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ings on the grounds of the present State asylums, at 

 a cost of $550 per patient. The names of th'e several 

 insane asylums in the State were changed to " State 

 hospitals,'' with the idea that the new name would 

 be beneficial to the patients. Insane or feeble-minded 

 women, by a new law, are to be attended by women 

 while in custody. Another law provided that in- 

 sane woman criminals shall be attended by a resident 

 woman physician. 



The sum of $500,000 was appropriated to continue 

 improvements on the canals, including the lengthen- 

 ing of new locks. The amount for canal maintenance 

 was $950,000, in place of $800,000 in 1889. An ap- 

 propriation was made for continuing work on the 

 Shinnecock and Peconic Bay Canal. A charter was 

 given for the Waddington Bridge Company to place 

 a bridge over the St. Lawrence river. A charter was 

 passed for the River Bridge Company to construct 

 a bridge over the Niagara river between this State 

 and Canada. The city of New York was allowed to 

 build a bridge across the Harlem river, not to ex- 

 ceed $1,250,000 in cost ; and the time for building 

 the tunnel under the Hudson river was extended. A 

 charter was granted for the New Jersey Bridge Com- 

 pany to bridge the Hudson between New York city 

 and'some point in New Jersey, with a capital of $10,- 

 000,000. 



A law was passed providing that no child actually 

 or apparently under sixteen years of age shall smoke or 

 in any way use cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any form 

 whatsoever in any public street, place, or resort. A 

 violation of this shall be a misdemeanor, and shall be 

 punished by a fine not exceeding $10, and not less 

 than $2 for each subsequent offense. 



A law was passed authorizing the purchase of land 

 in the counties contained in the forest preserve at not 

 to exceed $1.50 an acre. The sum of $25,000 was 

 appropriated as a beginning. New game laws were 

 passed as follows : Prohibiting the shipment of par- 

 tridge and prairie chickens between Jan. 1 and Sept. 

 1 ; creating a commission to codify all the game laws 

 of the State ; repealing the high-tax dog law of 1889 ; 

 forbidding the taking of oysters in South Bay by 

 dredge ; protecting fish in Jamaica Bay . 



A law was passed creating a mining inspector, to be 

 appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the 

 Senate ; and another law allows mining on State lands 

 on the payment of a royalty. Trust companies shall 

 not invest more than 10 per cent, of their capital stock 

 in the stock of any private or unincorporated company. 

 Pawnbrokers are not allowed hereafter to sell their 

 goods until they have remained one year in their pos- 

 session ; and then the sale must be at public auction 

 by a licensed auctioneer. 



The penal code was amended so as to punish more 

 severely any person who tampers with a railroad track 

 or throws missiles at any train. The commission to 

 revise the statutes reported a codification of the rail- 

 road laws, which was signed by the Governor. 



The armory appropriation bills that became laws 

 were the following: Utica, $25,000; Poughkeepsie, 

 $35.000; Geneva, $25,000; Olean (reappropriation), 

 $25,000 ; Middletown, $7,000 ; Mohawk, $15.000 ; 

 Jamestown $25,000 ; Malone, $25,000 ; and Cohoes, 

 $25,000. A new rifle range, between Albany and 

 Troy, was purchased for the Third Brigade ; but it is 

 likely to be used by the whole of the National Guard. 

 The United States is allowed to acquire more land in 

 connection with its military post at Plattsburg. Re- 

 appropriations of moneys were made to continue the 

 erection of regimental and battery monuments at 

 Gettysburg. A new law allows a majority of town 

 electors by ballot, to raise not to exceed $100 to de- 

 fray the expenses of Memorial I >ay. Another law pro- 

 vides that any number of persons, not fewer than 25, 

 citizens of the United States, and of the State of New 

 York, and honorably discharged soldiers or sailors of 

 the national army or navy, or lineal male descend- 

 ants of such, may incorporate social, literary, chari- 

 table, and historical societies. 



Education. The following statistics cover 

 the school year ending July 25, 1890 : 



The total receipts for school purposes were 

 $20,473,660.92; the expenditures were a little 

 less than that. 



The number of pupils attending the normal 

 schools during the year was 7,210, divided as fol- 

 lows : At Albany, 695 ; at Brockport, 855 ; at Buf- 

 falo, 641 ; at Cortland, 846 ; at Fredonia, 598 ; 

 at Geneseo, 879 ; at New Paltz, 430 ; at Oneonta, 

 349 ; at Oswego,' 933 ; at Potsdam, 924. The 

 number of graduates was 569. The total expendi- 

 ture for these schools during the year was $227,- 

 686.81. The normal-school building at Platts- 

 burg, provided for by the Legislature in 1889, was 

 ready for occupancy in September of this year, 

 and "the school was opened at that time. There 

 are, therefore, 11 normal schools in operation in 

 the State. 



The report for the year of the Indian schools 

 at the several reservations is as follows : Children 

 of school age, 1,595; number enrolled in the 

 schools, 1,005 ; average attendance, 446 ; num- 

 ber of teachers, 30 ; school year, in weeks, 36 ; 

 cost of maintaining schools, $10,713.96. 



Charities. The number of insane persons in 

 custody in the State on Sept. 30 was 16,002, of 

 whom the 8 State hospitals contained about 

 6,000. The total cost to the State for maintain- 

 ing these 8 institutions during the year was $1,- 

 105,986.91. The original cost of buildings and 

 furniture was $8,889.130.03. Under the opera- 

 tion of the act of 1890, the Lunacy Commission 

 has transferred to State hospitals during the year 

 all the insane poor from 9 counties, and a part 

 from 5 others, reducing the number of insane 

 under county control from 2,200 in April to 1,692 

 on Dec. 31. Twenty-three counties are now en- 

 tirely relieved of their insane poor. By these trans- 

 fers the present capacity of the State hospitals 

 has been nearly reached. The act above men- 

 tioned provides, however, for the erection of ad- 

 ditional buildings at the various institutions at 

 a cost not to exceed $550 for each patient accom- 

 modated. When these are completed and all 

 insane poor taken to them from poor-houses 

 the act will have full effect and the entire cost 

 will be borne by the State. 



There are 7 public institutions for the deaf 

 and dumb in the State, at which pupils are sup- 

 ported at public expense. The number of pupils 

 at these institutions during the year was 1,380, 

 of whom 866 were supported by the State, 458 by 

 the counties, and 56 by individuals. 



The State Institution for the Blind, in New 

 York city, contained 243 pupils during the year. 



