586 



NEW YORK (STATE). 



RECEIPTS. Clinton, $14,025.50 ; Sing Sing, $14,000. The 



General fund $8,836.688 entire cost of prison administration, including 



Common-school fund 815,464 * nn _ -.- ? .5 



College land-scrip fund 19,2^7 $8,297.95 for salary and expenses of Superin- 



Eimira Female College educational fund 7,758 tendent, $7,500 for agent for discharged con- 



m^S-r^^:::::'.:: :;:; 4 |;JS victs, and $12,909.24 for transportation of con- 



United states deposit fund 845,047 victs, was $444,240.11. The receipts of the 



Free-school fund !'|ffi\J prisons from convict labor were: Auburn, 



Canalfund ^'_^ $115,408.09; Clinton, $46,899.74; Sing Sing! 



Total $15,744,163 $238,179.56; total, $400,487.39. The number 



DISBURSEMENTS. of convicts at the close of the fiscal year was: 



General fund '. $9,259,802 at Auburn, 736; Clinton, 571 ; Sing Sing, 1- 



SftSESSK?. ." :: ! 639; total, 2,846 There were in the several 



Literature fund 45,899 penitentiaries of the State 690 State convicts, 



Coiled 5Sd e fcri e P fund fUDd 86 ' 816 and in the State Reformatoi 7 at Elmira 576. 



ElmlS Female &U^edT^ttonrfftiiid.' .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' 2(^073 The annual report of the Superintendent of 



Military-record fund 1.288 Prisons shows that since 1877 the cost of care 



Sty f e d bt sinking-fund 2l9 ?S and maintenance of these institutions has been 



' fl__ reduced from $625,733.44 to $390,501.22, and 



Total payments $14,963,592 a deficit of $317,411.06 changed to a surplus 



The rate of taxation for the year 1884-'85 of $10,657.97. He credits this to the new sys- 



was 2-575 mills, the total assessed value of tern of administration and the adoption of the 



property $3,014,591,372, from which the in- contract method of employing convicts. Dur- 



come will be $7,762,572.78, to be devoted as ing the same period, while the population of 



follows : the State advanced from 4,704,395 to 5,408,000, 



School purposes $3,180,39390 that f the prisons declined from 3,481 to 



Canals, including canal debt 1,718,31708 2,876. The number of recommitments had 



General purposes JJ,8_6S,861_80 largely dim i n i s hed. The abolition of the CO11- 



Totai $7,762,572 78 tract system on the expiration of the existing 



The receipts of the year from the tax on cor- rata"j8 compelled a resort to the employ- 



porations amounted to $1,603,612.75. The ment of prisoners on State account at Clinton 



trust funds of the State, on the 30th of Sep- ^til other provision should be made by the 



tember, were as follow : Legislature 



Canals. The expenditures of the year on ac- 



MteStare ftd ftind .' $S fflS 76 count of the canals were S 2 ) 985 ^ 80 - 1 6, includ- 



United states deposit fund "(for "educational ing $500,310 for interest on the canal debt, 



purposes)... 4,oi4 r 520 71 $9,000 for redemption of debt, and $1,640,000 



MnS&Srt&^::: 4 gS!2 investment on account of sinking fund. The 



Bounty-debt sinking fund 8,055 so payments for maintenance and ordinary repairs 



Mariners' fund 10,000 oo were $706,567.83 ; for collecting statistics, $24,- 



The expenditures of the year for educational 472.87; new work and damages, $65,546.13; 

 purposes from State funds and appropriations miscellaneous, $38,083.33. The tonnage on the 

 amounted to $3,526,636.55, of which $3,099,- canals during the season of navigation, from 

 165.66 was the proceeds of the common-school Mav 6 to Dec - * a ?gregated 5,009,488, a de- 

 tax of 1-055 mills. The expenditures for chari- crease of 654,560 from the record of the pre- 

 table institutions were : vious year. Canal freights included 1,671,706 

 ' tons of forest products, 1,264,237 of agricult- 

 ural products, 205,006 of manufactured prod- 

 ucts, 300,450 of merchandise, and 1,568,059 

 $199,837 11 ..^.^ other articles. The average charge per ton 

 insane............. 61,81324 59,82294 per mile was '27 of a cent, against '34 in 



Idiots 68,50000 10,00000 1883. 



J TSugf n . qU ? nt8 . and . H ? U . 3e . 128,333 84 11,856 49 Railroads.-The principal event of the year 



state Reformatory 80,00000 14,00000 connected with the railroad interests of the 



JMMMXMJO _io,ooojOO state wa8 the opening of tne New York, West 



Total $666,13648 $117,99659 Shore & Buffalo line, and the placing of its 



- affairs in the hands of a receiver on account 



The number of patients in the Insane Asy- of default in payment of interest on its bonds, 



lums was 3,999, distributed as follows: TJtica, The first appointment of receivers, having been 



607; Willard, 1,822; Poughkeepsie, 361 ; Mid- made in Orange county, was vacated by the 



dletown, 282 ; Buffalo, 347 ; Binghamton, 580. courts in New York city, and the same receiv- 



State Prisons. The cost of maintaining the ers were appointed there under the law re- 

 three State Prisons for the year ending Sept. quiring the proceedings to be taken in the 

 30 was: Auburn, $116,248; Clinton, $106,- county in which the principal business of the 

 349.60, including $6,096. 67 damages for breach corporation is transacted. The general rail- 

 of contract ; Sing Sing, $177,866.59. Cost for road statistics of the year are condensed in the 

 construction and repairs : Auburn, $4,375 ; following statement : 



