the amount of capital invested is $1,281,050; annual amount of goods manufactured, $1,399,228; pounds of Wool manufactured, 1,574,314. The whole number of yards of Broad Cloth manufactured annually, is 290,000; of Flannel, 229,078; of Satinet, 808,915; of Cassimere and other narrow cloth, 108,000. In these manufactories about two thousand persons are constantly employ. ed. In addition to the above, however, there are twenty four manufactories from which no returns have been made, which employ an aggregate capital of $100,000.

In ninety four Cotton Factories, the capital invested is $3,101,229; yards of cloth manufactured, 20,212,953; pounds of Cotton used, 818,090. There are also, twelve new manufactories not yet in operation, most of which are nearly completed. In the manufacture of Cotton goods about 5000 persons are actively employed in the State.

The following resolutions were passed by the Legislature in May, 1832.

Whereas, The right to protect and encourage domestic industry and the mechanic arts, was one of the moving causes of the American revolution, and the practice of that right, one great object in the adoption of the constitution of the United States: and whereas from the first act of the first Congress to the present period, the government of the United States, adopted and sustained as they have been by public opinion, have adhered to the principle of protecting the agricultural, commercial and manufacturing industry of the people from the fatal effects of foreign competition: and whereas a very large proportion of the property of our citizens has been invested in those branches of industry in a confident reliance upon a continuation of that policy

Resolved, by this assembly, That we regard the policy of a protecting tariff, as the foundation of our prosperity and independence as a nation, and we should déprecate any indication on the part of the general government, that it can in any event be abandoned.

Resolved, That we have witnessed

with much anxiety the various propositions recently brought before Congress, designed to unsettle our legislation, and to reverse a policy which has contributed so much to the present happy and prosperous condition of our country.

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Resolved, That if any modification of the tariff be expedient, by reason of the approaching extinguishment of our national debt, that the same should be so arranged as to give effectual protection to every branch of national industry.

'Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives of this State in the Congress of the United States be, and they are hereby, desired to make all suitable and proper exertions to maintain the principle of protection in a form that shall be every way adequate to insure the safety and future prosperity of existing inter

ELECTIONS. - Official returns of the votes for governor : Mr Palmer, (anti-masonic) 15.258 Mr Allen, (national republican) 12,999 Mr Meech, (Jackson) 6,158

No choice. But the plurality system prevailing as to the council, the antimasonic ticket fully succeeded. Mr Palmer was elected Governor by joint ballot-for him 114, for Mr Allen 36, Mr

Meech 42, Mr Crafts 35-majority for
Palmer, one. Mr Smith, elected Speak-
er of the House of Representatives, and
all the rest of the officers appointed, are
anti-masons.

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RECEIPTS for the year ending Sep-
tember 30, 1831-
By balance in the Treasury
Six per cent on dividends of
Banks

Debts due to old State Bank
Direct tax

Total

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loan, September 30, 1831, was $36,267
40. The loans are mostly secured by
mortgages on real estate, of much great-
er value than the amount of the loan, or
additional names of undoubted responsi-
bility.
BANKS. It appears by the report of
the agent appointed to examine the
state of the several Banks in the State,
dated October 17, that the whole amount
of the capital stock paid in, is $511,640.
Deposites, $155,368 02. Bills in circu-
lation, $1,335,342 70. Notes discount-
ed, and due on book, $1,303,398 73.
Specie and bills of other banks on
hand, and deposites in other banks,
$762,472 06. Real estate held at cost,
$27,751 73.

STATE PRISON. The committee
appointed to settle with the Superinten-
dent of the State Prison, report, October
17, 1831, that the value of the personal
property belonging to the prison, manu-
factured goods and stock, and debts due,
amount to $30,378 65: that the claims
outstanding against the State, amount
to $14,730 64, leaving a balance of $15,-
748 01 in favor of the State. 143,000 yards
of cotton cloth were wove at the pris-
on the past year, being 17,000 more than
the product of the previous year's labor.
The superintendent has commenced the
experiment of manufacturing shoes.
He says, he has made a purchase of
leather, and commenced with ten con-
victs in the manufacture of men's coarse
shoes, of a fair quality, and from the
price that article bears in the large mar-
kets, the prospect is good that a profita-
ble business may be made of it, on a lim-
ited scale.' $211 40 has been received
from the committee of visiters the last
year. The amount produced by the la-
bor of the convicts has been sufficient to
defray the general expense of the prison
for the year, except the expenditures for
the new buildings.

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Expenditures.

To members of the General
Salaries of Judges
Assembly

Court orders for fees of wit-
nesses, jurors, &c.
Commissioners of deaf and dumb
Superintendent of the State

Prison

Amount applied to school funds
Other expenses

Total
Balance remaining

Total

$4,094

3,463

3,137

59,391

6,987

$77,072

$12,443
5,875

17,337

25 50

5,000

9,586

9,088

$62,879

14,193

$77,072

An act declaring that the statutes of
limitations are not to apply to any claim,
in offset, which existed at the time
or subsequently to the making of the
contract or contracts, in offset to which
said claims are pleaded.'

An act declaring that where a married
woman in this or any other State, whose
husband is under guardianship, is pos-
sessed in her right of any real estate in
this State, in common, she may join with
the guardian of her husband in making
partition thereof with the other tenants
in common. Such married woman and
guardian are authorized to execute and
receive the deed, &c, necessary in mak-
ing such partition.

An act giving powers to probate courts
on application, to authorize executors or
administrators to sell the real estate of
any person for the purpose of paying
debts and legacies, in preference to sell-
ing the personal estate, if it shall appear
to the court that creditors will not be in-
jured thereby. But this power is not
to be exercised to defeat any devise
of real estate, without the assent of the
devisee.

BANK FUND. - An act requiring ev-
ery banking corporation hereafter created
or re-chartered, to pay annually to the
treasurer of this State three fourths of one

per cent on its capital stock paid in, 'excepting therefrom such part as is held by the State,and at the same rate for the same time such corporation shall have been in operation, if less than one year,' until four and one half per cent upon the capital stock shall have been paid into the treasury. The fund thus created is to be called the bank fund, and to be appropriated to the payment of the debts of insolvent banks. The fund is to be invested in the same manner as the school fund. Three bank commissioners are to be elected whose duties are prescribed in the act. Of the three bank commissioners, one is elected by joint ballot of both houses of the legislature, and the other two by the corporations subject to the act. No stockholder can be elected a commissioner. No bank is to issue an amount of notes and bills exceeding three times its capital stock paid in, under penalty of being proceeded against as insolvent which is also to be done in case of the loss of half its capital on the suspension of specie payments for sixty days, on a refusal to permit an examination of its officers under oath. If any banking company shall, by its act of incorporation, make the private property of the stockholders liable to redeem its bills, it shall not be required to comply with the provisions of this act.

An act taxing at five per cent bank stock owned by any inhabitant of this State, in any bank out of this State, making the cwt. one hundred pounds in weighing all gross articles.

An act levying a tax of three cents on the dollar on the list of the polls and rateable estate of the inhabitants of this State for 1831, to be paid by June 1, 1832.

An act appropriating $50,000 for the purpose of paying the debenture of the

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Lieutenant Governor, Council, General Assembly, and contingent expenses, &c, &c, a sum not exceeding $20,000, for paying such demands against the State as may be allowed by the auditor of accounts, &c.

An act authorising the Governor to appoint commissioners of deeds, &c, in other States of the Union, who are to be sworn, and to give a bond for $500 for the faithful performance of their duties.

An act allowing the acknowledgment and proof of the execution of deeds in a foreign State or kingdom, before any minister, Chargé-des-affaires, or Consul of the United States, the chief magistrate of the city, or before a commissioner appointed by the State for that purpose.

An act to encourage the destruction of bears.

A resolution was passed instructing Senators and Representatives of the State in Congress to endeavor to procure an appropriation from the general government for the erection of a breakwater in Lake Champlain, opposite Burlington.

Seventeen acts were passed, laying taxes on towns, for the purpose of making and repairing roads and bridges: several acts relating to the subject of roads, ferries, &c.

Two rail road companies were incorporated with capitals of $1,300,000.

Three banking companies. were incorporated, whose capitals amount to $300,000.

Two manufacturing companies were incorporated.

Three companies were incorporated for the purpose of preventing and extinguishing fires.

An act restoring a person to the enjoyment of the privileges of which she had been deprived by a conviction of theft.

STATISTICS. TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 18:1.

Receipts.

Canals tolls, revenue, &c. $1,202,532

Principal and interest on bonds for lands of the gen

Principal and interest on do.

Principal of the loan of 1808

49,616

common school fund

Principal and interest on do.

of Literature fund

18,529

Tax on foreign insurance

Principal and interest on

loans to individuals

29,323

Capital

Bank notes in circulation
Profit and loss
Deposits to apply on debts
Dividends unpaid
State of New York depos
its

Deposite by the commissioners of the canal fund Individual deposits Corporations, private bank ers and brokers

Due from branch to parent banks

Special loans

$18,755,800 00 12,005,824 70 1,740,085 51 181,304 03 159,953 09

2,122,462 19 5,783,411 67

5,334,954 00

closed its annual labors on the 18th of April, 1832, after a session of one hundred and thirteen days, having passed upwards of three hundred and thirtyfive acts and nine resolves.

ture.

426,433 51 139,000 00

$46,661,5477 0

The number of banks in the State is 64.

SUPPORT OF THE POOR FOR 1831The abstracts show that 15,564 paupers have been relieved or supported during the year: Of this number 13,573 were county paupers, and 1990 town paupers. The whole expense of supporting all the paupers for the year, is $245,433 21.

There has been paid for the transportation of the paupers $4,042 13 cents; to superintendents, $7,481 05 cents; to overseers, $5,102 91 cents; justices, $1,627 03 cents; to keepers and officers, $17,545 06 cents; that the value of the labor of the paupers was $12,663 26 cents; the amount saved in consequence of labor of paupers, $17,546 74 cents; and that the average expense of supporting a pauper at a poor house is $33 28 cents per year, or 64 8-10 cents per

week.

There are 5221 acres of land attached

to the poor houses, and the total value of all the poor house establishments in the State is $830,350 46 cents; that 10,896

paupers have been received into the poor houses during the year; that there were born in the poor houses in the same time, 170; died during the year, 1157; bound out, 318; discharged, 5962; absconded, 545; total females in poor houses December 1, 1831, 2532; males, 2862 — total of both sexes 5554. That of those relieved during the year, there were 2795 foreigners, 410 lunatics, 224 idiots, and 30

An act to prevent the abatement of suits where corporations are parties, in case of their dissolution during the pendency of the suit. An act authorizing the

release of escheated lands to the heirs of the owner, upon payment of a certain part of the value into the State treasury.

An act allowing the superintendents of the poor to make such arrangements as they may deem equitable with the putative fathers of bastard children.

An act authorizing holders of bills of exchange and promisory notes to sue all rights and responsibilities of the parties the parties thereto in one action - the

as between each other not to be affected by the act.

An act prohibiting, under the penalty, the carrying on the business of an apothecary in the city of New York, after lege of Pharmacy, or some other medi1834, without a diploma from the colcal college, or a certificate from one of the medical societies of the State.

An act authorizing the appointment of measurers of grain in the city of New York.

keep an office for orders to measure The measurer general is to grain, and in case of a dispute as to the measurement, he is to determine it, and if the buyer or seller be dissatisfied as to any decision concerning the quality, he may appeal to three indifferent persons, whose decision shall be final.

The measurers are prohibited from dealing in grain, either as agents or otherwise, and returns are to be made annually to the legislature, of the quantity measured, the annual price, from where shipped and the amount of fees, &c.

A temporary act for a quarantine against the Asiatic cholera, or any other malignant disease.

Inspection laws relating to the inspec