Boarding HALL-For school year 1917-1918, receipts, $24.566.14; expenditures, $23.642.32. The unexpended balance of Boarding School funds at June 30, 1918, was $3,102.17, and it is requested that this unexpended balance be made available for the use of the Boarding Hall during the current year instead of being lapsed into the State Treasury.

The City of Newark originally agreed to sell the Normal School building to the State for $420,000.00 and interest at 4 per cent. from February 4, 1916, on deferred payments. The Newark Board of Education has now withdrawn the original offer, but a contingent appropriation is recommended conditioned upon its being accepted by the city. This school has been maintained in the City of Newark as a State institution since September, 1913, starting with 400 students and now having 850 students representing some 14 counties, about 35 per cent. from Essex County. The State has invested over $70,000.00 for permanent equipment and has to date made total appropriations for the school of $596,625.00.