"For the construction of an aqueduct with steel or timber trunk in place of the present double arch culvert for the passage of the waters of Oneida creek under the Erie canal at Durhamville, on the line between the counties of Madison and Oneida, according to plans and specifications therefor to be prepared by the state engineer and surveyor, sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid by the state treasurer, upon the warrant of the comptroller to the order of the superintendent of public works; no part of said money shall be available except for necessary advertising, engineering, surveys and the necessary plans until a contract or contracts in due form shall have been entered into between the state and some responsible person, firm or corporations for the completion of said work at a cost within the amount hereby appropriated; the above sum of sixty thousand dollars shall be refunded to the general fund by the canal fund from the appropriation made by chapter one hundred forty-seven, laws of nineteen hundred three, as soon as said appropriation shall become available, and the amount so refunded shall become a part of the general fund.”

Page 54. "For repairs to the public highway in the town of Fowler, Saint Lawrence county, along and near the Oswegatchie river in said town, two thousand dollars ($2,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

"For the construction of a breakwater in the Black river in the town of Crogan, Lewis county, at a point about two and one half miles east of the village of Carthage, for the protection of the so-called river road, and for the erection of a suitable guard rail along said road, and for repairing damage to said road resulting from the wash from said Black river, three thousand dollars ($3,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

"For lamps, and the care and maintenance of same, for lighting the east shore of Cayuga lake, between the high and low water mark on the easterly end of Long point and on the westerly end of Lake Ridge point, and for a new lamp in the lighthouse at Cayuga on said lake, two hundred ten dollars ($210), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

Page 55. “For the purpose of making a cut-off at the junction of the abandoned Chenango canal with Baldwin's creek in the village of Oxford, Chenango county, and restoring to its original channel the waters of said Baldwin's creek and conducting the same for a distance of about sixteen rods into the Chenango river and constructing a culvert in connection with said work, upon plans and specifications to be prepared by the state engineer and surveyor, four thousand dollars ($4,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

"For cleaning out and improving the state dam erected pursuant to chapter six hundred twenty-one, laws of eighteen hundred ninety-eight, at the junction of the streams known as the Basha's kill and the Pine kill, in the town of Mamakating, Sullivan county, and in improving the channel of the Basha's kill at said junction, five hundred dollars ($500), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

Page 56. For the purpose of removing dead and floating timber and cleaning and rendering safe Saranac lake and Oseetah lake between the state dam and Lake Flower, township twenty-four, Franklin county, fifteen thousand ($15,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

QUARANTINE

Page 57. "For the commissioners of quarantine, for deficiency in appropriation for care and maintenance, because of necessary repairs at Swinburne and Hoffman islands, two

thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

"For repairs to steamers of the health officer of the port of New York, which expense was necessarily incurred and paid on account of an emergency arising duly certified by the health officer of the port of New York and approved by the governor, attorney-general and comptroller, under the provisions of section eighty-three of the public health law, two thousand four hundred seven dollars ($2,407), or so much thereof as may be necessary.".

"For the payment of the following expenses of the health officer of the port of New York namely:

"For plumbing office, laboratory and houses, six hundred forty-four dollars and sixty-nine cents ($644.69).”

Page 58.

"For mason work for office, laboratory and houses, four hundred ninety-seven dollars and eighty-five cents ($497.85.)."

"For new heating apparatus for houses of deputy health officers, four hundred eighty-five dollars and fifty cents ($485.50)."

"For gas apparatus for the supply of illuminating gas for department, fifteen hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty cents ($1,588.80)."

MISCELLANEOUS

Page 69. "For the salary classification commission, for necessary disbursement of railway and hotel expenses, clerical and stenographer's services, six hundred dollars ($600), or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable by the treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller upon verified itemized accounts certified by the president of said commission, as re

quired from time to time for services rendered or disbursements incurred.”

Page 71. "To establish and equip a good roads school in the college of agriculture at Cornell university, and to provide for the instruction therein of highway commissioners, overseers of highways or other officers and persons in charge of the roads of the state, in the science of road making, ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

Page 72. "For the river improvement commission, ap-. pointed under chapter seven hundred thirty-four, laws of nineteen hundred four, fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

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For the board of port wardens of the port of New York, for services in assisting the board of alienists, appointed under chapter three hundred twenty-six, laws of nineteen hundred four, in the manner provided in said act, nine thousand dollars ($9,000), said port wardens to be paid out of said amount one thousand dollars each."

LEGISLATURE

Page 10. "For the clerks of the senate and assembly, for the use of the senate and assembly, for file boards, index clerk's books, committee books, stationery, printing, for revising the clerk's manual and books, and necessary law books for the use of the senate and assembly committees, as shall be authorized by the resolution of either house, fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary."

The above bill presented to me containing several items for the appropriation of money, I hereby, pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of article four of the Constitution, object to the above mentioned items thereof while approving the other portion of the bill. I do not approve such items, for

the reason that the expenditures thereby authorized are in my judgment unnecessary or inexpedient at this time. I hereby append this statement to said bill at the time of signing it." FRANK W. HIGGINS

Memorandum filed with Assembly bill number 2272 (Introductory No. 419), entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of government."

Statement of item of above entitled appropriation bill objected to and not approved by the Governor.

LUNACY COMMISSION

Page 78. "For the employment of clergymen at the Willard state hospital, one thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid under the direction of the state commission in lunacy."

The employment of clergymen at all the state hospitals is provided for out of the maintenance fund. There is no reason why one hospital should be specifically mentioned to the exclusion of all others in this regard.

FRANK W. HIGGINS

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