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 NEW JERSEY 307 Ship building is carried on in all of these dis- tricts, there having been 75 vessels of 8,302 tons built in 1873. By the free railroad law passed in April, 1873, monopoly is abolished, and railroads may now be built in all parts of the state under a general law. Among the states, only Massachusetts and Connecticut have more railroads in proportion to territory than New Jersey. This state had 186 m. in 1845, 466 in 1855, 864 in 1865, 1,125 in 1870, and 1,267 in 1874. The different lines in operation in 1874, with their termini and lengths, were : RAILROADS. TERMINI. Milei in operation in the state in 1874. From To Bridgeton ai Cainden and Branch. id Port Morris Bridgeton Port Morris 20 60 7 75 5 7 16 81 6 23 20 14 11 15 28 5 6 84 84 13 6 21 74 70 10 . 7 18 9 46 13 10 24 7 81 56 61 6 8 7 5

6 08 24 7 6 3 12 14 22 28 87 22 41 17 11 Atlantic Cooper's Point Atlantic Citv Egg Harbor May's Landing. Central of N Branches. Erie ew Jersey. Jersey City Phillipsburg Elizabeth I Newark and Elizabeth Newark. < Newark and New York ( South Branch. . ... Newark Somerville Fleinington Dunkirk, N Y Jersey City Leased... Freehold am Hibernia Mil Jersey City Leased by 1 Lackawan Western Newark and Hudson Bergen Tunnel Newark . New Jersey and New York Erie Junction Spring Valley Bergen Nyack N Y Paterson and Hudson River Jersey City Paterson Paterson and Newark Paterson. Newark Paterson and Rainapo Paterson Ramapo 1 Jamesburg Jamesburg Sea-Girt Hibernia Mine Morris and Essex railroad . . . Bergen Point ind Bergen. .... ... ... Jersey City Phillipsburg . i Morris and Essex Branch Hoboken Denville Chester Dover Chester Newark and Bloomfield Newark Montclair New Jersey New Jersey Branches. Warren Clarksville Delaware river Union ville . Midland . .. Jersey City. ... Southern Sandy Hook Atsion Eatontown Port Monmouth Toms River Manchester
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Whitings Atsion Pemberton Junction Atco Atsion Bayside Ogden Mine Sussex i Toms River Nolan's Point Barnegat Junction Ogden Mine Waterloo Franklin Branch. . . Tuckerton Branchville Whitings Tuckerton. United Kaili Branches. Leased.. - West Jersey Cape May ai Salem i Jersey City Trenton oad Companies of New Jersey < South Amboy Camden Junction Perth Amboy East Millstone Monmouth Junction Monmouth Junction Rocky Hill 1 1 r Belvidere Delaware Jamesburg Trenton. .... Bordentown Trenton Manunka Chunk Branch. .... Mount Holly Burlington Medford Mount Holly u Junction. . . . . Vincent Flemington Lambertville Flemington Kinkora Division Near Pemberton Mercer and Somerset Somerset Junction Millstone Pemberton and Hightstown Hightstown Camden Bridgeton. . f id Millville Glassboro Millville Millville Cape May. . . Elmer Salem Swedesboro Woodburv... Swedesboro The Morris canal extends from Jersey City to Phillipsburg, 101 m., and has a large busi- ness in conveying coal from Pennsylvania to New York. The Delaware and Raritan canal connects Trenton on the Delaware with New Brunswick on the Raritan, 43 m., and has a feeder 22 m. long, from Bull's Island (Dela- ware river) to Trenton. In 1874 the state contained 62 national banks, with a paid-in capital of $13,908,350 and an outstanding cir- culation of $11,092,810, being $12 24 per capita, 1-1 per cent, of the wealth of the state, and 79-8 per cent, of the bank capital. The present constitution of New Jersey was adopted in August, 1844, and came into operation Sept. 2. It secures the right of voting to every white male citizen of the United States 21 years of age, who has resided in the state one year and in the county five months next pre- ceding the election. The general election is held annually on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, and all votes are taken by ballot. The legislature consists of a senate of 21 members, one from each county, elected for three years, one third every year, and an assembly of 60 representatives elected