CHAPTERS 194 AND 458, OF THE LAWS OF 1867,

UNDER THE DIRECTION OF

FRANCIS C. BARLOW, SECRETARY OF STATE,
THOMAS HILLHOUSE, COMPTROLLER, and
JOHN H. MARTINDALE, ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

BY FRANKLIN B. HOUGH.

PART II.
STATISTICS.

ALBANY, N. Y. :

WEED, PARSONS & COMPANY, PRINTERS.

1867.

Duties; Appointing Power; Notaries Public in each County; Commissioners of Deeds in

other States; Statistics of Pardons,

SECRETARY OF STATE.

Duties of Office; Criminal Statistics; Tabular Summary of Crime since 1846; Statistics of

Pauperism since 1846; Depositions of Resident Aliens; Corporations formed under Gene-

ral Laws; Plank Roads; Turnpikes; Gas Companies; Manufacturing, Mining, Mechani-

cal and Chemical Companies; Railroad Companies; Telegraph Companies; Benevolent,

Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies; Ocean Navigation Companies; Building

Companies; Ferry Companies; Free Churches; River and Lake Navigation Companies;

Companies for Improving Breed of Horses; Agricultural and Horticultural Societies;

Roman Catholic Churches; Agricultural Companies; Clubs; Masonic Lodges and Chap-

ters; Mineral Claims; Fees since 1846,..

COMPTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT.

Duties of Office; Explanations of Tables; State Debt, 1845 and 1866; Funds of the several

Classes since 1846; Receipts and Payments on account of Funds, and for various specific

objects, by years, since 1846; Losses in Funds; Financial Statements of Prisons by years;

Valuation and Tax, by years and Counties; Capital Valuation and Tax of Moneyed or

Stock Corporations, in detail; Preliminary Summary of Local Debt; Principal and

Interest on School Fund Loans,

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STATE TREASURER.

Duties of Office; Receipts and Payments, by years, since 1846, on account of the several

Funds; Recapitulation,.....

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Historical Notice of Financial Office; Explanation of Tables; Tolls, expenses, revenues and

tonnage of each Canal, by years since 1846; Comparison of estimated and actual results;

Progress of Canal debt and payment on funds; Operation of Sinking Fund under the

Constitution; Canal debt in 1867; Taxes on account of Canal Fund,...

CANAL APPRAISERS.

Duties of Office; Statistical Summary of business,....

CANAL COMMISSIONERS,

Duties of Office; Supervision of Canals; Boats, their number and tonnage,.

BANKING DEPARTMENT.

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Historical Statement of Banking system in New York; Statistics of number of Banking Asso-

ciations formed; Savings banks,..

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Historical Sketch of Department; Statistics of Insurance Companies of the several classes,

with date of incorporation, location, capital and assets; Grand aggregates,.....

STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR.

Duties of Office; State Canals, their length, dimensions and capacity; Railroads; Tabular

Statements of Canals and Railroads,..

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LANDS OF THE STATE.

Location and quality belonging to the several Funds; Sale of Mortgaged Lands.......

ONONDAGA SALT SPRINGS.

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Statement of Management; Table of quantity of salt, by years,

Relations of to the Public Welfare; Synopsis of services rendered by organization and duties

of Staff Department; Reserved and Uniformed Militia; Commutation Fees; Summary of

laws passed since 1846, with reference to Military Affairs; Department of Commissary-

General of Ordnance; Quartermaster-General's Department; Aid afforded by New York

to her Soldiers in the Field; Bureau of Military Record; Statement of Moneys paid for

Bounties and for other War Expenses,
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UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

Historical Notice; Regents of the University, their powers and duties; Literature Fund and

its distributions; State Library; State Cabinet; State Normal School; Lists of Colleges

and Academies with location, dates of incorporation and remarks,....

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

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Historical Sketch of Common Schools; Detailed Statement of the Present Organization;

Tables of Attendance; Progress of School System; What is a Common School,.

QUARANTINE,

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Reference to acts relating to Quarantine; Present system and duties of Commissioners, and

of Health Officer,

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COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION.

Objects of Commission, and mode of operation; Names of Commissioners; Statistics of

operation since 1846, .

STATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

Utica Asylum, historical notice and statistics; Asylum for Insane Convicts; Willard Asylum;

Hudson River Asylum,...

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Historical Sketch; Statistics since 1818; State and county pupils; Buildings and Grounds;

Debt; Method of Instruction; Financial condition,

NEW YORK INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND.

Historical Sketch, Statement of Receipts and Expenditures,..

STATE PRISONS.

Number and location of Prisons; Inspectors and their Duties; Prisons at Sing Sing, Auburn

and Clinton, particularly described, with annual statements of Earnings and Expenditures;

Statistics of prisoners received and discharged; Abstracts of Finances and Appropria-

tions; Statistics of Asylum for insane convicts,...

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