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Ordered that fifty deal Boards shal be sent pr. the first sloop to Mr. Henry Vernon.
Ordered that an ordinance be made and publishd to prevent the unrulely Rideing with horse, waggon cart or sled through the streets of this city on penalty of six shillings for ye behoof of the sherrif.
By the Worshipfull Mayor, Aldermen and Comonality of the City of Albany.
An Ordinance.
Whereas severall persons within the city & county of Albany do presume to ride with horses carts and sleds in ye streets of the said city very fast and unrulely which is very dangerous, for preventing whereof it is hereby or- daind publishd & declard that from and after the publica- tion hereof no person or persons whatsoever shall ride or drive any horse or horses with sled, waggon or cart or otherwise in ye streets lanes or alleys of the sd city faster
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then on a step or very moderate trot on penalty of forfiet- ing for every such offence the sume of six shillings to be pd by the owner or driver of such horse, sled, wag- gon or cart that shall transgress, for the behoof of the sherrif who is to sue for the same. Given in Albany, this 9th day of February in ye eleventh year of his maj'es Reign, Ao. Do. 172%.
Att a Comon Councill held in the City hall of Albany the 15th day of May 1725.
It is ordered by the. Comonality that Johannis Ten Broeck Esq. shall be paid the sum of three pound ten shillings for one hundred Deal Boards sent unto Henry Vernon Esq'r (by Jan van Ness) by order of the Comon- ality, wherein the freight is included. Its Resolved yt an order be drawn on Barent Sanders Esq. for the payment of the sd sume.
Att a Comon Councill held in ye City hall of Albany this 22th day of June 1725.
Resolved by the Comonality that two block houses to be built by the city in the first and second ward are to be lett to any person who will undertake the same for the lowest price, and is to be cryed round the city on Wednesday Thursday & Saturday, to be agreed for at the City hall of the said city on Munday ye 28th Instant at two a clock in afternoon.
Att a Comon Councill held in ye City hall of Albany the 30th day of June 1725.
The Comonality have this day agreed with Thomas Davis to build erect, & compleatly finish the two block houses to be built by the Inhabitants of the city of Al- bany in the first & second ward of ye sd city according to the directions of an act of Gen'l Assembly of the Colony of N. York Entitled an act for fortifying the city of Al- bany and of such dementions as is mentioned in the bonds of performence, for which he is to have the sume of Sixty Pounds in money and five pound in wheat, the first pay-
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ment when the work is compleatly finished and ye second payment the next winter, for the performence of ye sd work is to be the first of October next, ye sd Davis has given bonds in ye penalty of £200.
Att a Comon Councill held in the City hall of Albany y" 18th day of August 1725.
Whereas the Mayor, Aldermen & Comonality now con- vened considering for raising money to defray the charges for building the two block houses to be built by the in- habitants of this city this year and having perused & read the act of Gen'l Assembly of the Colony of N. York, pub- lished in July 1724 Entitled an act to enable the mayor, aldermen and comonality of the city of Albany to defray the publick and necessary charges of the sd city, whereby they were enabled to levy on the estates real and personal of all the freeholders inhabit's and sojourners of the sd city of Albany such sum & sums of money not exceeding £60: w'h sd act is expird by its own limitation, and it being ab- solutely necessary the money agreed for to build the sd two block houses be raisd & levied on ye freeholders & inhabit's of' ye sd city & also for those two to be built the next year, It is therefore resolved that the members of this city be desird to procure an act of Gen'l Assembly to enable ye mayor aldermen & comonalty of the sd city for raising & levying as aforesd the sum of £65, this year, and ye like sume of £65 the next year to be employed for ye erecting and compleatly finishing ye sd four block houses.
Orderd that the Clerk send a copy of this minute to Jno. Cuyler Esq. one of ye members lately gone to N. Y'k to attend ye Gen'l Assembly, That the charges for pro- curing ye sd act shall be pd by this Corporation.
Albany ye 29th September 1725.
This day being appointed by the Charter of the city of Albany for the aldermen of the said city to make Return of the aldermen, assistants & constable of the respective wards of the sd city to serve for the ensuing year, vizt:
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First Ward.
Aldermen. Assistants.
Johan's Ten Broeck Thobias Ryckman
John D'Peyster Jeremiah Schuyler William Cranny, Constable. Second Ward.
Hendrik Roseboom Johan's Roseboom Jun'r
Barent Sanders Joh's Bleecker Jun'r
Jeremy Pamerton, Constable. Third Ward.
Johannis Pruyn Barent Bradt
Dirk Ten Broek Isaac Fonda Abraham Bogaert, Constable.
Barent Bradt is choisen City Chamberlaine.
Adam Conde choisen High Constable.
Att a Comon Councill held in the City of Albany this 4th day of October 1725.
This day allowd & approvd the following accounts & issued a warrent to the Treasurer for the payment thereof being Eighty pound four shillings.
Maria van Rensselaer
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£10:
Jacob Eghmont
13:10
John Brumley -
13:10
Augustinus Turk
7:10
Philip Livingston
15:18
Dirk Bradt
4:16
Harmanus Wendell
10:
Ragel Radlif
5:
£80:04
Albany 14th October 1725.
This being the day appointed by the Charter of the city of Albany for the aldermen, assistants and consta- bles of ye sd city to be sworn who are as follows, vizt: Aldermen-Johan's Pruyn, Hend'k Roseboom, Johan's Ten Broeck, John D'Peyster.
Assistants-Tobias Ryckman, Johan's Roseboom Ju'r, John Bleecker Jun'r, Barent Bratt, Isaac Fonda.
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Constable Wm. Kranny, first ward, Jeremy Pamerton 2d ward, made choice of Adam Conde for High Constable.
Att a Comon Councill held in the City hall of Albany the 9th day of November 1725-Present, Johan's Cuyler Esq'r, Mayor, Rutger Bleecker, Esq'r, Recorder, Johannis Pruyn, Hend'k Roseboom, Barent Sanders, Johan's Ten Broeck, Dirck Ten Broeck, Esq's, alder- men ; Joh's Roseboom Jun'r, Joh's Bleecker Jun'r, Tobias Ryckman, assistants.
The said mayor, recorder, Thomas Williams Esq, sheriff, the aldermen and assistants here mentiond took the oaths appointed by act of parliament to be taken by all persons officiating in any publick office, and then the sd mayor, recorder, sherriff, Barent Sanders & Dirck Ten Broeck, two of the aldermen, took their Corp'lt oaths for the due performing of their respective offices.
Att a Comon Councill held in the City hall of Albany this 15th day of November 1725.
The Comonality have this day appointed the following Persons to be fire masters for the year ensueing:
First Ward.
Jan Oothout Joh's van Der Heyden. Second Ward.
Christopel Yetts Benjamin Eghberts.
Third Ward.
John Dunbar Johannis Evertse.
Capt. Henry Holland appearing in Comon Councill desires to have ye liberty and use of a block house for one of his men to life in. Its Resolved that he may have that liberty of the Block house at the Luthren Church till pmo. May next, and that the other new block houses shall be Lockd and stand for the use of the city on occa- sions, as also the other block houses after pmo. May next.
It is Resolved that an ordinance be drawn & publishd for regulating the Carmen within this city.
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Att a Comon Councill held in the City hall of Albany this 28th day of February, 1725.
This day was read the following Petition from Seven of the Tenants of Schaahcook deliverd in to the Comon Council in the year 1719, which is as follows:
To the mayor, recorder, aldermen & assistants of the City of Albany in Comon Council conveend.
The Humble Petition of Johan's Knickerbacker, Jo- hannis Dewandlaer, Dirck van Veghten, Lowis Viele, Corsett Vedder, Marte Dellemont and Peter Winne,
Humbly Sheweth, That whereas your Petitioners by Indenture from this Corporation have purchased & are severally become seized of certain tracts of land at Schaahkook for which they are each obligd to pay for ever the yearly rent of thirty seven & a half bushels of wheat, with this condition, if hinderd in their sd posses- sions and settlements the time so hindred to be allow'd them after September one thousand seven hundred & fourteen without paying any acknowledgment for that time, and whereas your Petitioners having been hinderd from improving their settlements, . Wherefore your Petitioners Humbly begg this worship- ful Comon Council, will be pleased to allow and abate unto them one half years 'acknowledgment for the above hindrance which if your worships will be pleased to grant, Your Petitioners shall never thereafter make any further Pretence for any abatement of Rent for hindrance in their settlements before the date hereof, and your Petitioners as in duty bound shall always pray.
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Sign'd I: k: Backer. PL Dit is het + mark van marten
Dirck + van veghte
merck Dellemont met ygen hant gest corset vedder.
Johannis D Wandlaer
It is Resolved that each of the sd Petitioners is hereby abated the one half of the sd fourth years Rent which was due in January or February one thousand seven hundred & eighteen & nineteen, being eighteen bushels of wheat & three quarters of a bushel to each of them, it appearing
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that the same hath been promised by the then Comon Counil, but do not find it enterd. Be it therefore orderd that the City Treasurer give credit for the same.
Mary widow of Johannis Bradt deceased, having pro- ducd her certain Indenture from Joha's Hallenbeeck for one farm of land at Schaahkook, which on the third of September one thousand seven hundred & fourteen was granted by the mayor, recorder, aldermen and assistants to Mr. Philip Livingston. containing thirty five morgans for the yearly Rent of forty five bushels of wheat, the first payment thereof was due in January or February one thousand seven hundred and twenty & twenty one, being now six years whereof remains due by ballance of the City Book one hundred and seventy seven bushels of wheat. She now desires abatement of fifteen bushels of wheat yearly & so yearly for ever.
The mayer, recorder, aldermen & comonality taking the said request under consideration, have examin'd the rent of the first seven farms of land at Schaahkook con- taining each thirty morgan, do find that they have been lett out in one thousand seven hundred and eight for forty five bushels of wheat yearly, & that by the new Inden- tures made in one thousand seven hundred and nine it is stated for thirty seven and one half bushels of wheat for each farm yearly for ever.
It is therefore Resolved Nemine Contradicente that if payment be made of one hundred thirty & two bushels of wheat by the said Mary Bratt or any body for her on or before pmo. May next that the comonality will then abate the remaining forty five bushels of wheat in full of the said six years & not otherwise & no further.
This day the mayor & comon council have agreed with Mr. Harmanus Wendell for the rent of the house of Ro- bert van Deusen for the use of Mr. Johannis Glandoorf where he now lives within this city for two years, com- mencing the first day of May next to the first day of May one thousand seven hundred twenty and eight, at seven pound ten shillings per annum.
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Att a Comon Council held in ye City hall of Albany this 15th day of March 1725.
Whereas the Tenants in Schaahkook who are in arrear have been served wt a writing fix'd upon their meeting house by order of the mayor & comon council to come & settle accounts and pay the arrearage of their Rent by this present fifteenth day of March & not having appeard according to ye directions of sd writing,
It is therefore Resolved nemine contradicente that if the sd Tenants shall not come in within the space of eight days & give satisfaction to the mayor & comon council for the arrearage of their rent that an execution shall be issued out to distrain their goods and chattels for pay- ment of sd arrearages according to the directions of their respective Indentures, and that the Tennants shall be served with a copy of this Resolution.
This day sold to Jacob Egmont a certain corner lott of ground, scituate lying and being in the plain on the south side of this city fronting on the south opposite the pas- ture ground of Johannis Mingael four rod distance be- tween the lott of Johannis Mingael and the sd corner lott in length south and north one hundred & five foot wood measure and in breadth before & behind thirty five foot of like measure, bounded on ye west by ye street yt leads south towards Dirckie Widow Hallenbeck, having to the east and to the north the city ground, for the sum of thirty pounds currant money of N. York, twenty pounds thereof to be pd on or before the twenty ninth day of Sept'r next ensueing & the remaining ten pounds on or before the twenty ninth of Sept'r which will be in ye year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty eight.
Resolved that the mayor in behalf of the comonality sign a release for ye sd corner lott of ground & that ye same shall be recorded in the publick Records, the sd Jacob Eghmont giving bonds for the payments as before expressed.
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Att a Comon Council held in ye City hall of Albany this 19th day of March 1725.
By the Worshipfull Mayor, Aldermen & Comonalty of the City of Albany.
An Ordinance.
Whereas the water in weat Seasons of the year comes down the hill which lyes to the west side of this city in the second ward forces through several lots of ground from opposite the north part of Johannis Roseboom to the foxes Creek beyond the lott of Abraham Lansingh, for preventing whereof It is Resolved by the said mayor, aldermen & comonality of the sd city that it shall be or- daind publishd & declard and it is hereby ordaind pub- lishd and declard that ye earth shall be taken of slenting with a descent of one rod & half Rynland measure from the said lotts and houses fronting the hill that the water may vent itself into the foxes creek which is to be done by the Inhabitants or owners of the sd houses & lotts of ground on or before pmo. June next, on penalty of thirty shillings for each default.
Be it further ordaind by the authority aforesd that the water which forces from the said hill against the pave- ments of the houses from the north side of the house and lott of Johannis Roseboom & the south side of the house of John Lansingh shall lead along the pavements which lyes before the said houses that the water may vent it- self into the middle of the Rum street, which is to be done by the owners or tenants of the houses & lotts front- ing the said Pavements who are to cause the earth to be dugg up carryd away & fill up the ground where it is or shall be required and directed at or before pmo. May next on penalty of thirty shillings.
And whereas the Lane between the second & third ward in this city is very much out of repair, and it being necessary and needful for the ease of the inhabitants within sd city that the same be regularly mended & repaird
Be it therefore ordaind publishd & declard that the sd Lane shall be sufficiently mended & Repaired at ye charge of the owners or tenants whose lotts, houses or stables
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front the sd Lane and in such manner as mayor, recorder aldermen & assistants of the wards or the major part of them shall order and direct, so as the same be compleatly finishd at or before pmo. August next ensueing on penalty of thirty shillings.
And whereas the water cant have its course and vent to the Brewer street from the west end of the Lane be- tween the houses & lotts of Jacob Lansingh & Jacob Vis- ger, being their pavements are laid too high which pre- vents the same,
Be it therefore further ordaind publishd and declard by the authority aforesd that sd Lansingh & Visger shall at or before ye first day of April next take up stone & earth each the breadth of one foot in the midle of their Pave- ments that the water may have its free course into the Brewers street, and hereafter , lay their Pavements as shall be directed on penalty of thirty shillings.
Be it further ordaind by the authority aforesaid that the Lane in the said second & third ward from the cor- ner of the house of Schiboleth Bogardus & from the south corner of the lott of Jacob Visger to the north end of the lotts of Hester Dirckse & yt lately belonging to Harmanus Wendell shall be well pavd at the charge of ye owners or tenants fronting the houses and lotts, and that in such manner that the water may vent one half to the south & the other to the north as shall be ordered & directed by the mayor, recorder, aldermen & assistants of she sd wards or ye major part of them, so as the same be com- pleatly made and finishd at or before pmo, August next ensueing, on penalty of thirty shillings for each default, to be paid by ye owners or person who refuses or delays to repair & mend as aforesaid for the behoof and to be recovered as aforesd.
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BARLEY TRADE OF ALBANY.
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Albany continues to be the largest barley market in the United States. Yet the figures for that trade from which most of the beer producing cities on the Hudson river and on the Atlantic states draw their supplies of either barley or malt, do not show that the article of beer is consumed to so great an extent in proportion to the population, as it is in England, where the duty paid annually on malt covers an aggregate of 36,000,000 of bushels.
Still the trade is increasing, as the following figures of the receipts of barley by canal at tide water during the following years show :
Bushels.
Bushels.
1844, .
813,542
1851,
1,809,417
1845, .
1,152,297
1852,
2,273,367
1846,.
1,391,968
1853, 2,518,941
1847,
1,523,020
1854,
1,895,208
1848,
1,548,197
1855, 1,674,457
1849,
1,400,194
1856,
2,030,000
1850,
1,744,867
The receipts of 1856 are only exceeded by those of 1852 and 1853, and probably not much exceeded by those years if the deliveries from the Central rail road, which are annually on the increase, could be obtained.
Within twelve years the receipts have increased near- ly 200 per cent, and the business has increased in this city in greater proportion; in 1843 and 1844 we find the busi- ness done in barley was reported not over 50,000 bushels per week. Now it is not uncommon to report a daily business of 40,000 to 50,000 bushels.
Barley, consequent upon the increased demand and the high figures in the western markets, which have not [ Annals, viii.] 28
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only retained their own growth of barley at home, but have drawn that article hence to a large extent, has ruled high, in comparison with other coarse grains, and has been maintained at a very uniform price. The sales of barley reported during the season are only 1,682,400 bushels, which is far under the deliveries by canal, to say nothing of what has been delivered from the Central road. This is to be explained by the contracts which are made every season, covering large parcels, the par- ticulars of which are not allowed to get into print, and shipments to Troy, &c.
Of the quantity sold 895,300 bushels is four rowed, 604,500 is two rowed, 123,800 bushels is Canadian, and 59,200 is mixed. The average value of the sales of four rowed may be put at 126}c., of two rowed at 1222c., of Canadian at 127¿c. and of mixed at 118c. The aggre- gate quantity and value of the reported sales may thus be stated :
Bushels.
Value.
Four rowed
895,300
$1,126,155
Two rowed
604,500
740,364
Canadian
123,800
158,092
Mixed
59,200
72,355
Total
1,682,800
$2,096,966
Making an average of a small fraction under 125c. per bushel.
The highest figure paid for four rowed was 132 in September; for Jefferson county (two rowed) 126, 128 and 133 was paid, and it is the large sales during the season of this description of barley that brings the aver- age of two rowed barley up to 122}; the highest figure paid for Canadian barley was 132 in November.
The greatest quantity of two rowed barley sold at one price was at 125c. at which sales of 80,500 bushels were reported. Of Canadian more than one third of the whole quantity reported sold was at 130c. the sales at that fig- ure reaching 52,500 bushels. Of four rowed 145,200 bushels were reported at 126c. and 142,100 bushels at
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126}, being more than one third the whole quantity re- ported at 125 a 126}.
The quality of the barley sent forward this season is much better than that of last. excepting Lower Canada which was much grown and stained. The great bulk of the two rowed, excepting that of Jefferson county and some samples of Madison and Onondaga, has been much neglected owing to the bad condition in which it came forward; indeed, if we except Jefferson county, and one or two sales reported of Onondaga, there has been a very wide difference between the price of two and four rowed.
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CHARITABLE AND CRIMINAL IN- STITUTIONS.
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In the legislative session of 1856, the senate appointed a select committee to visit all charitable institutions supported by the state, and all city and county poor and work houses and jails. The committee reported to the next legislature, and such parts of the report as relate to the institutions belonging to the city of 'Albany, are as follows:
STATE IDIOT ASYLUM.
The asylum for idiots was established, and commenced receiving pupils in 1851. It was first opened and placed under the direction of a board of trustees appointed by the state, a few miles north of the city of Albany, where it continued till August, 1855. The success of the un- dertaking being established larger accommodations were required, and it was determined to erect suitable build- ings in a more favorable location. The citizens of Syra- cuse having offered to contribute a sum nearly sufficient, to purchase suitable grounds near that city, eighteen acres of productive land were bought for the site of the new asylum, and in September, 1854, the corner stone of the new edifice was laid. The building was completed in August, 1855, and the pupils removed to it in the fol- lowing month.
ALBANY CITY AND COUNTY POOR HOUSE.
This establishment located at the city of Albany, em- braces four buildings constructed of brick, two stories in height above the basements, one in size 40 x 70 feet and two others 32 x 90 feet, connected with a farm of
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216 acres, yielding an annual revenue estimated at $6,- 000.00. The basements of one building are used for domestic purposes, the others are unoccupied. In the poor house proper are 10 rooms, warmed by furnaces and stoves, but with very little ventilation. This building was erected 34 years ago. From six to forty paupers are placed in a single room.
The number of inmates was 319, 120 males and 299 females. Of these three-fourths are foreign born, and eighty are under six years of age. The sexes are kept separate, only meeting at their meals, which are eaten in the same mess-room.
The average number of inmates is 350, and the keeper reports that the number is declining, and states as causes of such decline, a reduction in the amount of emigration and the improved system adopted by the commissioners of emigration in forwarding emigrants to their detestina- tions. They are supported at an average weekly cost of ninety cents, exclusive of the products of the farm. As is common, the paupers who are able are employed on the farm and about the house. Once during the past ·year the supervisors have visited and inspected the house, in a body. It is supplied with Bibles, and the city mis- sionary preaches once or twice each Sabbath. A teacher is employed in the house during the whole year, who teaches the common English branches to an average number of about fifty children. On arriving at proper age they are bound out to various trades and employ- ments, by the overseer of the poor of the city. The com- mon council of Albany, impose rules and regulations for the government of the house, and under their direction supplies are furnished. The fare of the paupers is plain and wholesome. To attend the paupers, a physician is employed at an annual salary of $800. He is assisted by two resident medical students, who are boarded for their services. The physician visits once each day and the students twice. For bathing, two bath rooms are furnished in the insane asylum and two in the fever hospital. During the past year, have occured in the
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house thirty-two births and seventy-one deaths. The keeper thinks twenty-five of these births were illegitimate offspring. During the same time the inmates have suf- fered from small pox, typhoid fever and dysentery. They have a good pest or fever house, constructed of brick twenty-four by one hundred feet and two stories high above the basements. It is heated by furnaces, and is quite well ventilated by numerous openings into a hollow wall. It embraces four wards, with capacity for one hundred beds. There are now in the hospital thirty- two sick; only two cases of fever, the residue chronic cases.
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