prime 66 mess beef, at Inspection fees on 4,580 barrels at 15 cents, is ....... 143 half barrels at 10 cents, is.... Cooperage fees on 4,580 barrels at 10 cents, is....... 143 half barrels at 5 cents, is..... แ $7 50 550 5 75 3 25 $687 90 14.30 458 00 715 $1,167 35 IN ASSEMBLY, February 8, 1831. REPORT Of the Comptroller, relative to the Health Department in the city of New-York. The Comptroller, in obedience to a resolution of the Honorable the Assembly, of the 10th January last, has the honor to submit the following REPORT. There has been received by the Health Commissioner, during the year ending 31st December, 1830, from passengers and crews arriving at New-York from foreign ports, the sum of There has been received from vessels arri ving coastwise, during the same period, $47,663 00 the sum of..... 3,108 25 50,771 25 Deduct for collection fees 2 per cent,. 1,269 28 Amount collected by Jacob Morton, clerk of the Common Council of the city of New-York, and paid to the health commissioner, after deducting 10 per cent for collection,.. Amount collected by J. S. Westervelt, at the quarantine ground, during the same period,.. $216 75 Amount carried forward,.... [A. No. 127.] 1 $1,307 70 $49,501 97 Total receipt for the year, ending 31st Dec. 1830,.. $50,913 04 There has been expended, during the year ending 31st December, 1830, as per statement below, the sum of..... $38,096 95 to wit: For salaries of health commissioner, resident physician, hospital surgeon, chaplain, mate of the marine hospital, and agent of the commissioners,.. $4,970 01 For wages of various persons in and about the Marine hospital, and laborers,..... 7,650 53 For building bulk-head, and materials for To the society for the reformation of juve- 7,157 59 9,741 35 552 47 25.00 8,000 00 $38,096 95 $4,970 01 $7,650 53 $7,157 59 $9,741 35 $552 47 $8,000 00 $2500 $38,096 95 Insurance, printing, and freight. Society for ref. of juvenile delinquents. Cost of arbitration. Total. The above comprises a full answer to the resolution, so far as it can be given from the accounts and vouchers returned to this office, for the year 1830. The inquiry contained in the resolution, as to the amount of money received by the health officers as fees of office, cannot be answered from the papers in the Comptroller's office, unless by that sum is designated the amount paid for salaries. If so, then the first item of the above classification of the expenditures, is the amount for the last year; but it is presumed this inquiry was intended to embrace certain perquisites allowed to these officers, or to certain individuals of them, and for which they are not required to account. If this supposition be correct, the inquiry should be addressed to the health officers, as no means of answering it exists from any papers returned by them to this office. The Comptroller has not supposed it necessary to repeat the statement of these accounts for the year 1829, as a report was made to the last legislature, (see documents, vol. 3, No. 252 of the last session,) in answer to a similar call, and which embraces about the same classification of the expenditures of that year, together with several other facts in relation to the accounts of the health officers which may aid the house in reference to the object for which the present call was made. Dated Albany, 7th February, 1831. SILAS WRIGHT, JR. |