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At all events the experiment could be tried till a proper custodian establishment is provided. The experience thus gained will be also useful in determining the form which such new charity should take. Incidentally, it would keep more clearly and constantly before the minds of those engaged in the immediate work of training and instruction, the precise direction in which all their efforts should tend.

When the suggestion was made, on a former occasion, for an enlargement of the capacity of this asylum, plans and estimates were obtained. These warrant the statement that by the expenditure of $30,000, accommodations could be provided for eighty additional pupils. A part of this sum would be expended in enlarging one of the buildings in the rear of the main building. The remainder would he applied, either in adding a wing to the principal building or in erecting a new building of moderate size, at a short distance from it. In any event, these additions would be built in the most inexpensive manner.

The entire State appropriations for building purposes to the asylum, to this date, have been $86,000. Adding the proposed $30,000, and it will make a construction account of $116,000, for the accommodation of two hundred and twenty pupils; or, at the rate f $527 for each inmate. This would be an outlay scarcely exceeding half that of any similar institution in the State.

It only remains for me to say that the management of the institution seems to be entirely satisfactory to those most interested namely, the parents and friends of the pupils; and, furthermore that my assistants, in every department, by their fitness for their work and devotion to it, are deserving of full and hearty commendation at my hands.

H. B. WILBUR,
Superintendent.
SYRACUSE, Oct., 1870.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

ALLEN MUNROE, Treasurer of 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, 1870.

Dr.

Cr.

(Signed) ALLEN MUNROE.

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 be 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 by 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 community 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.