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The work was done under contract by Mr. John Moore, of Syracuse, and to the entire satisfaction of the board of trustees and the superintendent.

It is warmed by steam and provided with bath-rooms and other conveniences of the most approved construction. Everything in the workmanship is plain and substantial.

It was completed about the time of the commencement of our school year, and has been occupied long enough to test its convenience and the efficiency of its apparatus for warming and ventilation. Access to the new wing has been covered by an inclosed piazza.

As the buildings now stand, they will compare favorably with any that have been erected for a similar purpose, in everything essential.

The entire amount appropriated for buildings and furniture for the asylum, from its foundation, has been $121,000. Dividing this sum by the number of pupils it will accommodate, and we have a construction account of less than $550 to each inmate.

In opening the asylum to an increased number of pupils, the officers have intended to extend its benefits as widely as possible throughout the State. To this end a circular was prepared, stating the fact of the increase in its accommodations, and giving particulars of the mode of obtaining admission. Some seven or eight hundred of these circulars have been sent to the more remote portions of the State, and returns are beginning to be received in the form of applications.

There has been but little change during the past year in the corps of assistants of every grade, and I am gratified to be able to renew my expression of satisfaction with the fidelity and zeal they have shown in a work often demanding such qualities in a high degree.

H.B. WILBUR,
Superintendent.
SYRACUSE, October, 1872.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

ALLEN MUNROE, Treasurer of the New York Asylum for Idiots, in account current with the State of New York, for cash received and expended for the general supplies and the salaries and Wages of officers, teachers, attendants and servants of said asylum, during the year ending September 30, 1872:

DR.

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APPENDIX.

EXTRACT FROM THE BY-LAWS OF THE ASYLUM.

"The design and objects of the asylum, as established by the action of the Legislature, are not of a custodial character, but to furnish the means of education to that portion of the youth of the State not provided for in any of its other educational institutions. Those only will therefore he received into the asylum who are of a proper school-attending age, and for such periods of time as shall, in the estimation of the board of trustees, suffice to impart all the education practicable in each particular case, and in conformity with the regulations hereinafter specified.

"Children between the ages of seven and fourteen, who are idiotic, or so deficient in intelligence as to be incapable of being educated at any ordinary school, and who are not epileptic, insane or greatly deformed, may be admitted by the superintendent, with the advice and consent of the executive committee. Applications in behalf of others shall be referred to the action of the board of trustees.

"The parents or next friends of those in whose behalf applications are made for admission as pupils shall make answers in writing to such questions as the superintendent and committee shall prescribe. They shall, moreover, if of sufficient ability, engage to pay such reasonable sum for the education and support of the pupils, and to furnish them with such proper clothing while in the institution, as shall be stipulated by the superintendent, and they shall in all cases be bound to receive them back, when required, free of expense to the asylum. But no idiots shall be received into the asylum without there shall have been first lodged with the superintendent thereof a request to that effect, under the hand of the person in whose direction he is sent, stating the age and place of nativity, if known, of the idiot, his Christian and surname, the town or city and county in which they severally reside, the ability, or otherwise, of the idiot, his parents or guardians, to provide for his support in whole or in part; and if in part only, what part and degree of relationship, or other circumstances of connection between him and the person requesting his admission ; which statement shall be verified in writing by the oath of two disinterested persons, residents of the same county with the idiot, acquainted with the facts and circumstances so stated, and certified to be credible by the county judge of the same county. And no idiot shall be received into said asylum unless the county judge of the county liable for his support shall certify that such idiot is an eligible and proper candidate for admission to said asylum as aforesaid.