This sum has been expended and accounted for by the accompanying vouchers under the following heads, viz: Carpenter's contract for building the Asylum... Mason's Rough casting outside of the Asylum, Digging cellar, carting stone, &c...... Blasting foundation rock, sinking well through the Superintending building and contracts, .... To superintendent for sundry disbursements,. $13,000 00 10,875 00 1,017 00 338 31 1,317 69 655 74 4,953 41 198 00 1,000 00 1,405 40 576 38 1,533 40 $36,870 33 Of this amount there has been expended $24,892 for building and rough casting the Asylum; $3,000 for out-houses-including the work-shop, stable, store-house, &c.; and $1,533.40 cents have been returned to the treasurer of the institution for ordinary purposes; and the remainder of the fund has been expended, as will be more particularly explained by the accompanying account and vouchers. By order of the Directors. [Signed.] SAMUEL AKERLY, Sec'y. JAMES MILNOR, Pres't. DR. Asylum Fund (of the New-York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb) deposited in the Mechanics' Bank, in the name of John Slidell, Peter Sharpe and Stephen Allen. Jan. 28th, 1830. To cash received at sundry times since June, 1827,.. $36,870 33 CR. Asylum Fund, &c. No. Asher Riley's Contract for Carpenters' Work. 1827. 1 Sept. 26, by 1st pay't on contract,.. $1,300 00 Amount brought forward,........ Horace Butter's Contract for Mason Work. $ Cornelius Myers, digging Cellar, Carting Stone, &c. L. Bonnemer and Geo. Gill, rough Casting outside. John Galliker and John Fohey, blasting Foundation and other rock, and sinking well, &c. Asher Riley, contract for Out-houses and extra work, 41 Dec. 27, by pay't on acc't of out-hou 1829. ses, $1,000 00 M. E. Thompson, for Plans, Drafts, and superin· 1828. tending buildings and contracts. To M. E. Thompson, Superintendent of buildings, to 1828. pay sundry accounts 61 Dec. 13, by am't paid on acc❜t of work, 1829. $350 00 150 00 76 38 576 38 Returned to Charles Mapes, Treasurer of the Institu tion for ordinary purposes. The foregoing statement is a copy of the one deposited by me in the Comptroller's office at Albany. SAMUEL AKERLY, (No. 3.) To the Hon. the Senate of the State of New-York. The subscriber, secretary of the New-York institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, considers it his duty to submit the following explanations, called for by the report of the Superintendent of Common Schools, presented to the Senate on the 3d March, 1830, on the subject of schools for the deaf and dumb. The Superintendent states that the cost of the Asylum, and the disposition of the Asylum fund ought to have been given in the eleventh annual report of the institution. The Asylum fund, specially so called, was created and set apart for the purpose of establishing an Asylum for the deaf and dumb, and its necessary appendages, in or near the city of New-York. The money constituting said fund was deposited in the Mechanics' bank of New-York, in the name of John Slidell, Peter Sharpe, and Stephen Allen, and no part of it was to be drawn except upon a check, signed by two of them, on a requisition certifying that the money was due. This was accordingly a distinct account from that of the ordinary receipts and expenditures, kept by the treasurer of the institution, who, as usual, rendered his account early in January, 1830, for examination, in order that it might accompany the annual report for the preceding year. When the said report was prepared, and ready to be sent to the legislature, the Asylum account was not made out, but it was ascertained from the chairman of the committee in charge of the Asylum fund, that when certain bills were paid there would be a balance of $233.40 of said fund, which would be paid over to the treasurer of the institution, the account closed and a statement rendered, accompanied by the vouchers, to be deposited according to law, in the office of the Comptroller of the State. This, then, is the reason why the particulars of the cost of the Asylum, and the expenditure of the Asylum fund was not given in the eleventh annual report. It was subsequently presented, and the subscriber has deposited the statement of the Asylum fund and the vouchers for its expenditure in the Comptroller's office, and this was done before the Superintendent's report was presented to the Senate. It was known to the directors that the expense of the Asylum had exceeded the original estimate, but the details were not in possession of those charged with the duty of preparing the annual report. From the information contained in the statement deposited in the Comptroller's office, it now appears that the total amount of the Asylum fund, disbursed by the special committee in charge of said fund, was $36,870 33 This amount was produced as follows, viz: Appropriated by the state, in 1827,...... $10,000 00 Raised by the directors of the institution,. 15,870 33 Borrowed by do do 11,000 00 36,870 33 |