VIII. NEW JERSEY.

First settlement, 1627. Capital, Trenton. Area, 8320 square miles. Population, 1860, 672,035. Government for the Year 1863.

The Governor is elected by a plurality vote for | The Adjutant and Quartermaster General are apthree years. His term commences the third Tues-pointed by the Governor. Senators, 21 in number, day of January. The Secretary of State is appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. His term of office is five years. The Treasurer is elected by the Legislature on joint ballot for one year, and until his successor is qualified; and the State Librarian is elected for three years. The Superintendent of Schools is appointed by the Trustees of the School Fund for two years.

are elected for three years, one-third every year. Representatives, 60 in number, are elected each year. The pay of members of both branches is $3 a day for the first forty days, $1.50 a day afterwards. The presiding officers have $4 a day for the first forty days, and $2 a day afterwards. The Legisla ture meets annually at Trenton, on the second Tuesday of January.

JUDICIARY.

Court of Errors and Appeals.

tute the pardoning power. A major part of them, of whom the Governor shall be one, may remit fines and forfeitures, and grant pardons, after con

This court is composed of the Chancellor, the judges of the Supreme Court, and six other judges appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate, who hold office for six years, one judge va-viction, in all cases except impeachment. All the cating his seat each year in rotation. The court holds stated terms at Trenton, on the second Tuesday in March, and third Tuesday in June and November. The Governor, Chancellor, and the six judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals, consti- | Court.

Joseph L. Risley,
Joshua Swain,
Joseph E. Combs,

judges of this court receive $5 a day for each day's attendance. The six judges receive no other salary. This per diem is in addition to the salary of the Chancellor, and of the judges of the Supreme

William N. Wood,

of Morris co.,

1865.

The Chancellor is appointed by the Governor, on the first Tuesday in February, and third Tueswith the consent of the Senate, for seven years. day in May and October. This court holds three terms annually at Trenton,

Supreme Court.

JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

1. Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, and Atlantic..

2. Gloucester, Camden, and Burlington.

3. Hunterdon, Mercer, and Somerset..

4. Ocean, Monmouth, and Middlesex.

5. Morris, Sussex, and Warren

6. Passaic, Bergen, and Hudson..

7. Essex and Union.........

The circuit courts which are held in each county | the State is in the hands of surrogates, in each have also clerks, who are also clerks of the Courts of Common Pleas, Quarter Sessions, &c., and are elected for five years. The probate jurisdiction of

county, who are also elected for five years. The following table gives the Clerks of the Courts, the Surrogates, and the Sheriffs for the year 1862. CLERKS, SURROGATES, AND SHERIFFS.

From interest of School Fund, Bank Tax, and State Appropriation.....
Expended for school purposes........

86,308 93

78,055 28

Leaving a balance in the treasury of............

8,233 65

FOR WAR PURPOSES.
Receipts.

From State Bonds sold..........

$531,820 00

From United States, for advances made by State................................
From Loans from banks.......

650,707 17

250,000 00

State bonds were issued to the amount of $331,800, which were sold at par, and in a few in

250,000 00

78,773 70

.....

23,651 10

4,622 42

37,862 79

1,239,214 38

193,662 79

stances slightly above; the whole amount realized being, as above stated, $531,820.00.

Among the principal items of ordinary expenditure were the following:—

$28,409 96 Per diem and mileage, extra session

State Debt.-Prior to May, 1861, the State had a permanent debt of $95,000, a loan obtained from the

Bank of Savings, New York, for the completion of some of its public buildings. Its available assets are stocks, bonds, and mortgages, amounting to......

Beside this, it has a school fund of....

260,717 82 470,070 66

and unavailable assets, consisting of the surplus revenue loaned to the counties without interest, amounting to.....

764,670 00

On the 10th of May, 1861, the Legislature authorized a War loan of...
and at the meeting of the Legislature in January, 1862, there was a
further debt incurred on War account of.......

531,800 00

144,133 78

Making the entire War debt of the State, to January, 1862......................................
To which add the previous State debt...............

and the entire debt of the State was, in January, 1862..............

Common Schools -Jan. 1, 1862. There were in the State, Jan. 1, 1862, 313 cities and townships, of which only 197 had reported the condition of their schools for the previous year. The whole number of school districts was 1563; of which 1253 had reported to the Superintendent; 1669 public schools were taught; there were in the State 197,502 children between the ages of 5 and 18 years; of these 30.213 had attended school through the year; 26,722 for of the year; 31,060 for six months; 34,030 from three to six months; and 24,053 a less period than three months; 1489 persons over 18 years of age had attended the schools, and 3281 colored children. The whole number of children who attended school during the year were 137,578; and the average daily attendance at school was 58,264. The average number of months during which the schools were open was 9.3, and the cost of tuition per head per annum, $8.26. The amount of money raised by tax for the support of schools, i.e. taxes levied by the towns, was $385,031 29. Amount received from the State, $52,360 23; from other sources, $40.440 17; of which $30,505 76 is from interest of the surplus revenue, on United States deposit fund; besides this, $32,45211 was raised for building repairing, and furnishing school-houses, making the whole amount appropriated and raised for common school purposes during the year, $540,283 80. The number of teachers employed was 2267, of whom 1202 were males and 1065 females. The average annual salary of the male teachers was $106. of female teachers, $244. Teachers' Institutes were held in all the counties, 21 in number, during the year. Free schools were maintained in 42 cities and townships. In the remainder, tuition fees were charged to make up what deficiency there was in the money appropriated and raised by tax to support the schools. The county which paid the highest salaries to its teachers was Hudson, where the average salaries of male teachers were $718 and of females $415. The smallest average salaries were in Sussex, where male teachers received an average salary of $253 per annum, and females $167. In Hudson county the tuition fees were only $2 per head, per annum; while in Sussex they were $9.80.

State Normal School.-This institution, organized and chartered in accordance with the Act of

..$675,933 78

95,000 00 ..$770,933 78

Feb. 9, 1855, consists of three departments :-the Normal School proper, at Trenton, sustained by an annual appropriation of $10,000 from the Legislature, the tuition in the Model School, and a small amount from other sources; the Model School, also at Trenton, which gives superior instruction in common English, and the higher mathematical branches, engineering, military science, &c., and is self-sustaining, while it affords an opportunity for the pupil-teachers of the Normal School to take lessons in the practice of teaching; and the Farnum Preparatory School, at Beverly, founded by the late Paul Farnum, who erected the buildings at a cost of $30,000 and subsequently endowed it with $20,000 more. The object of this school is to prepare pupils for the Normal School and for the teacher's profes sion. It is under the general care of the Principal of the State Normal School, but has a special Vice-Principal, who is charged with the duty of instruction. The State contributes $1200 per annum toward its expenses. The statistics of the Normal School for the year ending February 9, 1862, were as follows:

The Board of Trustees consists of two gentlemen from each of the five Congressional districts of the State, and the Superintendent of Public Schools for the time being. The Principal of the Normal School is William F. Phelps, A.M.; Vice-Principal, Silas Betts; whole number of teachers of Normal School, 7. Principal of Model School, John S. Hart, LL.D.; whole number of teachers, 7. Farnum Preparatory School, Charles R. Abbott, Vice-Principal; whole number of teachers. 5. Pupils instructed in the Normal School, during the year, 92, viz.: males 27, females 65; in the Model School, 286,-boys 154. girls 132; in the Farnum Preparatory School, 100,—boys 49, girls 51. Total pupils in all departments, 476; of whom were preparing to teach in the Normal School, 92; in the Farnum Preparatory School, 18. The graduates for the year were 14; 5 males, and 9 females: total graduates since the opening of the school, 158. Six of the teachers in the different departments are graduates of the school. Of 150 graduates of the school, 115 were teaching at the time of the report; of the remaining 35, 8 had taught more than two years, 8 were married, 4 deceased, 6 in the army or navy, 1 was