The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-08
TIE STATES EXPENSES
What New Jersey Does With
the Millions Which
She Levies.
NATIONAL GUARD COMES HIGH
Cost Of Charities and of the Adj
ministration Of Justice-Court
Clerks Fees.

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income and its sources, the facts being
taken from the Comptroller's annual re-
port, Just issued in book form. The chap
Ter on disbursement takes up more room
Than the story of the receipts and is,
perhaps, worthy of more study. The
heaviest Item Is hat of militia, which
reaches the grand total of $402, 1858
an increase of 1882, $751; 81 over the previous
year. A large part of this increase was
due to the extraordinary expenditures
Tor new arinories at Paterson ard Jer-
sey City. s139, 59O.23 being spent on the
former and STE, 295.2 rs on the latter. but
aside from these the militia cost $685.
$3.50 more in 1895 than it did In 1894,
Some Of the items h go to make up
his huge sum are interesting. The ex-
pense of maintaining the State Camp
0 was $40, 310.80; it required SOL
S5o.62 to pay the officers and men at the
encampment and s21, 1878 for other ex-
penses of the encampment without count
ing cost of transportation. The range and
rifle practice required the neat sum of
$ls,S70.27, while the newly organized Ma
val Reserve dipped into the treasury 10
the amount of SIG, POI %.
Next to militia the State hospitals for
the insane took the largest slice Of the
States money. The Trenton Hospital ex-
penses were $6S, 654. O4, Morris Plains $50.
54S.69. which with the expenses of the
Board of Managers and s57, 651. so for adj
ditional land and buildings at Morris
Plains made a total of $2l4.9 $3.50
Jersey justice ought to be a very good
article for it comes high. The Supreme
Court cost 800, Cos. "a for salaries and ex-
penses. the Court of Chancery sec, 972. $50,
and the Court of Errors and Appeals
and Court of Pardons together 81. $50. o5.
making a total of SITS, 237.12, an increase
of s.. 410.61 over the former year, Seven
counties maintain insane asylums of
their own and receive State aid. S114. 1857. O5
in all being expended for this purpose.
OF this sum Essex received $5S, 299. "a. or
over o~ne-half, toward the support of the
69 patients in her asylum. The State
pays 81 per week for each patient in the
county asylums.
The State has heretofore been a most
extravagant advertiser and never did it
cost more than in 1895, when the appro-
priation reached the sum of S141. 5T1. 10,
which was $50. 229.2 20 more than the year
before. The increase was due to the
great number of laws passed and also
the advertising of the proposed constitu-
tional amendments. Publishing the
laws in the newspapers. including the cost
+ ! taraaanasslatlng them into German. cost
@l2y, 996.75. and the constitutional amend
ments 81, S98.S 80. This is an expenditure
which will not soon appear again, newspaper
p phollsas Of ct the laws. haying been
ing asked for this year is only 81, 1000. The
State cares for its blind and feeble
minded in two institutions in New Jersey,
poth located at VIneland: two In Pennsyl-
wanna and one each in New York and Con-
necticut. The total number cared for
in 1895 was 3S1 and the cost s9s. 932. 81. This
in expenditures over IS94.
= Th f5,r1 Legisl atur n its average session
luxury. That Of 1895 went in for econ
omy and cut its expenses SIG, $50. % below
its immediate predecessor, but ever at that
ne rs Gompsrollar s eeo9u1g az, eg checks to
A rather peculiar fact is that the salaries
Of officers and ages amounted to more
than these e Of the members the former
compensation of officers and pages was cut
down 1ll,15o. and the incidental bill s3,957.13
from the s1d cure I s Of the previous year. It
required S70;792.76 to pay the salaries of
State officers. and the printers received
the neat sun u Of 81 BIS. 80 for printing and
burg u drew on i the fseiG Treas snsoG for a SIS s 'o4s' g,
and the Industrial School for Girls s27, $685.
z. Both Of these show a slight increase
Which Under the Old jar regime sineSs swe fiHdenst to
enormous proportions. lave been very
much curtailed. The cost in 1895 was $751;
Ss4;35. a decrease of $19.2s5.94 from the pre-
For clerical services the State paid $780,
0S4.27, and it is not recorded that any Of
Enforcing the Fish and Game laws cost
just SO, 2sS.0 more than the receipts from
fines for their violation. which were $685.
So. The bulk of expenditures went to the
Game Protector and Wardens for salaries
and expenses.
The Agricultural Experiment station
s963.S9 was expended for printing its
bulletins, while 81, IS was paid out
under the head of agricultural account.
including the annua appropriation of
5000 to the State Board Of Agriculture,
the State Agricultural Society. some
It would be we'll to spend more Q
to advance the States agricultural In
terests and less for the militia. II re-
%taonery and postage stamps for the use
Survey took SIG, ss.@. cue 'e0i0s'ca
Enforcing the law to prevent the sale
gross or sn expense ao Of ia, B gaoaue and fo partialls q
offset this s., 45O was collected in the
way of fines for violations of the law.
Laurence T.. Fell of Orange, is CHIEF.
cost the State $11, 1880. This was all
for salaries and expenses. except s., 1000
1OI lCSaA oCINlCCo duIlltS 1857. 1888 d0O
1894. The State Board Of Arbitration.
under the old law cost ss,o7ss7, and from
March IS to October 81, 1895, under the
new law, 3,659.9 90, making a total Of
$S,732.37. a decrease of S4,091.9 SO from the
preceding year. Had the old board been
permitted to continue in existence, work
ing under the law repealed last winter,
its total expenses for the year, calcu-
lating at the rate of cost for the four
months of Its existence. would have
been over SIS, 900. The State Board of
Health is not ar e~xtravagant body, its
net expenses having been but ST. 46. "a.
and it still had a balance to- its credit
at the close of the fiscal year. Collect
ing corporation taxes cost 81, 4ts. 80, the
Statistics s7,oOs.sSo, and the Investigation
maintains a pension system of It's own.
and paid out under this head 81. sol 'S4'
OF this SASS went to soldiers Of 1872
or their widows. The State Library re-
ceived So, e60.62. the Colored INDUSTRIAL
Educational and Manual Training SchofN
at B~ordentown $4,000. and the State
weather service s979.7 II.
Money paid to the counties under she
new. road law is put under the head OF
extraordinary Expenditures" The
amount that could be expended under this
act in any one year was STE, 1000, and the
amount actually. paid out in 1895 was
$74,696.B. Only three counties took adj
vantage Of the law, and Burlington re-
of the entire amount. The other two
counties that were benefited were Mer-
Ger, a$27, 1890, and Middlesex, S7.f83. To-
Under amendments to the law y $1,000