REPORT OF SECRETARY. To the State Board of Education : GENTLEMEN-I have the honor to submit the Fourth Annual Financial Report of the State Home and School, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1888. APPROPRIATIONS. The following is a statement of the condition of the several appropriations under the care of the Board. These expenditures have been mainly for painting all of the buildings, concrete sidewalks and driveways, fences, altering the kitchen and dining-room, new hen house, and enlarging the pond. Furnishing... For ice tools, furniture for the new cottage built in 1887, school desks, stock for the farm, gas fixtures, and other minor articles. $2,695 94 $1,357 54 Steam and water supply.. $313 84 Balance due on boiler-house, and labor and material for connecting the two boilers. Laundry .... $2,046 07 Balance of payments on contract of last year and painting. Cottage "C." $3,106 17 Balance of payments on contract and extra plumbing. Total expenditures for permanent improvements..... $9,519 56 |