Thomas S. McClaury, Delaware co.. 1815, June 28,... 10 00 Isaac Hotchkiss, Windham,......... 1815, May 1,.... 1825, May 12,... 35 66 24,... 3 66 1826, Nov. 13,... 70 97 Gayer Gardner, Hudson,..... Hyatt & Van Hoesin, Hudson, ...... 1832, Feb. 7,..... 1830, April 27,... 4 25 50 John Van Valkenburgh, Lexington,.. 1828, January 29, 1833, April 1,.... 2 33 45 .... Benton & Fellows, Unadilla,. March 22,.. 1 70 Henry Robinson, Newburgh,.. .......... 1 00 15 1828, May 17,.... 36 35 00 12 5 Dated Catskill Bank, Catskill, Aug. 24, 1835. Sworn before me, Aug. 24, 1835. JOEL BELLAMY, Justice of the Peace. No. 125. IN ASSEMBLY, January 29, 1836. COMMUNICATION From the Secretary of State, transmitting the annual report of the Directors of the New-York Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. I have the honor to transmit herewith the seventeenth annual report of the directors of the New-York Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, which has been sent to me for the purpose of being communicated to the Legislature. I am, very respectfully, Your ob't servant, [Assem. No. 125.] JOHN A. DIX. SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT. In compliance with the rule which has been observed since the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, the directors of the NewYork Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, present to the Legislature their seventeenth annual report, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five. As the principles are settled on which the administration of its affairs is conducted, and as the system of government and discipline, founded upon them, has been repeatedly exhibited in all its parts, and more recently in their circular issued for the benefit of parents and others interested in the Institution, the board do not deem it worth while, on the present occasion, to do more than cast a bird's eye glance over those matters which annually occur, and which present no distinctive peculiarity, but are common to all establishments erected for the purposes of education. The disbursements, as will appear from the treasurer's account, which is hereunto annexed, including the balance of one thousand fifty-four dollars and four cents due the treasury at the beginning of the year, amount to twenty-one thousand seventy-three dollars and twenty-nine cents; and the receipts to twenty-four thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and three cents, leaving a balance in the treasury, on the thirty-first day of December, of three thousand two hundred and fifty-four dollars and seventy-four cents. The names of one hundred and thirty-seven pupils were em. braced in the catalogue appended to the last report, as residing in the Institution at the close of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four. During the past year forty-three have been admitted, and forty discharged, leaving on the thirty-first day of December the actual number of one hundred and forty. It will be perceived that a larger number have retired from the Institution during the past year than it has been common to notice. A majority, how |