Excerpt from Second Annual Report of the Governors of the Alms House, New York, for the Year 1850 That since their said report, the duty of erecting additional buildings, and of improving and repairing those under their charge, already erected, as well as the duty of improving the grounds of the different institutions under their control, has, by law, also devolved upon the Governors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.