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Elemeutary instruction is free and compulsory for all children from 7 to 15 years of age ; the schools are open to all from 5 to 20 years of age. In 1910 the public elementary schools had 12,087 teachers and 429,797 enrolled pupils. 166 public high schools had 340 teachers and 24,733 pupils. In 1910, 6 public normal schools had 147 teachers and 1,485 students.
Higher and non-sectarian instruction is provided at Princeton University (founded in 1746), which, in 1909, had 161 professors and 1,314 students ; at Rutgers College (1766) at New Brunswick, with 52 professors and 452 students; and at Stevens Institute* of Technology (1871) at Hoboken, with 34 professors and 390 students.
Charitv. — For philanthropic and charitable purposes New Jersey has 2 insane hospitals with 3,514 patients, and it maintains in county hospitals 2,751 insane patients ; in 2 establishments for the feeble minded it has 540 inmates ; in an epileptic village it has 329 patients ; in an institution for tuberculosis patients it maintains 138 patients, and in 2 soldiers' homes it has 774 inmates. Poor relief is administered by overseers in cities, towns, and corporate townships. Relief is restricted to persons having legal settlement in a city or town ; other paupers may be temporarily relieved and then removed to their place of settlement or the place where they last resided for 6 mouths. Natives of the State gain settlement by living for a year on freehold valued at 130 dollars ; healthy immigrants, by a year's residence. Parents, grand-parents, children and grand -children of a pauper are liable for his support. Townships with no provision for county support of paupers may have (singly or in combination) a poorhouse, and certain incorporated towns may provide for their own poor and escape the county poor tax. Pauper children are boarded out. It is illegal to bring alien paupers into the State.
Finance, Defence. — The receipts and disbursements of the Stale Fund for the financial year ending October 31, 1910, were as follows : —
Dollars
Gross receipts 8,534,969
Balance, October 31, 1909 . . . . . 3,680,882
Total 12,215,851
Gross disbursements ...... 7,670,663
Balance, October 31, 1910 . . . 4,545,188
The true value of all property in the State in 1910 was estimated at : —
Dollars
Real property 1,776,408,029
Personal property 271.941,267
Total 2,048,349,296
The militia, or the National Guard as it is called in the State, consisting of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, had, in 1910, 339 officers and 3,815 enlisted men. There is also a naval reserve of 32 officers and 303 men. There is a State camp ground and rifle range at Sea Girt on the Atlantic Ocean.
Production. — Agriculture, market-gardening, fruit-growing, horticul- ture, and forestry are pursued within the State. In 1912 the chief crop was maize, acreage, 273,000, producing 10,374,000 bushels ; of hay there was
