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NEW YORK. 



The receipts of the public Treasury, on ac- 

 count of all funds except the Canal and Free- 

 School Funds, for the fiscal year, amounted to 

 $13,846,258.39, and the expenditures to $14,- 

 787,804.98. 



The gross valuation of taxahle property in 

 the State for the year -was $1,967,001,180. 

 The total State tax amounted to $14,285,976, 

 heing something over seven mills on the dol- 

 lar. The appointment of three commissioners 

 to revise the laws for the assessment and col- 

 lection of taxes was authorized by the Legis- 

 lature of 1870, and David A. Wells, George 

 W. Cuyler, and Edwin Dodge, were appointed 

 by the Governor as such commissioners. The 



report was made to the Legislature in Febru- 

 ary, 1871. 



There are several new public institutions in 

 course of construction in different parts of the 

 State. The Hudson Eiver Hospital for the 

 Insane, at Poughkeepsie, will accommodate 

 400 patients when completed. The Willard 

 Asylum for the Insane at Ovid is in limited 

 operation, and has 338 patients. The Buffalo 

 State Asylum for the Insane has been located 

 on 200 acres of land given by the city. The 

 prisons are still a source of expense to the State. 

 The following table shows the expenditures and 

 earnings of the three prisons for the past two 

 vears : 



The question of abolishing the contract sys- 

 tem of prison-labor occupied much attention, 

 both in the Legislature and out, and a com- 

 mission was appointed to investigate the whole 

 subject, whose report was to be submitted in 

 1871. 



The number of insurance companies subject 

 to the supervision of the State Insurance De- 

 partment, on December 1, 1870, was 275, as 

 follows : 



New-York joint stock fire insurance companies 105 



New- York mutual insurance companies 10 



New- York marine insurance companies 



New-York ]ife insurance companies 4 



Fire insurance companies of other States 67 



Marine insurance companies of other States 



Life insurance companies of other States 30 



Casualty insurance companies of other States 



Foreign insurance companies 6 



Total 275 



The total amount of stocks and mortgages 

 held by the department for the protection of 

 policy-holders of life and casualty insurance 

 companies of this State, and of foreign^insur- 

 ance companies doing business within it, was 

 $7,412,567, as follows: 



For protection of policy-holders generally, in 

 life insurance companies of this State $4,462,917 00 



For protection of registered policy-holders, 

 exclusively 1,559,050 00 



For protection of casualty policy-holders, ex- 

 clusively 26,000 00 



For protection of fire policy-holders in for- 

 eign insurance companies 1,048,000 00 



For protection of life policy-holders in for- 

 eign insurance companies 316,000 00 



Total deposit $7,412,567 00 



On October 1st there were 61 banks doing 

 business under State laws, whose outstanding 

 circulation was $2,253,937.50. There were, at 

 the same time, 133 savings-banks, with assets 

 estimated at $220,000,000. 



A State Eeformatory has been established 



at Elmira, for which $75,000 were appropri 

 ated by the last Legislature. 



The work on the new capitol at Albany has 

 only proceeded as far as the completion of the 

 foundation and basement, and the expense has 

 reached $1,612,734.98. 



The number of immigrants arriving at the 

 port of New York during the year was 211,190, 

 distributed as follows: From Ireland, 64,163; 

 England, 23,340 ; Scotland, 10,731 ; Wales, 

 545 ; total British Islands, 98,779 ; from Can- 

 ada, 34; Nova Scotia, 23; Germany, 72,368; 

 France, 2,210 ; Switzerland, 537 ; Holland, 

 525; Belgium, 83; Sweden, 11,549; Norway, 

 2,678 ; Denmark, 2,441 ; Italy, 2,081 ; Russia, 

 433, or, together with Poland, 1,110; West 

 Indies, 140 ; East Indies, 13 ; Australia, 9 ; Af- 

 rica, 11; Central America, 24; Mexico, 37; 

 Japan, 1 ; Turkey, 20 ; South America, 34 ; 

 Portugal, 5 ; and Greece, 14. 



During the fifteen years from 1855 to Janu- 

 ary 1, 1870, the number of emigrants landed 

 at Castle Garden was 2,340,928. Their desti- 

 nation, as stated by them, was as follows : 

 N. Y. and undecided. 972,267 



EASTERN STATES. 



Maine 4,013 



New Hampshire 2,859 



Vermont 4,405 



Massachusetts 111,129 



Rhode Island 21,430 



Connecticut 39, 169 



Total Eas'n States . 183,005 



CENTRAL STATES. 



New Jersey 63,109 



Pennsylvania 224,880 



Maryland 18,033 



Delaware 2,011 



Dis't of Columbia . . 9,129 



Total Cent'lStates. 817,162 



NORTHWESTERN STATES. 



Ohio.-. 120,428 



Michigan 52,205 



Indiana 29,576 



Illinois 213,315 



Wisconsin 121,660 



Minnesota 29,300 



Iowa 44.286 



Missouri 44;309 



Kansas 5,052 



Nebraska 4,198 



Total Northwest 



States 664,389 



PACIFIC STATES AND 



TERRITORIES 47,172 



S'EASTERN STATES.. 13,444 



S'WESTERN STATES . . 66,917 



FOREIGN COUNTRIES 76,572 



The following is the Federal census of New 

 York for the years 1870 and 1860 : 



