per cent on its capital stock paid in, 'excepting therefrom such part as is held by the State,and at the same rate for the same time such corporation shall have been in operation, if less than one year,' until four and one half per cent upon the capital stock shall have been paid into the treasury. The fund thus created is to be called the bank fund, and to be appropriated to the payment of the debts of insolvent banks. The fund is to be invested in the same manner as the school fund. Three bank commissioners are to be elected whose duties are prescribed in the act. Of the three bank commissioners, one is elected by joint ballot of both houses of the legislature, and the other two by the corporations subject to the act. No stockholder can be elected a commissioner. No bank is to issue an amount of notes and bills exceeding three times its capital stock paid in, under penalty of being proceeded against as insolvent which is also to be done in case of the loss of half its capital on the suspension of specie payments for sixty days, on a refusal to permit an examination of its officers under oath. If any banking company shall, by its act of incorporation, make the private property of the stockholders liable to redeem its bills, it shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this act.

An act taxing at five per cent bank stock owned by any inhabitant of this State, in any bank out of this State, making the cwt. one hundred pounds in weighing all gross articles.

An act levying a tax of three cents on the dollar on the list of the polls and rateable estate of the inhabitants of this State for 1831, to be paid by June 1, 1832.

An act appropriating $50,000 for the purpose of paying the debenture of the

Lieutenant Governor, Council, General Assembly, and contingent expenses, &c, &c, a sum not exceeding $20,000, for paying such demands against the State as may be allowed by the auditor of accounts, &c.

An act authorising the Governor to appoint commissioners of deeds, &c, in other States of the Union, who are to be sworn, and to give a bond for $500 for the faithful performance of their duties.

An act allowing the acknowledgment and proof of the execution of deeds in a foreign State or kingdom, before any minister, Chargé-des-affaires, or Consul of the United States, the chief magistrate of the city, or before a commissioner appointed by the State for that purpose.

An act to encourage the destruction of bears.

A resolution was passed instructing Senators and Representatives of the State in Congress to endeavor to procure an appropriation from the general government for the erection of a breakwater in Lake Champlain, opposite Burlington.

Seventeen acts were passed, laying taxes on towns, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and bridges: several acts relating to the subject of roads, ferries, &c.

Two rail road companies were incorporated with capitals of $1,300,000.

Three banking companies were incorporated, whose capitals amount to $300,000.

Two manufacturing companies were incorporated.

Three companies were incorporated for the purpose of preventing and extinguishing fires.

An act restoring a person to the enjoyment of the privileges of which she had been deprived by a conviction of theft.

STATISTICS. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 18.1.

Receipts.

Canals tolls, revenue, &c. $1,202,532

Principal and interest on bonds for lands of the gen.

loan of 1792

39,604

Principal and interest on do.

common school fund

35,263

Arrears of county taxes and

Principal and interest on do.

of Literature fund

18,529

Tax on foreign insurance

Principal and interest on

Balance due from individuals

4,159

The number of banks in the State is 64.

SUPPORT OF THE POOR FOR 1831The abstracts show that 15,564 paupers have been relieved or supported during the year: Of this number 13,573 were county paupers, and 1990 town paupers. The whole expense of supporting all the paupers for the year, $245,433 21.

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There has been paid for the transportation of the paupers $4,042 13 cents; to superintendents, $7,481 05 cents; to overseers, $5,102 91 cents; justices, $1,627 03 cents; to keepers and officers, $17,545 06 cents; that the value of the labor of the paupers was $12,663 26 cents; the amount saved in consequence of labor of paupers, $17,546 74 cents; and that the average expense of supporting a pauper at a poor house is $33 28 cents per year, or 64 8-10 cents per

week.

There are 5221 acres of land attached to the poor houses, and the total value of all the poor house establishments in the State is $830,350 46 cents; that 10,896

paupers have been received into the poor houses during the year; that there were born in the poor houses in the same time, 170; died during the year, 1157; bound out, 318; discharged, 5962; absconded, 545; total females in poor houses December 1, 1831, 2532; males, 2862 — total of

both sexes 5554. That of those relieved during the year, there were 2795 foreigners, 410 lunatics, 224 idiots, and 30

closed its annual labors on the 18th of April, 1832, after a session of one hundred and thirteen days, having passed upwards of three hundred and thirtyfive acts and nine resolves.

Two cities were incorporated- Utica and Buffalo. Rochester failed in consequence of a disagreement between the two Houses on the question whether the election of justices should be given to the people, or retained by the legisla ture. Six villages were incorporated.

Also, bills directing the final settlement of the claims of John Jacob Astor against the State - postponing the election of Representatives to Congress until 1833, in order to secure the number to which the State shall be entitled under the new Apportionment Bill, &c.

An act to prevent the abatement of suits where corporations are parties, in case of their dissolution during the pendency of the suit. An act authorizing the

release of escheated lands to the heirs of the owner, upon payment of a certain part of the value into the State treasury.

An act allowing the superintendents of the poor to make such arrangements as they may deem equitable with the putative fathers of bastard children.

An act authorizing holders of bills of exchange and promisory notes to sue all the parties thereto in one action - the rights and responsibilities of the parties as between each other not to be affected by the act.

An act prohibiting, under the penalty, the carrying on the business of an apothecary in the city of New York, after lege of Pharmacy, or some other medi1834, without a diploma from the colcal college, or a certificate from one of the medical societies of the State.

An act authorizing the appointment of measurers of grain in the city of New York.

keep an office for orders to measure The measurer general is to grain, and in case of a dispute as to the measurement, he is to determine it, and if the buyer or seller be dissatisfied as to any decision concerning the quality, he may appeal to three indifferent persons, whose decision shall be final.

The measurers are prohibited from dealing in grain, either as agents or otherwise, and returns are to be made annually to the legislature, of the quantity measured, the annual price, from where shipped and the amount of fees, &c.

A temporary act for a quarantine against the Asiatic cholera, or any other malignant disease.

Inspection laws relating to the inspec

tion of beef, pork, salt, flour, meal, and oil.

Act were also passed incorporating seven Banks with a capital of $1,450,000; eight Insurance companies with a capital of $1,750,000; twentyfive Rail road companies with an aggregate capital of $24,775,000; two Canal companies and one company for a Canal or rail road; two Coal companies; two Whaling companies; one Mining association; three

Water companies; twelve Manufacturing companies with a capital of $1,705,000; five Turnpike companies, and several companies for useful and benevolent purposes.

A resolution was passed declaring that the charter of the United States bank

ought not to be renewed, and requesting the Representatives and instructing the Senators to vote against it.

Extracts from the message of Gov. Vroom to the Legislature, in Nov. 1831.

The suit instituted by this State against the State of New York, pursuant to the act of February, 1828, is still pending undetermined, in the supreme court of the United States. The process has been sometime since served and returned; and the State of New York, having declined to appear in obedience to its requirement, the court at its last session in January, caused a rule to be entered, that the complainant should be at liberty to proceed ex parte; and unless the defendant should appear at the next term of the court, which will be in January, and answer the complainant's bill, the court would proceed to hear the cause, and make such decree as might be just.

In consequence of this proceeding the governor of the State of New York addressed a message to the legislature of that State, in which he calls in question the right and authority of the court, to take cognizance of the matters in controversy between the two States, and requests direction as to the course he should pursue. The executive of our sister State is not understood to have placed himself on the broad ground, that the constitutional power of the supreme court did not extend to suits between different States, but on the principle, that the power of the court, though constitutional in the abstract, could not legally be exercised, until the mode of proceed ing in cases of this description should be pointed out and regulated by an act of Congress. In view of the whole subject he suggested the propriety of an appearance on the part of the State, accompanied with a protestation, to save the State from being concluded on the question of jurisdiction. Under the expectation that such appearance would be entered by the State of New York, and in the sincere desire that the suit should be con

ducted with a spirit of amity, this State has forborne to proceed in the examination of witnesses; and it is probable that no step will be taken in the cause until after the next term of the court.

I deem it unnecessary, if not a matter of questionable propriety, to enter into any discussion of the grounds assumed by the executive of New York. We have taken our position after full and solemn advisement. The question is pending before a tribunal whose wisdom we cannot hope to instruct. In its purity and integrity we repose with implicit confidence; and to its judgment, matured and enlightened as it always is, we feel great safety in committing our rights.

EDUCATION.- This State has a school fund of $228,612, yielding an annual income of $15,952; and by a law passed in 1829, $20,000 are annually distributed among such towns as may raise an equal sum which may be received by them for the support of common schools. About fifteen thousand adults it is said are unable to read in this State, and in some places the children are entirely destitute of instruction.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT. - The two great works of internal improvement, viz. the Delaware and Raritan canal, and the Campden and Amboy rail road, were rapidly advancing to completion. The latter was opened in 1832 for one track as far as Bordentown, and greatly facilitated the transportation of passengers and goods between New York and Philadelphia.

At the Legislative session for 1832,. those companies were authorized to

transfer to the State one thousand shares of their capital stock, upon which no payments were to be at any time required by the State as a bonus for granting the charters. The State agreed to permit no other rail road to be constructed between those cities without the con

sent of the companies, during the continuance of the charter of the Rail Road Co. The company is required to construct a lateral branch to New Brunswick.

The New Jersey rail road and transportation was also incorporated to construct a rail road from New Brunswick through Rahway and Newark to New York, and the State reserved the right to subscribe for one quarter of the stock within two years. Two other rail road companies were incorporated.

LEGISLATION.-At the legislative session, began October 25, 1831, there were the following laws of general in

terest:

An act providing for a reporter of the decisions in the Courts of Chancery, of prerogative and of appeals.

An act declaring that no indictment on information shall be abated by a plea of misnomer, but the Court may, when satisfied of the truth of such plea, order an amendment.

An act was passed to authorize the payment of two thousand dollars to the agent of the Delaware tribe of Indians formerly resident in New Jersey, but now at Green Bay in Michigan, for a release of their title to the fisheries in the bays south of the river Raritan.

The preamble of this act states that although the Indian title to the fisheries is barred by reason of their voluntary abandonment, the legislature should grant a remuneration for the right to said fisheries, as an act of voluntary justice, as a memorial of kindness and compassion to the remnant of a once powerful and friendly people, and as a consummation of a proud fact in the history of New Jersey, that every Indian claim, right and title to her soil, and its franchises have ever been acquired by fair and voluntary transfer.'

An act authorizing the Orphans' Court in the several counties, to order from time to time, upon the application of the guardian of a minor, the sale of so much timber on the real estate of such minor as shall be sufficient for his main

tenance and education. The personal estate, and rents and profits of the real estate, must appear not to be adequate for such objects.

An act declaring that deeds officially given of real estate sold under execution, shall be valid, notwithstanding any variance between the recitals therein and the execution, or between the executions and the judgments. The Court may, when the record is offered in evidence to support such deed, consider the same as amended. Deeds made pursuant to an order of the orphans' court, are placed upon a similar footing.

A tax of forty thousand dollars was authorized for 1832.

Acts were also passed incorporating two new Banks; four Fire Companies; two Bridge Companies; one Insurance Company; one Mining Company; one Coal Company; four Manufacturing Companies; one Steamboat Company; two Lyceums, and one Dispensary.

Six pensions were granted, and nine acts of divorce passed, and a resolution of the following import:

'Whereas, the people of the State of New Jersey feel a deep interest in all things affecting the welfare of their common country, and particularly in every measure having relation to the Judiciary, the Tariff System, Internal Improvements, and the Currency of the country the maintenance of each, in all their inviolability, is deemed essential to the prosperity of these United States- - Therefore,

'Be it resolved by the Council and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives in Congress be requested, to use their best endeavors to maintain the present Judiciary System of the United States inviolate; to give adequate protection to American Industry; to foster and uphold Internal Improvements; and to vote for and advocate the renewal of the charter of the Bank of the United States, with such modifications as may be deemed necessary. Ayes, 31. Noes 14.

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. In his annual Message to the Legislature, the Governor congratulates his fellow citizens on the prosperity of Pennsylvania and the Union, and on the decrease of crime, and especially of that great cause of it, intemperance. He recommends the total abolition of lotteries, as productive

of the worst effects. He thinks greater variety might be given to the agricultural products of Pennsyslvania; wine and silk might, in the opinion of the most judicious thinkers, be added to these products. He urges the encouragement of agricultural societies, and the still more important subject of a general sys