The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-20

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January ], 1855 to July ], 1856 ........ 5000 AZ
Amount Of bills rendered for July and August
1855, not yet examined. ............. 21lO 80
Total SOC, SIG ~
ls5s-July ., cash .............. 5000 90
bet 8, $ .............. 1900 GO
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ls5s-une q, i i;i;lai..... ,ioS 50
Sept. 8. lao CO. 4S,I74 10
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tual amount only $50 41 81 somewhat less than one
half Of the sum claimed BY the Goyernors and little
This Commission, in the judgment of your committee,
and Of counsel has fair and equitable offset to this
$40, 71 81, and il is willing to submit 1t to public
| decision.
This Offset last year stated andis repeated,
follows
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Uommssioner These Children are not egrans but
9pa heir AZ belong ne
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90 s aay nrs
% ne VI @ hey he w sas
smisrani. are properly inmates institutions WARDS
aHs M R ss s s as
nhumaniy separating tender babes from their mothers
snoSer and another SSy nA'
The above has been the for eight years. and
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exceed $4,000 The Governors however, refuse to allow
III and is therefore to be the subject OF arbitration
observe in the above statement the ground upon which
its dsaowance is placed by the honorable the Governors
and to consider whether may not oe tast the %
Governors from tehind beam in their own optics. Even
however allowing that the Commissioners are in error n
least to the balance claimed by the Governors, st
suredly when is considered that this unadused ba
lance Of $50 700 is on long account, upon which pay
mens of times that amount have been actually
made and hundred times that amount have been
little delay in settlement can hardly justify the broad
charges Of the Governors and still less 1t afford any
ground for the assertion that It win compel this depart
sand dollars for the special purpose Of providing for the
mposons Of the Commissioners Of Emigration not other
deficiency in the large grants to the Governors has
occurred, requiring such additional call from the de-
paTiment, it must arise from smpositions from
other quarter than the Commissioners of Emigration
In this connection it may be wen to advert 10 the re.
mark Of the Governors, that this Commission has paid
New y Ork by.
The Governors know very WE'LL yet seem studousy to
conceal the fact that fifty cents out Of every dollars
received by this Commission, are by law appro
prated set aside separate fund out Of which
Of emigration In all the counties except New York
to be paid The Commissioners did not advise the
enactment Of this act and way responsible for it.
Since its passage 1853, money except this fund Of
fifty been paid the counties and that from time
to time as the law requires When therefore, the Com
%siSn is for paying the counties other than
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| duty which the law specially enjoins.
In the next place. this Commission expends for the bene
fl of the county New York amount ten times great
than for any other county in the State and four times
large that paid to all the other counties together
AT early period OF the commission 1t judged by
the then Commissioners Messrs. r. b. Minturn, Have
meyer Brerwith the late Messrs. Golden Jacob Harvey
Dillon and others, advisable to establish hospitals and
refugees in this county, instead of allowing the emgrans
TO be maintained In the city establishment. This
done after mature elaboration and calculation leading
to the conviction that this fund could be thus admins
tered with than the then experience had
shown the ctys had been. A comparison of the
penses OF this Commission in this city, and OF the Aims
house department. during the time, exhibited in
the reports will show that those gentlemen were not in
In this county therefore this Commission has purchas
ed lands and erected refugees and hospitals in other
county except Richmond where the Marine Hospital tor
the protection Of this city from the introduction Of dis
is located has this been done. In the other
ties all the egant poor requiring public aid are main
tanned in the county pO0rhouses such would have been
the here had not the Commission institutions Of
their The amount expended in these is therefore
in effect SO much paid to the city o. New York for to
port though the COMMISSIONER who with the excep
iios Of the Mayor Of Brooklyn all residents and tax
acting adversely to It's claims and its interests.
Tie aggregate amount thus expended for the city,
ton, is, since is47 the year II the organization of
this Comm sson, over ~ ESQ ooo and has been for
the last five years at the rate o. over ssoo,ooo
Commissioners Of Emigration have no discretion as
to the amount Of their expenditures any claim
large their income but they the administrators Of
limited and uctuating fund raised from the emigration
ever expected that they should support or pay ior ali
emgrant poor under all circumstances, but merely pre-
scrbed that they should do 80 far as the fund would al
low either by institutions Of their own, BY repaymens
to the counties which such persons became charge
able. The administration Of the Commission however
imperfect has thus far exceeded the expectation Of the
legislature having during eight years. entirely sup
ported the whole Of such poor in this city the whole qna
rsntne and marine hospitals Of this port and refunded
the counties in full to within the last few MONTHS during
which last period dividend Of 90 per cent has been
paid.
nors is the refusal the receive the
naics who have been rendered according to their reso
necessary Indignation If the spirit Of fairness were
evident in the Governors report as Is their to
not have been guilty Of important omissions which
| your committee win proceed to supply.
Last winter the Governors in the same style as they
now propose, united themselves q committee and
to Albany to correct the abuses in this Commits
sion and amend the defects in the emigrant laws.
bill for that purpose was accordingly introduced into and
passed the Assembly, without notice to this Commission.
In that bill clause authorizing the Governors TO
as they have recently attempted and of the rel asa TO
receive whom BY the Commissioners they SO much COM
plain
the whole idea Of such thing repudiated The Gov.
| ernors return to New York, and holding up the
city, NAL administrators Of the law-vioaters Of the
| legal pledge" under which they receive the
taion fund exhibit the great respect entertained BY
themselves for law and legislative action, by attempting
to do Just exactly what the law forbids and the Lega
ture has but recently prohibited.
Then, again, the Commissioners have authority
right TO receive lunatcs The laws Of this State
press that point. Lunatcs to be examined by
Justices OF the peace and committed to such place
may be provided by the Of the poor In this
city by the Governors II is made the duty Of the Cover
nors provide such place, and public asylum, the
approval Of by the Supervisors IL necessary The Co
vernors bave not and cannot provide any OF The instu-
tions on wardA Island 1T place for lunatics such
would meet the appreciation Of the Supervisors, for there
IA no such ediAce on that island Yet in full view Of this
aw and these facts fe Governors undertake to transfer
TO an irresponsible place. lunatics who have been
united 10 their charge by the Judgment Of court
for whose custody they responsble to their friends
and the public. They complain, too, that the Commits.
sioners troubled perhaps by bubble refused to aid
them in their open direct violation of the statutes
The law makes such act the Governors contem-
and attempted, amsdemeanor punishably by
fine and imprisonment and but for the resistance OF the
Commissioners this attempted unlawful act the Go.
vernore mirbt have found themseve inmates instead az