Twentieth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum for the year 1862 / New York State Lunatic Asylum.

  • New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Twentieth annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum for the year 1862 / New York State Lunatic Asylum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $13,926.32 ; that, in addition to that balance, his receipts from that date to the 1st of December, 1862, (including the sum of $7,416.35 received from the State for officers’ salaries,) was $113,547.54; that his total expenditures during the same period were $99,949.81; and that the balance in the treasury on the said first day of December, 1862, was $27,524.05. This balance, which, fortunately, is larger than usual, will be required to meet the quarterly bills payable in December, and the increased prices for the ensuing f year, of many articles of which the Institution requires a large supply—particularly of groceries, and materials for beds and clothing, and manufactures of various kinds. It is feared, too, that owing to the heavy drain upon the counties and individuals, for war taxes and contributions, the treasurer will encoun¬ ter more than usual difficulties in making his collections. In 1861, the Legislature appropriated $3,885.52, “ for rebuilding fences, painting buildings, and con¬ structing a cellar for vegetables.” $3,539.37, of this appropriation, has been expended in painting the build¬ ings, in the erection and completion of the vegetable house, and in purchasing the materials for the new fence, which was particularly mentioned in our reports of 1860 and 1861; leaving a balance of $346.15, to defray the expense of the erection of that fence. It was deemed best, from motives of economy, and owing to some difficulty in determining the line with exact¬ ness, to postpone its erection until next summer.