the librarian shall forthwith deliver the list relating to that body, and the list containing the names of the members of the assembly he shall forthwith deliver to the speaker; and upon each list shall be written a copy of the section of the Revised Statutes in regard to this matter above set forth, 15. Twenty days before the opening of any annual session of the legislature the librarian shall report in writing to the trustees the title of every book, map, chart, print, engraving, or other article missing from the library since the catalogue of the previous year was made out; or, if no such catalogue has been made, then since the date of the said librarian's last annual report to the trustees; together with the name or names of the persons who appear, from the entries of the librarian, to have borrowed or detained the same, to the end that such list may be submitted to the legislature by the trustees. 16. All penalties imposed under any of these rules may be remitted by the library committee, either wholly or on such terms as they may deem proper. ORDINANCES ADOPTED BY THE TRUSTEES, JANUARY 10, 1879. 1. Ordered, That so much of the report of the special committee on the Librarian's Report as is embraced under its first head, relating to the future development and character of the Library and the objects for which it is to be maintained, is hereby approved and adopted as the expressed will of this board. 2. Ordered, That the Librarian of the Law Department of the Library is hereby instructed to enforce the provisions of the concurrent resolution of the Senate and Assembly of 16th April, 1861, declaring it to be the duty of the Trustees of the Library to secure its uninterrupted use to the purposes named in said resolution, and to limit its use substantially to the persons and officers by said resolution designated. And that to that end the occupation of the room of that department as a study and reading room, and the use of its volumes as text books by law students is prohibited. 3. Ordered, That it is the sense of the trustees that the general department of the Library is not intended as a popular library for indiscriminate and continuous reading. That the same is primarily designed for the use of the Legislature and officers of the State and for reference by historical and professional students and those interested in special lines of inquiry. And to carry out in part the purposes of the Library as above expressed, the librarian of the General Library is instructed not to deliver to visitors, for general and continuous reading in the Library, works of fiction, light literature, travels, literary periodicals and publications of like character. 4. Ordered, That the Standing Committee on the Library is instructed to make such arrangements as shall give to the Librarians of the General and Law Departments respectively, the control of such shares or portions of the annual appropriations for the purchase of books as may from time to time seem proper, with reference to the amount of such appropriations in each year, to enable said Librarians to make the ordinary purchases for their respective departments during such specific periods as may be fixed by the committee. That said Librarians respectively report in detail, to the Committee on the Library, at each regular meeting, their purchases since the last previous report, and that the supervisory power ofsaid committee and of this board be fully retained. That from and after the first day of February next, the regular meetings of the Library Committee be on the first Tuesdays of March, May, July, September, November and January, and that special meetings may be called by the Chancellor in his discretion. 5. Ordered, That the subject of the provision to be made for the Library in the new Capitol, named in the report of the special committee on the Librarian's report, be referred to the standing committee on the Library with power, and that the secretary of the Regents and the Librarians of the General and Law Departments of the Library be joined with said committee. 6. Ordered, That the subject of the transfer of certain scientific books to the Museum of Natural History, mentioned in the report of the special committee on the Librarian's report, be referred to the standing committees on the Library and on the Museum of Natural History, to act jointly, with power. OFFICERS OF THE STATE LIBRARY AND STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. HENRY A. HOMES, Librarian, General Library. STEPHEN B. GRISWOLD, Librarian, Law Library. GEORGE R. HOWELL, Assistant Librarian. JAMES HALL, Director of the State Museum of Natural History. FUNDS OF THE STATE. September 30, 1878. GENERAL FUND DEBT. The following item of the State debt is chargeable upon the General Fund Debt. Indian Annuities. The amount of Indian annuities, payable to sundry Indian tribes, under the several treaties with them, being $7,361.67, would require an investment at six per cent to provide that sum, of.. COMMON SCHOOL FUND. This fund consists of the following items: Bonds for lands.. Bonds for loans. 142,243 67 Mortgages for loans under the act of 1840, in charge of the Commissioners of the United States Deposit Fund 49,326 00 Money in the treasury. 2,687,858 56 $3,156,062 78 Revenue. Balance in the treasury October 1, 1877. Amount received into the treasury during the year Amount transferred from the General Fund for in- Amount paid out of the treasury during the year ending September 30, 1878. ........ Balance in the treasury September 30, 1878 $26,936 24 54,500 62 147,622 00 165,000 00 $394,058 86 339,974 22 $54,084 64 SCHEDULE Showing the increase and diminution of the capital of the Common School Fund during the year ending September 30, 1878. Bonds for Bonds for Loan stock. Bank Comptr's Unit'd States.Oswego Money in the stock. bonds. Total. city b'nds treasury. $214,327 23 $143, 608 24 $49,326 $50,000 $250,000 $30,000 00 $143,608 24 $49,326 $50,000 $250,000 1,364 57 $30,000 00 250,000 Amount of the fund September 30, 1877, $194, 034 55 $142,243 67 $49,326 $50,000 $30,000 00 $2,600 $2,687,858 56 $3,156,062 78 LITERATURE FUND. Capital. This fund consists of the following items: United States Stocks. Four and a half per cent registered United States stocks... State Stocks. $102,600 00 Six per cent canal deficiency loan, redeemable July 1, 1887 Six per cent canal deficiency loan, redeemable July 1, 1891. 28,000 00 102,000 00 $232,600 00 Balance in the treasury October 1, 1877.. Amount transferred from the General Fund, for in- ........ $12,470 79 14,965 49 406 08 28,000 00 $55,842 36 Amount paid from the treasury during the year ending 30th September, 1878.... 44,413 52 Balance in the treasury September 30, 1878....... $11,428 84 UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND. Capital. This fund consists of the following items: Mortgages for loans in charge of the commissioners of the several counties, including amount invested in county bonds, in pursuance of chap. 553, Laws of 1864.... $3,282,879 46 |