STOCK ON FARM.

Eleven horses, two yoke of oxen, two bulls, thirty-one cows, two heifers,

During the year services have been held in the chapel, by Rev. Mr. Miller, of the Presbyterian church, of Philadelphia, and Rev. Mr. Brown, of Utica, Rev. Dr. Ayrault, of the Episcopal church, of Oxford, N. Y., and Rev. Mr. Hayar, of Utica, Rev. Drs. Patton and Cory, of the Baptist, and Rev. Mr. Haitley, of the Reformed church of Utica. These gentlemen have kindly supplied the pulpit in place of the Chaplain, Rev. W. T. Gibson, D. D., in times of his absence. To Dr. Kempster, of the asylum staff, and Rev. Mr. Whitfield, of Utica, we are indebted for several magic lantern exhibitions.

Mr. Forrester, of Utica, and Mr. Meech, of Buffalo, with their respective dramatic companies, gave entertainments which afforded much pleasure to the patients. Mr. William Carr, of Scotland, gave two readings of choice selections, and Prof. S. A. Morse, of Salem, Mass., favored us with a lecture upon "Animals, how they walk." To all of these gentlemen we desire to express our thanks for the amusement and instruction which they afforded our household.

Mr. John E. Williams, of Aurora, N. Y., sent a quantity of grapes, which were distributed to the patients.

From the Messrs. Van Heusen, Charles & Co., of Albany,

the institution received a present of a stereopticon, and Miss D. L. Dix presented twenty-five stereoptic views.

To the Hon. Nelson K. Hopkins, Comptroller, and Hon. G. Hilton Scribner, Secretary of State, we acknowledge our indebtedness for packages of newspapers sent from their respective offices. These, with the exchanges we purchase from the Utica city papers, afford a large amount of newspaper reading.

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There has been no change in the officers during the year. desire to record their fidelity, and the fact that they have all zealously co-operated in carrying out such measures as have been necessary for the highest welfare of the patients and the best interests of the public.

The same attendants and employes, with few exceptions, remain in all chief places of responsibility, and have rendered willing and valuable services. It is highly important to the efficiency of an institution to retain in its service experienced employes, and in this respect this asylum has been very fortunate for many years. It has also furnished many trained persons for other institutions of the State.

I desire to thank you, gentlemen, for uniform personal courtesy, and the generous aid given me at all times in the conduct of the institution. I appreciate the great responsibility of the trust confided to me and need your counsel. Committing the institution with all its great interests to the merciful care of an overruling Providence, whose guidance in all our duties we reverently seek, we enter upon another year.

JOHN P. GRAY.

APPENDIX.

Reference to laws passed by the Legislature relative to insane persons:

Part 1, chapter 20, title 3, art. 1 of the Revised Statutes, "Of the safe keeping and care of lunatics."

Session Laws, 1842, chapter 135, "An act to organize the State Lunatic Asylum, and more effectually to provide for the care, maintenance, and recovery of the insane."

Session Laws, 1850, chapter 282, section 2, relating to sending indigent insane persons, not paupers, to the asylum.

Session Laws, 1851, chapter 446, amending the law respecting indigent insane persons.

"The county superintendents of the poor of any county, and any overseers of the poor of any town to which any person shall be chargeable, who shall be or become a lunatic, may send such person to the lunatic asylum by an order under their hands."

The order of a county judge secures the admission of indigent persons, not paupers; in which order it must be stated that the applicant became insane within one year prior to the date of the order. (Section 26 of act of 1842, and section 2 of chapter 282, Session Laws, 1850.)

The object of this humane provision is, undoubtedly, to extend the benefits of this institution to persons with limited means, whose insanity is of a recent date, and therefore probably curable, and, if recovered in the space of two years, restoring them to their families and their property unimpaired, and saving them from the paralyzing influence upon their future life of finding themselves, by the loss of health and reason, reduced to beg

Patients sent through this channel generally supply their own clothing and pay their own traveling expenses to and from the asylum.

Patients supported by their friends are received without any other paper than certificates from county or bank officers, or other prominent individuals, of the ability of those who become bound for their support in the asylum, to meet all expenses incurred.

The form of agreement entered into by the persons or sureties who become bound for the patient admitted, is as follows: "Whereas, in the county of

of the town of

an insane person, has been admitted as a patient into the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica; now, therefore, we, the undersigned, in consideration thereof, bind ourselves to Edmund A. Wetmore, treasurer of said asylum, to pay to him and his successors in office, the sum of dollars and

cents

per week for the care and board of said insane person so long as he shall continue in said asylum, with such other charges as may be occasioned by his requiring more than ordinary care and attention, and also to provide him with suitable clothing and pay for all such necessary articles of clothing as shall be procured for him by the steward of the asylum, and to remove him from the asylum whenever the room occupied by him shall be required for a class of patients having a preference by law, or whenever he shall be required to be removed by the managers or superintendent; and we also engage to pay all expenses incurred by the managers or superintendent in sending said patient to his friends in case one or either of us shall fail to remove said patient when required to do so as aforesaid; and if he shall be removed at the request of his friends before the expiration of six calendar months after reception, then we engage to pay board for twentysix weeks, unless he should be sooner cured, and also to pay, not exceeding fifty dollars, for all damages he may do to the furniture or other property of said asylum, and for reasonable charges in case of elopement, and funeral charges in case of death; such payment for board and clothing to be made semi-annually, on the first of February and August in each year, and at the time of removal, with interest on each bill, from and after the time it becomes due.

"In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our names, this the of, in the year 187-."

This agreement, or understanding, is generally signed by near relatives or other friends of the patient, or legal guardians, if any