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NEW YORK (STATE). 



To regulate the practice of veterinary medicine and 

 surgery in the State of New York. 



To provide additional accommodations for the in- 

 sane at the Hudson Kiver State Hospital, and to pro- 

 vide for the construction thereof. 



To authorize the formation of gas companies in the 

 city of New York, and to regulate the powers and 

 duties of the same. 



To prevent the spread of contagious and infectious 



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To provide for the annexation to the city of Brook- 

 lyn of the town of New Lots, and for the acquisition 

 and regulation of the water-supply thereof. 



To authorize the appointment of a commission to 

 investigate and report to the Legislature the most hu- 

 mane and approved method of carrying into effect 

 the sentence ol death m capital cases. 



To provide for the amicable adjustment of gnev- 

 ances and disputes that may arise between employers 

 and employes, and to authorize the creation of a State 

 Board of Arbitration. 



For the preservation of song and wild birds. 



To provide for a course of free instruction in natural 

 history, and making an appropriation for the support 

 thereof. 



To create a Prison Labor Eeform Commission for the 

 purpose of investigating how best to employ the con- 

 victs confined in the several prisons penitentiaries, 

 and reformatories of this State other than by the con- 

 tract system, and what improvements in the commit- 

 ment, custody, and employment, management, and 

 discipline of convicts, should be adopted; and to 

 regulate the employment of convict-labor in the said 

 prisons, penitentiaries, and reformatries pending such 

 investigation. 



To facilitate closing up the affairs of insolvent life- 

 insurance and annuity companies. 



To create the New York Post-Graduate Medical 

 School and Hospital. 



To provide for the care and preservation of the 

 monuments marking the boundary -lines ol the State. 



To prevent the use of any substitute for hops, or 

 pure extract of hops, in the manufacture of ale or beer, 

 and to preserve the public health. 



For a uniform contract or policy of fire insurance to 

 be made and issued by all insurance companies taking 

 fire risks on property within this State. 



To provide for the establishment of municipal lodg- 

 ing-houses in the city of New York. 



To ratify and confirm the agreement entered into 

 by commissioners on the part 01 the States ol JNew 

 York and Pennsylvania, in relation to the boundary- 

 line between said States. 



To provide for the incorporation of credit guaran- 

 tee and indemnity companies. 



To provide for the revision of the special and local 

 laws affecting public interests in the city of Brooklyn, 



For the better preservation of the health ot chil- 

 dren in institutions. 



To provide for the assessment of telegraph, tele- 

 phone, and electric-light lines. 



To encourage the growth of free public libraries and 

 free circulating libraries in the cities of the State. 



Finances. The following was the condition 



Of the treasury, Jan. 1, 1887: 



Balance in treasury Oct. 1, 1886 .............. $4,164,238 55 



Receipts in October, 18S6 ........ $144,642 IS 



Receipts in November, 1886 ...... 334.973 84 



Recess in December, 1866 ...... 324,168 77 



--- 803,77979 



Tota, 



The receipts for the fiscal year ending 

 Sept. 30, 1886, were in sources and amounts 

 as follow : 



State tax $6,240,870 85 



Salt duties 65,'26s 4r> 



Auction duties 19,089 81 



Peddlers' licenses 30 00 



Interest on Treasurer's deposits 18,720 66 



surance Department 107,58030 



Bank Department 19,400 32 



Game and fish protectors 169 57 



Stationery sold by Comptroller. 660 90 



Tax on corporations 1,376,061 44 



Notaries' fees 2,986 94 



Fees' Comptroller '.'.'.'.'.'. 1.211 51 



Fees, Clerk Court of Appeals 3,057 98 



Fees, Railroad Commission 60 01 



Sales of general-fund land 6,878 35 



Grants of land under water 4,802 28 



Forestry Commission, for fines collected for 



trespass on State lands, etc 3,509 62 



Sale of prison-lands .... 2,748 94 



War claims 18,837 85 



Collateral inheritance-tax 84,128 9ii 



From telegraph and telephone companies for 

 expenses of the Electrical Subway Commis- 

 sion 31,077 00 



Contributions from gas-light companies 2,548 63 



Contributions from railroad companies for ex- 

 penses of the Railroad Commission 64,911 11 



Tax on organization of corporations 53,600 06 



County taxes (arrears, sales, etc.) 318,059 18 



Sing-Sing Prison 242,842 50 



Auburn Prison 385,678 92 



Clinton Prison 359,890 88 



Transfers from other funds 301,173 75 



Miscellaneous 33,101 37 



Total receipts in general fund $9,799,215 97 



Common-school fund 283.916 23 



College land-scrip fund 19,330 81 



Literature fund 45.139 02 



Military record fund 2.s52 54 



United States deposit fund 314,990 81 



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Total rec eipts .......................... $16,077,809 53 



The receipts of the free-school fund were 

 near] &}l from taxeg> Qf the canal fund re _ 



. , ' ,, f ,*,., cao ncn ,, 



cei P ts > th e sum of $1,668,060.26 was from 

 taxes. The receipts from the tax on corpora- 

 tions were thus divided: 

 Instance companies ......................... $141, b 8b 



steamboats' 40 511 24 



Telegraphs and telepnoEes........... ....'..... 189,96475 



Gas and mining companies ................... 85,419 20 



Miscellaneous corporations .................... 12 1,379 15 



Bank agencies .......... . .................... 



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The Payments from the several funds for the 

 same fiscal year were in purpose and amounts 

 as follow : 



General fund ............................... $8,418.21022 



gSBSSS *"* " ' 3 067*610 II 



{ [tPratnrp fund ............................ 44 6'' 5 39 



fund .................. 



Payments in December, 1886 



838,98899 



2,22353i80 



Balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1837 .......... $2,744,486 54 



Valuing investments at par, the capital of 

 the more important trust funds, Sept. 30, 1886, 



Was : 



