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intendent of insurance shall receive the further sum of one thousand seven hundred dollars, and the first deputy superintendent, two thousand three hundred dollars annually, payable monthly, in lieu of and in full for all expenses and disbursements incurred by them.

For additional examinations made by the direction of the superintendent of the insurance department, to be used in his discretion, five thousand dollars.

The amount required for the aforesaid salaries, clerk hire, and other expenses of the insurance department, and such. additional sum as may be certified to the comptroller by the attorney-general as a reasonable compensation for the services and expenses of deputies and clerks in his office in proceedings or litigation for or on account of insurance companies, or in which insurance companies were parties, not exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, shall be refunded to the treasury by the several insurance companies, associations, persons and agents to whom said chapter six hundred and ninety of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninetytwo applies.

BOARD OF TAX COMMISSIONERS.

For the salaries of the tax commissioners the sum of seven thoumissioners. sand five hundred dollars. For the salary of the clerk, two thousand dollars. For clerical help, traveling and other expenses of the board of tax commissioners, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Quarantine.

Land office.

Public offices.

COMMISSIONERS OF QUARANTINE.

For the commissioners of quarantine, for salaries, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

LAND OFFICE.

For assessments and other expenses of the public lands, and for mileage and expenses of the speaker of the assembly for attendance as commissioner of the land office, five thousand dollars.

PUBLIC OFFICES.

For postage or expressage on official letters, documents and other matter sent by mail or express by the governor, secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general, state engineer and surveyor, superintendent of public instruction, regents of the university, adjutant-general, clerk of the court of appeals,

state board of charities, state board of health, civil service commission and bureau of labor statistics, ten thousand dollars; and for stationery for the aforesaid offices and departments, ten thousand dollars.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

For the care, cleaning, labor, lights, salary of the superin Public buildings. tendent of public buildings, services of orderlies and watchmen, and all necessary expenses of the public buildings, pursuant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and twenty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; provided that the orderlies and watchmen and persons employed in positions, which on March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, were designated on on the books of the superintendent of public buildings, as those of orderlies and watchmen, who shall receive any portion of said sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for their services, shall be persons who are citizens of the state of New York, and who served in the Union army or navy during the late war, and have been honorably discharged therefrom, and such honorably discharged persons shall not be subject to civil service rules of examination.

UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
REGENTS' OFFICE.

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For salaries of secretary, chief clerk, bookkeeper, clerks in Regents' charge of reports, statistics and printing, stenographer, typewriter, messenger and other office assistants, for traveling expenses of regents, officers and inspectors in visitation of insti tutions and attending meetings, and for furniture, fittings, supplies, printing, telegraphing, repairs and other incidental expenses of the regents' office, pursuant to the provisions of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-one thousand dollars.

For the academic department of union schools, to be appropriated as provided by chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, sixty thousand dollars.

For dividends to be apportioned by the regents for the benefit of the academies of the university by chapter three hundred and forty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one hundred and thirty-nine thousand one hundred and twelve dollars and nine cents.

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State library.

State museum.

Department of agriculture.

STATE LIBRARY.

For books, serials and binding, pursuant to chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifteen thousand dollars; three thousand dollars thereof to be paid to the regents on the first day of October next, and the balance in such sums, from time to time, as shall be required by them, upon vouchers to be approved by the comptroller.

For salaries of the officers and employes, including the keeper of the records, for assistance required for supervision of the reading-rooms, for cataloguing and classifying the books, and for keeping the library open evenings and holidays, and for maintaining the duplicate department, and for furniture, fittings, supplies, printing, telegraphing, repairs and other incidental expenses, pursuant to chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-two thousand nine hundred dollars.

STATE MUSEUM.

For the preservation and increase of the collection of the State museum, and for salaries and official expenses of the botanist and entomologist and other employes, pursuant to chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety two, ten thousand dollars; and for the department of geology and paleontology, for services and expenses, pursuant to chapter four hundred and eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, twelve thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, payable upon the certificate of the state geologist and the audit of the comptroller.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

For the promotion of agriculture in this state, seventy-six thousand dollars; twenty thousand dollars thereof shall be distributed in premiums by the New York state agricultural society; of the remaining fifty-six thousand dollars there shall be distributed by the commissioners of agriculture among the American institute of the city of New York, town, county and other agricultural societies, fairs, clubs and expositions the amount they are entitled thereto by virtue of the provisions of section eighty-nine of the agricultural law; seventy per centum of the said remainder

shall be apportioned among the county agricultural societies, fairs or associations, the American institute of the city of New York or to the societies, fairs or associations entitled thereto in counties where there are no such county agricultural societies, and thirty per centum thereof shall be apportioned to the various town and other agricultural societies, clubs or exhibitions, to be dis tributed in the manner provided by section eighty-eight of the agricultural law.

For the necessary expenditures of the agricultural experiment station at Geneva, for salaries, labor, repairs, laboratory, farm implements, dairy, expense of board of control, meteorological instruments, and all other necessary expenses at the station, pursuant to chapter seven hundred and two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-one, chapter four hundred and thirteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and chapter one hundred and forty-four of the laws of eighteen hun. dred and ninety-one, and chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifty thousand dollars.

For the department of agriculture, for salary of commissioner and for the salaries of the assistant commissioners and clerks, the employment of experts, chemist, agents and counsel, pursu ant to chapter three hundred and thirty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for all the necessary expenses in prosecuting the business of this department, one hundred thousand dollars.

No more than ten assistant commissioners shall be employed by the commissioner of agriculture for said department. The assistant residing in the city of Albany shall receive as salary the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, and the assistant commissioner residing in the city of New York shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, and such expenses as may be necessary, when they are away from the city of Albany or New York respectively, on business of said department. The other assistant commissioners shall receive such salaries as shall be fixed by the commissioner of agriculture, and all necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

COMMISSIONER OF THE NEW CAPITOL.

For the commissioner of the new capitol, for salary, seven Commisthonsand five hundred dollars.

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Legislature.

State printing.

Session laws.

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LEGISLATURE.

For the compensation and mileage of members and officers of the legislature, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For advances by the comptroller to the clerks of the senate and assembly, for contingent expenses, twenty-five thousand dollars. For postage, expenses of committees, compensation of witnesses, legislative manual, Croswell's manual, clerk's manual, indexing the bills, journals and documents of the senate and assembly, and other contingent expenses of the legislature, thirty thousand dollars.

STATE PRINTING.

For the legislative printing of the state, including binding, mapping, lithographing and engraving, one hundred thousand dollars.

SESSION LAWS AND OFFICIAL CANVASS.

For the publication of the session laws and the official canvass and official notices provided by law, which are subjects of contract, twenty-five thousand dollars.

PUBLICATION OF GENERAL LAWS.

For the payment of newspapers in the various counties in this eral laws. state for the publication of the general laws of the state pursuant to chapter seven hundred and fifteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, ninety thousand dollars.

State prisons.

STATE PRISONS.

For the support and maintenance of the several state prisons, pursuant to chapter three hundred and eighty-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and for the ordinary repairs of the prisons and supplying water therefor, three hundred thousand dollars.

For the superintendent of state prisons, for salary, six thousand dollars.

For the necessary traveling expenses of the superintendent and his clerk, five hundred dollars.

For necessary clerk hire and copying and a messenger, and for postage, stationery and other incidental expenses, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation of sheriffs, for the transportation of convicts to prisons, asylum for insane criminals, penitentiaries, houses of refuge and reformatories, twelve thousand dollars.