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GOSHEN.
From the last estimate that I have been able
to make I think the average cost of paupers, for the year, was about 50
cents per week. Our poor house has been a great saving in two ways,
they are kept cheaper, and it has prevented some from applying for relief,
who otherwise would. It is more humane, for they are undoubtedly
better taken care of, than in the families of those who have heretofore
kept them, for it has generally been those who were needy themselves, who
would take them. [Letter from the supervisor of Goshen.]
MONTGOMERY.
We have no poor-house nor house of industry in this
town: The poor are kept by contract with different persons. We
have no doubt, but that much might b saved from the present plan, by the
erection of such houses, particularly in the price of boarding, making of
clothes, and bills of physicians. [Letter from the supervisor of
Montgomery.]
NEWBURGH.
This town owns a lot of ten acres and a half
of land, with a poor-house on the same, valued at $2,000. The
poor-house is under the management of a superintendent, and he receives
$50 per annum, for his services and there are at this time thirteen
paupers in the poor-house, being 11 males and 2 females. [Letter
from the supervisor of Newburgh]
By the report of the overseers of the poor of the town of
Newburgh, of monies received and expended from March 26, 1822, to
March 25, 1823, it appears, for victualing and clothing persons in the
alms-house, &c. was expended $427.40 -- for wood, $94 -- for keeping
poor-house, $50 -- physicians's bill, $45.04 -- total $616.44 -- nearly
$700 were expended for reliefs, and all other expenses. This last
amount includes costs, fees, funeral expenses, doctors' bills, &c.
NEW WINDSOR.
This town rents a house for $60 per annum,
and pays a keeper to take charge of the same at $120 per annum.
Eleven paupers are supported in the house, and six adults, and four
children, are supported out of the house. I would suggest the
propriety of having a county poor-house, which would in my opinion, lessen
the expense of pauperism. [Letter from the supervisor of New
Windsor.]
WARWICK.
The county of Orange, as well as some other
counties, labor under a grand disadvantage, in not being placed on the
same footing with the state of New-Jersey. Many of her citizens
remove into our state and pay taxes, or serve in an office one year, or
rent a tenement of the yearly value of $30, and return to New-Jersey,
where they become poor, and then are sent back to this state. There
are about twelve different ways, in which a settlement may be gained in
this state and not more than three or four in New-Jersey. Why are we
not placed on the same footing with that state? This is one of the
burthens we groan under. I am also of opinion that dissipation and
idleness occasion our heavy taxes; a grievance not easy to get rid
of. [Letter from the supervisor of Warwick.]
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