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![handle is hein.trials/azzg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF NEW YORK.
No. 65.
IN ASSEMBLY,
April 19, 1872.
REPORT AND TESTIMONY
OF THE COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE ON RESOLUTION
OF THE ASSEMBLY, TO INVESTIGATE INTO THE
CONDUCT OF GEORGE W. MILLER, SUPERINTEN-
DENT OF THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT, RELATIVE
TO HIS RECEIVING FEES AND PERQUISITES FOR
HIS USE AND EMOLUMENT, ETC.
To the Honorable A88embly of the State of -ew Tork :
The resolution of the Assembly, passed January 11th, 1872 on
motion of Mr. MOULTON, recites an extract from the Governor's
message that there is a popular belief that important legislation has
been influenced by the direct use of money and that there should be
a thorough inquiry to ascertain whether it is well founded and that
the guilty should be brought to justice under existing laws, or proper
laws should be passed to meet cases which may hereafter arise; that
the people demand reform in every department of government,
municipal, State and federal, in which abuses may be shown to
exist. Said resolution also recites that various charges have been
made in the daily and insurance press and otherwise, that the super-
intendent of the insurance department has been and still is,
I. Receiving fees and perquisites for his own personal use and
emolument which should by law be paid into the State'treasury,
particularly the one-fifth of one per cent chargeable to insurance
companies under the supply bill of 1870, and also,
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