[second series,] Dwight's signers of the declaration of Independence,. Artists and Literary and Scientific Men. .3 10 12 Heman's poetical works,. Pope, Young, Thomson, Cowper, Montgomery, Goldsmith, Gray, Campbell, Wordsworth, Coleridge, E. Scott, Rogers, Kirk White, Elliott,. Byron-selections from, . Burns-selections from,. Motherwell's poems, 50 .2 .2 .14 STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES AND RECEIPTS OF UNIVERSITY, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION (1837,) TO DECEMBER 31st, 1851, COMPILED FROM REPORT OF REGENTS. In the aggregate there has been expended as follows, viz: For Branches,. "Janitor,. "Printing,. 46 Secretary,. #6 Treasurer, "Librarian,. .$35,935 00 539 72 823 50 2,252 40 637 51 700 01 NOTE-In the above cost of the main University building first erected, under the superintendence of Harper Lum, is included the cost of woodhouse, and privies for Professor's dwellings, and five water cisterns; also, salary ($1,478 07) paid said Lum; also his traveling and extra incidental expenses, so that the actual cost of this main building alone, may be estimated at about $10,000. The appropriation for the main building last erected, under the superintendence of J. Kearsley, was $13,000, of which $244,75 was expended for fixtures, leaving the actual cost of this edifice, $12,755 25. In addition to the above sum of Is to be added expenditures for plans, interest on bonds, &c,. .$185,460 20 81,617 25 Agreeably to a communication of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, dated March 1, 1851, it appears that up to that period there has been sold, as follows: of university lands, acres, 21,366.31 $12,716 06 As it is believed the interest due from the State is exclusive of the $6,000 and charges, payable in New York annually, the resources of the university interest fund for educational pur poses may be safely estimated as above, with such gradual increase as may accrue from additional sales of land. By a report of the Commissioner of the State Land Office, dated July 11, 1850, it appears that 623.93 acres of land and 76 lots in Niles, were sold during the year ending June 1, 1850, for $10,682 47, the interest on which will accrue on the 1st of June, 1851, amounting to $747 77, which will make the university interest fund for the year ending June 30, 1851, $13,463 83, or after deducting interest due from Mr. Mann, (504,) the present annual interest may therefore be estimated at $12,959 83. The above statement includes the fiscal transactions of the Board of Regents up to July 15, 1851. By a supplemental statement, it appears that up to December 31, inclusive, when the term of the old Board expired, there had been expended as follows: According to the statement of the Board of Regents and Treasurer of the University, there were outstanding unpaid warrants, December 31, (inclusive,) 1851, the sum of a11,822 70. December 31, 1851. |