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presented, and on September 30, 1877, the 

 amount outstanding was, with accrued inter- 

 est added, $132,418, on which sum the interest 

 has ceased, the whole amount paid by the 

 tax-payers during the twelve years being $43 - 

 270,337. 



The only State debt remaining is the canal 

 debt, which on September 30, 1877, amounted 

 to $8,630,016, less the balances in the sinking 

 fund. Of this sum $880,000 became due De- 

 cember 1st, and was paid from the canal debt 

 sinking funds, leaving the total amount of the 

 debt $7,750,016. 



The deliveries at tide- water by the Erie 

 and Champlain Canals, from the opening of 

 the season to November 22d, were, in flour 

 and grain, equal to 43,712,500 bushels, against 

 28,841,100 bushels for the corresponding pe- 

 riod in 1876, being an increase of 14,871,- 

 400 bushels. The gross amount of receipts 

 from all sources was $1,053,361. The ex- 

 penditures for superintendence, collection, and 

 ordinary repairs, amounted to $1,050,329, 

 showing an excess of receipts over expendi- 

 tures amounting only to $3,032, to be paid into 

 the sinking fund, and leaving a large deficiency 

 to be supplied by taxation. The gross tolls 

 for the calendar year 1876 were $1,340,000, 

 and for 1877 $880,000, showing a falling off of 

 $460,000. This is a lower amount of receipts 

 for tolls than has been known within the last 

 forty-five years. A reduction of expenditures 

 is regarded as an absolute necessity. Of all 

 the canals in the State only the Erie earned 

 during the past year more than expenses; 

 while that yielded the small revenue of $88,- 

 840 over expenses, nearly all the others failed 



to produce a fourth of the sums expended to 

 keep them in repairs. All the lateral canals 

 south of the Erie, except the Cayuga and Se- 

 neca, are practically abandoned. Those north 

 of the Erie, required by the Constitution to 

 bo kept, give very discouraging results. The 

 Oswego shows receipts of $20,473, and ex- 

 penditures $60,984 ; the Black River, receipts 

 $15,711, and expenditures $54,881 ; the Cham- 

 plain, receipts $63,162, and expenditures $214,- 

 339. 



The condition of the common schools for 

 the year ending September 30, 1877, is shown 

 in the following: 



Total receipts, including balance on hand Sep- 

 tember 80, 1876 *12110908fi8 



Total expenditures lS 



Amount paid for teachers' wases 7*916,688 61 



Amount paid for school-houses, repairs, furni- 

 ture, etc j 858.404 85 



Estimated value of school-houses and sites. . . 8(\8sc[i4S w) 



Number of school-houses ) ; ...^ 



Number of school districts, exclusive of cities. 



Number of teachers employed for the legal 

 term of school u 737 



Number of teachers employed during any por- 

 tion of the year . 80161 



Number of children attending public schools.. 1."- : 7i:. 



Number of persons attending normal schools. i:.< ,j 



Number of children of school age in private 

 schools 117 154 



Number of volumes in the school district libra- 

 ries 766,546 



Number of persons In the State between the 

 ages of five and twenty-one years i .:.-c,-Jti4 



The recent change in the management of 

 the State-prisons, by vesting their superin- 

 tendence in one person, has been attended 

 with encouraging results. The expenditures 

 and earnings of each of the prisons for the year 

 ending September 80, 1877, were as follows : 



The excess of advances from the Treasury 

 over receipts from earnings was $704,879 in 

 1876, $545,550 in 1875, and $588,537 in 1874. 

 The total number of convicts in the three pris- 

 ons was : 3,567 in 1877, 8,509 in 1876, 3,481 

 in 1875, and 3,060 in 1874. The State reform- 

 atory, at Elmira, approaches completion and 

 contains about 140 convicts. When completed 

 it will afford accommodations for 500 inmates. 



The number of inmates in the several State 

 asylums for the insane is as follows: Utira, 

 578; Willard, 1,270; Poughkeepsie, 235; Mid- 

 dletown, 115 ; total, 2,198. 



Probably no State Convention held in re- 

 cent years has attracted wider attention and 

 caused more universal comment than that of 

 the Republican party, which assembled at 

 Rochester on the 26th of September. Senator 

 Roscoe Conkling was chosen permanent chair- 

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man of the Convention, but declined to serve, 

 and nominated Thomas C. Platt, of Tioga 

 County, who was chosen for the position. 



The resolutions as reported and adopted 

 did not indorse the National Administration. 

 Earnest efforts were made by the minority of 

 the delegates to secure the adoption of a reso- 

 lution for that purpose, and the following was 

 offered by Mr. George William Curtis, as a 

 substitute for the second clause of the plat- 

 form : 



The lawful title of Buthcrford B. Hayes to UM 

 Presidency is as clear and perfect OB that of George 

 Washington. We gladly re-cognize his eminent Pa- 

 triotism, proved in the field and in civil life, we 

 heartily commend his efforts in the permanent paci- 

 fication of the Southern section of the Union, and 

 for the correction of the evils and abuse in the Civil 

 Service as strictly conformed to his own pledget, and 

 to the declarations of the Convention that nomi- 



