the exact fum which might be wanted for stock; and they were disposed to name a fum too little rather than too great. But, however strong their attachment to the public good, and to those principles of benevolence, which induced them to engage in fo arduous an undertaking, it cannot be expected that the Inspectors should continue to make further advances. The legiflature being now poffeffed of fufficient facts, by which to calculate with tolerable accuracy, the benefits to be derived from the establishment, and how far it may be maintained with advantage to the State, will, it is believed, grant a fufficient fum to pay the balance of the present year, and appropriate a fum, adequate to the purchase of a competent ftock, in raw materials, and for defraying other expenfes, beyond what the net profits of the labour of the convicts, for the current year, may be fufficient to difcharge. There will then remain at the commencement of the new year, a clear capital to this State of 20,679 dollars and 17 cents, in raw materials, tools, and manufactured goods on hand, befides houfhold furniture, fuel, oil, and other articles, amounting to the sum of 9,745 dollars and 69 cents.

The net profit of the labour of the convicts in the year 1799 and 1800, was 6,599 dollars and 70 cents, and in the year 1801, 7,941 dollars and 83 cents produced from a capital employed, not exceeding the amount of 20,000 dollars. This product, in the first three years of an establishment, in which the hands employed were ignorant and inexperienced, and therefore neceffarily lefs productive, will be regarded as no unfavourable refult. As the convicts have now become more skilful workmen, and can perform more labour, and to greater advantage than heretofore; as the cost of many articles of food will be diminished nearly one half, in confequence of the fall of the market, produced by the peace in Europe; and as feveral fources of expense arifing from inexperience in the first commencement of the business, will be diminished or dried up, there is reason to conclude, should the balance due the agent be now paid, that the profits of the labour of the convicts during the year 1802, may be rendered adequate to their maintenance.

The actual advance for the last three years, towards the maintenance &c. of the convicts, will ftand thus:

or 4866 dollars and 15 cents, a year. Should this fum be raised out of the

profits of the ensuing year, there will then remain only the annual expense of the falaries of the keepers, and of the external guard, to be paid out of the public treasury; as the actual cost of keeping and supporting all the convicts in this populous, flourishing, and extenfive State.

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Extracts from the Revised Laws. An ACT to prevent Forgery and Counterfeiting. Paffed 21ft March, 1801. E it enacted by the People of the State of NewYork, reprefented in Senate and Affembly, That if any person shall falfely make, alter, forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falfely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or willingly act or affift in the false making, altering, forging or counterfeiting any record, charter, deed or writing fealed, will, teftament, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promiffory note for payment of money, or any note or specialty for the payment of money, and expreffed to be payable. in any goods, wares or merchandizes, indorsement or affignment of any bill of exchange, or promiffory note for payment of money, or any acquittance or receipt either for money or goods, or any acceptance of any bill of exchange, or the number or principal sum of any accountable receipt for any note, bill or other security for payment of money, or any warrant or order for payment of money or delivery of goods, whether fuch order. purports to be the order of the owner of the goods or money specified therein, or of fome person who claims an interest in the fame, or of any other perfon, with intention to defraud any perfon, or body politic or corporate whatsoever, or fhall utter or publish as true, any false, altered, forged or counterfeit record, charter, deed or writing fealed, will, teftament, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promiffory note for payment of money, or any note or specialty for the payment of money, and expreffed to be payable in any goods, wares or merchandizes, indorsement or aflignment of any bill of exchange, or promiffory note for payment of money, acquittance or receipt either for money or goods, or any acceptance of any bill of exchange, or the number or principal fum of any accountable receipt for any note, bill or other fecurity for the payment of money, or any warrant or order for the payment. of money, or delivery of goods, whether fuch order purports to be the order of the owner of the goods or money fpecified there

in, or of fome perfon who claims an interest in the fame, or of any other perfon, with intention to defraud any perfon, or body politic or corporate whatsoever, knowing the fame to be falfe, altered, forged or counterfeited, then every fuch perfon being thereof convicted according to the due course of law, fhall be deemed guilty of felony.

II. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or be aiding or affifting in forging or counterfeiting, any certificate, or indorsement of the acknowledgment or proof of any deed or writing, made by any officer or other perfon duly authorised to make fuch certificate or indorsement, by any law of this state now or hereafter to be made, or the certificate or indorsement of the recording of any deed or writing made by the secretary of this ftate, or by the clerk of any county, duly authorised to make fuch certificate or indorfement, by any law of this ftate now or hereafter to be made, or shall knowingly utter any fuch forged or counterfeited certificate or indorsement as true, and be thereof convicted by due courfe of law, fhall be deemed guilty of felony.

III. And be it further enacted, That if any perfon fhall counterfeit, or cause or procure to be counterfeited, or aid or affift in counterfeiting any certificate, or other public fecurity iffued or to be issued by the authority of this ftate for payment of money, or acknowledging the receipt of money or goods, or any bill of credit heretofore iffued by or under the authority of the legislature of this ftate, or fhall alter any fuch certificate or bill of credit, fo that the fame fhall appear to be of greater value than the fame was or fhall be iffued for, or intended to pafs for, by the act in pursuance of which the fame was or fhall be iffued, or shall utter, pass or give in payment, or offer to pafs or give in payment, or procure to be uttered, paffed or given in payment, any fuch counterfeited or altered certificate or bill of credit, knowing the fame to be counterfeited or altered, then every fuch perfon being thereof convicted by due courfe of law fhall be deemed guilty of felony.

IV. And be it further enacted, That in all cafes where any fuch certificate or bill of credit fhall be charged to have been altered, and it shall appear to have been altered, the fame shall be prefumed to have been altered from a lefs to a greater value, fum or denomination, and the burthen of proving that the certificate or bill of credit charged to have been altered, was not altered from a lefs to a greater fum fhall be on the defendant charged with altering the fame.

V. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall counterfeit, or caufe or procure to be counterfeited, or aid or affift in counterfeiting any of the fpecies of gold or filver coins now current, or hereafter to be current in this ftate, or shall pafs or give in payment, or offer to pass or give in payment the fame, knowing the fame to be counterfeit, then every fuch perfon being thereof convicted according to the due course of law shall be deemed guilty of felony.

An ACT declaring the Crimes punishable with Death or with Imprisonment in the State Prison.

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Paffed 21ft March, 1801.

E it enacted by the People of the State of NewYork, reprefented in Senate and Affembly, That every person who shall hereafter be duly convicted or attainted of any manner of treason against the people of this state, or of any kind of murder, or of aiding or abetting or procuring any kind of murder to be committed, fhall fuffer death for the fame, and be hanged by the neck until such person shall be dead.

II. And be it further enacted, That every perfon who fhall hereafter be duly convicted or attainted of any manner of rape, or of the deteftable and abominable crime against nature committed with mankind or beast, or of burglary, or of feloniously breaking into or taking any goods or chattels from any dwelling-house, any perfon being therein and put in fear, or of robbing any dwelling house, any perfon being therein, or of robbing

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any perfon in any place whatsoever, or of wilfully burning any dwelling houfe or any barn, or of any offence specified in the act, entitled An act to prevent forgery and counterfeiting, or of any offence specified in the act, entitled An act to prevent malicious maiming; and every person who fhall aid, abet, affift, counsel, hire or command any person to commit any of the faid offences, and be thereof duly convicted or attainted, fhall be punished with imprisonment for life in the ftate prison; and the justices who fhall give judgment in any such case, fhall upon confideration of all the circumftances thereof, adjudge the offender to imprisonment only, or to be kept in the faid prifon at hard labour or in folitude, or both.

III. And be it further enacted, That if any perfon fhall be indicted of felony, for stealing of any goods or chattels in any county of this ftate, and thereof be convicted or attainted; if it fhall appear upon evidence, and be found by the jury, that the faid goods or chattels were taken by robbery or burglary, or in any other manner, in any other county, whereof if fuch perfon had been convicted by a jury of fuch other county, fuch perfon would by law be liable to imprisonment in the said prifon for life, at hard labour or in folitude, or both; then and in every fuch cafe, judgment fhall be given that the faid offender be imprifoned in the faid prison for life, at hard labour or in folitude, or both.

IV. And be it further enacted, That every perfon who fhall hereafter be duly convicted or attainted of any felony, other than fuch as are herein before enumerated and directed to be otherwife punished, and above the degree of petit larceny, and every person who fhall aid, abet, affift, hire or command any perfon to commit any fuch felony, and be thereof duly convicted or attainted, shall be adjudged by the juftices who fhall give judgment thereupon, on a confideration of all the circumftances of the cafe, to imprisonment in the faid prison at hard labour, or in folitude, or to imprisonment only, or to all or either of them, for any term not more than fourteen years. And further, That every perfon who fhall be a