Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-16
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
From the New York Observer.
NEW YORK LEGISLATURE.

NE +" 1ONA AEU1SAA1OnEs
The Governors message was received
from Albany too late for insertion in this
number of our paper. We have merely
room to say that the Assembly was organ
lied on Tuesday by the election of G. w.
Patterson, of Livingston county, as Speak
er-he having 80 votes, and Thomas
Armstrong 46. Jarvis n. Lake, Of Her.
kimer, was unanimously chosen Clerk,
and William De Forrest of Broome,
Sergeant-at-Arms.
Gov. Seward has appointed Rufus
King, of Albany, Adjutant General ;
Jonathan Amory, of New York, and
Spencer S. Benedict and John F. Towns
bend, of Albany, Aids-de Camp; Robert
G. Wetmore, of New York, Military
Secretary; Samuel BIatchford, of New
York, Private Secretary; and Fl. G. o.
Rogers, Of Albany, Executive Messenger.
We have prepared from the message
the following summary statement respect
ing some of the most important institu-
tons in the State for the qualification of
those who may not have time 10 peruse
the whole document
Receipts and Expenditures The bal
ance in the Treasury, on the first day of
October, 1887, was Sl,526,032 40, and
the receipts during the last fiscal year
vere54, 81 1923 68. making an aggregate
of S., $685. O8. The sum of S5.786,9sl
II was paid out ofthe Treasury IN the same
period, leaving in the Treasury On the
3Oth of September, 1888, SllO,974 81.
De5t-The State debt is Sll,256,l52;
of which sum S9,3O6, l2O is due On ac-
count Of the various canals in the Stale {;
but the surplus on hand arising from the
revenue of The Erie and Champlain ca
nails, and moneys appropriated but not ex-
pended on the canals vel IN progress, is
"a, 527,465, leaving the balance of State
debt over funds in hand, S6,720,607.
Canal ToUs.-The aggregate of tolls,
including rents of surplus water, collect
ed on all the canals, was 81, 49l, 6O2 Al.
Cost of repairs and of the collection of
tolls S639,7l4 50, which, deducted from
the receipts, leaves the nett proceeds from
tolls, for the year, S84l,808 %. The
nett revenue of the last year exceeds that
of the preceding $3.50 rs.
The income of the Erie and Cham
plain canal fund from all sources, nclud-
ing the interest on S2,259,534 IS, (the
sum set apart to pay the remainder oil
debt contracted on account Of the Erie
and Champain canals) is Sl,553,l36 "a
OF this amount there have been expend
ed as follows for repairs of the canals
S449,O58 Ga; of which were expended
by superintendent of repairs S365,66l
95, and by the Canal Commissioner
| S83, 1896 60; for interest on. the deb
1929, 374 05, and sundry payments S26,
1872 65, leaving the surplus revenue O
the canal fund for the last year $947,811
so.
The Canal Commissioners have ex
pended in the last fiscal year for the en-
argement of the Erie Canal Sl,l6l,
OOl 80.
: The amount of tolls collected on al
+ the lateral canals is S58,26476. Thi
S amount exceeds the aggregate of the pre-
r ceding fiscal year Sl2,979 SO, and fall
e short of that of the year which ended O
IS the 3Oth September, 1886, before the ma,
1t igation Of the Chenango Canal 80, 81 a:
= The deficiency in the income of all til
e auxiliary canals TO meet the expenses
Of repairs and of collection of tolls, and II
payment of interest on the debt contractt
:. for their construction is S229,16O 5!
D. which amount, deducted from the afor
lie said nett revenue of the Erie and Char
plain canal fund, leaves the nett revenr
is Of that fund, after paying all charges u
nd tho do6o Of a II 81
~ ary canals, 1862 500 II.
Mt Common School and Literature Fun
d. The productive capital of the Comm
ur School Fund is Sl,929,7O7 81, and t
e. revenue during the last fiscal wear W
S1O2.994 The annual apportic
. ment paid to the common schools in F.
r. ruary, 1888, was $4,000.
er The capital of the Literature fund
as S268.O92 g. The payments from t
m. fund during the year were, to academ
eat S11,98O78 for the education of teach
tee $4,000, for books $685. In pursuar
w. of an act of the last session, there
ses been paid from the United States dep
Ter fund to the University of the City of N
red York $4,000, TO Geneva College $50
ma and to Hamilton College $4,000.
md Bank Fund-The Bank fund ha
Dor capital of S713,2O8 40. Its revenue
zee S31, O125 A dividend has been 7
,tly to the contributing banks of S25, 1852
te- being IL per cent. on the capita
pist There is due to the capital from
dis Lockport Bank 1913 684, paid in rede
Jun ing the bills OF that institution.
rup- Militia.-Our militia consists of h
tor artillery, l,452; cavalry, $500; ar
tion ry. 9,l42; infantry, including light
Poor fantry and rifemen, l62,457. Cor
MES of artillery and other uniformed
attached to brioades of infantry, 3, n9