potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter. Dinner: Bread, butter, roast beef, mashed potatoes, beets, bread pudding. Supper: Bread, butter, toast to ailing ones, sauce to older inmates, tea with milk and sugar.

Tuesday. Breakfast: Bread, butter or syrup, toast, rolled oats with milk and sugar, coffee with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter. Dinner: Creamed codfish, stewed potatoes, beets, bread, butter, cornmeal mush. Supper: Bread and butter or bread and milk, toast to ailing ones, sauce to older inmates, tea with milk and sugar.

Wednesday.― Breakfast: Toast, bread, butter, coffee with milk and sugar, rolled oats with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter. Dinner: Corned beef hash, cabbage, bread, butter, rice pudding. Supper: Bread and butter or bread and milk, toast to ailing ones, sauce to older inmates, cake, tea with milk and sugar.

Thursday.— Breakfast: Bread, butter or syrup, toast, rolled oats, with milk and sugar, coffee with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter, Dinner: Roast beef, mashed potatoes, beets, bread, butter, boiled rice. Supper: Bread and butter or bread and milk, toast to ailing ones, sauce to older inmates, tea with milk and sugar.

Friday:- Breakfast: Bread and butter or syrup, toast, rolled oats with milk and sugar, coffee with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter. Dinner: Bean soup, stewed beef, bread, butter, cheese and crackers. Supper: Bread and butter or bread and milk, toast to ailing ones, sauce to older inmates, tea with milk and sugar.

Saturday. Breakfast: Bread, butter or syrup, toast, rolled oats with milk and sugar, coffee with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Lunch: Cookies or bread and butter. Dinner: New potatoes, roast beef, cabbage, bread, butter, rice pudding. Supper: Bread, butter, toast to ailing ones, tea with milk and sugar, sauce to older inmates, bread and milk.

Sunday. Breakfast: Bread, butter or syrup, toast, rolled oats with milk and sugar, coffee with milk and sugar, meat and potatoes to older inmates. Dinner: Corned beef hash, bread, butter,

chopped cabbage, water melon. Supper: Bread and milk or bread and butter, sauce to older inmates, toast to ailing ones, tea with milk or sugar. An egg or milk toast served to ailing ones at discretion.

The following appropriations are recommended for this institution:

1. For maintenance for the fiscal year beginning

October 1, 1911.

And..

$89,428 09

7,500 00

$96,928 09

The item of $7,500 is to make good the deficiency for clothing resulting from an opinion of the Attorney-General, which prohibits the rendering of bills to the counties for clothing in advance.

2. Replacing three of the old boilers by two of larger capacity and setting and connecting up the same with blowers....

The boilers it is proposed to replace are over thirty years old.

3. Improvements to steam heating system.

The present heating system was installed in this institution in 1854. This appropriation is to install a proper and an economical system.

4. Electric light plant.

This is to offset the annual expenditure of $2,100 a year for lighting the institution, which is paid the electric light company of Syracuse. It is believed that this will affect a great economy.

5. Repairs and equipment..

This is to keep up the institution generally. There are thirty buildings and the real estate valuation, including the buildings, is.....

6,000 00

2,000 06

8,000 00

6,000 00

$423,578 10

The following statement of the disposition of the appropriations for extraordinary repairs and improvements is brought up to the date of calculation, which is February 1, 1911; this having been done with a view to giving an exact knowledge that subsequent requirements might be more closely estimated:

Governor Hughes in his message to the Legislature of 1910 emphasized the urgent needs of the State charitable institutions and the necessity for making provision for the development of the new State institutions, including Letchworth Village. By the enactment of chapter 173 of the Laws of 1910 provision was made for: