Report of Commissioners appointed at the last session of the Board of last year presented and read by the Supervisor of Pleasant Valley.

   The Committee appointed at the last annual session of the Board of Supervisors to settle all matters and accounts with the Alms House Commissioners of the city of Poughkeepsie, in regard to the division and support of the paupers, respectfully report, that on the 1st day of April last they leased the present property to the city of Poughkeepsie, occupied as an alms house, for the term of seven months, at the sum of seven hundred dollars, to be paid by the whole county.  And we further report, that we received notice from the committee appointed by the Legislature, that they should remove their paupers on the 3d of October to the new county buildings; and that we did in September call on Messrs. Gillespie and Miller, of Orange County, who appraised the personal property at $6,779.80 cents; and that the city received of the same $1,951.09, which is $771.67 cts more than their share.  And we further report, that Messrs. Gillespie and Miller divided the paupers and have transmitted a report of the same to Mr. Jacob B. Jewett, Chariman of the Alms House Commissioners of the city, of which the following is the same.  And we further report, that the growing crops on the ground at the time of the apraisal were divided equally between the city and county, in consideration of which divison the City agreed to release one hundred dollars on the lease of April 1st.  And we further report that the amount due from the City to the County cannot be arrived at until the acounts of the Superintendent are adopted by the present Board.  All of which respectfully submitted.

	V. M. TOWNSEND
Signed,	A. J. HERMANCE	Committee
	TUNIS BERRY

  Report of Commissioners Gillespie and Miller presented by Mr. Townsend and ordered printed in the minutes,

   We, the undersigned appraisers appointed under the act, entitled, "an act for the better support of the poor in the City of Poughkeepsie, in the County of Dutchess" Report that we have estimated the number of paupers in the Dutchess County Poor House, on the 1st day of November 1863 to have been two hundred and seven (207).  That we also found thirty Children in the Home for the Friendless chargeable to the said County at that date, and thirty lunatics or insane persons at the State Lunatic Asylum at Utica, making a total of 267 persons chargeable to said County at that date, in the institutions above named.  Of which number 82 are males, 100 females, and 85 are children.  Sixty-Two of this number are insane or idiots.

   We have set apart forty-six (46) as the proportion of the City of Poughkeepsie, as follows, to wit:

		Previous			Previous
Men	Age	Residence	Men	Age	Residence
Jacob Ferris	69	City	John Morgan	60	City
James Ward	66	"	Jacob Loudis	61	"
Andrew Owens	86	"	Patrick Whalan	52	"
John Armour	64	"	Peter Potter (col.)	43	Beekman
Females			Females
Catharine McGulick	30	City	Eliza Bramley	26	City
Sarah Frear	18	"	Car'e Smithmeyer	43	"
Esther Armour	49	"	Mary Whalan	50	"
Sarah Weaver	30	"	Mary Rogers	40	"
Bridget Hanyon	30	"	Mary Brown (col.)	60	"
Abby A. Cable	24	"
Children			Children
Louisa Smithmeyer	7	"	Thomas McGulice	5	"
Catharine Rogers	1/2	"	Willett E. Weaver	7	"
Harriet E. Weaver	11	"	Susan M. Weaver	7	"
Kate McGulick	8	"	Frederick Hanyon	5	"
Michael Whalan	7	"	William E. Cable	2	"
William Brown	5	"	Margaret Bramley	5	"
Henry Smithmeyer	12	"	Elizabeth Bramley	2	"
William McGulick	1/2	"
Lunatics & Idiots * Utica Asylum			Lunatics & Idiots * Utica Asylum
--- ---, Spaniard	30	"	Mary Sidney	30	"
John Lunnovan	43	"	Louisa Cramer *	63	"
Simon VanBenscoten *	35	"	Catherine Retty *	52	"
C. H. King *	28	"	Phebe Vail *	42	"
Nancy Strong	50	"	Martha A.  Beaumont *	41	"
Harriet Black	57	"	Margaret Riley, (Id.)	25	"

We have set apart two hundred and twenty-one as the proportion of Dutchess County as follows, to wit:

		Previous			Previous
Men	Age	Residence	Men	Age	Residence
Albert Urn	66	Dover	Henry Burns	71	Fishkill
Peter Resenberg	61	Red Hook	Samuel Bailey	70	City
James Shaw	67	Canada	John Tompkins	71	Ples't Valley
Smith Stewart	67	Washington	Jno. Houghtaling	70	City
James Nutter	64	City	Henry Wood	54	Hyde Park
Thomas Malone	58	Fishkill	Joseph Filkins	66	Washington
Isaac Houtaling	80	Pine Plains	Barnes Kelly	50	Fishkill
Joshua	77	Pawling	James Watts	48	Dover
James Rice	79	City	Edmund Wood	46	Fishkill
Joseph Wait	75	Stanford	John McCollum	68	"
Henry Thomas	58	Fishkill	Val'ntine Wooden	56	"
Benj. Gildersleeve	78	"	John Cearn	48	Dover
Dennis Smith	60	Washington	Charles McCarty	39	Washington
Lewis Ostrom	33	City	Albert Ferguson	65	City
Ebenezer Hyde	64	Fishkill	Geo. Thistledon	72	Po'keepsie
Patrick Darragh	56	"	John Hellman	74	City
Thomas Stevens	53	Red Hook	Patrick McVey	59	"
Jacob Botts	55	City	Platt Fallman (c.)	65	Pawling
Richard Lane	75	"	Ebenezer Freeman	64	Beekman
James Stratton	76	Beekman	Moses Minor	60	Rhinebeck
George V. Brown	67	Amenia	Benjamin Wells	25	Fishkill
Conrad Bishop	76	Po'keepsie	Prince Davis	65	"
Victor Dill	45	"	Edward Brown	84	Washington
Isaac Milton	70	City	Thomas Jacklyn	36	City
Women			Women
Mary Kimball	67	Hyde Park	Lydia Louisa Cole	21	Fishkill
Hannah Veley	45	Po'keepsie	Eliza Thistleton	68	Red Hook
Ellen Connor	26	Red Hook	Sophia(German Woman)	50	Po'keepsie
Phebe Valentine	63	City	Nancy Wilber	25	City
Eva Delamater	70	Rhinebeck	Ellen Hanyon	34	"
Abby Nichols	66	City	Margaret M'Donald	35	"
Rebec'a Pendergast	80	"	Matilda Wood	25	"
Catharine Kelly	62	Fishkill	Helen McLane	62	Fishkill
Lucy Decker	83	Red Hook	Hannah Walker	41	Pawling
Mary Carpenter	73	Union Vale	Ann E. Lindsay	25	Fishkill
Pauline Shaw	89	Washington	Adeline Williams	34	"
Cath'rine Ostrander	70	Red Hook	Malinda Scouten	30	"
Mad'line Rosenberg	68	"	Alice McDonald	44	City
Mary Hines	53	City	Mary McChore	32	"
Elizb'th Overacker	74	Beekman	Mary Lane	30	Beekman
Ann Done	45	Fishkill	Mary  A. Lash	50	City
Eliza Jones	56	City	Ann Morriss	24	Stanford
Ann Miller	72	Po'keepsie	Rhoda A. Filkins	24	Dover
Catharine Freeman	77	Ples't Vally	Esther Watts	52	City
Margaret Case	60	Dover	Ann Lakeney	25	Union Vale
Ann Fitzpatrick	74	City	Rose Lowry	20	Pine Plains
Sarah Steel	65	City	Mary Lobam (c.)	55	City
Ann Smith	35	Shandaken	Catharine Hulse	23	Fishkill
Mary Ostrander	30	Red Hook	Elizabeth Weldon	84	Beekman
Jane E. Hyatt	25	City	Elizabeth Williams	21	Red Hook
Rosanna Handley	30	"	Tamar Jacklyn	36	City
Mary Donnehue	19	"
Children			Children
John E. Lindsay	4	Fishkill	Jay Lord	13	"
Sarah J. Lindsay	3	"	William Davis	5	"
Isaac Williams	6	"	Richard Kennedy	9	"
Deborah Frost	7	"	Leonard Camp	6	"
John Laney	4	Beekmam	Elias Adams	4	Beekman
Rhoda Lindsay	8	Fishkill	James Lindsay	5	Fishkill
Alice McDonald	7	City	Henry Gale	9	Pine Plains
Johanna McDonald	4	"	John P. DeWint Williams	8	Fishkill
George Cassedy	5	Fishkill
William Cassedy	3	"	Dewitt G. Williams	5	Fishkill
James Wood	5	Beekman	Charles Adams	12	Beekman
George Spence	6	City	Stephen Gardner	7	City
George Camp	5	"	Arabella Hulse	1	Fishkill
Elizabeth Camp	3	"	James W. Ostrander	1 1/2	Red Hook
Rosanna McCann	4	"	Edward Handley	1/2	City
Mary McCann	7	"	James Donnehue	1/2	Fishkill
James McCann	3	"	Mary Lowry	1	"
Dennis Bracken	7	Rhinebeck	Caroline Wood	9	"
Elizabeth Brown	1 1/2	Fishkill	William E. Wood	1/2	"
John McGregan	8	Milan	William H. Walker	2	Pawling
John Porter	9	City

    In the Home for the Friendless, chargeable to the County of Dutchess:
 

Perlee Armour	10	Mandeville Decker	8	William Taliday	6
William Kennedy	11	Lewis Filkins	9	John Gear	5
Wm. Johnston	7	George Filkins	9	Edwin Belknap	6
Isaac Talady	9	Sarah J. Porter	6	Cordelia White	7
Albert Benson	9	Clarence Westfall	5	George Campbell	8
Gilbert DuBois	6	John Kennady	7	William Campbell	9
Isaac Lefever	6	George Wright	6	Alice Campbell	6
John Mead	5	Charles Ward	6	Julia Westfall	4
Adelbert Record	7	William Duane	5	Wiletta Larte	2
William Record	6	William Gale	5

Lunatics & Idiots			Lunatics & Idiots
Abraham Cote	26	Po'keepsie	Harriet Edgett	70	Po'keepsie
Patrick Burk	30	"	Eliz'bth Armstrong	50	Beekman
------ Todd	26	"	Eva Shermann	70	Red Hook
William Bashan	80	City	Louisa Picknew	40	City
Sam's Jackson (c.)	23	Red Hook	Bridget	40	Fishkill
Benjamin  Proser	50	Pawling	Mary	40	"
Henry Martin	30	Hyde Park	Tamar Purdy	25	Red Hook
Edmund Ady	30	Fishkill	Mary Ligo	25	Beekman
Alex. Elmendorf	30	Clinton	Margaret (German Woman)	29	City
Alfred W. Shafer	24	Red Hook	Nancy Steiner	30	"
James Coburn	50	Amenia	Caroline Phillips	30	Fishkill
Elizabeth Moss	75	Po'keepsie

     We would further report, that we have made a division of the paupers and persons who have become chargeable to the County of Dutchess from the first of November 1863 to the first of Novermber 1864.

     And we have set apart as belonging to the City of Poughkeepsie on the apportionment fourteen persons (14), namely seven (7) women, six (6) children, and one lunatic at the State Asylum at Utica.  The following are the names of said persons:
 

Females
Mary Hensher	25	City	Sabine Fitzgerald	29	City
Mary McAllester	28	"	Ruth Kiekney	34	"
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Cathrine F. Trainer	22	City	Robert J. Kidney	4	City
Jane McMahne	48	"	Ridney	1/4	"
Harriet Mulford	50	"	Trainer	1/12	"
Children			Lunatics
Thomas Hensher	2	"
John McAllister	1/2	"	Sarah Holesen*	[blank]	"
Sabine Fitzgerald	7	"	* Utica Asylum

   To the County on this last division we have apportioned 67 persons, namely 11 men, 22 women, 28 children, and 7 persons at the STate Lunatic Asylum, of which the following are the names:
 

Men			Children
Daniel Higgs	83	Fishkill	Marg'rt A. Williams	3/4	Red Hook
Michael Hays	50	"	John Carl	1/2	Fishkill
Owen Finnigan	75	Rhinebeck	Charity J. Hall	8	"
Michael Burns	70	City	Eliza Hall	5	"
Chas. Heady (col.)	20	Pawling	Harriet Hall	3	"
Samuel Etson	67	City	Philip Miller	5	Hyde Park
John Smith	66	Amenia	Lucy Miller	2	"
Patrick Daley	62	City	John W. Sherman	5	Red Hook
Benj. Marsh	55	Dover	Phebe E. Sherman	3	"
Eb'nezer Freeman	56	Beekman	Joseph E. Sherman	1/4	"
George Brooks	50	City	Peter McCormick	7	Rhinebeck
Women			Mary McCormick	3	Rhinebeck
Catharine Carl	18	Fishkill	Ann Morriss	1/2	Stanf'rdville
Charlotte Hall	29	Fishkill	Kate Lee	4	Mattewan
Laray Miller	63	Hyde Park	Ellen Lee	2	"
Margaret Sherman	26	Red Hook	Edward Lee	3/4	"
Eliz'bth M'Cormick	25	Rhinebeck	Sarah E. Lee	9	City
Catharine Lee	26	Matteawan	Emma L. Lee	6	"
Sarah Lee	34	City	Clarissa Lee	4	"
Hannah Dingy	20	Hyde Park	Mary F. Lee	2	"
Eliza Miller	32	City	Frank Sampson (c.)	11	Fishkill
Ellen Croak	64	Fishkill	William Corrigan	10	Fishkill
Jane Fitzpatrick	60	City	John Smith	10	County
Hannah LeRoy	60	"	Wm. H. Dingy	1/2	Hyde Park
Ellen Maloney	40	"	------- Ellsworth	3	LaGrange
Elizabeth Hastings	19	Staatsburgh	Cornelius Jones	3	Fishkill
Bridget Fagan	30	Hyde Park	Eliza Miller	4	City
Mary A. Lash	55	City	William Fagan	10	"
Margaret Kenny	57	Fishkill	Lunatics Utica Asylum
Margaret Brady	43	Hyde Park	Adelia Palmateer	[blank]	[blank]
Margaret Miller	18	Amenia	Hannah M. Tompkins	[blank]	[blank]
Catharine Boyle	68	Mattewan	Spencer Gans	[blank]	[blank]
Maria Porter	60	Pl'st Valley	William Loyal	[blank]	[blank]
Catharine Taylor	54	Fishkill	Mary Donever	[blank]	[blank]
			Cornelius Cook	[blank]	[blank]

     We have also appraised the personal property of the County at the Poor House in the City of Poughkeepsie to amount to the sum of six thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents, ($6779.80) and that the sume due the City of Poughkeepsie for its share of said property is one thousand one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and forty-two cents ($1179.42).

All of which is respectfully submited.
Alanson Gillespie
Wm. C. Miller
Appriasers

Dated Nov. 1, 1864