Carriage hire Books and stationery Revenue and postage stamps Newspapers PAUPER EXPENSES. Support of persons committed to State Reform School and to State Lunatic Hospitals, for $152 80 103 52 74 84 30 50 $7,269 64 QUARANTINE DEPARTMENT. Bargemen, cooks, washers, laborers, board of same, and board of physician $4,206 32 Repairs to buildings 3,428 29 Salaries of physicians, overseer, boat officer, and The income of the several institutions, the steamboat" Henry Morrison," pauper expenses and quarantine department, for the financial year 1870-71, has been as follows, viz.: — This sum has been paid into the city treasury. Also, $1,168.90 has been paid to the city treasurer by the commonwealth of Massachusetts on account of the House of Industry, making the income of that institution $25,943.48, and the total income derived from the several institutions, $114,145 21, being a decrease of $3,165.97 from the income of 1869–70. The House of Correction income was materially reduced by the fire which occurred at that institution on the twenty-fifth of February last. A comparison of the amount earned in February Adding to this amount the claims against March And Brooks & Lincoln which remain unpaid we have the sum of Add excess of earnings over ordinary expenditures Making the sum of $1,673 04 358 45 567 23 $5,598 72 140 50 $5,739 22 as the total excess of earnings over expenditures which would have been realized but for the fire. Comparison of the income of the financial years 1869–70 and 1870-71, showing the increase and decrease of the same. In addition to the above income, and not included in the comparison, there has been received from the Overseers of the Poor, the interest on the "Mason Fund " for payment of the salary of the chaplain at Deer Island, amounting to $529.31, |