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ion, none; term of Senators, 2 years; of Representatives, 1 year.
Number electoral votes, 36; number voters, 1,408,751; native white, 852,094; foreign white, 536,598. Election betters or bribers, and convicts, excluded from voting.
Number of colleges, 28; school pop., 1,681,101; school age, 5-21.
Legal interest rate, 6; usury forfeits principal and interest.
NEW JERSEY. Jer?zee. "JERSEY BLUE."
Named in honor of a grantee, Sir George Carteret, at one time Governor of the Island of Jersey. One of the thirteen original States, settled by Dutch, at Bergen, 1620. Area, 7,815 square miles; extreme length, 157 mls.; breadth, 37 to 70 mls.; frontage on Atlantic and Delaware Bay, about 120 miles each. Number counties, 21.
Temperature at Atlantic City: winter, 32? to 42?; summer, 66? to 73?. Rainfall at Newark, 45 inches.
Newark, Perth Amboy, Great Egg Harbor, Tuckerton, Bridgeton and Lumberton are ports of entry. Newark, metropolis; population, 152,988. Jersey City, a suburb of New York; population, 153,513. Trenton, capital; pop. 34,386. Paterson, manufacturing city; pop., 63,273. Extensive zinc works at Newark and Jersey City. Pop. Elizabeth, 32,119; Hoboken, 37,721; Camden, 52,884.
Number farms, 34,307. Average value per acre, cleared land, .52; woodland, .82. Number engaged in agriculture, 59,214.
Hay the most valuable crop; potato yield, 1883, 4,275,857 bu.; wheat, 1884, 2,022,000 bu.; corn 10,992,032 bu.; cranberry growing a specialty, Burlington, Ocean and Atlantic counties being especially adapted to this industry. Central region a vast market garden.
Salaries of State Officers.
Governor ,000 Sec'y of State 6,000 Treasurer 4,000 Comptroller 4,000 Attorney Gen. 7,000 Supt. Pub. Inst. 3,000 Adjutant Gen. 1,200 Librarian 1,500 Chief Justice 7,500 8 Asso. Justic's 7,000 Chancellor 10,000 Senators, Representatives 500 a year District Judge 3,500 Supt. Life Saving Service 1,800 39 Keepers 700 3 Collectors Int. Rev. ,375 to 4,500
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