The New York Herald Newspaper, September 4, 1855, Page 7

INTERESTING CITY MATTERS. Manifesto of the Mayor to the Common Couneid, IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS. SCATHING OF THE CITY FATHERS. THE CONPTROLLER’S SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT, What it Cost to Support a Misgoverned City, &c., &c, &e BOARD OF ALDERMEN. The President, Isaac 0. Barker, Faq., in the Chair. COMMUNICATIONS, From Comptroller Flagg, announcing that the con- tractors for cleansing the s'reets of ten of the wards had deen settled with, showing a saving to the city of 38 per cent over the old system. Ordered to be printed. From the Central Park Commissioners, in answer to a resolution, «tating that the estimate and assessments are nearly, completed, and will shortly be ready for the counsel, Also, that they have been delayed much beyond their intended time by circumstances beyond their con- trol; but they have no doubt that the matter will be ready for the counsel the present month. Ordered on fale, COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMFTROLLER AS TO THE EXPENDI- TURE OF THE CY FOR THE YEAR EYDING JUNE, 1855, DeraRTMENT OF Liaayeg ComprRoiiek’s Orrice, City or New York, July 31, 1855. To mE Common Covscu— ‘Ihis report is intended to embrace the financial opera- tions of the city government for twelve months, com- mencing on the first day of July, 1864, and extending to the first of July, 1850, thus covering six months of the year 1854, and the same number of mon ths of 1855. ‘The financial operations of the city government may be classified as follows:— 1, The ordinary expenditures for the support of the city government, which are paid almost entirely by an annual tax. 2. The receipts and expenditures o: @ebt. These embrace rising from rents of the Croton aqueduct, and all revenues from the vents of piers, markets, and public property of every Sescription, with interest on mortgages for sales of real & e. a streeta; for ae ust Funds.” Included in the table of ‘ Trust Funds" are the several mums raived annually by tax for the State mill tax, for the common schools of the State, for the common schools of this city, and for the payment of certain debts created for the erection of public build There is included in the tax levy of 1865, for the objects above enumerated, the total sum, $1,447,618 77. (See table No. 4.) And there is embraced ‘in the expenditures for twelve months Preceding the firat of July last; for these objects (table 2), the eum of $1,346,069 54, which was paid on a:- count of State tax in 1854. 4, The receipts and payments on account of revenue Lends. Revenue bonds are iswued, and a temporary debt is thus created in anticipation of the revenue de- rived from the annual taxes, This mode of sug portiny the government by borrowing until the taxex can be col- Jected, is provided for in each ordinance making the an- ual appropriations, as follows:— 4, The Comptroller is hereby authorized to borrow, from time to time, on the credit of the Corporation, in anticipation of its revennes, and not to exceed in amoant sueh rever ues, such sums aa may be necessary to meet expenditures ‘under the appropriation for the current year. Under this ordinance, the Comptroller has borrowed ‘on revenue bonds since the first of January last, the sum ef $4,716,100, in anticipation of the tax which will be ready for collection on the first of September, and from which the revenue bonds will be reimbursed as they fall due. It will be seen, by referring to table No. 10, that the city hax paid off in'the twelve months preceding first of July, $174,600 of the revenue bonds of 1858, and $3,- 757,420 of those of 1854, thus cancelling $4,732,279 of this temporary debt. ‘The charter of 1890 limits the sum to be borrowed in any one year, to the revenues of that year. The 19th section of the charter is as follows :— “4Sec. 19, The Common Council shall not have authori- ty to borrow any sums of money whatever on the credit of the Corporation, except in anticipation of the revenue of the year in which such loan shall be made, unless au- therized by a special act of the Legislature.” ‘The revenue bonds are based on the revenue derived from the annual taxes, and hence the tax levy, which ay hes six millions of dollars, establishes @ very broad basis for borrowing. : It is obvious from the preceding explanation, that if we take the total sum paid out in twelve months, on ac- count of the expenses of the city, as shown in table No. 187,057 39,) and add to it the amount paid for the ion of revenue bonds, as shown in statement No. 82,279, ) we create a’ very erroneous impression ont of the city government. ‘The expenses 0 the eity proper, as shown in table No. 1, are paid indis- criminately from moneys obtained by the issue of revenue bonds, and those coming into the treasury from taxation. ‘The Comptroller, for example, in November, 1854, makes up an estimate of $8,800,000 for the support of ‘the gov ernment for the caleudar year of 1865. The provisions Of the tax laws require about eight months of the calen- Sar year, before the taxes begin to come in, and nine or ten months before very large sums are received ; hence the necessity of using revenue bonds to anticipate a large portion of the $5,800,000, which will begin to come into the Treasury in eptember, and a considerable portion of which will not be realized by the payment of taxes, dur- the calendar year. At the close of the year 1854, there was in arrear $548,105 53 of the sum levied in the July. The current expenses of the calendar ear of 1855, when the year closes, will have been paid ‘about $4,716,100, procured by the issue of revenue bonds, as before wate and about $1,127,722 89, derived from the payment of taxes. It is necessary to look beyond the footings of table No. 1, for the extent of the burdens annually borne . Besides the ents on account of eenpeaste at samen o $4,157,081 90, os xbows it table, the fol sums ition are se as ‘ Trust Funds,” but which sums $316,941 68 124,904 43 815,147 86 50, Bsc isi viideetVivenniens + «$1,808,098 92 This makes a total of $5,466,051 31, expended in the twelve months preceding July i, 1855, which is paid by taxation. APPROPRIAT! URES AND RPCBIPTS. |ONS, EXPENDITU ‘Statement No. 1 shows the whole amount of appropri- ations forthe calendar years of 1854 and 1855; also, for six months of the year 1854, from July 1 to December 31, and six months of the year 1855, from January 1 toJuly 1; also, in the last colu ‘the total wume expended under the various heads for the twelve months preceding July 1, 1855. . Statement No. 2 shows the appropriations made in 1854 and 1855, op account of trust funds and special ac- counts; elso, the sums paid out of the treasury on ac count of these funds for six months in 1864, and six months in 1856. This table apenas ton ee sums which pase throngh reasury, row! op reve- nue bonds, in anticipation of the annual tax, sed to pay- ing these bonas when the tax is realized; it also embraces assessment bonds. These bonds are issued to borrow mo- uey in anticipation of the collections by assessments for o . and paving streets, building sewers, &c. is done to get money im anticipation of the collection of ansensments, to the treasury to pay the con- traetor on the work as soon as his labor is done. ‘The total sum which has passed through the city trea- sury on account of trust for the twelve months the Ist or July, 1865, amounts te $9, for xix months of 1854, $3,177,108 24 And for six months of 1855... 6,201,105 60 $0,578,713 84 ‘The payments on account of awards made by commis- sioners appointed by order of the Suj rt, for streets, have been very large within the last six months. The awards in opening Canal and widening Walker streets alone amounted to the sum of $544,148 69. ‘These payments are intended to be balanced by an equal amount assessed on premises supposed to be heoefited by the opening and widening of the streets. The time fixed a resolution of the mon Council for the opening of Canal and Walker streets, was the Ist of May, 1854, from which time, ordinarily, interest would have been on the sums assessed; and four months there- after the awards would have been payable, with interest on the amounts, if payments itty be te gen The TODA opposed to opening of these streets, however, rs Prom the decision of the Enpreme Coutt, and the final decision of the question was delayed until about the Ast of April, 1855. ‘The question then arose whether the should interest for eleven months before the final de cision, EI whether the city should pay interest on the awards for eight months before it had possession of the ty. It was finally determined to exact {uterest on Saseesments only from the let of April, 1855, and to pay the awards on the Ist of May, without inter Ti it necessary for the Comptroller to make a ape celal lean of balfa ‘miflion of dollars, at thirty and sixty pS tet ated seven per cont. Th unt of a om account this special loan wa (9 the meantime, the collectors of amessments havi served notices on persons assessed, @ large amber ot them paid their assessinents, with interest from May 1 This interest has been refunded to them on a reo. Tsons assesse) i | Awards, acts as trustee mere zens who are su) those who are believed to’ be tajerea tion. All previows costs and in the assessment; and the government not exact from those assessed a larger gum than |« nee the awards. st of Angust there had been drawn on the Trea gives awards on Canal and Walker Sorats ee Es He Ls uel ? $295,504 00 2,790 06 $208,503 60 Faeere of payments beyond receipts...... $208,712 00 ‘The interest on the unpaid balance of $248,649 frem Apri} to August AA, 1896, is 96,819 14, Add eupynt of NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1855. 1663 to 1855, inclusive, presents the follow e i eetimated at $100,000, and tt ie: “ * rr icgdiage tdlaade 3g teen othe Si ‘unjust ane she neste seta invereet collected. 638 i ar before stated, $2,799 00, and 't makes @ total oF 8. Lose sa regulating, flaggi Tea itter, and the firet paving py Bae 4 under the direction of the Strect Commissioner, and the cost is assessed on the property which ought to be benefited, to the amount of the s The sum expended for these objects, and paid from appropriation for “ Streets Paving,” amounts for. the In opening down curb and © twelve months ing the Ist of July to $1,387,547 96, ‘The amount collected and into the Treasury during the same ~*~ ws $347, 94. This difference has been provided for an issue of assessment bonds. The amount issued during the twelve months preceding the ‘Ast of July, 1865, is $1,054,000. There has been paid dur- the same period $103,000, leaving the balanc b> ending July 1, 1855 ot goer o0e ro Statement No.3 rhows the receipts and expenditures for the city government, including “Trust Funds,” for twelve mont! ing July 1, 1855. Statement No, 4, {8 table which hae been prepared for the purpose of showing the total amount incl in the tax levy for a series of six years, This statement in- cludes not enly the sums raiséd annually by a direct tax on account of the various objects for the o1 ry support of the city government, but also the sums before re- terred for the maintenance of the Free School «ystem ot the city, the assessment on account of the State school sys. tem, the Mill Tax, and some other items, which, in the accounts of the Finance Department, are mixed up with ‘Trust Accounts.”? Table No. {4 may, therefore, res ferred to as an exhibit of the whole sum annually levied on the city Har ‘tax on real and personal estates, in each year from 1850 to 1855, both inclusive. This statement will not show the exact sum wnded in each year, for the various objects enumerat in the table, but isa close appreximation to the te sum included in the tax levy of each year. For example, there is in 1850, Handing against the item of *‘arrearages of previous year,” the sum of $290,000, which Ropers beloags to the éxpenditures of 1840. In 1868, the tax. is increased $742,000, by an excess of expenditures in 1852. In 1854, the assestment for sieenee is $123,000, and the levy of 1855 has in it the sum of $481,000, which arises from an excess of ex pendituies in 1854. Every considerate mind, on an examination of the footings of the massive columns of this table, must be deeply impressed with the magnitude of the sums annu- ally extoi by the city eet from the savings of the frugal and the hard earnings of labor, if not alarm- ed at the unprecedented increase of those exactions from year to year. dy 5 ; Extravagance, to a greater or less extent, pervades ever; department of the municipal government.’ The prevalent theory, that the greatness and glory of the city is to be estimated by banquets and shows, and wasteful expendi- tures of means not earned by those who squander, is an error which must be corrected, or the con-ejuencsa will be most disastrous to the rising hopes and otherwise fair prospects of a city which, if, honestly and justly admin- istered, has a more brilliant future than any «pot on the globe. What we require is a thorough, intelligent, and most rigid system of retrenchment and persevering economy. A government to be great and prosperous, must be frogal, and exercise a wise economy in all its expenditures. The government does not earn money, but is supported by the earnings of its citizens, The best government is that which gives equal protection to all, and consumes for its own maintenance the smallest amount of the earnings of its constituents. The inhabitants of the city of New York pay willingly and liberally for every service rendered by their agents; they only ask'a fair equivalent for the nioney exacted of them, and this they have a right to demand, Statement No. 5, annexed to this report, shows the amount of revenue received by the Commissioners of the sinking Fund, for the payment of the city debt, the sources from which it was derived, and the application of the same. This statement shows a balance on hand, July 1, 1854, i $54,318 17 1,124,148 62 $1,178,401 79 ited i ings in Brooklyn......... Refunded on account of sales lots in Central park.......... 5, Advertising, and other $1,165,450 Cash balance in hand, July 1, 1855....... “His011 50 Statement No. 6 shows the receipts and expenditures for the year ending on the 20th of June, 1885, om aecount of the sinking fund, for the payment of the interest on the city debt. ‘The amount of cash on hand, July 1, 1854, was $480,320 74 ‘The receipts during the year have been as follows, vizi— Croton water rents Rents on real estate. Revenue bon + 600, Interest on bonds and mortgages 25,071 24 Sundry other items (see state- ment No, 5) 87,226 94 $675,497 31 for interest for the year in... sees $774,302 56 Invested in revenue bonds... .1,000,000 00 Paid for sundry items,as shown in®o. 5 The sum paid Cash balance on hand, July 1, 1865......,. $423,761 84 ‘The receipts for Croton water rents, in the preceding statements, exceed by $78,714 $2 the amount paid for the preceding year. In the item of “‘rents on real estate” is included the sum of $171,058 43, collected on accoumt of pier and slip rent, which is $15,890 more than was collected in the ceding year, 4,344 more than was realized objects in the year 1861. The revenue of over and above the very large allowances ‘on account of dredging slips, damage on account of repairs, and interruptions by contractors, &e. ‘These amount to not less than $10,000 for twelve month: In many cases the allowances are for work actually done, at fair prices, by the lessces, and in sch cases the city gets an equivalent for the tebate of rent. Whilst the actual revenue from piers and slips has increased $73,344 in the last twelve months over the year 1861, the oullay for the construction and repair of piers and slips is less by $186,727 5 than the expenditure for the same objects in the calendar year of 1851. This shows a difference in favor of the last twelve months, when compared with 1851, of $200,071 55, Statement No. 7, annexed, shows the amount of the permanent city debt on the Ist July, 1855, and also the amount of stocks and other securities held by the Com- missioners of the Sinking Fund for the payment of this del The total amount of the debt is.......... $14,000,666 00 The Commissioners bave pur- chased, from time to time and hold as an investment, a portion of the identical stock which forms part of this debt, equal to -, $4,465,076 08 905.307 5,370,473 95 Debt uuprovided for.......... seceeecees $8,600,382 05 Statement No. 8 shows the amonnt of debt created for the erection of public buildings, the construction of docks and slips. &e. several laws authorizing this debt to be created make prevision for its re-imbursement by an- nual taxes, generally $60,000 in each year. The present smount of the debt {s $1,204,000. ‘This debt has been increased $150,000 in the last tweive ‘months, by an issue of building loan stock for Firemen’s Hall, and Union and Catherine markets, and for the work- house on Blackwell’s Island. If the debt payable by taxation is added to the balance of the stock debt unprovided for {81800502 05), it makes fa total debt equal to $9,884,282 Statement No, 9 shows the stocks and securities held by the Commissioners of the Sinking Eund for the redemp tfon of the city debt, July 1, 1866, amounting, together with balance in bank, to $5,970,478 96, Statement No, 10 shows Leg Seno aa “ose revenue jane issued during the year ending June 30, . amount to $0,072,745, ‘sieo the ammount of boats paid of during the same period, $4,732,270—the excess of issues over payments in twelve months being $1,940,463. Statement No. 11 shows the amount of asseaement bonds issued during the year ending June 90, 1855, amounting to $1,064,020: also the payment of $103,000 Balance outstanding, $951,000. Statement No. 12 shows the receipta and expenditures on account of building oun stock No. 3. ‘The attention of the Common Council is respectfally called 10 the operations of the Commissioner of Repairs aud Supplies in relation to this fund, and the condition of the Treasury, growing out of these operations. In vember, 1853, when the annual estimate for the expenses of 1854 were made up, the Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies called for an appropriation of 825,000 for rebuild- i tharine Marhet. and $20,000 for rebuilding Union Market, with Eleventh ward station-house. (Fee doc, 17, Asst. Ald, 1863, page 216.) In that estimate he also called for an appropriation of five hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars for the two bureaux of ‘Street Expen- sos’ and “ Roads and Avenues ;” and the aggregate for the year exceeded $200,000. roller cousilered this'a mort extravagant estimate, and cut ft down to $420,000. The Committee on Finance added $4,000 for repairs and supplies, making the total, $480,000. At that time there was authority to issue $200,000 of Building Loan Stock, of which the Governors of the Alm House required $96,000. The Treasury had also advance? on this account, for finishing the new Court-house and other objects, about $24,000, When the loan for bulliting stock was made, this should have been re-imbursed to the Treasury, and if the Commissioner of Repairs and Sup- piles had kept within his original estimate for the two markets and the Firemen , there would have been no cmbarrassment to the Treasury, or to thore who performed work om these jobs, a clearly appears by the followin figures i= Amount of stock to be issued... 0. seeeeeeesee ee $200,000 Required by Governors of Alma House. /$06,000 Fetimate of Commissioner for Catharine Market... ..ccscevgserecssveses do do Union Market. Balance due Treasury,....6.cccesce001 05 24,000 ——— $14,000, Leaves for Piremen's Hall,,,.. $96,000 An examination of statement No. 12 shows that the cost of Catherine and Union Markets was increased from $45,000 to more than 75,000, and the contractor fs press- ing for $5,000 more on Union Market, and instead of re imbursing the Treasury, it is now minus $26,277 16, to be mate up by taxation. itement No. 13 shows the operations of Building Loan Nos. 3 and 4. The sum of $40,000 was borrowed of the Aline House, as pro cred romeecnttvely from 34 10 32 ronreru’ wo Fi, give add She Suarenn tress Phones the aiding ues have beem derived for the year ending 2 of the footings of (eve eigtement=, frow Butchers’ Stands, . $14,703 $16,147 Market Fees, &c. $0,169 68,705 Bends and Mt vgtos Miso dhen nde al lor’ Nye. Com. of Water Lot Rents,...148,034 33/800 “2900 WA 14,925 34117 12,814 16/485 870,941 $43 675,407 oe ee Marine Court } 13g 90601 Mayoralty Fees 402 Rents on Real ¥ 235,571 292,03 926,003 Tavern and Excise 8,508 "79,425 90°707 Statement No. 38 is a table showing the ted value of the several markets, and the revenue derived from each, The total for the yea iy $96,737 54. This isan increase over last year of $8,302; of which increase $6,633 ia on the item of fees from hucketers, fishermen, &e., $1,413 on cellar rents, and $444 on butchery’ stands. In the Inst annual report from this department, (Doc. 12,) the total value of the property inc! in the mar- kets is $1,166,000. In the report on markets, (Doc. No. 41, of Ald., 1864,) It was computed that the total ture on account of markets, for 1853, was $44,017 7: Teduct this sum from the revenues given in table No. 38, $96,737 54, and it leaves an excess equal to $52,710 62. In this estimate no allowance ix made for the grounds and buildings invested in the markets by the city, which, at Feven per cent, amount to........ . $81, Deduct from this the excess of revenue expenses. 62,719 And it shows a deficit of.....c00c000008 28,901 The city of New Orleans derives an anual revenue from Publicly farming out ita markets of $200,000, With our population, and the amount of capital invested, we ought to derive a revenue from our markets of $400,000 or ive $500,000: and yet the city government drags along unde: a load of nearly six milling of taxes, without tes an effort, in wo plain a case, to get a fair revenue from the property in its custody. CARRIAGE WIRE FOR THR COMMON COUNCIL. Statement No. 39 shows the «ums id on account of carriage hire for the Aldermen and Councilmen, respec- tively, for the last half of the year 1864, and the first half of the year 1855, ‘This list necessarily embraces seve- = ~ aaa who do not belong to the present Common ‘ouncil. - ‘The total um paid to the Aldermen for twelve months, for carriage hire, aa shown by the report of Sept, 1854, +81, WA sc esse’ dus tea 171 00 Total for year ending July'I, 1855. V016 75 Fxcess of carriage hire for twelve months....... $744 75 Assistant Aldermen of 1853, and Counciliien for nix months Of 1854.00. secereseeeceseeeeeeee 1,028 50 Expended in carriage hire by Councilmen for lust (WOIVE MOUBBssesssessesrteesesssersssesseee S681 50 Fxcess over preceding year, 4583 00 Add excess of Aldermen... » HO Total excess over preceding year... $5,077 76 This shows an alarming increase of upwards of two hundred per cent in carriage hire over the preceding year. ‘The names of the Aldermen of the previous and present Board who have not rode at all at the expense of their constituents, are as follows, viz.:— A. J. Williamson, 2d ward.’ Thomas c. Orison Blunt, | 3d ON. C. Ely, 7th Charles Fox, 7th eth &. A. Trowbridge, 10th“ Bat Wm. Chauncey, 15th The names of the Councilmen who have bad no car- riage hire are as foll Wm. Young, 4th W. H. Beam, 4th John a Kennedy, th Peter Crawfort, 18th Pavia Colewun, 18th F. B Ridder, oth . OD. Swan, 40th district. Kawin J. Brown, 41st J. W. Scott, dat > J. 8, Moore, 434 ‘ S. M, Husted, 45th J. W.T. Van Riper, 46th § : A. Lambrecht, 48th hi “Wm, Trualow, 49th ‘ M, J. Farle, 64th . “ OW.M, Baxt 5yth “ Fred’k E. Mathe#, 57th B. MeCahill, 68th ts Floyd, 3 “©. @, North, 60th « W. M. Vermilyea, 29th ‘The Board of Councilmen, many of whom have taken a lively interest in having the publication of their own carrlage hire before their constituents in proper sh: have passed @ résolution requiring the Comptrolle state the sum paid for carriage hire for the Mayor. The total sum paid in six months, from January Ist to July Ist, for carriage hire for the Mayor, is $380. A copy of the resolution is appended to N anda letter from the Mayor to the Comptroller, giving ‘assurance that the cart in every instance, were used by the Mayor in the discharge of his official duties, is also appended. STATIONERY FOR THE CORPORATION. In the report of expenditures for the twelve months end ing July 1, 1864, a statement was given showing, in mi- nute detail, the various articles of stationery used in the several departments and bureaus. The exhibit presented evidence of want of care and economy ia almost ever; case; extravagance in many cases, and downright profil gacy'in some. The Ineredulous om. these points are de sired to re-examine the statement, and to enable them to do so, afew copies have been retained. The detail is a true type of the care and ecomomy displayed by those who are entrusted with the disbursement of the money nstituents to the amount of some six to eight dollars annually, It was shown in the report corresponding with this for 1864, (page 22 of doc. 64,) that there wasexpended for stationery for the first six months of 1854, the sum of $13.58 38, and for the twelve months preceding July 1 1854, it wan $27,889 44. In the same report, it was stated that \ the only effec: tual mode of checking the lavish expenditures which prevail generally in the use of stationery, would be to purchase the leading articles, such as paper, &c. by the quantity, and then have a faithful clerk to take chai of the stationery, deliver the articles thus procured to the departments, courts, &c., and keep an account with each for the articles thus delivered.” This course has been adopted, and the result for six months is a saving of $5,879, equal to $11,758 for a year: or if the rent of $200 for a room, and ot) mapecione, be deducted, the saving might be reduced to $11,600, ‘THE TAXES OF 1865 AND 1856. eur exceeds that of 1864, m of dollars. This incrense is ‘The tax levy of the present he following items. ) by the sum of one mill made up principally on Alms Houre (increase $186,450 Common Schools of the city. 287,186 Common Schools of th 0,161 0,000 New York Juvenile 7 State mill tax, 36,489 Total ...... $625,997 ‘This shows an increase of taxes in a single year, on items of expenditure over which the Cowmon’ Couneil has no control, equal to $625,307; and if the deficiency of $198,000, which the Board of Education called on the Common Council to raise in December last, and of $125,000 for the Governors of the Alma House, had also been added, the increase on the items beyond the reach of the action of the Common Council would have been «welled to the sum of $948,000, is stated, got as a reproach to any department, itter of justice to all, 0 an increase of ta: itures on the following item ations Five Dep artient. Interest on Revenue Bonds. “Assessment ‘lice Fire Telegra Printing ss..0- tesco: Rents, (occasioned by burning City Hall,. Real Fxtate expenses. On a few items, there iv a decrease of taxation. docks and slips, the law relative to harbor improvement» has caused a curtailment of expenditures for this year; and as $85,000 of the sum raised in 1864 was not ex- pende!, that balance was posprneneiet and only the ‘sum of $15,000 is put in the tax levy of 1665, ‘There is in the tax of 1885, one item of $481,612 76 for arrearages of 1854, which actually ne to the ex- nditures of 1864, and not 1o the year in which the lovy istmade, Of this sum, $175,000 was expended in clean- ing streets in 1854, under the auxpiries of the celebrated Sanitary Committee of eighty, and the derangement ot the contracts on which the estimate for the year was tion growing out of ex- via o828S283S23 RSSSoo8F5 Grading Second avenue Fire Department... ... Repairs and Supplies Roads and ane 10,000 00 Salaries, . . 409,604 68 Assesement on real estate of city, 24136 82 Croton Aqueduct, repairs of dam. +. 30,000 00 Rent of offices occasioned by burning of New City Hal ¥ é seevees 6,068 00 Coroners’ fe 4025 44 Croton water 5,000 0 Donations 3,150 00 Printing. HA 05, County Ci Ot Ot Tota? $481,612 76 In table No.1 Mstributed to the various heads to which they belong. But whilet this large «um ix raised by tax in 1865, to reimburse the t ances made in 1854, the tax levy of 1865 is relieved deficiencies calied for by the Board of Education and the Governors of the Almshouse at the close of the year 1854. ums will provedly Le included in the annual esti- «of thove departments in November, and will come into the tax levy of 1854. " There i large iem, which not only increase with the actual growth of ovr elty, but is expanded by all the imaginary values which into the aseesement role. In some eases these nary values are ex puonged from the assessments of individuals, by the Su sort, after the tox levy is made. The individual may be justly relieved, but the city tn charged aad pays to the State the entire tax on tenor tweaty t dol lars from which the individual i reliewed. and the deficit must be made up in the following year from thove who ore mot thus relleved. At the last session of the Logislatare, an act passed for collecting @ tax for the support of the State government, of one mili and a quarter on each dollar of the valastion of real apd personal ty taxable in the State, for the fiven! year © on the first day of Oetober, 1855. ‘The Hseal year of this city corresponds with the calendar years, commepeing Jepusry 1, and December "1. in each year. Hence all oe arrangements for the tax levy of 1856 sre made, and the tex books are the hands of the Receiver, one month before the gearral tax law for raising # mill and » quarter takes effect The arsesament of a mil ania quarter, even on the yaluaton of 1866, will impore upom this eity the sum of $608,747 84; and this pum will be increased as the aasees- ment ty incressed. We of $271, 40. ¢, then, we are to have a direct tax on the city, for State purposes, of about seven hundred and righty thou- rand in the couning year. Statement No, 41 shows the assessed vatue of real and finger jate im the city of New York, for the years an 5 : 5. ‘The total valuation of real extate for 1885, in $236,075,660 Personal Cr ener 15,691,282 “ (en-resivente, 4,491,150 Total valuation, bade 466,906,278 In th ay Rie from thie epartnen inF im the annual re; t, in Febru. last, (Doc. 12, pages 67 to 88,) fa are. given of the amounts of asseramente confirmed by the Comman Coun- @ total in both enensmente (page 22,) were— < Ip 1853... +o + $760,500 87 And ip 1864, « $00,017 43 Total in two yearw ........ teseeeeeee BE276,547 30 Thus showing that the assessments contirmed tor opening streets, regulating and grading, bull sewers, Gilling lots, the, be, exceeded, by $1,073,882 99, the amounts colleeted in the two years, for those objects of expendi- ture. These lists contained the large sums for wit Beekman street ............. eererrerrerreees a Fourth avenue, opening Thirty-eighth to One a vy hecp > ona Aber ifth etreet.. vere 2 ‘anal ai er streets, ment euspended tn 1854,).... ee ee Second avenue, regulating and Upening Park place, (paid in fu After the report made by the Compt of Councilmen, (Doc. No. 47, dated July 16, 1885,) which proves that in the full of 1862, the sum of forty thousand dollars was advanced trom the Treasury to Dr. White, City Inspector, to be expended, at his discretion, in filling sunken lots, and which eum hae not been accounted for, or placed in a condition to be returned to the treasury, an examination bas been made for the purpose of show ing the operation on the treasury, of making advances on assessment contracts, and of collecting to re-imburse the treasury. The aesesement for regulating and gradi ond ave- nue, ($586,481 74) was confirmed Notember 25, 1654. ‘There was levied on the city, and paid by tax, in 1854, the sum of $83,619 62, lenving $304,002 22 to’ be collected from property benefited, Of thie sum there had been col- lected to the 27th of August inet., on account of princi- $111,163 60 » 888 01 $112,051 61 he treasury ba pptractors for their jobs $204,962, and the present Common Council having paid John Pettigrew $30,000 for interest, (when it was demon strated by the specifications that ps made to him we the asseasments were that the treasury has been called on to pay $334,962, ai after a lapse of nine months, has realized $222.01 F this at differ rained by tax This makes a total paid by the treasury which it is not rei 1305, 000. The $83,511) on th the $30,000 of int of $115,515. Aline mon Council have paid Mr, Pettigrew the amount of interest received by the treasury to the 27th of August is less than $1,000, The treasury, as already stated, has pail more for opening Canal and Walker st been realized from assessments. In 1852 or ’53, for the special accommodation of a few ation was passed to take the This took away the remedy of the contractor, who was to be paid as the smnente wera collected, and he demanded hiv pay, and the Com mon Counell directed payment by an iasue of assesment bonds to phe amount of $21,000, At the end of nearly three yeaM it is found that there has been pald on these assessments $15,207 60, and for interest $1,044 52, leav. ing the Treasury about $6,000 in arrear, A job of grading Righty sixth street, from the river to the Bloomingdale road, was commenced; and ter some progress, Was suspended by a resolution of the Common C@ineil, and the Comptroller was directed to pay the contractor $6,800 out of the proceeds of asseexment bonds. ‘This I consider a loss to the Treasury. ‘There are numerous cases of this kind, amounting in the aggregate to hundreds of thousands cf dotlare, a large portion of which will never be realized, and other portions will be delayed for years, or hi away among the rubbish of some of the department id share the fate of the $40,000 advanced to Dr. White in 1852 A table bas been prepared and iy annexed, marked No. 42, which shows the amounts advanced from the Treasu- ry, on account of expenditures for sewers, opening, regu- lat rading and paving streets by assensment [Ben i vacant lots, filling sunken lots by the Street Commission er and City Inspector; welleand pumps, &c., commencing in 1860 and ending Ist July, 1855. ‘This statement #hows the startling fact that tlhe payments, in a range of five yeurs, exceed the receipts by the sum'of more than two millions of dollars. ‘The expenditures for street paving alone. have been... Peta chains # Receipts for the same time... .- out $220,000 «than hae Excess om this item... . In 1860, 1851 and 1852, the exee tures on this item was.. . Ip 1853, 1854, and vix months of 1 excess haw been... 0... +++ seo 04 In 1854 alone, the expenditures for street paving greater by $676,000 than the collections for th time, if we are to rely on the accounts to which reference has been made, The enormous excess of two millions of dollars paid from the Treasury mor the operations ofonly five and a balf years, fr July 1° 1856, Inclusive. rrearages On assesainents returned to the Clerk of Arrears by the Street Depart. ment in 1864, covering s period of ni 1424 to 1863, only #4 98, Ther from 1863 to July 1, 1866 ment of the two millions already advances from the Trea sury, and there are several large sums of this character as shown on pages 24 and 25 of this report. But the Trea sury in evidently laboring under @ very large deficit of re ceipts on account of aasessments, when compared with the sume advanced from the Treasury. Ajptill graver question is presen’ by this table, in amenta contirined showing that the whole amount of by the Common Couneil in six years, is less than th penditures for the same period by the sum of $1,890. There has not been time to examine and verify the ac curacy of this enormous difference between the amount advanced from the Treasury and the amount of assess ments made up and confirmed on account of the work for which the city has paid. That the difference and lows to the Treasury is very great, the facts before stated clearly how, but that {t reaches so large a sumo seems incredible ‘The advances under the 70 cent ordinance; the heedless payment of large sums for interest and damages without any provision for reimbursing the treasury; and the recklessness in making contracts like that advertised for the Tenth avenue, where the cost would be from $150,000 to $200,000 more than could be assessed on the property, furnish just ground for vigilance on the part A the city government, and anxiety and elarm on the part of those who are not in a position to elude the grasp of the Collector of Taxes, By reference to this table, it will also be seen, that an- der the year 1852, the amount expended for ‘liens on lote”’ by the City Inspector was $44,094 18. The receipts on account of assescanents for “liens on lota’? ta em- braced in the receipts of the Street Commissioner's ac- count of “ Kens on lote,’” referring to the table un- der the bead of Total Receipts and Expenditures, the re- ceipta from liens on lota on the account of the Street Com. missioner, including, ua before stated, the receipts om account of the City Inepector, it will be seen that the ex os of receipts over expenditures made by Street Com loner i $06,102 48. Deduct this from the total ex ures by Clly Inspector, $80,570 59, and it leaver » Betance of excess of expenditures of $49,877 11 «till un collected, in which it is probable the $40,000 spent by Dr, White in 1852, aad ot which the Street Department have no returns, may form the principal part. A. C. FLAUG, Comptroler. STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE: AND Rucuirre oF Crrv Gov res ment, INCLUDING Thowt ACCOUNTH, Mom JcLy 1, 1854, 10 JERE 0, BGG im i Heads of Account. Receipts. Alms House... Aqueduct repair Battery enlargement. Peard 1 Health... “ City Inspector's Department. Coroner's {6 4 pisiny Cleaning Corporation and #lipr.... +. — County contingeocion 7,013 09 Contingent expenses Common Counell .. . 2 00 Cleaning #treets.. |. Klection» Frrors and delinquencies 3,004 25 Fire Depariment.,....... 6800 16 Interest on Revenue Bonds.. 298,708 27 pa Interest on Assessment Bonds = 7,045 96 - Intertate estates, osees 00 10 4067 77 and gar... 272,026 08 5 00 and places 25,288 7h ~ Market« 7 - walty fees 186 00 - POMC. 6. gees 890,117 108 42 Police fire telegrayl 41% 4 ~ Roads aud bighth 5,268 71 _ 291,109 65 ar | 206, Mn 5 12,217 we 26,0072 26 - Gn extate expenses ise Ptathomery.... cece sees ceee 1201 Be Teghue or Beigian pavement 088 EUR eapeaOer eres seee+ OOH WD Kemoving sunken veevels.. 2,086 Faerie? occ esse Statistics! tables, Othicere’ Seer Water piper... Docks uo siipe Docks sod slips, 6 New York Juveni | new work ire Asylum (pay for pupils)... neleuee Pend js of TREO, 1 Revenue Bonds of 14. 3 ~~ ih) 0 ™, eh ah ue, 10H . awe’ Moneys refunded on cales or taxes Moneyr refunded on asneoe ment ralen.. Charges o@ arres re vacant lot if On apeeeement* 2 £ S888 f tuner EREEERS Ba888es & $288 838~.- ~ Dividend on stocks. ewer connections. . Taxen of 1864 and previous 11,887 64 7,179 18 9,720 06 1,604 12 = 1,719 10 _ 40,000 00 - 96,000 00 - 42,745 00 _ 33,554 05 — 4 0/437 00 — Croton water rents, 3,136 00 8,136 00 Interest on taxe * - 48,082 65 Collecting feen, State mill tax = 16,825 04 Building Loan Stock, No. 4, _ 40,000 00 Public Building Stock, No, 3. _ 200,000 00 - 72 00 - 601 00 JERE eee cee cae Public rehool property. Total, sr teer eee ss BLS, 636,271 23 $15,007,162 24 SATEMINT SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF TAXES AND THE On JKCTH FOR WHICH THEY Were Levikp, IN| Tue CiTY AND County or New YORK FOR brea 1855 :— 7 pertant rubject of the public health, involving Wey ecmfort and the general physical well oleae ad Cevaary facile required fr the traanacties ofthe 5 commerce of New York, together with several ether 10+ eg uy ume tion, or power to give, These aubjecta were divided tite eager wh treated soparately a8 follows. og need eee The ; Btading, regulating. Taxable propert ioc Frain gh begs Bar pod pig ate ina interes charged upon the pablic deposi. timates and prialons. Suspended sales for taxes and assessments. Contracts—their fraudulent making. City voilroads and omnibuses. Fnigrantr—thelr proper protection. Police—ita duties, discipline and efflc'ency, Sprig charter sitetions. ie ri Park #peedy com New public bulldinge—City Hall Pubiic schoo! expenses and system, Revision of the ordinances, The docks—their more substantial construction, Non payment of public creditors, Relief to Broadway, Cattle driving in the streets, Dirty strestr—to exiat no longer, in UDDECOsFar, recapitulat men statements with which these top a ri Sheer ig Pee theve, I refer you to the menage itself, Yaa ok that they may receive an early and serious copsi@era- jon. 850. 1855. I cannot, however, inmina this r Alms bouse,.... 000 00 $613,450 sage, without alluding more in aaah Ws tome ore te Aqueduct repairs, 20,000 00 20,000 commendations To, construction, 8,000 — CATTUR DIVING ON TINE STRAIN, Rattery enlargement, 25,000 00 } war one of them, and is still continued, without any or- Board of Health, 10,009 00 ~—-10,000 00 | dinance to provent, notwithstanding my urgent and em. City Inapector’ px 30,000 00 | phatic age, and the numerous complctats to your Cosenant tees 10,000 06 18,000 00 | own . OF thinevil that message nays—''The pre Ceani tive of dr ving cattle through the streets of the city leem- cana 8,000 00 6,000 60 | other evil calling for prompt action. It is am abusd County eo 100,000 00 120,000 00 | which our citizens have submitted te too tong. Jn my Commom Council, on this Common Council will deserve the severect censure, members — 38,000 00 | UF, like is predecessors, it imidly skulks from ite duty om Contingen’ ridding wa of this de nuisance, Not only {a the mon Council,, 10,000 00 — | health of the whole population jeoparded by the unwhole- Toeks and spi 0,000 00 15,000 00 | *eme odors arising from the callection of these ‘animale, Do. (repairs) 45,000 g° 20,000 00 | but it not unfrequently occurs that life, limb and proper 18,000 000 90 ty are destroyed by it.”” , 0 5 srw CITY HALL, Frrors and deli 3,000 00 000 00 | The contemplated new City Hall ls another matter to@ Fire department. 40,000 00 000 00] long delayed. Ite necessity hus become urgent. The ae on reven 90,000 00 9 ted i city ix nen paying large sume Re wae to soommmates ye ¢ — , of the steers, conrta and all the Tntbalate ® ater, 3,000 00 000 00 | public departments are suflering for want of euMeient ands and places 5,000 00 000 00 | room suitable for the transaction fof businews. There ia Lands purchased He no reason why itshould not be taken up and diepored of, mente 25,000 00 ‘ — | and though it is a substantial matter for legulative de- 000 00 12,000 00 | liberation, deserving of long and serious reflection, #till 125 00 150 00 | the twenty months which have elapsed «ince the destry: 1000 00 40,000 00 | tion of the former pubilie buildings ured for thie purpor 4 — 5, ina eufficient time within which to digest and deci ‘ee bry) rd open a plan of construction. a 23000 00 20,000 60 : peaivareeg per regac ie ash : 15'000 00 25'009 00 |. Leall your attention to this subjeot at one likely to bo Do. ‘exp oa 10.000 60 50.000 00 oS tape Bal et bens tor section. In Nowem- ry * 4 yer iy r. Dodge, then Street Cormmiuniouer, Reeth an stenie 30,000 00 50,000 09 | pursuant 'to euthority of the Common Cousailt Se 9,000 60 20,000 09 | MAI A contract for the filling up of the derignated Sunken ves e a 200 G9 | TPAC Of water comprehented ‘withte thejeniargement, Se repairing & cleaning) 10,000 00-1700 00 pret og Ra eg igh peer re ees biol , coy e., fronting the actor wae sree tase ee £00,000 00 yoy $10,000 for the privilege of the Gling, and te be pala speeitied prices for the wall, the work to be entirely, sebiees 3 completed in November, 1865, ‘These are the essential slementy of the contract. Though within two months of Fepaira f 200,000 00 the limited time in which the enlargement is te be eom- aes ‘ ao Jeted, not one-eighth of the work bax been dene, and it Deghue or Belgian pavement, a Tr isapaetbto thet It can be by the date fixed, Ie the ‘Do So 5 267/968 86 meantime that beautiful ee, so long the pride of oar Cousiniaconace ches OM al acai end citizens, bas fallen into almost entire dimume by them, joo ag ronal waar partly in consequence of the travelling of dirt Interior ves oll - bg through it. the filthy and decayed condition of ite ence Fidgea Bawvame Coast a peat gravelled walks, and the general neglect whieh this Judges Sup ” 186,000 00 impolitic scheme of the enlargement has alone produced 126 68 What was originally defended 4s — matter of publi paar Sar sade advantege bas, in my opinion, become a public dis- Arylum for Idiots. ~ grace, and we should no time in rectirying the mie- foxtitndes for Bitod 720 00 © of our predecen by availing ourselves of the ee Torcbk. sae 4 t uppartunity to logaly cancel the agreement alto~ PO ag 402/000 00 #10'400 00 | Rether. The delay of the contractor in completing this Poni bas bs 3 cee yeaa ge | Mork bas caused much surprise, inastnuch as the ne- gb ‘ 148,060 90 ae'ran a | OO# ry Alling haw been attainable in the fan. ft gt i LER b vicinity, upon advantageous terma. I peNiaeien ease 5,000 00 & t a lon dines any reason for Water loan intere 180/089 00 Fs x nag bear a WOM cic cajurts $8,290,180 47 $5.84 nected with the wo aT SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIRP OF POLICE, report of the Chief of Police, from January 1 to 10, 1855, was received, by which it appear Th Jun at the arrests made for the various offences during the above period, by the patrol police, numbered 22 rests made by the re won sheets yee ! ror an follows:—Firet ward, 1,402, Second 1,9 1,262; Fourth, 2,172; Fifth, 1 Sixth 05 seventh, C5) Fighth, 1,005; Ninth, ; Tenth, 1; Fleventh, 1,216, Twelfth, 118, Thirteenth, 615, Fourteenth, 986 Fifteenth, 560; Sixteenth, 725; Seventeenth, 1,060; Bight eenth, 1,151, Nineteenth, 824; Twentieth, 588; Twenty first, 601, and Twenty-second ward, 506, The arrests for arson were 16; assault with intent to kill, 100; aw tault evd battery, 1,557; attempt at rape, 7 tempt to rte: 1A; attempt at burglary, 2 for burglary, 199; disorderly conduct, 3,145) forgery, 21; fighting in OT grand larceny, All; gambling, py intoxi 437; do. and disorderly conduct rly houses, 07; fale pretences, 26 murder, 1 ny, 2,664; pleking pockets, 138 robbery in’ first degree, 44° selling liquor without lf censen, 03; welling lottery polices, 28, violating Cor tion 0: ces, 577; vagrancy, 1,792, and the re for other offences. ‘ihe department has 22 captali Heutenants, sergeants, and 065 men—total, 1,107, The above is but an epitome of the Chief's report. Other officials furnish to the | cred copies of their comma- nications, but in the present inatance our reporter, with out any notification, was obliged to wade through a mars of figures that would puszle Cocker himself. A resolution war offered by Alderman Wiitsamsow cal lng on the Comptroller to furnish a statement ofall the moneys that have been paid out of the City Treasury since January 1865, on account of public works, the ex which is payable by assesament upon the pro t benefitted by the improvements made. Adopted. Aiter some other business the Board adjourned to Thursday next at 6 o'clock, BOARD OF COUNCILMEN. ‘Thik Board held their fitat meeting for the month o Feptember, at their chambers, in the City Hall, the Prest- dent of the Booed, DD, Conoven, in the chair, The mi nutes of the last meeting were read and approved. Petit ions were first iu order, but the mort important of these presented w petition of Joseph Churebull, ark ing for @ license to run eight stages on Bloomingdale road frow Manhattanville to Thirty-ninth street, and privilege to run extra stage to High Bridge, This was referred to Committee on Roads. Resolutions being next in order, Councilman Onsy of- fered the followiny Kesolved, Tbat the Committee of Investigation in rela tion to the charges against the Street Commissioner be empowered to employ counsel, This resolution was laid over. ‘The following was then offered, and also laid over-— * Resolved, That the Comptrolier be, and he ta hereby empowered to make temporary arrangements for the re moval of the offal, kc. from the city, at the lowext posal ble the seme to continue tu force until the Common Council has otherwise ordered and directed Acommunieation was received from the Clerk of the Board of Counciimen, stating that the board had passed | upon 765 papers from the lat of January to the let of September, kes that the beard had In the seme time held 71 meetings, and 86 bills had received the joint action of the two boards. The following meneage was then received from his honor the Mayor, « few per of Mt reed, anda motion then de dnd carried that the further reading ve dinpensel and one thourand coples primted for the use of the boudl— MATOR'# MIBGAGE. Mayor's Ornce, New Yous To 19k Hoyonante tin Commox Corwen + Gori —Op the th uary last I made « commu nication to the Common Cownell, containing several re commendations, which, at the time, appeared to meet with genera) public approval. The | recommendations comprehended many Important reforms. They covered wide Beld for legislative action, stating peveral serious and pointing © , respectfully, to call yous attention to that mes ‘well as to others subsequently made by me, in wtions for lke purposes have beon offered, yet, have uot leen acted upon, or even Tam aware that many subjects appertain ‘ daily aris cout ingent questions, electing indi vival Interests, “are contineall pring upon your attention, ond that much time fe devoted to them. yet thelr insignificanee, as compared with the great subjects telerred to Wy me, involving indirectly the and disectly the comtort ant health of this whole peop dept. 3, 1855, ferry ylere and Ww ment, {® authority t thon from Mr, Cornell to me, | acddrenned @ bette warked D, to which twarked F. cil, the Comptroller, bas precluded any part acceptance of a propos highly advantageouste the treasury, (3 Comminioner imterpore! his wuthority to prewens, the proper mode of removal. 1 | charter no dowbt givi | upon any, legal or equitable at ult. Paddressed commu- and to Mr, Conk tin, the con- one Be RR ONE wh me io ction and bearing of the contract thus briefly enlled your attention to thie mat~ ve it in your hands for aueh further action we im y be required, It ie earcely meces fall extent of my own powers will bo protection of the interest of the oltien RAMON AL OF OFFAL is enother topic of much bmport treaury, The city has paid withio $200,000 for the removal of offal, &e., and ts ring an obligation of about $1,000 per month for the same, without contract and in violation of the charter: and what further large expenditures for thir purpose way be lo walting for us fs pot ss yet developed On the 6th ult, the Comptroller sent & communication to the Common Council, encl proposals from L, R. Cornell, to remove all the dead aniwals, offal, &s., trom the city, free of charge, and offering to give wufficlent re ul performance of the irned for the month, eolaily to time over curity, {a $60,000, tor the faithf nil ad contracts The Common Ci without takin the 16th ult, marked C, which wa» subsequently backed by { the mureties, Ou the reoeipt of He applica wt K. Faq. City Inspector, stating, that im my jadg- should Oe it, a copy of which i# annexed, have received a reply, annexed, The speedy convening of the Common Coun- hom the subject had been It in now before you, and permit me to erge the thin ne free from objections had 20 me to add, that Teannot consent that farther eume Rid fervice which cau be procured gratuitouly. bere can be little doubt that Mr. Cornell i# eatirely com- petent to perform the coutract if given to him, and the Vasetion be tenders are guutionen of Wa knows sibility, Permit me to urge that immediavw action taken on this subject. 1 have no disposition to ‘take the responsivility’ when the legislative or je a) proc can be obtained to warrant ection, but in thin case, an in others, If needs be, it phiall be aamumned, believing that e raving of fifty thousand dellare yer ao- num to the tax payers of this city « sufliciont justifies tion for the exercise of @ little more of the “ue mam power” Ey Hl Mf PTREET CLEANING, This is another branch of the public service now being perfermed ia clear violation of the charter and le a mae ber so far an expenditure is concerned, at an enormous outlay to the trea © history of the matter ia brlefty told, end ix (in the commencement of my term of offien, I found few of the then comtractors per- pining their work secording to the conditions, the ie@ at which the } my duty, in which resaltes in an shendonmemt by mame of the contractors, and & withvirawal of the contracts Commissioner of Streets from others the Street e taken was the excuse offer- be properly ewept by the machines ny propised to do the Ceaning Under Lo ment, they beld porsesion of the Viret, Secoud, Fe ‘ ond Finth wards, until the fret of July, portamng work entirely to the satiatuction of the reudgete persone doing business there, and et an em price a* compared with what it ls now comting. vere willing (o contiows this work at the sasee prices, and to have extended \\ to the whole city, hed net 3 Tile thie prwer, He ferved them to relinquish the work Vn the meantime the Comsubeneonmr continard to clean nearly the whole tty Without any ovn- tract, or any restriction as to the er A @oney ot ereater which, in the eget ie three thas that which Wasson MaPNY wnchet @ Ons bere deta the work for, and ins Wetter and more ner. The Comptrolion and myself pepe ed minsoner (the eomtrset year Leing about to ) te atvertine for proposals (4 clean the etreete eeaperity, | 9c te; there wae cording to law. Tala wae reluctantly siternative, estimates were received, ll the districts Mowers. Manith, Heckel bs chovld caure thee rejection altogether, if, in their | ‘or neerl Co, consideration, others vital in thelr comequences | were the lowest bidders, ere to be ‘peglected or overlokel. Government | nences governing the + for all, not the few, [te Vewings sre to | plied with tm all reepects be disteibuted = for © general welfare Specie’ | eward'e them the contracts, which was dome by the eglelation for the sdvancement or protection of inti | Compulesioner om the 12th TL be the rtinancee terest, bf rife a je ing ‘howe 8 sod, under the opintom of Mr, =o ene istic to the thevry of | ooee the contractors were entitied to the execution of the wtrimental to the public | comtract by the head of Se depertwent ant the o'6 pomension of the wtreee, od even where special ing nothing om wh ay ree nt 7 Your sanction ls required to ch for tive public a4. reterme, which it s bs i 5 . cover it by the chart mend, and by begitines! there recente: yt be T pegret to ad4, that w Popaeeons mace Ci we w vet few exreptions, the taany os far cine bolding thie fice have not been wil in your proceedings, mach lex considered or stupid. Vertwit me, therefore to nak with great reepect and Aefflerecee, that they te aoe taken wp for serious deliberation The menage of Jan. 11 covered nearly afl the wubjrete of moniipe) government epon whieh you are callet to ect, vin, — The pul finanere, with recommental as yerditeres ‘he stoppege dition Of petty and ver-thwe bur theme vyon the aad the entire eradication of » clare of whe ever te te fewud around your chambere sud the Parete’* Ceo coggenene with seleremen ty tbe ey!