Revenue and expenditures of the fiscal year,........................... Appropriations and their application, under art. 7 of the Constitution,.. ... Payment of the canal debt, to 1st July, 1855, ..... Table, showing the operation of the Sinking Fund, to 1865, Loans during the fiscal year,................... Page. 3 7 8 18 20 DOCUMENTS. No. 1, Receipts and payments during the fiscal year. 2, 3, Sinking Fund for the redemption of the canal debt, 4, 5, Premium on loan to supply deficiencies, 6, 7, Sinking Fund for the General Fund debt,. ....................... 8, 9, Treasury of the State for the support of government, 10, 11, Fund to pay debts due prior to 1st June, 1846, 12, 13, Fund to provide for extraordinary repairs, &c., of the canals, 14, 15, Interest on the loans to supply deficiencies, 16, 17, Interest on loan to pay debts due prior to 1st June, 1846, 18, 19, Interest on loan for Albany basin, 22, 23, Fund for the completion of the Erie canal enlargement, the Black 27 29 30 31 31 32 32 33 34 34 34 30, 31, Oswego canal fund, 32, 33, Cayuga and Seneca canal fund,. 34, 35, Chemung canal fund, 38 41 42 55, Canal funds, how deposited and invested, and to what they belong,... 56, Receipts on account of the Erie canal enlargement,.. 58 61 57, Estimate of the revenues and expenditures for the year ending 30th September, 1851,................ 62 58, Canal stock purchased and cancelled during the fiscal year, 63 66 68 71, Lists of clerks in the Canal Department, 80 72, Tolls received on account of canals and railroads, 73. Payments to canal appraisers, &c.,...... 74, Statement showing the tolls collected, expense and per centage of col lection, and the year in which the collections commenced on each lateral canal,...... 75, Statement showing the tolls collected, cost of repairs and collection, the per centage of the same, and the aggregate tonnage of the total movement on all the canals,. 90 91 No. 28. IN ASSEMBLY, JAN. 28, 1851. REPORT Of the committee on the manufacture of salt, on the bill for the relief of Thomas Wheeler, administrator of John Jacob Mang, deceased. Mr. Stevens, from the committee on the manufacture of salt, to which was recommitted the bill for the relief of Thomas Wheeler, administrator of John Jacob Mang, deceased, REPORTS: That the said committee to which was recommitted the above bill, have given the same a careful consideration, and from the following facts would recommend the passage of the same. It appears that by a law passed on the 27th of April, 1829, the superintendent of the Onondaga salt springs was authorized, on such terms and conditions as he might deem proper, to sell at public vendue, a building known as the State store house, and that the purchaser might receive a lease of the salt lot on which the said store house was situated, and that the superintendent was authorized to give such lease on the same terms and conditions, and for the same time as other salt lots were leased, which was for the term of thirty years from the 20th of June, 1829, and that the said superintendent on the 25th of July, 1829, sold the said State store house at public vendue, and the right to a lease of the salt lot, which was bid off by said John Jacob Mang, for seven hundred dollars, upon the fol[Assembly, No. 28.1 1 [u. n.] lowing terms: one-fourth of the purchase money to be paid down, the balance in three equal annual installments, with annual interest at seven per cent, to be secured by a bond and mortgage on the premises. That the said Mang gave the bond and mortgage and paid one-fourth of the purchase money down, and afterwards paid the annual interest upon the balance for the first three years after the purchase. That in the summer of 1839, Rial Wright, then superintendent of the salt springs, took possession of the premises mentioned in said mortgage and lease, for the use of the State, and erected thereon State reservoirs, since which time the State has had full possession. They would further show, that at the time the superintendent took possession of the premises, a term of twenty years. remained unexpired by said lease, and that the value of the lease or of the unexpired term at the time the State took possession, was much more than the amount then due on the bond. That the State having taken possession of said mortgaged premises, no further claim was made by the State, or their officers upon said Mang during his lifetime, or upon his administrators since his death, for the payment upon said bond and mortgage until the summer of 1849; that the said Mang died on the 16th day of December, 1842. Furthermore, that on the 2d of January, 1850, a suit was commenced by the State of New-York, at the instance of Robert Geer, superintendent of the salt springs, against Thomas Wheeler, administrator upon the said bond, in the supreme court; that the said cause was referred to Charles B. Sedgwick, Esq.; that on hearing before said referee, the said Wheeler put in an answer containing substantially the facts herein stated, offered to prove by way of defence that the State had taken possession of said premises, and that the value of the unexpired term was greater than the amount due on said bond, but said referee ruled said evidence to be no defence to an action on the bond, and rejected the same, and made a report in favor of the State of $1,201.81, the balance due on the bond, also that no proceeding has ever been had to foreclose the said mortgage. Also that the State never paid any damages to said Mang during his lifetime, or his administrators since his death, for taking and appropriating said mortgaged premises to the use of the State, as hereinbefore mentioned. No. 29. IN ASSEMBLY, JAN. 27, 1851. REPORT Of the committee on canals, on the petition of Edward B. Judson, on behalf of the Brewerton Bridge Co. The committee on canals, to which was referred the petition of Edward B. Judson, on behalf of the Brewerton Bridge Co., which petition is in the following words: "To the Hon. Legislature of the State of New-York: The undersigned, secretary and treasurer of the Fort Brewerton Bridge company, respectfully represents, that in the summer of 1850, the said company, by direction of the engineer in charge of the Oneida river improvement, erected and built four piers in the Oneida river at Brewerton, to guide steamboats through the draw in the bridge at said place; that said company expended in building the same the sum of $535.81, over and above the trouble and time spent in superintending said erections. In behalf of said company, the undersigned respectfully asks the passage of a law refunding the above sum to said company. And your petitioner will ever pray. Jan'y 23, 1850. EDWARD B. JUDSON." have had the same under consideration, and ascertained that John T. Clark, division engineer, made an arrangement with the managers of the Brewerton Bridge co., for the erection of four small wooden piers in the Oneida river, near Brewerton, to serve as guides to steamboats navigating that river in their passage through the draw [Assembly No. 29.] 1 [u. n.] |