Show YE OLDEN TinES Interesting Papers Found in New York Startling Figures Albany May 4State Comptroller Roberts iiuhis search fo revolutionary paper which have been hidden for a century in the state house has come across some ancient documents which are the oldest he has yet found and vhich ate pertinently interesting at this time insomuch as they relate to excise accounts received by the state hen a colony of Great Britain between the years 1710 and 176S The excise returns for a year dating from 1710 for the entire colony amounted to 392 6s less than 2000 which is Insignificant when compared with 11000000 returns on the trafficking in liquors in 1835 Another old document dating back to 715 is a report showing the duty paid slaves into the state treasury on negro An interesting paper found at the same time Is an account for the service serv-ice of Philip Livingston as a delegate in congress from 1777 to177S a total of 198 org days at3J shillings a day the aggregate being 33012s Still another paper shows that the remains of General Montgomery who ell in the attack on Quebec in the French and Indian war in 1787 is I I buried in St Pauls churchyard in New j I York City and accompanying this is a Lil from one Jacobus Myers for cart ins the monument for General Mont joinerys body to the churchyard |