The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1864, Page 9

- SUPPLEMENT TO THE HERALD. : NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH li, 1864. 9 - a wee ” oe facronse in expenditures ae s00n as it was accom: | 4¢r which they claim that the Common Oouncit Bave 80 } work materia) and service under she Devlin, Conover | 30 will be seen by the above etatement that the ceunt 140,000; allowed............ 200, pedi | Dower 1o reduge or change thoestimate of the sums tbey | aog Tayior rule in that department. The ‘mest pemathe | © agaia responsibie for an stvapce ef Seerly @ bail mail. Fh ery frye eH rented istimated and asked for. Tequire for echoo} purposes. able feature of tho whole inattér being the development | lieu of dollare over expenditures of 1862, & beavyad- | Government—Incronse asked , (Rarmeer2 soWING JH DETAIL NXPENDITURES On AccocT op, MTATENIN slonnNd, skew Oi Caaen Agu YEAR see ie idas,sMbough We city bad been evel and apoa, whon it le considered that the inorease in 1861 | | $10,906: decronsod $1,004 ' a evident! s year wae nearly one mi vo hua. ti - APPROPRIATIONS OVER WHICH TRE COMMON COUNCIL sRB Average ‘Btreet Commissioner asserts ho was —_ ry upon to , dred thousand dollare, apa in 1802 eighty three thousand Miooaoa Ch “decteanea” furpiab iy eridenes Lat moapy of ihe ones, BETES b, of | vix <apephe voventy three Spon oe Ofty-one eens, 77,200 68. | course, was en! reow who, bokdi mak regal rease im Only three yeare of ever | Com \— oat frac sh, nettane aA Rael bee wbitocate Conaret” ture of dir omrniscione inseees eae Pont —Inarenae, <i Ee Ae Daltoce of the increase consisted of the new iteme of | their expenditures about one hundred and five thousand disbursement. The Central Park Com Commissi.pers for laying out the upper mate att the Commissiouers of Charity aud Correetion, thé Pelies. Commissioners, the Harbor Commissioners.’ the Pilot Commissioners, the Commissioners tor the Revision and Correction of Assessments, all perform their function. without reference to the Cominon Councll—the only pro- perty or legally chosen represeutatives of the of ‘this city—who, as before stated, are beld responsible (or the Of these respective commissions, yearly expevee, viz:—Interess on Central Park awards, | ¢0Mare: while the Departments,” which were, previous possessing the slightest contro! over ther aereetierestani tectuene | to 1863, partiaily under the control of the Common Coun. . - getr,soa 19 | Bot recog yoy hear pede ‘Can apy fair minded man look at this exhibit for the | ¢il, but which are now, by the Act ef 1863, placed en- Independent commissions, * asked by them. It is true they certain! mates to the Common Council; and if ite act to their requirements, oo conforms well and good; if pot, application ia K 0} JaouMNGOK “mnpésy aUqdIO d}1oqQIe) UBWEY ear, which ia simply a tranecript from the Comptroller's | tirély beyond their supervision, are responsible for an in- Jecorde, and not choserate the Common Couuell trom the. | erease of nearly seven hundred thousand dollare, Or thle Poy acy grep? pespenesy sa.ihe shave bielesstole * desvquit aapundes **" {geo Jo pavog “siuenbayeq erneanr Jo £304 rf Y ‘i801 sete riser ytenncsrea ates an | mean cites te Race | gus scuehe 7 een ie apna | Sige ee aun the reepopeibility for increased taxation rests, thousand dollars. The balance w di between the | Cons ask torbine, Lov Pune Independent sane actibe. ofthe cliy exthoribion being entirely lgnured te ded 197,681 EXPENDITURES POR 1860, Mayor's Office, Corporation Counsel's (ffice, Croton Aque- win | eq TBeswbole amount expended on city and county account | duct Hoard, and City Inspector's Department, an may be Sere Dear iit, O4, for reasons to be found lse- remarkal for 1860 was $0,767,100 44, or $472,638 38 lean than 1850, | seen Dy statement of expenditures of departments. | Dut vour commilice have vee ned eee ou 190 208 02, though | apd considering the pecullar character of a portion of thé | A magnificent compiiment to thie last additioval | 40 altempt a Peliclion beeen as indicious sed wise pole increase be bayer 1860, 18 te jugs and to be expected | experiment tn special legislation for the purpose | Comotrolor, ‘The C ed on the estimates of the may | that the expenditures would fail” off the succeeding year. | of economizing our almost unendurable expenses. It 4 7 ‘ommon Council have increaagd thelr the premises. * The Police Commissiouers are possessed of despotic and unlimited powers over the lives and property of out citizens, and are responsible to no lowal, if to any authori i the exerciso of such unrestricted powers. Evi the com Of our loca! militia, in times of riot or dis. “GHOs be ined by the average attendance of scholars, yet | }¢ should undoubtedly have been lower, much lower; and. | bas beon argued, and possibly believed ; ems your committee's report, about that fa iteolt does not seam to datermae ibe amount of | for the purpose of compariavs, ahd, Maclag out where abe | bave not rervoosily Taduired lato the acta, that the'ep- $110 31°24" ahs reso wil be founa {0° cousiat ma logaily chosen represeutatives of the espe of. the city expenditures, increase was for she year 1860, and who. was reaponsible tions from which those expenditures are made are | new appropriation far national parnosos, inserted for * | having pn» more the right to employ it {hin have tbe i iazales we enetean atiotanne 26 onhainte. anaes ns jfer ey me i take ‘fppendinazen for the year 1068 ihe in eho sonnet at eae Counel } mbo bave the wal be Sead eno 10 $120,000, and it portion of it | people thomselves. Tue Commiesiouers of Charities and ; wards of $71,000, while in 1602 and 1863, wish an Yecreased | favendiiuree for 1800, | Pleasant popilar fallacies that partioular friende of ane | ™este, which your committee deom just and prover. | tus'ntwon departeaents of the ety: the Contras Park 2 aS Sax SE attendsnce of Rearly scholars, the expenditures.| Count: “a Council have iadustriously lroulated hero and | , J reviewing the foregoing analysis of each year's ox- | Commissioners control sue principal park or pleamure = Fo & S88 By 2) Sete tare eae cies Recents oy | © shoals asuemadtoey, reenact | Cen casa" sseetosietnatiened” | Smet em fant wa waa te, , bs ty ant ives, or, it just \- * vr in H ahie ,| more foretbly. 1801 thas of eee ee evans Cr oe eas ea tepeen | Marrerence ‘ofthe Sie ogilaure ia ihe sathiy | "UrScn for apg out tho unper, park of ine oly fx Slit B 88118111 BSELBN1 +! Teo some 14,000 while the increase in ex. f ‘there tay have beon some force im thie crit. | °F, this municipality ie a subject of surpassing | nues'on the aint end of the land, ina tanner t0 twit = 3 ae = , ib the aualysie whep the heads oflepartments were subject to.re. | terest, and te alarm and apprehension in the | themscjyes, totally rogardless of any local control; the Te g Ss E & SSS- | of expenditures as published by the Eaucatioi dy the Common Council; bas certainly notmow, | font weve citizen of this metropolis. Special legisia: | Harbor and Pilot Commissionece claim and. exerelse ex- z Bz Fy 8 8 in 1862, page 40, abow that in those particular they are’ beyond their control. The facts aresim- ? ly when of an adverse character, is, under | ciusiye jurisdiction over onr harbor, and the wharf, pler Shih ii By ia PEP Yi ae ee Yours there were any extra outlay a to sehool edifices-= Tacrease 1900 over 1068-5... y these The Common coael appropriations are not Be Tera Dus when Wines aaa productive of | and slip property of the city: while the control over the- ; wa 4 jpop examination we find thie increase aby moans standard wi people nur e interes atrects and public highways within our corporate Hmite, 8). sseseaes2 2 gen Bupervbore’ tacresse--Oba Sy the Leslslntetos an even, those {2 | quences must be toriovs, ant posited at trevcay | suppned tobe, vstet 1 Tou n the Mayor Avlermes and ~ o © i ; | terminate io the most deplorable results.” * Arlehaiure, nad thelr aluitat eae fe Be . seer expenditures nearly a mil- “vanced upon by the State Legislature, and their almoat exclusive BIB S2esBShes3 Bes 22s | Hi0D, OF vers ses (985,720 40 devas ta for an rachicg, now to alarmingly general. of legislating | use parceled out to railrgad monopolist, mot only agaiont ° B18, S883ae53%s! 1111 sss Ree Repent aren Peed, 60 Fae eee eeecdiinneee ae aber mene | New York, by the Gtate authorities, is of but compare. | “Me, Manes; but against the most earnest protests of the eo of abilities, amounting 10 between two aud | tively recent origin, and, since ite inception, has increas | “tho statemonts tn the. first part of the report exhibit » BSERBSSER Fi yey tt i Dundred dollars. These are facts | ¢¢ witha rapidity fray wonderful. If the same rate of | tne agency by which the taxation on real and personal g geeeue4 Ba geehes oh your committee doom it wise and just to | jnorotes lp observed. Ave years more will entirely ob- | property Ho this city is inatoened Ua,tive prevent aieeaine: ; BBss Es Beam \denly sink one half or state, not only for the purpose of calling attention to the the small vestige of self-government yet left to | extent, and at the sime time show how utterly pow: subject, in order that the evil may be remedied, but for | ‘Bepeaple of this her purpose of correcting a false and erroneous frat notable {ustanoe of such interference ocourrea | the cit¥ authorities are to provent or remeity (n> @ Blsi sessszesRi il bove mentioned, sud about $115,000 each year, and yet #l ere oy wn by the state- mates asked for steadily increase, as shot the bi which our entire population th Nain. Be Eure jag sch ee | mentabove, Impreetion {nthe public mind concerning the responsi pos ey when an act wag passed in reference to the then But if the increase. tn the aieetak or eenaelitark for & SESEESSES akSa28S By referring to the various items of tures, as $1,707,860 68°] ility ot the Common Council. OF the excess in expend}, | Cblel of police, by which it was sought to him from | the government of the city is a source of just complaint $ rease has - rl a ex or ler J in resorting to reyolutionery measures in ordor to elsiseserssegillilizssssee | o pe ec eae Bead ak a Spon Wat a teres pee honors to live ones, and other ox. | the disaffection of ono of the members af the then Board | tree themselves*from tho blight thnt has fallen jon expences,” In Rees the Aldermen, who could not be induced to take advantsgo. them, and which ia squandering in unchecked expenditure paren amount paid for salaries was.. $214,469 78 | whole amount paid for the expense of the entire olty and Opes directly chargeable to the war. (See City Expen- was in keeping with tho other acts of spoliation ically stated. and.that is, that out of the seven : 1 ‘4 enacted by the Legislature of the State against millions expended on city account there was nearly a million of dollars for war purposes. This amount deduet- ed from the City Budget for that year would have left the expenditures on city account the same as in 1862, The year 1868 may be considered as more fully and completely iljustrating the supreme folly and pernicious effects resulting from special legislation in increasing It, { christened ‘+ Arrearages” and ‘‘Juagments,” were reduced this year, one from about half a million to $17,000, and the other from nearly $800,000 to about $100,000. 4 a rererence to ine other iter net iecrsene it will be : foul ag above stated, there are certain polisnon year. | accounts wt te ame Of the Common Council that ,000, oF neariy 160 per cout | in any other account, as will be seen upon examination of | Pare. coop oniy ton tte taisteaunce and. goyornmen, bat esentatives and law makers in the Common Council juced to the level of dependents upon the will and caprice, or rather envy and malice, of a legisfative body, whose members, chosen from the Sevate and Assembly districts of the State, aro interested only iu the advance- ment and welfare of their own circumscribed or insignifi- cant localities, and who, in order to promote such ad z denier of means 80 unworthily obtained t litical we ~ = In 1864 the amount paid for salaries was....1,163,000 00 ty government dur! itures, ‘*City Contingencies,’’ Comptroller's Ro; for iy ined to Remove & pol and irresponsible extravagance the moneys of the pe ple op BSEeasess S mwSaSss. | Hor very nearly an average increase each year of | Cocsuteeaione was over cnc tall tae Goccea ce gota | 1863). Fifty’ tbougend dollarg Goonied to the opponent, of this city. Provious to the creation of the Toard of # 283 BSE! i; #3 SESLse | $100,000. 136 59. A 5 opie uy of of *« Catholic syfaia,”” ng? phat veriod, oF only ten years ago, the attempt | supervisors of this county by the Logislature of 1857, the 8825 aeeee 8 Seehe25 To 1863 the expenditures, under the head of “Incidoutal | “Tt must also be borne in mind that thedecrease ot | sod eighly thoad@hd dollars will be found to proceed then do Inauspiciously made to control the Polico Depart: | annual amount raised by tax for county purposes exceed- weeag. | , Expenses.” were avas sheen $56,072 18 | nearly halt a million dollars as compared with 1600, in- | frOm another effort at economical special legislation, under | Ment of this olty hae been, with more success tried tipon | ed tn no one year the stim of $2,000,000; the estimate for SSeS | Add “expenses through shop?’ properly ‘tin- stead of 1858 as above, is a decrease on city account en- | the head of “Advertising for the Common Council,”’ more eh ondaall tha.cther daparaeete of the city govern- | the present year is ucarly $7,009,000—being a recular . cidental,”” for the same year......... 945 88 | tirely. It will also be found that thoee voracious. mon. | epecially alluded to velcw. ment, ag well as nearly all its important and valuable | angual increase of over $700,000 from the time of the oc B2eeesStst 2 e aetatase Manincft Cth Nie’ Visaten, sters, born, reared and fattened during the honeymoon of |: ae olution, there eer renee res Jn connection with Lire ee) jae the psec se and Tene vey or; antration of the Board until the were ee ay Dee s ¢ Zea ing @ total e+ 1 it A expenditures for er y 0 The creation o! e Count islatwe iy ES8Se SERES 8 3 Se88s33- In 1864 the expenditures, under Ba ere eae ie eee emphatically eta 5 even | 2phere, is nearly deprived of @ local gdvernment, and its er the municipality of New York. It was totally unnecessary to the well being and good government oF the county, as was ¢omonstrated by the manner ig which the affairs of the county were managed” previous to the Act of 1857, and wis passed only with a view of de priving the ‘citlzeus of tho city of all control over the als”? are 8 8! $sassseeses! 81 S11 8888sssF | Add expen: * Advertising for Common Counc!l.-—1he control of this total for 18 + Bppropriation was given to the Mayor and Comptroller es Gaal ae of f by # shaciel cippea.io the Tax levy of 1863; the result, an There does not appear to be any no! 3 See explavation in detail, page —. the analysis referred to, unless it be in * Suppl “on ae dha eeniech react: vancement, would sacrifice the city of New York, and [ disbursements made by the county officers. ga], ik? Consngeucies. sirsot Commisstoner. oxpendod Depository.” ato, unions it be in Suppiiee throngd ihe Silerest 06 ie Tees Hires. tex net gattaes Ha roan aon reached its cima in that year, as it | ery interest located in it, As practical ‘results may be | © the mode of clecting this mégel lovislative body is m $27,040 06 of tho appropriation during 1850 See Appen: | Your committee do not desire to say that this incroase |.aid very materially to in the epitiines 1200 | wae succese’ul in placing every department and commis. | considered better arguments than speculative theories tt } burlesquo on the elective franchi#, half its members ar mone bso ‘ommissioner's Report, 1869, Page 16. yearly may not be legitimate, and possibly, proper; they Croton Aqueduct Departm: re responsible for ® very,| Sion entirely and completely beyond control or responsi. | ™Ay Dot be amiss to introduce here a statement showing | elected, the other half appointed, with a view of py seat onan nee expended $10,634 42 of tie appro | simply feel it their duty to show to theircolleagues in the | Jarge increase this year, 'e{ bility. To any fair minded, truthfully obzerving citizen, amounts expended for police purposes and relative in | serving a political equilibrium in the Beard, which ie Moners Report, 1206. tans QPhendix A, Strect Commis | Board, and to the citizens who groan under the weight of ‘vill thus be seen that out of an increased taxation of | the experiment of having two legislative bodies assumiug | CTMs® eed year since 1853:— composed of twelve membera, six eReted und alx ap- Street Coaiah i page 8. dead increased taxes, the true source of their grievance, and | nearly one and three quarter million of dollars ag com. | equal powers over identical local interests, of creating Year. Tolal Amount. Inorease, | pointed for a period of eix years each, one heing alected Hon daring 186). en Aer ernyded, $500 of the appropria. | piuce the responsibility where it properly and justly be- | pared with 1858 the Common Council can by no possible | independent commissions rot subject to the control or And one being appotated each year Tt’ erouot he called Report, 10g 1861, See Appendix ,Street Commissioner's | longs. The increase this yewr,as will be seen by the | means be Hold accountable for more than $172,000, as | supervision of either legislative body; empowering them a representative body, as one haif of i's members are ap- ‘Street pied Se od { S | above statement, 18 nearly $350,000. they have not the slightest control over Commissiong | to make th timates of needed expenditures, and com pointed by the Mayor, aftor the formality of being bat- ‘alae ee ee, Se ae COMPARATIVE PAYMENTS. or County Budget, whero the great increase really je. | Pelling legisiative action whether those demands were just lated for by a mivority of the votes cast for the office, Report, 1862, page 13, Pent AvStrect Commissioner's | | The following table gives the details of the payments | Of this increase’ it may be eald with truth, as may be {OF unjust, as in the ease of the Police Commission, Board pre and fhe langLby term of ax years fr wile | hoy rompent } © wi a 0 he ni al "1 y ve made by the Board of Education duriag | seen by reference to statement above, that it consista | Of Fducation, Central Park Commission and Almshouso brew Fe eae yeti ot” the United btx\ Gait eadeear Onde @PaTEMEST s10' MOU: s o1 WING AMOUNTS EXPENDED BY DEPARTMENTS or | each of the last twelve years:. principally of donations to charitable institutions, extra. ; Department; of king the departments, who are totally indifferent to the wishes or opinions of those they expending istworn four and five millions of dol- me es]essssii { ;, THB OMY GOVERNMENT, CONTROL OF WHICH HAS EEN = = = ordinary expenses of Board of Health snd expenses grow- . ZAKI ROM Ti coxON COUNGHL, BY SUNCLAL LEGISLA- #2 ,0 82728982, jgEEs2 5 { fog outot creation of now elgil court, Bighth district, and | larecvery year, entirely independent of the 00 | ote sok te County as tiey are totally iremponeTui'te (See Laws of 1803, chapter 68.) segeeestes eee Aaa] + other items which ‘may be observed apoa examiaatich, | Common Conc, with the power assumed ot spending 3 45,028 00 | Co fanliga power fo" the feithtol, pertirmanee of theke RE = &: S8ggce E Beat & HY age kale ee Prisiad: although fa direct violation of the charter, would + 1896,120 67 GhOre6 | 'S3ues. Je the expenditure! of meaaye ae ne F Eg B: ies. +H e728 cee 8 t $4,854,581 73 Baye been utterly condemned upamthe slightest examina: | 14 js aggnmed that tbe appropriations asked for by whe | Provertyof the county, thers is total lad oF reapenel- : § H Ft EES SEBS Be a8 5 26,004,803. 06 tion of the effects resulting from 1&8 practical application | neads of this commission are now entirely beyond the | jem Bridge Commissioners, and other similar commis- gs He SePess rH gee ——————$11,549,884 79 | in the above named instances, Yet, these are really the | controf of the County Boards. Theseotion of the act wpon | gions for aisburaing the f of the eounty, and an evi- 8 ig: g § eB BPs 8 facts of the case, aud they cannot he comsroxeriad. With | which this acsumption is based will be found im chapter | Gonce of their integrity is to be found in the fact that the Bi: peeera: ! . $8,871,500 68 Dut one honored exception, the only effect his been to | 259, section 58, laws of 1860:— county expenses have been increased jn a ratio stitt ; 3 gi8 24 ry ¥ "6,306,114 86 increase enormously instead of reducing the secrogaio As the Common Council appropriate only about $25,000 | eater than of the city, while both combined present, z = >E 3 =m 9,767,705 44 | expenditures of the govétnment, as hes beon couclusive- | annually out of nearly $2,000,000, it 1s hardly necessary | fr the present year, the aggrevate sim of $13,930,120 88. 23 5 Ee ly shown by the preceding marian’, But Cheer these | to consider hore how far the act is obligatory and binding. } of this enormous umount to be taxed upon our citizens a : é Increase 1861 Over 1860............+.. $1,781,679 35 | results were ee en eros tas ahd Its binding force is, however, practically ackaowledged | tne present yoar the Common Council is direct!y respon- : F ré i Examination shows this increase to be ~ iz be polly and wickedness, tH ‘your all | DY, the Board of Su sible only for the expenditure of the sum of $1 240,063 02, § ; made up as follows, viz:— rther illustrate its. + It will be observed by the above statistics.that the } ag will be seen by reference to page — of this report, the 5 Supervisors—county ai the city departments were made independent of the Com: | cogt of maintaining the police force of the county im | dinerence between that amount and tho amount comtain- tures—the extraordinary mon Council, and ostepsibly for purposes of economy, | creased very abruptly in 1350— little over $854,000— | od in tho city eetimates, being expended by Boards or one of the appropriations under its control, providing for the. tof giving publicity to the actions of the Board, was placed under the guardianship of the Mayor and Com: ler. In order to demonstrate this beyond all cavil we have only to turn to the statemonts showing the amounts expended by the fo oreio. for 1863, to be found above. and continues steadily to tocrease, up to and including the estimates for this Phos until the proposed expendi oue Of 1858, a poriod of six years, nearly $1,000,000, or about $160,000 each yoar. This may be attriDuted, in @ great degree, directly to lawa in creasing their powers and making them more indepen dent of the legisiative Branch of the city government Commissions, over which the Common Convel! have no control, ‘The ammount of tax assorsed for city and county pur- poses ig given above, with a view of exhibiting the sum properly chargeable to the city government, and the sum over which it hag no control,and which is dishba set by Hoards aud Commissions appointed by the State Faxisia- ~ 8 EE beeese | ‘OST 000"9 00 a00'¢e8 ob rosfcun’e jeelete'ees'y Jo) Lor‘ert‘es \f-ce-ce eee eerste yay Sliitgs §_s8883 $185 __ icant poet ay Pehl Cody passed in various Yoars since 1968, and more especially | ture. “Both amounts are 1acluded in one rate of taxation, io acl mentioned above. e juthor- g = ee Decreaso—Almshouse....+,.- 76,824 00 1 1n completing the avalysis of city ana county expendi. ie sce remvrentteed rani asucl tecrente inate rate. 3 SB SS SB8BsR g oF 2 a 81,791,679 88 | Tomon uncil; also the amount expended for the ie et eee caenen mong tocrease will be | The error is a very natucal one, and je, ip : 3 3 S888 FY 38 *Independent commissions. remarkable in. | Year 1808—the year power was given to the ““Compéro! found In the, following -stacessent, sbowtag amount 0° | consequence, the more didicul) #0 corresh Jus 3 The continued extraordinary and very Ne in. | ior and Mayor of the city of New York” to te pai . mount paid to in- | tice could’ be done to thé corporate. authori- ss31ss crease in county expenditures, under the control of the | (en papers’? to be used as Corporation fh a stitutions through State laws:— ties, however, were such intended, by makiog siili $8 8 8838 Board of Supervisers, cannot fail to attract attention. | special act of the Legislature:— ‘ ‘State T cach rate nepatate, or at least separating the city rate 2 r er etree neta Goa ee ck q i Appeopriation School Pur. ; fom that of the out and Imposing A separate rate of & cause of our . pores. Inatitutions, | tax for each. tt would be then appa! at agianoe, 2¢ S pa at = eighty two thousand nine hundred and pinety.one 0 os ily, seeGs = SEF | gl elx. 2 sapssezeked 2 | § | Sets Wiener incmretmy gerone warn Tranter, Eependuurs, Liab Hrtao ts ad FY 3 8 BE 2 855 Slee s ttt tad 3 of little rising fonr millions and ahalf doliars. Of course $24,730 18 730 18 _ 398/905 37 rly belonged. ad s 3) $3 38 SeREEE 3S no one for an instapt will attempt to inspugn or reflest in 20,000 00 19,706 39 = 300,408 98 4,120 00 | | Your committee are actuated solely by the desire (o esess & $85 Sl Sul 83 sesgsRscessos | the remotest degree upon ‘spotiess coaracter of the 52,000 00 Soe oe me 43'160 00 | exbibit, in a manner readily to be undersiond, the gros } YT __ | Sia of aparinsfe ooibg oer te anated we? aan. Se” dons | rie, het ads se is cone an el > isin tes of e ve : 2 ~|2 sis statement of their oxpemditures, as fn dhe county ao 80:70 00 | between the two gaverumenis. A Libbral, wiso and just 3 =asB8 = gos 288 Ble SNS SBRSERSBEH g % | reports, the increase appears 0 consist in items like the | Total for 1868... 531250 00 | State governtnent would encorage tue growth and pros | ee: z Bees F ¥ F hs ae z Suwob eee = following, re. It will be found that the departments alone in 1863 2/320 B18 18 59.259 00 | perity of this. the prive:nal sea pert of the State, the Bi BBs » da 3188 =ba3 8 RESERE ‘<Advertising,” “Commissioner of Records, &c.," ““Har- | increased these expenditures $672,440 01, and on account F326'18 13 Seaseee | | aac Pcity othe coutinent, and the zi ses28 8 SBE ‘a ° ersaé <8 fom Bridge,’ “Interest on ‘Officers and Wit- | of ‘advertisiog for Common cil" they were increas war dlonemtstis pos | busivess ceutre of the Western hemisphere, Woon the = s s 8) 381 88 3a! S8esanssss neseea’ oes,” “Police Fund,” ‘state Te .xes,’” and ed about $30 a TGS ‘Total... $14,827,229 23 429,070 00 | Siate was governed by shenaees eke ton; y « a }, Possib! an ir ex- fo have singal 8 ve a city— 5 iam Seward, Silas ie a 5 “¥y wan 2 2 £ Samthense rides oy the peogrens aod development otwnce bas bean. sodas Year, Toial. br, Decrease. the other great men and master minds that controlled = 3 $ £ : e “ ‘The Alms House Commissioners this year reduce their | marvel to the world—the intelligence and enterprise and directed its de-tiaies in former tines, nnd raised it Ss} = 2 s 8 g = ae Kd 3 E 28s euceeutehe $ 3 expenditures over $76,000, and have contimued to reduce of ite citizens bas whitened every #ea with ite og FETT u av from the condition of & provice to the pro teaition of & Wikyy them every yoar up to and including last year. it | {ncreasing its wealtl ition to almost iret .f — | the Empire State of this union of States,no such petty, % 3 3 E3 8 3 ed 3 8 8 ey 38 332 BESERE = acts in this J eaasnion deseeee J and honored oly in. the world: whose noble, unsel(ish charities, and 710,208 91 =} no euch contemptible buckstering as we now witfess, si seaeee & SSB | ee, eaueums 2a notice from every honest and wall intentioned citizon. | institutions devoted to learal od art com _ 229,549 24 | and have witnassed curing every session of the = SII18 8 SBI SkSSSssSSS Sl | Rive reduced their expenditures notwithstanding | mand, as they certainiy deserve, the 100 of all: & Lad — } Legislature Cor the past few years Inthe private affaics a | 2 the demands that an tucreasing fon eet inet city, whose je bave Commie ecm i ens. by Tye CS =} or the cozzorate authoring wt ithe ity, would have 7 5 ly create, from §730.250 im 1859, to $550, in 5 virtue of cl ti quarantecing ral laws, 3 —} deen tolerated mu couraged, 3 i 7 seB2 S$ 888 | s/ 3 BBS-NBTenasese z 3 Uright, expressive and creditable record. that, while they gavo the largest proper liberty to the 405,338 Uy —J nities ‘sought. to jutermoddie in our’ local govern- zl 82 ; e ay F % se BRSEBESEERERE Bin 3 ‘The Increase of $176,810 79 In the uments iscavsed | greatest number, always afforded protection and justice wan | ment. On the contrary, these men, 1m the exoautive hair ee RET Be eee eee cea u |__| Suis vint tote watcran teu'homs tite | euutnaemeteetewmtn stetiieett: | ey cemeecc | Tqriaris Gama | sitaenunh seat te etn mary, to Tage sser & see BULLI 85 SeSessasusses ©. | Sieitoss 73, ana several other items of triting account. | yolopod by themselves; yet submitting temely to en. | Totel...$10,392,074 18 2,217,107 18 220,549 24 couraged and fosterod.the growth and. proepert- Zz is stock, amounting to quite $3,000,000 was created by | croachments upon chartered rights and privileges It-will be observed that the increase in the above item | ty of promiaing and rapidlyadvancing city of New = : ws | e $a = the late Comprolier, for the purpose of “balancing the | jast enactments with an it humilily and resigna. | of city taxation is over $2,000,000 im ten years, oran | Lork—a,city that then did, and still doéa pay into the ¢ 8 % SSSSVEZeASNSS Corporation Books.”* tion perfectly. le. Nor is this all. With | average incroase of $219,583 68 per anaum: State treasury about oneinth of the eutiy taxes for 3 + ipAS 01 ps f ~asss & = #8 3 = 88 = geseetrres = 4 Tt will again be observed that out of tho enormous in- | enactinents alfectiog and virtually depriviog them of | During successive years this city has, one year after | State purposes—aud m..ny 0! the great worksof the stale : Fy 8 st crease in ditures for 1861, of nearly two mil- | th arter, comes that swift follower—usurpation, or | another, lost the contro! of its county government, the | were deviced simply with that object In view. hey ob- 3 3 3 A 8 § 8 ¥ 3 alitt $2 sesagsanssete & Hons of dollars, the Common Council are only respoosible } government by Irresponsible bodies, commissions and Police Department, the Almghouse Departmont, the con. | served the most rigid regard (or the chartered rights, i se # see Slt $8 sesagssessss= S"_ for one hundred and forty-two thousand dollars, and con- | partments, who, entirely independent ‘of the people trol of aod jurisdiction over its etrests, (ts public parks, | privileges and immunities grauted to it berore the adop- i Bissss5s 8 8238 | 2 : | sists principally in a to charitabie institutions | responsible to a loca! legislative body, squander aware mage pr sbi pone ee the Cogs 4 = bd soreen OMe tacks sates! Sieg nq ludes urred here | = s ‘tainments to bassies. d the people's mongy without eheck or sa’ogua! goss Py ropert: a fit or supposed , c Mi § qui aee 1863, veparreh x ate s 8 Ss neuss.a258 5 = z aa wali Ecruxverogse ron 1862. oy kind. ‘ te « benedttad, ita cotta of he wharves, piers and slip. prop came necessary, only upon the request of its duly consti- Teena a anaes oxo corms, ov w | B| UH SHESSUEGESEES F | * | Serene OCIS... aggonae vasa mg eran src te GE, | Speman ane dasng Sods he apn | ugromest, nin, ny e int E millions islative y 1 A og t 3 rSiranpans Coassmmontnes, cay ot wana tease, | SI LUI 8B Seassesossees s City wees "T14 95. created by and acting under chartered ri haa as old asthe | of the city government wore legisiated Into ofice for a | county and town autuorities the care and government of r nor, INcRBAss aINOB 1866, INCLUSIVE. - $11,767,870 19 | city itself, and the provisions of which charter were @x- | period of four years each. thereby removing themen | their respective tocatties Ia the primitive and middie dae , g dithres for 1861— presely intended to surround with safeguards and checks | tirely beyoud the control of the city corporate authori | st of our existences a State, party advancement was Cees, Sark 1s 88 $. g aly 94,954,581 78 The expenditures of the mousy, a syatom that | ties, ad even the poor privilege of publishing its oMcial | regarded as secondary to the best interests of thes eople, Govern 2 F 3 City.... ” 694, on to day proves by resulta as im the precedingatate. | proceedings in aewspaers of its own selection was de {| the legislatore of thse days always recogoized this ag & me 8 = ————— 11,540,884 79 | ments, was winoly-calculated co, and oertaialy would ac. | nied it, and papers for that purpose were aelacted throagh | principle, aud eutirely ignored legislation of aloest charac- Comminctoners mentynotinedu | 31111 32 8 2 | "————— | complish the object aimed at, if it had hoon faithfully and | tho ageacy of the State Lezisiature, for, ae belonging exclusively to the local governments or of Charities and Board of Edu- dingin'erest on | © ! Increase for 1862....c00.s.cesseeesee++ $217,086 40 | fearlessly maintained. Let us contrast the facts. might bave been foreseon, the consojvences have | authorities. in thee Iatter days, party advancement is Feat. Correciton. cation, ‘wocks. F 7 Examination shows this increase to con- Common Council, out of the above thirteen millions, ex. } beea most disastrous The increase of expenditure tacur. | tho primary object in our State Legislature; to it, 1868.... $605,000 00 = 1,228,000 00 = = 38 $ sist of: — \ pended in 1868 $1,132,696 70, or are held responsible for | rod ny the irresponsible Boards of Commissioners created | every other consideration te and the degrad- 2880.... 780,250 00 = 1,246,000 00 - Se 5 .] & that, se explained above. To expond this money it was | at Albany to administer the trusts confided to them in | ing spectacie is annualiy presented of the f°. FH} 1960.... 146,199 00 1,278,058 00 90,000 00 % Bid é 8 necessary, (or almost every dollar expended, to obtain the sir creation, bavesincreasod beyond all precedent,as | vernmept of @ great State like New York, descend! 2261.... 000.875 00 1,300,000 00 114,000 00 t1ises $ vote of “three-fourths” of the mombers of two bodies | bas been shown in a previous part of this report. into the political areva, and giving and receiving blows in. . 670,178 001,868,485 00 11s,e41 00 | BI 11 2 that bave to eppeal to the people for an en-{| The foregoing tables of comparison will serve to con. | the effort to overcome the poopie of this city, and to con- 560,600 00 1,460,000 00 = 131,604 00 dorsoment of’ thelr acte every year, While, of | vay tothe Common Council aad citizens the disadvan. | vert thom, if not jato willing, at least 1ato obedient aub- 700,000 00 1,787,716 98 160,000.00 the enormoug balance of twelve millions of doliars, } tages of entrusting tho governmont of the city to ths | serveucy to the behests of the dominant, political party five millions and a half ts expended, rst, by 8 pvody of twelve men, who, emivent aod learned jurisis $217,995 40 | prodounce, ‘are neither elected nor appointed,’ whove custody of Boards of Commissioners, who are totally | in theState. irresponsible for the proper management of their trusts, | _ [tsis an established (act, tuat pereecution never maker Prosolytes. Tyranny and oppression natural; p i pead i ts ly re- = — Sar tacean’ aieereememaraes sistance and disaffection. A noble instinct, implanted In $F S26'9LL8 00 cs went Osi" 26 oso 1e8 “W8t “@Independent commissions. Tights of legielative action are aot coatrolied by any safe. t Png nena Py this year only show a very slight in- guards on ‘ohecks ver, and who, responsible to no To illustrate tho.wrongs and iojustice perpetrated upon } our natures, impels us irresiatibly to reams Cg «eEB8S.8 A508 z e crease over those of the yoar previous, and there is 0 | one, can, by a simple vote of seven of Its members. order | owners of property, by depriving of the privil come from what quarter it may, and that resist is % Reeyets 333 Fr doubt, had it not been for the large expenditures made | work done tothe amount of millions, and by the same | of spplying to the Common Coun certain to be mote fierce aud unrelenting when practiced es é 38 3 by the Common Council on city account for war purposes | irresponsible vote order those millions paid; and the bal- | done, for correction of erroneous or oppress Against those from whom we bave the right to expect and Bittle SSSSSRRURasess & during the year, the taxes would have shown a very com: | ance of upwards of six millions by commissions and seasmments, levied upon their property for local improv obtain protection and care. Tnus far resistance to the . 2h SSS |__| mendable decrease. The amount expended for war pur- ‘tments that never account to the any | ments, two instaaceswwill sorve as specimens of tho tyranny and oppression so unsparingly practised against 1963. * Ipeluded in “Improving” and ‘Erecting New Buiid- ‘was as follows, viz:— tive Body in the remotest ood, sults of the prosent mode of confirnting assessment ‘us by the Stateanthorities, has been manifesyed ouly in 1864 )? ke. Foe redemption of Volunteer Family Aid (und indifferent ip. We be under. gower in Eighty-fift atreot, | annually increasing the majoritics against tir cand Norn. hevereen ted above statements, the facts sought DONdS.7........ seeeeeee $500,000 02 | stood as impugning the action of the above body, but ues, through Third avenue to | dates for office. eharge. to be estabi! by your committee, as te where the re- fund your committee believe it to be ively necessary | Fighty-sixth street, tor hty-sixtb street, That distrust of, and disaffection to, the pate CERFRAL PARK COMMISSION. ‘ aponsibility rests for the focrease in our taxes, wili be to call atteation to @ condition of things that ie radically | from Third avenue to the East river; and for opening vernment is fast taking possession of the — @atement, showing the Sctual vost to the city exch year | more t. RXPENDITURER FOR 1888, +» 100,760 80 | and positively wrong in xn ‘aod pernicious | Madison a\ from Forty-second to Bighty.sixth } of our people, is aa cortain ae fate, any ie for,maintenance and government of Central Park, in- f inty, 1868..$3,515,863 99 === | in resulta, Nor ie thie ally while it is the duty | atroet. In the first instance, the assessment leviod'upon | ® fact very much to be depiored, although Re en Central and Contrai Park mae Expenditures—City,, 1868... 6,544,471 67 , +e of the Common Council, as ithe custodian aod | the property fronting on the sewer was per fot,or | ot to be wondered at They behol Ry fund stock) alee additional Kk, =a 88,060,395 56 xpen control pendent | proper defender of @he chartered rights and privi»| $278 for every twenty five feet of sewer, amounting to | yeer, their dearest and most sierel | tallies! from 1866 to 1 _ pradnte-et 1850... $8,902,878 42 commissions seem to have only moderately increased this | lores of the citizen, to give publicity to these (acts, they | more than $11 per foot for every (oot of sewer byt, or | Privileges invaded—parcelled out ty moedy Pig a ora For Mainienance Expenditures—City, 1860.... 6/947,662 40 year. owe it also to themselves to sweep away from them those | nearly $1 per inch. The consequence has been, that and made t aod playthings, a Gnd Government Interest, on Centrat ——————$10,250,840 82 | | In the ts there scema t0 be a decrease of | clouds of suspicion, to aay the least, with which dema- | the owners interested have contested the legality Jous and Tey see, in siloat 8 . Years. of Central Park, Park Fund Stock, | Tnoren@e in 1850........+.+.++....+s00++ $2,190,208 26 | $100,000 in the Btreet ‘and an increase of | goguos and ambitious trieketers have, to come extent, | of the assessipent—bave already twice obtained Poowe tinea were ieee povertai. 2086. ~ are Prov let us oxaminé where this increased expenditure is | about half that amount in tbe City Inspector's Depart- furrounded them, jndifference to public senti: bn gg te IE and the matter {6 up om appeal we. on a pa toe ea which beve th © i = S and = ment. bl t, or from @ conse! Of | before the court ia @, where, no .| 9 win d - 85 006 50 | Increase—Supervisor's budget— ‘The Common Counc! are for only $8,322 98, te reagon that it | the jodgment of the lower court will be afirmed, and the | marked degree Loaded to facilitate (he advancement, Soe # _ 207,761 23 | county expenses. .......-... $784,014 43 although in this yoar they donated AeLee heneve: | sicaity to have noticed the lure of petulant faror Mun: | ofty be crmpelied. to pay the entice coat of Ube Work, progress of our city, eatiroly White Cherish and ’ bry} eo 220,425 18 | }Increase—Board of Education. 20,000 00 Tent 300, which shows conclusively that mod. | ters, from which Bave undoubtedly grown many misern- | the second tostance property has been assessed for t! po value by those whose duty i pecan ond 114 00 220,429 24 | }Increase—Almshouse. 175,250 00 erate itures were the rule for the Common Council nders, heaped the. Common Council, or more | proposed opening of Madison avenue, io sums vary! ther ide their m pig bry pean eee Lawl. 118,841 00 220,429 24 | Increase—Dopartments. during 1862. « : probably (rom jon of them ail, it is very clear Ree $10 be ay per lot—the area inoiuded he rilgious profanations Ws g it a tates tm te “4 ' 191,604 00 220,420 24 | Increase—Comm: 29,61 EXPRRDURED Fon 1863. that the minds of many well intentioned and honorable | ment extending from the Vbird to the Fit righte, twade yprough (Boy Fiprearded, But pd... 1004... .160,000 00 220,428 39 190, Expenditures—Count: $5,985,662 26 citizene have been abused and infected, Your commit: | whole amount of the assessment lista, for mon Council, pone Po = Interest on Cen'ral Interest on Osntrat is indent commissions. “ Onty. 1007 566 40 tec believe that the time has arrived when these quos- | in) rs pregoeed ‘Avenue open, including the treated with contempt Teer silindinn Ot Park Improvement Park Additional it will thus be seon that the Board of isore lead non neem $1 9,083,128 76 | tions should be met,and the infamous slandera refuted by $041,006. xtoniing thé assessment so ae to ivelude Tuo much leg! ae total ware ceri power Punt Stock. Fund Stock. Total. | of by adding $787,014 43 increase, or three-quar- | Expenditures—County , 1862 Py a fair and honent criticism of the expenditures of the city”. property located one quarter of a mile from the line of Pan gg og ry th rot Mm Their 1866 — ~ 91,962 04 | tere of & ralilon of dollars to iBé taxes for 1880 over « City , 1868. .. - 6,829,114 06 For this reagon your committee bave (bought it necessa: | the proposed aveatis, ia a new principle in levying asses: | by Nhe Take Lege ate ein aaa aah 186; fas - 86,023 97 | those of 1868, while out of the evormous increase in ex- ———- 11,767,370 19 | ry to bestow #0 much time and labor on this report, and | ments, as a rule was established by the Common Council ; preasntation, wntesieictsd terespons¥ole and 1088 000 08. i. 94,006 60 | pendituren for and during 1859, those under the direct —aaoee | it is with pride that they point to the preced- | that ‘or improvements on the principal avenues, or the } 4 te abe am v F<4 ao eit eo - by-4f tf | OT ree Lee nee ae 74; those | Total incronse of expenditures in 1963 over ote ng tne asa complete vindicaiion of the Common | opening of new cass assessments were to be loyeasely } lavis at coaak A pe mont mteery y AY bene expenditures contro! commissions WOM e006) oo ereeesenceeans tee eese 5, ‘ounces, on the property frout on the @aid avonus, sod extent- * ‘uption , F eon..5174,001 42 - $08,490 66 | were increased $195,260; and expenditures im the depart. Upon examination the increase will wn" - RETIMATRR AND APPROPRIATION: YOR 1864. Tg on both sides balf way totheadetving areoues, The | aged aud Foniared ia, S¥ore Soe Ue Seeeanirtnsers 1862..:/ 208/841 60 oo 445,111 74 | mente, at that time indirestly under the control of the | found as ®ilows, viz-— Appropriations—Coanty , 1864 $5,854,907 65 whole is a.questionable prooegding, and may yet bo set | commussvon te oAnat site 1968....294 870 91 100 586,412.48 | Common Coutell, excepting the head of the Finance De. | Board of Superv’ expendi. Fatimates of Finance Commit aglde, ne against the owners of, property ie | ieee earious weauthoricel nabeer qunplageuened i 1864... .952,877 72 66,879 678 646 O1 | partment (inasmuch as they were removable by the Com- tees-City, 1864.........., 8,075,812 23 som be taxed upon the city, The abovi | these various unauthoried acts of Lod og! on cae “yd Jo 8 nd oy expendi a + $5,896,562 ‘ person ly ireesponsible y i cou it of expenditures ‘the generat funds of (rnich w be swnives Ne the contro! of Espe A itarer—City, ete bovees rd Toaeguel cae w th Nation and is butone more evi. | payers, Since tho \ntroduction of this aystom of legislating gen Conran La 12,763 00 pen y. 1697, quaint i uedrit le . amuun' ta ee f , of the right of elec f | roy . # not . FE ‘a large cloment in our Mr dorhorwemee tee amount $773,486 82, oy those curious in td ees ‘Total increase for 1864.... .. $847,602 13 eine 10 eianmer tnere alfsirs for tbem | hus not increased in value in anything like the wp ging BOARD OF EDUCATION. such lors, by reforring to the Bireet Commiesiover'’s ts Board of Supervisore—Incroase The Board of Education claim to make their own esti. | The rev! rtate o derive no more jvae pes have Liner Fer the expenditures of the | report: for the year 1860, there will be found & APPROPFIANODS .... sss .00 ces $460,846 80 mnatoe oF the miowint of rvDey reyaired (or ody 1 | 9 froin she! arty, while tele taxes Bave "Peed orastucation wees comectianted: by the cat Tents. | for. Jt wen simply rimanes ae tedogeats sbisine ‘i ae veoed 4981 110 98; oiloneae makina malt scape ter they yay a | Pye the. hlew. that ® Met? } for, Tt wae dgmenta odtaincd eee $1,915,768 56 | aeked $397, ; Mlowed.. 237, Couvell other thin submitting to the @hap. 901, and cbape. 101 and 267 Laws of 1954, and un- | agatoet the chy Bee dame every CASE site ot |, .* lntseentent Commmiaseien usa amenim mao supervision allowed thom over such estimates or in its | jist (hens bY Ome Ouse ; ‘ \ ~