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Arsenals and

armories.

Clerk of senate.

Restoring etc.. por traits of

for the same purpose, to be paid on the audit of the adjutant-general and the approval of the commander-in-chief.

For repairs of arsenals and armories belonging to the state, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be expended, on the audit of the adjutant-general and the approval of the commander-in-chief.

For the clerk of the senate, for the purchase of a set of New York reports, eighty-nine volumes, pursuant to resolution of the senate, passed April eleven, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, one hundred and sixty-five dollars.

For the clerk of the senate, for rebinding copies of the session laws and other books in the senate library, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For cleaning, retouching and restoring the full-length portraits of Washington, George Clinton, and La Fayette, belonging to the state Washing and placed in the executive chamber; for remoulding in part and re

ton. Clin

ton and

La Fayette,

Executive department.

Secretary of state.

Purchase of iron

safes.

State engineer

and sur veyor

Game and fish protectors.

Canal ap. praisers.

Reser voirs.

gilding the original frames inclosing the same, and for reframing and repairing the frames of other pictures, the property of the state and hanging in the governor's room, the sum of nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the governor.

For the executive department, for furnishing and replenishing the library of the executive chamber with law, text and other books, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For the secretary of state, for clerk hire, and expenses of removing the books, papers and records of his office to the capitol building, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the secretary of state, for expenses to be incurred by him under provisions of chapter one hundred and ninety of the laws of eighteen. hundred and eighty-two, for re-establishing the original arms of the state, the sum of two thousand dollars.

For the purchase of iron safes for the safe keeping of bills and other papers in the clerks' desks of the senate and assembly, and for placing the same, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, being one thousand dollars for those for the assembly, and five hundred dollars for those for the senate, to be expended under the direction of the clerks of the two houses.

For the office of the state engineer and surveyor, for salary of a clerk to index and prepare for ready reference railroad maps required by law to be placed on file in his office, and to assist in preparing the annual railroad report, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars; and for postage, blanks, stationery, express charges and other miscellaneous expenses of his office, five hundred dollars; which two sums shall be refunded to the treasury of the state by the several railroad companies of this state in proportion to their respective gross receipts, pursuant to chapter five hundred and twenty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-five.

For deficiency in appropriations for the game and fish protectors, as provided by chapter five hundred and ninety-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the salaries and traveling expenses of the canal appraisers and for the clerk hire and incidental expenses of their office for the month of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the construction of reservoirs upon the Independence and

Beaver rivers in Lewis county, in addition to the sum appropriated in chapter three hundred and thirty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the sum of six thousand dollars.

For deficiency in appropriations for clerk hire and for messenger in Treasurer. the office of the treasurer, the sum of eight hundred dollars.

troller.

For the comptroller, for the expenses of the state commissioners for Compthe reception of the national guests on the occasion of the Yorktown centennial, designated pursuant to senate resolutions adopted June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, the sum of four thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid to John A. King, chairman of said commission, to be accounted for by vouchers duly approved by the comptroller.

For the comptroller to pay the expenses of serving notices on occu- Ibid. pants or despoilers of lands now owned by the state or bid in therefor at the comptroller's tax sale of eighteen hundred and eighty-one; of protecting the state's title to such lands by discharging them from taxes due thereon, or of bidding them in at, or redeeming them from county treasurer's tax sales; of preparing and recording deeds and certificates perfecting the state's title to such lands; of definitely locating, appraising and examining them as may be required; of protecting them from trespassers or despoilers, and prosecuting all such offenders; and generally of guarding, preserving the value of, and protecting such lands, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For deficiency in appropriations for clerks in the office of the Ibid. comptroller for the fiscal year ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For deficiency in appropriations for furniture, books, binding, blanks, printing and other necessary expenses of the office of the comptroller, including the compensation of a night watchman, five hundred dollars.

Failure of

title to

For deficiency in appropriations for repayment of money in cases of failure of title to lands sold by the state, one thousand dollars, or so lands. much thereof as may be necessary.

For deficiency in appropriations for legislative printing for the state Legislative including binding, maping, engraving and publication of official printing. notices, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be

necessary.

etc.

For deficiencies in appropriations for postage, expenses of commit- Postage, tees, compensation of witnesses, legislative manuals, Croswell's manual, clerk's manual, indexing the bills, journals and documents of the senate and assembly, and other contingent expenses of the legislature, seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For payment to the widow and heirs-at-law of the late John G. John G. Wasson, of interest at six per centum per annum, to April first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, on ten thousand dollars, upon a certificate issued under chapter eight hundred and thirty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, six hundred dollars.

Wasson.

appeals

For deficiency in appropriations for compensation of the crier and Court of attendants of the court of appeals, to the close of the current fiscal year, two thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For compensation of stenographers performing services for the judges of the court of appeals in pursuance of chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, one

Board of audit.

Comp

troller to pay for

thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid on certificates of the judges for whom the service is rendered.

For deficiency in appropriations for the state board of audit to pay the fees of witnesses subpoenaed to attend before said board, the expense of procuring service of subpoenas upon them, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid on the certificate of the attorney-general.

For the comptroller to pay for lands purchased by the commissioners of the land office for the Onondaga salt springs, in pursuance of salt lands. chapter two hundred of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-four chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and chapter five hundred and seventy-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, the sum of five thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Senate committee on affairs of cities.

County of
Cayuga.

Counsel,

etc.. in investigation of charges against

For the expenses incurred by the committee on the affairs of cities of the senate, in the employment of accountants in the examination of the department of public works, pursuant to resolution of the senate passed March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the sum of eight hundred dollars, payable on the certificate of the chairman of the committee, subject to the review and audit of the comptroller.

For the county of Cayuga, for expenses incurred and paid for the care and medical attendance of Stephen Obediah, an Onondaga Indian, injured by a railroad train on the Southern Central railroad, in said county of Cayuga, the sum of one hundred and seventy dollars and eighty-five cents.

For the fees of counsel and stenographers, the cost of subpoenaing witnesses and other necessary expenses of the committee on judiciary of the assembly in the investigation of charges against T. R. Westbrook and Hamilton Ward, the sum of ten thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which amount the sum of fifteen brook and hundred dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary shall

justice West

ex-attor

ney-gen

Oswego

be paid to the late attorney-general, Hamilton Ward, to defray his exeral Ward. penses for counsel and necessary disbursements in defending himself before said committee on said investigation payable on the certificate of the chairman of the committee and the audit of the comptroller. For aiding the counties of Oswego and Onondaga, in the construcand Onon- tion of a draw in the bridge over the navigable channel of the Oneida river at Brewerton; between those counties the sum of five thousand dollars, payable to said counties on the certificate of the superintendent of public works under whose direction the draw is to be constructed. And the counties of Oswego and Onondaga, or the towns thereof abutting on said bridge, are hereafter to keep, operate and maintain said bridge and draw without cost to the state.

daga counties

for bridge

over Oneida river at Brewerton.

Joseph
Smith.

Thomas
Walsh.

A. T.

For Joseph Smith, a member of battery "M," fourteenth brigade national guard state of New York, as a gratuity, who was disabled for life while on duty with his battery at Buffalo on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty, under orders from his brigadecommander, the sum of one thousand dollars.

For Thomas Walsh, a laborer on the new capitol as a gratuity in full for all claim for damages from injuries received by him from the falling of a block of granite on the thirteenth day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, while in the employ of the state on the new capitol building, the sum of five hundred dollars.

For A. T. Brandow, as a gratuity in full for all claim for damages, Brandow. for injuries received by him while in the discharge of his duty as a

keeper in Sing Sing Prison, November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, by the murderous assault of Henry Thomas, an insane convict, in said prison, the sum of one thousand dollars.

state library.

For the trustees of the state library, for the salary of a clerk in Trustees charge of the documents and records transferred to said library by chapter one hundred and twenty of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, from January first to October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the sum of eleven hundred and twenty-five dollars; and for the expenses of transfer, the sum of one hundred dollars.

For the trustees of the state library, for arranging and indexing the Ibid. Clinton manuscripts and other state papers belonging to the state, and deposited in the library, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars.

For the trustees of the state library, for the purchase of cases for Ibid. the preservation of specifications of British patents, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars.

The balance remaining unexpended of the sum of five thousand dol- Ibid. lars appropriated by chapter two hundred and seventy-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, "for the purchase of books at the sale of the Brinley library, and for the purchase of such volumes. of British parliamentary papers as the trustees of the state library may deem important," being the sum of two thonsand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and forty-seven cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated for the same purposes.

under

For the commissioners appointed, under chapter three hundred and Commisforty of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, for the settlement sioners of the boundary lines between the state of New York and the states chapter of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, respectively, for their necessary ex- 1880. penses and disbursements under said act, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

340 laws of

laws of

For the commissioners appointed by the governor under chapter Under eighty-five, of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, to select chapter 85 a site for a state home for the blind, for compensation and expenses issi. the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

removal

For the removal of crippled, blind, lunatic and other infirm alien Alien paupers, pursuant to chapter five hundred and forty-nine of the laws paupers, of eighteen hundred and eighty, the sum of one thousand dollars; and of. the balance remaining unexpended January first, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, of the sum of three thousand dollars, appropriated under said chapter for such removal, being the sum of one thousand and forty-six dollars and eighteen cents, is hereby reappropriated for the same purpose.

For the New York state reformatory at Elmira, for maintenance Reformduring the fiscal year commencing October first, eighteen hundred and atory at eighty-two, thirty thousand dollars.

Elmira..

For the Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children Thomas for improvement and repairs of asylum buildings, for farm fences, and Asylum. for perfecting the water supply, the sum of two thousand dollars.

For the New York Asylum for Idiots, for increasing the means of Asylum extinguishing fires, the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars and for Idiots. for the purchase of eighty-seven acres of land for the use of said asylum, ten thousand dollars, and for making additions to and repairs

of farm buildings thereon two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the Binghamton Asylum for the Chronic Insane, for the pur- Asylum chase of farm and garden supplies and fencing; for repairs to engineer's for

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Chronic Insane.

Hudson River State

[CHAP. 362. house, geeen-house, barn and carriage-house; for medical books and medicines; for furnishing and general repair of asylum; for airing courts; for relaying steam pipe; for purchase of engine and blower; for the erection of out-houses and extending water pipe to same, and for erection of a drinking tank for cattle and pipe for same and for deficiency in appropriations for maintenance, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the Hudson River State Hospital, for renewals, repairs and betterments eight thousand dollars; for patients' occupation fund, one thousHospital. and two hundred and fifty dollars; and for deficiency in appropriations for maintenance to September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eightyone, twenty-seven thousaud and eleven dollars and forty-six cents, to be audited by the comptroller; and for deficiency in appropriations for salaries of the treasurer and resident officers of the asylum, for nine months ending September thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Willard
Asylum.

Employment of inmates.

Buffalo

Asylum

For the Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, for iron rails and other material for the extension of the narrow-gauge railroad to the group of buildings on the south of the ravine; for repairs and improvement of the dock; for an iron floor in the engine-house; for enlargment of gas-works; for water, gas and sewerage pipe; for building for additional dormitories for employees, and for storage room, and for barn for stock, the sum of thirteen thousand eight hundred dol

lars.

Such of the able bodied male inmates of the Willard Asylum as the medical superintendent thereof may designate for the purpose may be employed under the direction and personal supervision of the trustees or some one of them in grading the roadway for a branch railroad from the Lehigh Valley railroad to the asylum grounds for the benefit of the asylum.

For the Buffalo Asylum for the Insane, for washing machinery, for Insane. Wringer, mangle, shafting and pulleys. and putting up same, and for fitting ironing room, three thousand dollars; for oven, ceiling, flooring and fitting up bakery, one thousand dollars; for pointing outside walls of buildings, one thousand dollars, and for deficiency in appropriations for maintenance, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Homeopathic asylum

For the Homœopathic Asylum, at Middletown, for additional steamheating apparatus, four thousand dollars; for new drying-room in at Middle laundry, fifteen hundred dollars; for additional fire apparatus, fifteen hundred dollars; for grading grounds, filling swale in the rear of pavilion number two, and constructing necessary walks about new building, and for farm improvements, five thousand dollars.

town.

Awards of board of audit. Weed, Parsons & Company.

For the payment o* awards made by the board of audit, the sum of thirty-eight thousand two hundred and eighty-five dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary, as follows: For Weed, Parsons and Company, for legislative printing during the years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and eighteen hundred and eighty, performed pursuant to resolutions of the senate and assembly, four thousand three hundred and sixty-eight dollars and eighty-eight cents; and for printing and binding four thousand one hundred and twentyfive copies of the report of the state engineer and surveyor, on railroads, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty, pursuant to a resolution of the legislature, passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and

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