The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-19
support OF Fors Ign PauPers.

The following report WAS presented 70 tue Doaru VI
Governors Of the Almshouse at meeting held on tine
10th inst, and ordered TO be published
The Committee Workhouse having in charge the
subject indebtedness of the Commissioners II Enigra
lion respectfully represent that having ex.niaed the
report of the Commissioners of the 20h October las
published in the city papers, AMI the statement Of the
accounts between them and the Governors OF the Aims
house your committee reerae the correctness of their
statement presented by them in their report this
Board the 9th ult yix.:-
Bills for ,unatcs rendered and allowed to LIST
Bills HsS ior unatcs for July and August, 1855
rendered and not examined. .............. 2llO SO
Bills for Migrants rendered to the Goth Sep
TENDER, $780,. ..............-........ 26.610 %
Totai. .sls,272 %
by the Governors, which $4S, 412 32-thst amount
having been paid since making their report.
The principal objection of the Commissioners of Emi
grafton TO be their liability for expenses incurred
by this county for The support ofvagrans who have been
less than five years in the country Yet your commit
referring to the act organizing that Com mission
ca any clause exempiing them the respon-
sibi'y, for the act of May s, 1877 proyides:-
ss be the duty Of the said T. provide for
communication shall have been paid Aforesaid or on
You'd oasr s wise bee oas charge on any city ooa
demny g far as may be- the several cities towns and
Cured tor The maintenance and support persons aore-
Not a word is said about vagrants but includes all
who may become a charge upon any city, town aud
county and why persons of that description and
whom the Commissioners Of EN- grafton been paid
Communication money, should not as we'll the pauper,
receive the benefit of that fund your commtee at
loss TO arrive at any satisfactory conclusion.
support Of emgrants at the Penitentiary from 1849
1868, and at Blackwels Island Bellevue Hospital
from 1848 to 1854 six years. amounting to sac, 500
which unpaid" that the Governors ought to know
ull well that there is netaer substance legality in
this claim"
certainly substance in the claim and we trust
Justice and Legality. This department is paying
louo
under the present law they cannot get return for
countess and fully declare the obligations Of the Com
missoners at their last session, the 18th Of April
1885, enacted as follows:
persons becoming chargeabe upon sny city,
town or county within this state for the payment Of any ex
he @ @ 60
Emigration 70 provide b. the act concerning passengers In
house Of correction peplisnary jail brdewe prison
Migrants or dsorderiy persons
acknowledged to this department any Indebtedness
the bills which have been rendered. advised Of any
examination Of their correctness.
The bills the support Of lunatics are examined and
1t well understood between the two departments that
owing to the uncertainty of Information from the insane
find evidence Of the they are at liberty to
reject or suspend payment OF until fully identified.
The Con- mssionefs say that they shave authority
right to receive unacsn Have they ever applied for
IL By the passed April H. 1888, amending the act
may be confined il says: in such private or public
asylum as may be approved by any standing order or
such city town may be situated, The commissioners
deny having advised the enactment Of the act BY which
which by law is appro 1ratsd and asi e. Of which
expenses OF emigration in all the counties except New
York are 70 be paid.
this
that during the session of the Legislature for the year
1869, committee appointed at the convention Of the
Superntendents Of the Poor of the several counties Of
the state in Albany for the purpose Of procuring
legislative action in reference to the claims Of counties
protection tor the future. The bill presented BY the
Superintendens provided for increase of fifty
iquidate the demands Of the counties oher than New
York; the amount then due such counties being very
remedy by removing such por OF the fund beyond tn
Of Commissioners and their CONTROL except for TIL
special purpose set forth and to provide fund for sub
seauent demands.
The proposed increase of head money eir ated from
and was made on the recommendations of the Commits
sioners and assened TO by the Superintendent but dis
agreed in reation to the custody and Of 10 fund
Several OF the Commissioners were IN Albany during tn
their council and clerk neatly, IL ut quite all the time.
SUI entendents were successful in getting thei!
bill tho gh the committees and repo ted compete but
when it tached the statute it did in form
bodyipg any hing but The intention Of the committees,
to render the proposed advantages amos. nuga-
The superintendents have ever charged the Law of
April 1853 the act Of the Commissioners.
the almost certain paternity of the additions and alera.
tions Of the BILL and BY of proof in to the
committee refer to the annual report Of the Commission
ers Of Emigration for 1853 page Q, as follows:-
g These difficulties had been anticipated and set forth
in their last report well former occasions;
and they eecually, and it trusted pc manenty
relieved bv the act Of 18th April 1853 adopting the
concentrations OF the Commissioners, and adding fifty
cents per head TO communication money to be applied
quarterly to the reimbursements Of the several county
In order present legal view of the subjects in con.
troversy, the following communication from W. NJ
Evat, Ed Is presented III connection with the report
for the consideration Of fellow citizens Legislators
commissioners governors, and all parties in Interest,"
HANOVER SQUARE New York, Oct 90, 1856
DEAr sRThe general scheme Of the legislation this
State concerning emgI ants is to PROVIDE from funds
communication money exacted from the whole number Of
emgrants fund for the support of those who
oe sns
outset Of the Commissioners Of Emigration and hal
ratably among the counties Of the State in rel nburse
meut Of the charges which should be incurred by sucl
Ct untes in the support OF those who had contributed
to and we're entitled to share in the charitable accumu
lation.
The fundamental act did not impose the Commit sion
ers the duty Of caring for the support Of this class
bene6caries in the first instance, though 1t permitted
them to sssume and discharge this js duy The actual
recourse against the fund collected BY the Commission
Reimbursement Of the expenditure Of the various
counties ratably among themselves, and to the
fAuston, II necessary, Of the whole fund In the
Commissioners should themselves provide for the support
of pauper emgrants then county could claim ndem
nifty for expenditures account of those embraced
in such provision.
All the counties Of the State stood equal foona
Of participation in this fund until the Of April 10
1858 BY this act the communication fee raised from
81 80 TO 81 and the additional fifty cents made into
separate fund for the benefit Of the counties other than
that of New York. distrbutable in three months
and any balance unused ia this distribution to be
carried into the general fund Of the commission Sine,
the passage Of this act understand It's effects the
counties other than New York restricted to this spe
cal share Of the communication money and the county of
New York Is entitled to the whole of the residue Of the
communication fund not empo, ed by the Commissioners
themselves in the support Of pauper emgrants within
This county, in generation and reimbursement of the
expenditure Of the county Of New York Of
such pauper emigrants.
There are two principal classes o. psuper enisrants