558 



M:\\ FORK. 



^ $25.000 for the college of agricul- 

 ture at Cornell i ended inx, 

 i list met ion throughout the State and in currying 



i $33,000 to erect an eque- 

 -tatue to Major-Urn. Henrv NV. .sU-um. on the 

 8att7*ail batUeftV i 



Appropriating $35.000 to pay a bounty of one 

 rout a pound on beet sugar raised in the State, 







Authorizing the expenditure of $5.000 a year f.r 



. ar*. und.-r tli- dire- ti,,n ..f the Long Island 



n translating and preserving 



1 hut.ii P-. 'Til- and hi-t"rieal documents of 



Oontj, Brooklyn, New I'trecht. and (iraves- 



a botanic garden in Prospect Park. 



Providing that any one who is found in possession 

 of an anesthetic (knock-out drops), unless upon a 

 phrsician's prescription, shall lie guilty of a felony. 



DfOprialing $11,000 for the erection of i. 

 building at the Jfew York agricultural experiment 

 station in (b-neva. 



Appropriating $25,000 to purchase the site of the 

 buttle of Stony Point. Koekland County. 



'libiting tin- hounding of deer for ten 

 in the towns of Dresden and Putnam, \Va-h.: 

 ty. 



Amending the fish and game laws by providing 

 that floating devices, boats pn.p< -lied by hand and 

 sailboats, may be used from which to shoot web- 

 footed wild 'fowl in Long Island Sound. < 

 South Bay, Gardiner, Shinnecock, and P 

 Bm 



Providing that railroad companies shall n<>t 

 .age their property without the consent of 

 stockholders wning two thirds <!' the stock. 



Amending the election law bv including primary 

 n- under that section which makes it a mi-- 

 demeanor to practice fraud <>r bribers . 



Authorizing the sale of the Onondaga Salt Spri i ig- 

 reservation. 



Making money due to truckmen or cartrnen j.n-- 

 f erred claims on the estates of debtors. 



the office O f L'nited States Senator, to succeed 

 David B. Hill, Democrat, the nominees wen- Ti. 

 C. Platt by 0d David M. Hill by 



the Democrats. A joint session of the Assembly 

 was h- 'JO. when the vote was as follows: 



Henry George, 4. On the 



day Chester S. Lord was elected a Regent of the 

 r-ity ..f NVw Vnrk. over Henry P. O'Xeil. the 

 nominee of the Democratic can 



Banks. These are under the supervi-jou of a 

 State superintendent, who is appoint ed for thn . 

 rears. The present incnmbenJ is Frederick D. Kil- 

 burn. who was appointed Jan. -Jl. 1 *!. Hi> report 

 for the nscal year ending Sept. 30, 1897, shows that 

 the number of -- ;l tc banks of deposit and 



discount in New York was 212, a net decrease of 

 one since the last report. The total resources of all 

 the moneyed institutions under the supervision of 

 the department are as follow: Kank- of d 

 and discount, Sept \\ iy7. $ 

 bank*. July I. 1**7, $889.671,900: trust companiS, 

 Juy l. l-'.T. *43,45.6*>; safe-deposit companies. 



M mortgage oomptv 



nies, Jan. 1, 1897, $23.42; iding and loan 



awciation*..Jan. 1. 1-H7. > il,$l,695,- 



354,960. The increase, compared with the resources 

 of the same institutions in 1896. is $i: 

 The amount of capital <-mpIyfd !-y ih- State bank- 

 of deposit and discount and by individual bankers 

 on Sept 80. 1897, was $30,570,700, a decrease of 

 $650,000. The resources of all the State banks of 

 deposit and discount in New York on Sept. 15, 



1897, were $339,373,589, compare.! with 



'. The secuntiesand cash deposited \\-iih 



the Superintendenl of Hank- in trn-t l.\ tin-, 

 I'ank-, indixidiial l>ank-r-. and tru>t companies, and 

 held l.y him. was $1 bowl 



t hat there are still outstanding $??.!>7'. of t In , 

 luting notes of bank vatcd under tin- la\\< 



of th . ||..( hern adverti- 



redemption, and which are n-.l secured. 



I n-iiriinee. : ilejiarlmeni i- umler lli- 



Of a lidellt WIH illted for three 



. The incumbent wa> .1.-. WDOM 



term of otliee i-\pin d -n \-'<-\<. 1 1. when he wa 

 ceeded by I... ui- F. Pa\ n. 'I'he annual 



that the bu-iiie-.-. don,- 

 by all (he life companies during the year exclusive 



:nlustrial " wa-: P.-ln-i.- ,,, |, 

 Miring *; 

 policies, in-uring ^1 

 $26,75 ma in.-unvd. 



claims paid. $\ 

 and fidelity c.impanies r.-|...i' 



940.8."); liabilities, .-x.-.-pt ,-apiial. ^rj.Tr.i.c.im.; i : 



capital. $10.1?!U<Hi: net surplus. ^:,.i.. 

 receipts. | disbursements. $|<; 



: risks in foroe, $3300^71,666, 



The summary of the department's two joint re- 

 ports on all kinds of companies sh. 

 punies. 1*)3; assets, s '". liabilir 



eapital. $1. :.lus. sso.i 



in force, $18,236,140,779. M.: 

 assets, $2" liabilities. ,-\.-,-pt ,-apit., 



li::.:.M; >uiplus $l-l.-ll l.-J::?: ri-k- in ! 

 Companies, :',(}; assets, x 



liabilities. ;,jtal. ^l.(i:. 



pins. *104.!>.-),704: risks in force, $5,820,6*;' 



.ity companies, >.-,; assets, $^568,940; lia- 

 bilities, ex.-.-pt capital, $12,749,600 ; surplus,^:. 

 ; i'i; risks in ; 



I .xci-c. i I .rdance with the so-called 

 - liaiin- bill." cna.-ted in 1896, the collection of tin- 

 dues was intrusted to a c..mmissj, 1 m r. and 

 the incumbent during 1897 was Ibin-y II. Lyman. 

 The amount received in 1897 was $12. 

 <'ne thinlof thisamount (^4.d'.' .id to 



the State, and the other two thirds (^s/ 

 divided among different localities. On Oct. 1. 

 there Were 98,064 ln-i-n-es outstanding'. The num- 

 ber in force before the present law Well! into effect 



was 83,437, and the amount of money re. 

 therefrom was >- mlly m<.re than one 



rpiarter of the present income from the 

 source. The receipts have nearly quadrupled, and 

 the number of licei, 



sixth. The records of the police courts in 41 cities 

 and i:'0 n ! villages -how that, not with- 



standing an in.-reas,- in population, the cases <.f 

 drunkenness have fallen off to a marked .1 

 The uniform law and rate of taxation throughout 

 the State have done much to e<mali/e the privileges 

 of this traffic and to remove many of its obj- 

 able features. A cenMi* of the number of saloons 



ies showed that the number of -aloons t.. each 

 1.000 inhabitants ranged frm a minimum of -''> in 



-town to a maximum of b'l in Long Island 



( h il Service. T! 



are Willard A. < '. Lord, and Sila- \V. 



Hurt. According to their annual report, the num- 

 ber of persons examined in 1H06 was 3,829, against 

 1,460 in 1895. The number for 1*1)0 is more than 

 'al for the first ten years of th- f the 



'omiiijssion. Of thos,; examined. 1,835 were BUC- 

 cessful. The number of appointments after exami- 

 nation during the same period was 631. or in the 

 ratio of about one appointment to three successful 

 candidates. The largest number of appointments 



