. withdrawn.
By order of the Court,