Excerpt from The Government of Hudson County, New Jersey Hudson County is one of the two counties of the first class in the State of New Jersey. In point of population it is the largest county in the State but in respect to its area it is the smallest. The cost per inhabitant for the government of the county in 1913 was $3.30, which was an increase of $1.32 per capita since 1908. The per capita wealth of the county in 1913 was $977.68, and in 1908 was $820.85, showing an increase of $106.83 in the per capita wealth of the county for a period of five consecutive years. The county has had a rapid growth both in population and in economic wealth and the prospects are favorable for a still greater development due to its position as near neighbor to the City of New York, just across the Hudson. While Hudson County has grown to be the most populous of the twenty-one counties of the State, its history as a separate political unit dates from a much later period than that of the older counties of New Jersey. The first appearance of any county as a unit of local government in New Jersey was in 1675. Hudson County, however, did not become a separate county until 1840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.