Health Commissioners' office, were found to be exceedingly useful in testing and deciding the correctness of vouchers submitted by the claimants.

The report of Judge Bronson was received about the 25th of October, and after a full comparison of the results and details, with such sources of information as were attainable in the Comptroller's office, and becoming convinced of their accuracy, rayments have been made since the close of the fiscal year, of such sums as have been demanded by those persons to whom they were respectively awarded, or their attornies. In all cases what is deemed a sufficient and suitable release, has been taken from the parties and is filed in this office. A copy thereof accompanies Judge Bronson's report on this subject, which is appended hereto, and marked H.

FUND FOR THE PAYMENT OF INTEREST OF THE BONDS ISSUED BY THE NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY.

Balance in the hands of the Comptroller on the 1st

December, 1850, viz:

Amount invested in State stock,.... $117,020 65

From the above it appears that the trust account with this company is adjusted and closed. Previous to this settlement the affidavit required by the 8th section of chap. 325 of Laws of 1815, was made and duly filed: The balance on hand, over and above the sum necessary to pay the interest on the company's bonds, was paid over and the account closed about the 1st of May last past.

HUDSON AND BERKSHIRE RAILROAD COMPANY SINKING FUND. This company had, of their Sinking Fund, on the 30th September, 1850, in the hands of the Comptroller, as stated in his report, page 37, ....

On the 1st October, 1850, there was received for interest,

There has been also received for premiums on stock sold,

There was paid for the January

$5,012 77

86 75

200 00

$5,298 52

The residue of the July interest was paid by the company, who will, it is presumed, hereafter meet the interest on the stock issued for their benefit.

AUBURN AND ROCHESTER RAILROAD COMPANY SINKING

FUND.

This fund consists of the following items, viz:

TONAWANDA RAILROAD COMPANY SINKING FUND,

This fund consists of the following items, viz:

By the act, chapter 90, passed April 5th, 1851, it is declared that this company "shall hereafter be known by the name of the Corning and Blossburgh Rail Road Company."

By the same act, section 4, the two per cent annually payable to the State, as a sinking fund to pay the principal of the State loan, is deferred till January 1st, 1860, on the terms of the concurrent resolution of the Legislature, of April 20, 1844.

.....

The fund consists of the following items, viz: State stock, redeemable in 1861, 5 per cent, Comptroller's bond, on demand, 6 per cent,. Money in the Treasury,

$700 00

287 82

263 37

$1,251 19

LONG ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY SINKING FUND.

This fund consists of the following items, viz: Bank Fund stock, redeemable in 1856, 6 per cent, Comptroller's bond, on demand, 5 per cent,....

$8,950 00

3,000 00

Money in the Treasury,..

13 60

$11,963 60

SCHOOL AND GOSPEL FUND OF THE STOCKBRIDGE INDIANS. The amount of this fund is invested in Comptroller's bonds, payable at pleasure, 6 per cent,. . . . .

$36,000 00

This $36,000 is composed of the $30,000 before alluded to in this report, and $6,000, previously owned by the Stockbridge Indians.

INDIAN ANNUITIES.

The annuities payable to Indian tribes, under the several treaties with them, are as follows:

Difficulties have heretofore been encountered by the Commissioners of the Land Office, in paying the annuities of the Cayuga Indians, owing mainly to their different and distant locations. It was found almost impracticable to obtain a satisfactory enumeration of those living in Missouri.

By an agreement, however, in the nature of a treaty, between the Missouri Indians and those of the tribe living in this State, made at Buffalo in June 1850, the disagreement as to numbers, and consequently as to the proper division of the annuity fund, has been settled between the parties in interest; and hereafter no further dissatisfaction or contention is apprehended. See Indian papers in the office of the Secretary of State, No. 813.

The residences of those Indians of the Onondaga tribe who live on the reservations, in the western part of this State, are so scattered, that no agent can be found to number and pay them, for the commission allowed by law.

One hundred and fifty-two Onondagas were found at the time of the last payment, residing on the Cattaraugus, the Allegany, the Tonawanda and the Tuscarora reservations, and the amount paid them was $792.62.

The commission of 3 per cent on this sum, amounts to $23.78 the actual expense of first enumerating them, and afterwards paying their annuities, was nearly, or quite $100.

STATE PRISONS.

The earnings of these establishments, and their respective drafts upon the Treasury for this year, are shown in the statement marked T, U, and V, and hereto appended.

The CLINTON PRISON, from its short period of existence, the difficulty which there seems to be in furnishing profitable employment for the prisoners, and the limited number of the prisoners confined there, will necessarily show a heavier expenditure in proportion to its numbers, than the other prisons. The average number of prisoners at that place for the year ending 30th September last, was but 114, while Auburn averaged 752, and Sing Sing 723 males and 73 females, in all 796.

AUBURN PRISON.-The general management of the Auburn Prison, so far as this department is particularly concerned, continues to be quite satisfactory.

Its financial affairs are well conducted at the prison, and give rise, of course, to no perplexing difficulties here.

SING SING PRISON seems emerging from its former troubles of a financial character, and it is much to be hoped its prison accounts will be made hereafter to exhibit the true condition of its business. The past difficulties with this prison have arisen, in a great measure, from the loose and imperfect manner of keeping its accounts. Taking receipts in advance, the bills in fact not having been paid, and paying bills by instalments, without taking receipts at the time, are practices which appear to have been common, but which lead inevitably to confusion and disputes.