the capitol any such book, on leaving a card for the same as required by the fourth rule, after being duly registered. The book must be returned on the same day on which it is taken. 11. No books belonging to the law library can be taken to the general library for perusal; nor are books, maps, engravings, or any other article belonging to the general library, to be taken to the law library for perusal or examination. 12. For the better preservation from injury of the more costly collections of engravings, and the rare works and maps belonging to the library, neither the librarian nor the assistant librarian shall exhibit them to any person other than those authorized to take books from the library, except on a written request from a member of the joint library committee of the senate and assembly, the speaker of the assembly, or one of the trustees or the secretary of the library. 13. Three days before the day fixed for the adjournment of any session of the legislature, or of the senate only, the librarian shall address a note to each member of the legislature or of the senate, as the case may be, having any book belonging to the library, requesting the return thereof within twenty-four hours. 14. After the expiration of said twenty-four hours, the librarian shall immediately make out a list of the members of each house who have omitted to return any books belonging to the library, specify. ing the volumes retained by each; and a list of those against whom any charges for injury to or loss of books exist, stating the amount of them; which list shall be alphabetically arranged according to the names of the respective members, and shall be certified to be cor rect. To the president of the senate the librarian shall forthwith denver the list relating to that body; and the list containing the names of the members of the assembly he shall forthwith deliver to the speaker; and upon each list shall be written a copy of the sec tion of the Revised Statutes in regard to this matter above set forth. 15. Twenty days before the opening of any annual session of the legislature, the librarian shall report in writing to the trustees the title of every book, map, chart, print, engraving or other article missing from the library since the catalogue of the previous year was made out, or, if no such catalogue has been made, then since the date of the said librarian's last annual report to the trustees; together with the name or names of the persons who appear, from the entries of the librarian, to have borrowed or detained the same, to the end that such list may be submitted to the legislature by the trusteca. 16. All penalties imposed under any of these rules may be remitted by the library committee, either wholly, or on such terms as they may deem proper. 19 FUNDS OF THE STATE. GENERAL FUND DEBT. The following are the items of the State debt, chargeable upon the General Fund Debt Sinking Fund: State Stocks, viz. : Amount issued on account of the Astor debt, per chapter 302, Laws of 1827, and chapter 86, Laws of 1832, redeemable at pleasure, 5 per cent (of which there is held by the Comptroller, in trust for the Bounty Debt Sinking Fund, the sum of $516,744.09, and in trust for the School and Literature Funds, $44,755.91).. Amount issued on account of the deficiency in the General Fund Debt Sinking Fund, per chapter 216, Laws of 1848, redeemable as follows, viz.: 5 per cent, July 1st, 1875.. 6 per cent, July 1st, 1878.. $900,000 00 $561,500 00 5 per cent, at pleasure.. 6 per cent, at pleasure... Comptroller's Bonds, viz. : 5 per cent issued, per Revised Statutes, in $25,330 94 287 82 Indian Annuities, viz.: The amount of Indian annuities, payable to sundry Indian tribes, under the several treaties with them, being $7,361.67, would require an investment at six per cent to provide that sum of.. Debt paying interest.. No paying interest Total debt...... CONTINGENT STATE DEBT. $122,694 87 $3.988, 526 40 51,500 00 $4,040,026 40 Amount of State stock issued and loaned to the Long Island Railroad Company, per chapter 193, Laws of 1840, redeemable August 1st, 1861, 6 per cent, which redemption is deferred to August, 1876, and the rate of interest reduced to five per cent, per chapter 36, Laws of 1858..... $68,000 00 SCHOOL FUND. Capital. The fund consists of the following items, viz.: 1,000 shares in the Manhattan Company 7 per cent Oswego City Bonds, issued in pursuance of chapter 500, Laws of 1867, and chapter 21, Laws of 50,000 04 1868, redeemable from January 1st, 1871, to January 1st, 1879 Bonds for lands.. Bonds for loans.. Mortgages for loans under the act of 1840, in charge of the Commissioners of the U. S. Deposit Fund Money in the treasury Revenue, viz. : $51,400 00 214,820 13 215,431 69 49.326 00 1,133,597 98 $2,915,633 04 Balance of revenue in the treasury on the 1st of October, 1869 $31,178 29 Amount received into the treasury during the year end ing 30th September, 1870... 109,321 79 Amount transferred from the General Fund, for interest on money in the treasury, during the year, per chapter 382 Laws of 1840. Amount transferred from U. S. Deposit Fund, being the appropriation from the income of that fund for dividends to common schools, etc...... 64,685 52 165,000 00 $370,185 60 Amount paid out of the treasury during the year ending 30th September, 1870.. 337,520 89 Balance in the treasury on the 30th September, 1870 .... $32,665 21 |