OF THE CITY TREASURER OF THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE FUND. To the Honorable City Council of the City of Newport : The City Treasurer presents his Annual Report of receipts and payments of the interest of the Jewish Synagogue Fund for the financial year ending June 1st, 1869: 1868. July 1. By balance on hand.. CR. $34 43 . 10. 66 amount from Samuel A. Parker, General Treasurer. .300 00 1868. Sept. 27. DR. To cash paid Wm. J. H. Ailman, tax assessed July, 1868..... $166 55 Wm. C. Thurston, six months salary to June 1, '69. 12 50 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO INSPECT FERRIES. To the Hon. General Assembly of Rhode Island: We, the undersigned Commissioners appointed to inspect Ferries, respectfully submit our annual report. Situated as we are, one in South Kingstown and one in Jamestown, we have frequently crossed the ferry between Jamestown and Newport on business to the latter place, and as a general thing, have found the boats in good order, and in their proper places, and some disposition on the part of the keepers to accommodate their patrons. The dock on the Newport side is getting quite shoal, and it is not without some difficulty that cattle can be landed at extreme low tide. One of your Commissioners has had occasion to cross from South Kingstown to Jamestown twice during the past year, and was not at all pleased with the state of affairs at the Narragansett Ferry. On he former occasion, he found the boat loading with turnips to discharge on her trip to a vessel anchored in the bay, loading for the West Indies, and was detained two hours, besides being charged the lawful price for a single passenger to be put off in the boat, and that when there was another passenger on the same trip, which is neither lawful nor customary. It may be that ferries, unlike railroads, which your honorable body has been afraid would carry their Commissioners free, charge them double price. On the latter occasion, he found the ferry boat fast aground, and the small boat taken out of the ferry for repairs; and in company with four other passengers waited three hours for the tide to rise enough to float the boat, which ought not to have been allowed to ground at all, and would not had it been at the head of the wharf when the tide fell. The ferry on the west side of Jamestown, which was kept by Senator Gardiner last year, we regret to say, has changed keepers, and is at present kept by Mr. Peters, who is both boatman and keeper, and promises the passenger shall be better accommodated than they ever have been, which promise we hope to see fulfilled, but cannot expect very great accommodations so long as the boat will not float in the dock twelve hours out of twenty-four. Respectfully submitted by JOHN J. WATSON, W. G. CASWELL. } Commissioners. |