The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-01-06
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
(Conclt4ded from yesterday.


The Superintendent OF the Salt Springs reports
the quantity of salt manufactured from the lst of
January to the LIST Of Nov 1872 at $50 $40 bushels
which is LOT, sol bushels less than for cores
ponding PERIOD of time in 1871 The receipts by
the Superintendent from all sources for the past
year, are
$ll040l o.
Disbursements for the same period, 1920 SO
1 $7s47l Al
This officer ascribes the large reduction in the
quantity manufactured the past year, to excess in
1871, the business endorsements of the country
and the increased quantity of foreign imporations
while the duties were 2Oper cent.
II Is in all respects important that the quality of
our salt should be rendered as perfect as possible
Its extended use will doubtless depend very mnch
on the character of the article. +.
The solar coarse salt is admitted to be superior,
but the fne is said to be inferior, in point of quality
to that OF an English manufacture which, for most
uses, takes decided preference in market. This
subject demands your careful examination.
IT will probably not escape your notice, that the
disbursements appear large as compared with the
receipts. How the expenditure compares with pre-
vous years, am unable to say, nor whether any
part OF III sfor new erectons The diminished guam
ty of salt manufactured the past year, could hard
ly have rendered additional pumps, reservoirs, or
other works, necessary TO supply the manufacturer
with water.
The superintendent is authorized by statute to
make such additional works, machinery, &c, for
pumping water, as he may deem necessary, and to
keep all the works belonging to the State in COM
plete repair. The accounts for expenditures thus
incurred, to be audited by the inspector and paid
by the superintendent
The disbursement of public money is, under all
circumstances, delicate duty: The public interest
requires and the officer should desire, that it should
be done under such checks and guards as will insure
public confidence. While on the one hand, there
should be no useless FORMS there cannot, on the
other, be too much caution.
l recommend that the superintendent be required
before he makes any new erection, to submit, for
on
the station OF cenal where the salt works are stua-
ted, plan and estimate Of It's cost and also at the
beginning OF every month, an estimate of the ex-
pense Tor repairs. The accounts of the superintend
ent should be certified by the commissioner before
they are presented to the comptroller for final ad
justment
These remarks do not proceed from limitations
affecting the present officers, but from Impressions
The clerk Of the Auburn prison reports that during the
last fiscal year the receipts amount to $s444l 70
And the disbursements for the same PERIOD $50 70
Excess of disbursements S242s CT
year the rations let for cent and half higher
than for the year Immediately preceding, which he esti
mates to be equal to s2O73 81
reduction in IL receipts from visitors 94O 81
falling of in the several contracts by the ope.
rstions Of the act of 1912 in combining the labor
Of convicts to the manufacture of such articles
as are principally imported, 1854 90
SASS "a
The superintendent the Mount Pleasant prison reports
the receipts for the same period at $50 935 10
And the expenditures at s2sOl %
Excess of disbursements. sls,ssS 10
He states, however, that the earnings
Of the prison should be credited
with the labor for the stone pro-
cured for the State Hail. which he
For the work done on the female pri "'''
son. 1850 90
1896 81