Excerpt from Auditor's Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Boston, and the County of Suffolk, for the Financial Year 1847-48: 1847, May 1, to 1 May, 1848 It will be seen that a large Expenditure has been incurred this year under the head of alien passen gers. This was on account of the great influx of Foreign Diseased Paupers, which at one time was so threatening to the general health of the City, and so alarming to the Citizens, as to make it necessary to provide for them a separate Establishment, out ofthe limits of the City -accordingly Two Hospitals were erected, and other comfortable arrangements were made for their accommodation at Deer Island. The Disbursements on this account have amounted to over Seventy-two thousand Dollars, while the re ceipts for Head money, which has been collected and paid into the City Treasury, under the State Law of 20th Aprgil, 1837, have been but about Fifty fioe thousand Dollars, leaving a deficiency of over Seventeen thousand Dollars. This Head money is a Tax of Two Dollars, levied by a Law of the Com monwealth, on every Foreigner arriving at this Port; - it has, usually been received into the City Trea sury, and once in every year has been paid over to the State Treasurer; but this year the amount re ceived has been retained by the City as an offset, as far as it will go, to the Expenditures incurred by the City on this account. At the last session of the Legislature the Law was changed so as to require the Governor to appoint a Special Agent for the State, who is hereafter to receive the Head Money and pay it over to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth, without having it pass through the City Treasury at all; meanwhile, the City is obliged to continue the Deer Island Establishment, the expenses of which for the coming year will probably be much increas ed, and the reimbursement of which will depend upon the action Of the Legislature. 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.