In addition to the above, there has been expended the following: Making whole amount of expenditure, 492 23 9 25 131 97 16,542 60 9,318 00 48 69 9 37 $66,957 80 3,084 67 3,437 34 $73,449 81 Leaving a balance against the prison of $246 47 There was a balance remaining in my hands on the 30th September, 1838, of Cash. $8,878 68 I have received during the year ending on the 30th September, 1839, as per statement above, 65,896 04 74,774 72 From which deduct the whole amount of expenditure, 73,449 81 Balance, $1,324 91 The available surplus earnings belonging to the prison, consists of the following amounts: To the credit of the prison in the State treasury, for marble furnished the new State Hall, Albany, up to 30th September, 1838, Amount of work done for the same during the past year, Cash deposited in Treasury up to 30th Sept. 1838, Cash on hand 30th Sept. 1839, Debts due the prison which are considered good, Debts of contractors for convicts' laber, falling due in 30, 60, and 90 days, all good, Total amount of surplus, $48,497 30 7,307 30 20,000 00 15.049 49 1,324 91 19,594 14 $111,773 10 The female prison was finished so far as to enable us to remove the female prisoners into it on the 1st of June last, and on 25th of November, we received from the Auburn prison, all the female prisoners remaining in that prison, which with those received from other places, makes the present number 57—which is the whole number of that class of State prisoners in the State. The Matron House, and outer walls connected with the female prison, will be finished early in the spring. There was remaining in this prison, on 30th September, 1838: Female do. Total,. 794 48 842 Received during the year ending on 30th Sept. 1839 : There has been discharged from prison, by expiration of sentence, during the year ending 30th Sept. last: Leaving in prison on 30th September, 1839, of which 762 are males, and 43 females. Showing a decrease since last year, of the number remaining in prison, of 32 males, and 5 females. '37. There has been a decrease in the number of convicts convicted and sentenced to this prison during the past year, when compared with the preceding year of There has been a small decrease of the number of convictions, for several years past, in same prison district. Whatever may be the cause of such decrease, it shows, at least, crime is not on the increase in our prison district. The 762 male convicts were employed on 30th Sept. at the following branches of business, on work for sale and contractors: There were unemployed or at work for the State, weaving, making and mending clothes, 175 ONONDAGA SALT SPRINGS. Thomas Spencer, Syracuse, Superintendant. These springs are situated in the town of Salina, Onondaga County, and are the property of the state. Forty-five gallons of the water are required for making a bushel of salt. At the salt works on the sea coast in Massachusetts 350 gallons of sea water are used to make the same quantity. The salt is made at four different villages, in the town of Salina, viz. Salina, Syracuse, Geddes and Liverpool. The water is pumped from wells varying from 72 feet to 230 feet deep, into reservoirs, from which it is manufactured into fine salt by boiling, or into coarse salt by solar evaporation. The quantity of salt manufactured at these springs is now about one half of the total quantity annually made in the United States, and about one-fifth of the total consumption of the same. Notwithstanding the state duty of six cents per bushel (formerly 12 1-2 cents,) and the powerful competition of the Virginia Salt Works (on the Kanawha), the Onondaga salt finds its way to Cincinnati other towns on the Ohio river, and the waters of the Upper Mississippi. Statement of Salt inspected in each village in 1839. A table showing the amount of Salt inspected annually from 1826 to 1839, and the annual increase of the same. A table showing the number and extent of the manufactories employed in the manufacture of coarse and fine salt in the town of Salina the first day of January, 1840. 'Abstract of the principal provisions of the Law concerning Auctions. [Chap. XVII. Title 1. Vol. 1. N. Revised Laws, p. 528.] The duties are, 1. On wines and ardent spirits, foreign or domestic, two per cent. 2. On goods imported from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, and and sold in packages, bales, &c. as imported, one per cent. The following articles are not subject to duties. 1. Ships and vessels. 2. Utensils of husbandry, horses, neat cattle, hogs and sheep. 3. Articles grown, produced, or manufactured in this state, except distilled spirits. 4. All fabrics of cotton, wool, hemp, and flax manufactured within the jurisdiction of the United States. Goods are exempted from auction duties 1. When they belong to the United States or to this State. 2, When sold by the authority of a court, or when seized by a pub. lic officer on account of any forfeiture of penalty, or under a dis tress for rent. 3. The effects of a deceased person sold by executors or adminis. trators, or by a person authorized by a surrogate. 4. The effects of a bankrupt or insolvent, sold by his assignees, appointed pursuant to law, or by a general assignment for the benefit of all his creditors. 5. Goods damaged at sea, and sold within twenty days after being landed for the owners or insurers. *Any citizen of this state may sell at auction, (except in the city of New York,) all such goods as are not subject to duties. But in the city of New York, or where the goods pay duties, the sale must be by an authorized auctioneer, his partner or clerk. And any person selling contrary to the said provisions, is guilty of a misdemeanour. When an auctioneer cannot attend an auction by sickness,by duty as a fireman, by military orders, or necessary attendance in a court of justice, or when he is temporarily absent from the place for which he is appointed, he may employ a partner to attend in his behalf. He must give bond to the people of this state, with two freehold sureties, conditioned in the penalty of five thousand dollars, for the payment of the duties imposed by law and accruing on his sales. The penalty for selling, without executing the bond, is one hundred and twenty five dollars for each article offered for sale. No auctioneer, in any city, shall, at the same time have more than one house or store for holding his auction, and shall, before entering on his office, designate in a writing, to be filed with the clerk of the city, such house or store, and his partner or partners. But goods sold in the packages in which they were imported, furniture, and such bulky articles as have usually been sold in warehouses, in the streets, or on the wharves, need not be sold in the house or store designated in such writing, if such sales be advertised at least two days previously in one or more newspapers. Auctioneers are to receive two and a half per cent. on the amount of all sales, unless by previous agreement in writing; and for demanding or receiving an unlawful commission, shall forfeit two hundred and fifty dollars, and shall refund the moneys so received. No auctioneer, on the same day, and at the same place where his public auction shall be held, nor any other person at the same time and place, shall sell at private sale any goods liable to auction duties under penalty of forfeiting their price. Every auctioneer shall make out in writing, a quarterly account, dated on the first days of April, July, October and January, in the year for which he is appointed, stating minutely. 1. The sum for which any goods shall have been sold at every auction held by or for him, from the time of his giving bond, or from the date of his last quarterly account. 2. The days on which sales were so made, and the amount of each day's sale, designating the sales made by himself, or in his presence, and those made in his absence by his partner or clerk, and the cause of his absence. *See amendment next page. |