IN ASSEMBLY, January 15, 1834. COMMUNICATION From the Comptroller, relative to an error in his annual report. COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Į To the Speaker of the Assembly, SIR I beg leave, through its presiding officer, to present to the Assembly, the following correction of an estimate in the Comptroller's annual report, viz: In the second calculation made to show the benefit which the Canal Fund has derived from auction and salt duties, and which is given in the Comptroller's report, at page 22, there should be added the interest from 1821, to 1833, upon the auction and salt duties received before the Erie canal was navigable. This, it will be seen, was intended to have been included by the terms used in the statement; but omitted by mistake. The indebtedness of the Canal Fund to the General Fund, on the basis assumed in the calculation before referred to, is therefore, by this correction, shewn to be $5,913,621.41. IN ASSEMBLY, January 16, 1834. REPORT Of the select committee consisting of the members of Albany county, on the act, entitled "An act for the relief of Catharine Strong and Jane Nugent.' Mr. Staats, from the select committee, to whom was referred the act, entitled "An act for the relief of Catharine Strong and Jane Nugent." REPORTED: That the committee have had the same under consideration, and have learned that Catharine Strong is the widow of Jeremiah H. Strong, (deceased,) which said Jeremiah Strong was a clerk in the Secretary of State's office at the time of his death, and that there remains due to his representatives at the present time, the sum of seventy-four dollars and sixty-seven cents, and that there is a judgment creditor for more than the above amount, which said judgment creditor has applied, since the above bill has been before this House, for letters of administration. They have also learned, that Jane Nugent is the widow of John Nugent, (deceased,) and that the said John Nugent was a clerk in the Comptroller's office at the time of his death, and that there remained due him on his salary, the sum of eighteen dollars and eight cents at the time of his death. The committee have not yet learned that there were any judgments or claims against the said John Nugent, at the time of his death; the widow, Jane Nugent, is in very indigent circumstances, and not able to take out letters of administration. The committee recommend the passage of so much of the bill as relates to Jane Nugent. All which is respectfully submitted, B. P. STAATS, Chairman. IN ASSEMBLY, January 16, 1834. REPORT Of the committee on the incorporation of Banks and Insurance Companies, on the petition of the Presidents and Cashiers of the Banks of the State, under the safety fund law. Mr. Morris, from the committee on the incorporation of banks and insurance companies, to which was referred the petition of the presidents and cashiers of the banks of the State, under the safety fund, for the passage of a law to increase the salaries of the Bank Commissioners, REPORTED: That they have had the subject referred to them under consideeration. The petitioners represent that since the Bank Commissioners first entered upon their duties, their labors have greatly increased, by the increased number of banks; that the petitioners have a deep interest in the faithful administration of the law; appreciating the extent and value of the services of the Commissioners, and impressed with the conviction that their present salaries are entirely inadequate to the laborious duties which they perform, and that the petitioners feel constrained, as well from a sense of justice to the Commissioners, as from a regard to the true interests of the banks, to ask of the Legislature an act increasing the Commissioners' salaries to two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, being satisfied that they cannot command the services of faithful and competent men for a less consideration. Your committee concurring with the facts stated in the petition, and believing that the preservation of the banking system, and the [Assem. No. 27.] 1 |