The New York Herald Newspaper, April 4, 1874, Page 4

4 THE CITY FINANCES The Mysterious Report of the, Commissioners of Accounts. | A ROW IN THE CITY HALL. | Comptroller Green and Acting Chamberlain | Whittemore on the Rampage. we ncueherkteetaaaitaed The Commissioners’ Report Ex- amined by Green and Whittemore. incite Singular Action of the Mayor. JOHN WHEELER CN HIS MUSCLE. The Commissioners of Accounts Coerced | Into “Doctoring” Their Report. earn ee ANOTHER UNTRUTHFUL STATEMENT. For several days past the City Hall politicians and ule press have been in a flurry of excitement over the rumor thata report had been made and ‘Was about to be published by the Commissioners of Accounts, setting forth the correct condition of tue city and county debt on the 31st day of becem- ber, 1873. The fact that the Mayor, in his annual message, had put forth an incorrect statement and liad published an olicial exhibit so doctored aud falsified as to make it appear tnat the entire increase of the city debt during the present Comptroller’s term of office had been only $14,994,712, while, in his reply to Jon Foley's famous memorial, he had convicted him- self of misrepresentation by putting the amount | of increase at $22,652,862, gave piquancy to this | anticipated statement of the Commissioners of Accounts. Indeed, as the result of the examina- tion had already been ascertained by the HERALD and published extensively im these columns, it was | very well Known that the Commissioners’ close | and carelul investigation had exposed the incor- | rectness of both the statements put forth by the Mayor, | THE DUTY OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. | ‘The Commissioners of Accounts are appoin and their duties defined under the following se: Uon of the city charter: SE£cTION 106.—The Mayor shall, from time to time, appoint and remove at pleasure two persons, who, touether wita the President of the Department of | ‘Taxes and Assessments, shall be Commissioners | of Accounts. It shall be their duty, once in three | months, and Oitener If they deem it proper, to ex- | amine all vouchers and accounts ip the offices of te ee and Chamberlain, and to make | aud publish in the City Record a detailed state- ment of the financial condition of the city, show- | ing the amount of its funded and foating debt, the amount received and expended since the last preceding report, with a classifica- | ton of the sources of revenue and expendi. | ture, and such other information as they shail | deem proper. They shali trom time to time make | an examination of the expenses of the several de- partments and officers, and make such recom- mendations tothe Board of Apportionment and other officers, with reference thereto, and particu- larly with relerence to salaries and duties, as they | deem advisabie. Anyone of such Commissioners | shail have autaority atany time to make any such examination, and such two appointed Commission- ers shall be paid a reasonable compensation, to be fixed as other expenditures by the Board of Ap- portionment, not exceeding $3,000 eacii annually. Their duty under the law, alter making their ex- | amination, was to publish their report in the City | N Record, Instead of doing this, either by the ex. , press command of the Mayor or of their own volition, they disregarded the law and placed their report in the hands of Mayor Havemeyer. ‘hat venerable oMicial received the report a week ego | yesterday, and it has been held in his hands from | that day up to yesterday, when it was placed in | possession of the Supervisor of the City Record. | For a week the reporters of the daily journals have | been pressing the Mayor for a sight of the long- looked-for document, but His Honor has held close | guurd over it and has not sumered it to be secn, | aithough Mr, Green endeavored to break the force oi its exposures, in case it should be publushed in its original form, by supplying editoriais to bis city orgaa, based upon the Commissioners’ figures. THS SECRET OF HAVEMZYER The secret of the delay in the pablication of the report is now known. The figu showed, first, | that the debt statement to December 31, 1873, put sorth in January jast_ by the Mayor and Comptrol- , ler im the annual message of the former, was | $665,000 less than it Ought to have been, and’ that the amount o/ revenue bonds outstanding at that date Was $10,449,979, instead of $1,474,552, as falsely alleged by the Mayor and Comptroller, e Mayor, having absolute power over the Commissioners of Accounts, who can be removed by him at his pleasure, appears to lave made up his mind that tue Commissioners’ report should not be published in the form in which tt reached his hands, and the deiay which has occurred was occasioned by the eflorts vo cverce the Commissioners into altering their figures, or at least so modiiying them as to allow the Mayor and the Comptroller to sheiter | themselves Lehind a special pica aud find an ex- cuse ior the incorrect debt statement of January last. GREEN AND WHITTEMORE INV. OWN INVESTIGATOR: Accordingly, Comptrolier Green and Acting Chamberiain Whittemore were called in on Friday oi last week to the Mayor's office and the report, which Was an examination into the correctness and honesty of their own accounts, was placed in their hands by the Mayor. They were, of course, | ina towering rage against the Commissiovers, and Mr. L. I. Howe, one of the commissioners ap- poluted by the Mayor, was assailed by Chamber- lain Whittemore and accused of making an incor- rect statement to injure tue Comptroller. This Mr. Howe denied, and, asserting the correctness of the Commissioners’ figures, reiused to make any alteration, Mayor Havemeyer sided with tne Comptroller aud Acting Chamberlain, THE ATTEMUT TO CORRCE THR COMMISSIONERS INS) AN ALTERATION OF THE REPORT. acting Chamberlain Whittemore took the ground ‘tual $665,000, Which was included im the Commis- sioners’ report, was covered by warrants drawn jor certain ponds due in December, and should ve deducted irom the debt statement that month. | DELAY. | TIGATING THEIR Commissioner Howr—It is true the warrants were drawn, but they had not been delivered. ‘The bonds had not been paid, Acting Chamberlain Wiitremonrr—That is not for you to know or inquire. The warrants were | drawn and the amounis credited on the books, and if the warrants had not been calicd for it was | not the Comptrolier’s iault. Commissioner Howgx—Lut, Mr. Whittemore, the Warraute were not called fo! Hecause an arrange ment had been made by the Co:ptromey with the | banks holding the warrants to eXtend them until Jauuary or February. The interest paid on the bonds by fre city Was still running on, and was paid in ful up 66 the dates at which t were really paid, in January and Febru the $665,000 was on December 31 a part of the city debt, drawing interest at that time, aud not paid until a later date. This was the substance of the controversy le- tween Mr. Green's representative, the Acting Chamberlain, and Commissioner Howe, and it was evident that the Commissioner had the best of iue argument. ‘A CONCESSION BY THE COMMISSIONER OF ACCOUNTS. Last Saturday the fight between the Commis. sioners on one side, and the Mayor, Comptroler and Acting Chamberlain on the otner side, was continued, and alter much pressure and violent al- | tercation the Commissioners at last consented that they would add a note at the foot of their debt statement, setting forth that warrants to the umount Of $665,000 had been drawn tn December | und were “outstanding at that date.” | MORE TAMPERING WITH THE REPORT. After this concession had been wrung irom the Commissioners—a concession which was simply a record of a fact—further demands were made upon them by th or and is financial allies. They were next reqi to strike out irom tue “Rev- cnae bond? statement over $8,000,000, and place it under the head of “funded devt.” This demand the Commissioners suc- gto staltify themselves by such & gross and Levident deception. Aiter | # juil in the storm the Commissioners were again | summoned to the presence, and then cate the | piineipal and final demand for aa | ALTERATION OF TH! ‘AL | of their figures, Tue Comptroller and Acting | Chamberlain desired that the $666,000 should ve uctually deducted by the Commissioners of Ac- counts In the “recapitulation” of the figures at | t ‘eae of the report, so that thy @nal resuit docks and slips, 1874-76. $150,000 00 Dock bonds o1 190i, 1902 and 1904 1,694,500 00 Dock bonds of 1901 (coupon) .. 1,000,000 00 Floating Debt Fund stock of 187! 48,000 00 Market Stock 0/ 1804 and 1807 296,000 00 City Cemetery stock of 1888... 75,000 00 City Improvement stock of 188: 1802.......... sees 182,600 00 City Lunatic Asylum stock of 1889. 100,000 00. Fire Department stock of 1899. 952 87 | Fire Telegraph bonds of 1884. 597,586 48 ‘Tax Relief bonds of 1879 + 2,767,000 00 Tax Relief Bonds of 1590 (coupon). 3,000,000 00 Croton Water Pipe bonds of 1830. 450,000 00 New York Bridge bonds of 1905. 1,148,000 00 Accumulated Debt bonds of 1384-8 6,500,000 00 Street Improvement bonds of 1888. 606,939 14 Ntoth District Court House bonds, Croton water main stock, 1900. Normal school fund stock, 189: | Public sctooi building fund stock, 1891 96,000 00 | Department of Par! Department of’ “Parks Improvement | Department of Va | Teport of the Commissione NEW YURK HERALD, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1874-TRIPLE SHENRT. THE CITY DEBT. The following report of the Commissioners of Accounts was given for publication yesterday :— CCOUNTS——STATEMENT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY DEBT, Commastonens oF Acco! Naw Yous, March 31, Accounts here- Sded'debe of the city nad couuty | made to nd with the incorrect em eON edoage "The “Mayor insisted. that Jan or this should be and was met with 3 flat ro- fusal on the part of the Commiasioners, who con- tended that it wasa of the city debt 3°, De- comber 31, 1873, and si! ot be di from the gross amount of the debt. The Mayer, uage more forcible than polite, vowed deduction should be made. The obstinacy of the Commissioners occasioned another delay in the publication of the report; but at length the point was yielaed. On Tuuraday the backbone of the Commissioners gave way. The pa ror of their figures had origimally read Total city debt. : should Total county debt. 31,627,865 Total. $131,869,571 665,000 Balance....... +o .s0tabihees seers oeees + $181,204,571 —Thus bringing the gross amount of t! e debt on December 31, down to the incorrect figures re- ried by tie Mayor and Comptroller m January POSED. Aware that there were other methoas of expos- ing the deception and untruthful character of the dept statement put jorth in the Mayor’s annual statement than turough the instrumen- tality ofthe report of the Commissioner of Ac- counts, the reporter of the HgaLD procured a Copy Of the “trial balance sheet’ used in the ofice of the Comptroiier ior the month ending Decem- ver 31, 1873, and the examination of this sheet 4 av once that the original statement ot the ommissioners of Accounts, as placed in tne | hands of the Mayor, was a correct statement of the city and couuty debt on the last day of last | December, and that the statement, alter being | tampered witn and altered, is noi a faithial and truthful exhibit of the debt on that day. We give below, in proo! of that assertion, an exact copy of the material portion of this trial balance sheet as Signed and endorsed as a statement of the city debt on December 31, 1873, and also the iootings of the trial balance sheet of the county :— STATEMENT OF THE CITY DEBT AT THE CLOSE oF BUSINESS, DECEMBER 31, 1874, FUNDED DEST Amounts Payabdie from the Sinking Fund, Outstanding Dec. 31, 1874. Water stock Of 1870 $5,705 00 2,163,600 00 267,000 00 2,147,000 00 500,000 00 Croton water stock of 1353,. 1,900,000 00 Croton water stock of 1890. 1,000,000 00 New Crotoa Aqueduct stoc! 250,009 00 Additional new Croton Aqueduct stock, 1900... teeeeeee Serattt 2,841,000 00 Croton Reservoir bonds, 1907-1 954,500 00 croton Aqueduct bonds, 1907-11 490,000 00 Central Park Fund stock of 1887. 3,066,071 00 Central Park Fund stock of 18: 674,300 00 Central Park additional Fund 81 18 week wees tase “1,000,000 00 bar i ce Improvement of a Park Improvement Fund stoc’ Of 1987........+000e+ sees o—a Park Improvement Fund stock ° onal le from Taxation. Pay | New York city five per cent stock ior Additional Croton Water stock, 1891.. 450,000 00 Street Opening and Improvement bonds oF 1879-82. + 1,000,000 00 Volunteer Soldiers’ bonds, 1874-76. seveee 1,266,500 00 | seeee 300,000 00 Improvement tund stock, 8,484,000 00 1902 (coupon) .. picldobect. 862,000 00 | Consolidated stock, 1901 (coupon) 4,252,500 00 Consoudated stock, 1894. 1,072,500 00 | Sewer repair stock, 1882 120,000 00 | 82,000 00 | 242,000 00 | ‘$00,024,054 49 Payadle from Assessments jor Open- Amounts ing ant Improving Streets, Avenues Outstanding and Boulevards, Deo, 31, 18733. Assessment bonds, 1874-1878... $6,514,400 00 Assessment Fund bonds, 1874-1 3,778,900 00 Street Improvement Fund bonds, 1874.. 2,918,500 00 | Street Improvement Fund bonds, 1875.. 1,350,000 00 Street Improvement Fund bonds, 1876.. 1,167,500 00 | Street Improvement Fund bond: 44 | Street Improvement Fund bonds, 1878. Central rk Commission Improve- ment bonds, 1874-6 bonds, 1874. 1,425,272 30 bonds, 187: Ss improvement 80,000 00 500,000 00 $21,927 30 Amounts Outstanding | Dev, 31, 1878. | Seven percent Revenue bonds (chap- ter 1), payable January 15, 1874 Seven per cent Revenue bonds (chap- ter 9), payable February 1, 1874...... 2,947,200 00 Six per cent Revenue bonds (chapter 9), payable Octover 1, 1874........... 278,000 00 | Six and seven per cent Revenue bonds Of 1873, payable in 1874... ++. 2,072,547 12 | Six per cent Revenue bonas (ctiapter | 625, Laws of 1871), payable July 1, 1874. 2.034 53 | winseng hae, aN ‘unded debt, payable frot cesses «+ $8)690,279 20 YOR 3 EW YORK. Statement of the county debt at the close of | business December 31, 187: nds «+ 1,604. R LAT! Funded debt, payabie from sinking fund aud taxatiol + Temporary debt, payable ‘ir ments... 21,027,373 Revenue bon 279 Coanty debt sto county bonds. Total city and county debt, aa out. standing December 31, 1875. accord- ing to the Comptroller's trial bal- ance sheet........ $131,904,571 It will be seen that the amount of $65,000, which difference occurs in the county statement and is occasioned by the deduction of the amount of the two county bonds | Nos. 12 and 48, which were treated as paid, | althongh they were not paid until January or | February foliowing, Thus the statement of ‘the | Comptroiler’s trial balanee sheet, through which | the books in iis office are ohecked and the correct- | ness of his acconnta 1s tested, shows that the | debt on December 21, 1873, was $600,000 more tian the Comptroiler reported ‘it to be In the Mayor's ffinual message, and than the “recapitulation” of the Commissioners of Accounts’ endeavors to make | it appear after the aiteration of their original | | statement at the c detnand of the Mayor. THE REVENUE BONDS, The discrepancy between the statements of the Comptroller and the Commissioners of Accounts im regard to ti e Revenue bonds ontatanding De- cember 31, 1874, has uot been removed. The laws of 1872, chapters 1, 9 and 29, authorized the issue , o! certaim bonds, payable out of the revenues of the city, and chapter 444 of the laws of the same | r authorized the ptroiler to “create and | ue so mach consolidated stock of the city of | y W York, or so much consoildated stock of the county of New York as shall be necessary to provide tle means to pay said revenue bonds ator before matarity,” &e, It was competent for the vi consolidated city and county stock to the amount Of $8,310,307 was authored. The bias for this | sjock, which was to take up the bye bel i nf ds. by the | wW opened by the Comptr January 27, 1874. The Mae i by the Mayor and’ Comptroller in the Mayor's annwal inessage last Janonary, that the total amount of revenue bouts outstaniting on December ‘, 1878, | @ay — Was $1,474,581, was not true, and was @ deception | on the part of those officers.’ The amount of rev | enug bonds actually outstanding at that date, as | shown by the report of tie Commissioners of Ac- counts and by the trial balance sheet of the Vomp: | troller, was $10,449,979, WHAT WAS THE REASON vor THE DReRPTION ? ‘There has evidently been some doubtful work in this consolidated stock bnsiness since the law of 1872, Chapter 444, was re-enacted. At the nest request of tye Yowptrolier in 1873, chapter 756, section 2, and again ig ht? 4 pressing solicita- tion for the immediate paSsagd of » third law for the same purpose was sent to Albany by the Mayor | pfM ees and ‘anew District courts » an and Oompiroiler early in the session. This law wi algo enacted. Why should three separate laws be | the payment the day event Public Works—Street openings. im. 2,300,000 00 | i 200,000 00 Old claims and judgments. srecias. Redemption of the eity Miscellaneous. ++ 2,316,200 00 | 20,000 00 + $3,390,497 55 tu o . Temporary debt, payable + Revenue bonds, Stocks outstanding December 31, 1373.. $29,868,165 | Revenue bonds of and pay- cou Funded debt, payable trom. 165 | | Less sinking’ fund the original | Accounts onty by | Cashin sinking funds mi | For opening Bouleva street. For Deparunent of Docks. vA For assessments vacated and to puy For itquidation of ¢ 756, For current expenses, revenue Revenue bonds of 1 Assessment bond 4 joptrolier tO have acted on this authority, but he | did not do so prior to December 31, 1873, On De- | cember 6th, at @ meeting of the Board of | ments, and clat Apportionment and Assessment, the issue Of | Laws of 1873, petses of and pi of 173, be Claims paid (No, of warrants 15), amounting to Payrolis (No. of warrants 203), alwounting to From market rents. Krom water rerits. and fio Hout the Oty Hall, Bad an answer bt befoi im the hands of banks which hold the cit; ts, and were all held over at the solicitation of Comp- troller Green. Thoy were paid by the Chamberiain, artly in Jan and pores: ib February, and the on ‘up to the date of pay- Bladets of dapuniy Sand gh df nepe Donde nad of Jal t ry remained in Thon! Tactics where thev belo under the head of ‘Revenue bonds," until they were , tt would have been easily seen when they were paid and canceiled. Having ast. The Commissioners of Accounts, prior to | been hidden away by the Mayor and Comptroller yielding to the pressure brought to bear upon | them to compel them thus to falsify their state- ment, had repeatedly insisted that the $663,000 was a part of the debt on December 31, and had stated to the Mayor the tact, within their own knowledge, that the warrants for this amount had not been paid until January and Fevruary; that the hoiders of the bonds Lad consented to hold them over, and that interest had been paid on them by the city ‘up to the day o! their payment. THE COMPTROULER'S FINANCIAL DECEPTION EX- in the mysteries of Funded Debt, where they did not belong, they are lost sight of, ARE WE PAYING DOUBLE INTEREST? Inquiry among the officials has failed to elicit any positive injormation in regard to these bonds. An employs of the Finance Department informs BRALD reporter that they are not yet paid. If they are atill in exist- ence, and the consolidated stock which was provide the meaus for their has been issued, then the city 1s paying double interest, or fourteen per cent, for its money. | As the orders of the Comptroller have been issued | to every person engaged in the Finance Depart- ment togive no information to any person, it 1s, of course, difficult to ascertain the truth; but the | | eas impression appears to be that the Revenue nm — which were “paimed” and hidden away by a, N EPISODE. A AS an episode in the drama of the “Enraged Fi- nanciers, or the Builiea Commissioners,”’ a spicy scene was enacted ip the Mayor’s Oftice last Satur- An afternoon paper on that day bad started @ report that the Commissioners of Accounts had made charges against Comptroiler Green, Of course the report was unfounded, but the wrath of the Comptroller at its circulation knew no bounds. The President of the Tax Com- | mission, Mr. Jonn Wheeler, was summoned to the Mayor's Office, where he met Comptroller Green and his shadow, Acting Chamberlain Whittemore. Mr, Wheeler was taken to task ex officio, member of the Board of Commissioners of Ac- | py counts, and he denied any knowledge of the re- ort aud expressed his willingness to correct it. lis correction was drawn up. It was not satis- factory to the Comptroller, who demanded a com- plete whitewashing and laudatory note in the shape of a correction of the rumor. This Mr. Wheeler refused, and, after many sharp words, he delivered his ultimatum, deciaring in emphatic language that he would say nomore. At the same meeting, during the war of words, Mr. Wheeler signified his determination that no more resolutions for “bonds” or anything else should pass the Board pApperdcnment (ot which he is a member) until he t stood the object and propriety of the proposition. Altogether the poet week has been an ecciting one Jorpur venerav! will chuckle over the prospect of rest, now that he supposes that a line in the report of the Commis- sioners of Accounts, improperly there, seems par- tally to justify the incorrect debt statement he placed before the people in January last. oroughly under- le Chief Magistrate, and no doubt he MUNICIPAL FINANCES. Derartwent ov Finance, Comprrouser's Orricy, ) New Yorx, April 1, 1574. "5 Monthly statement of warrants drawn and for wh purposes against the city and county treasuries, January 1 to March 31, 1874; also @ comparative statement of the city and county debt as of December St, 1373, and March 31, 1874, with a statement of and for what purposes stocks have been issued — City Account. GENERAL EXPENSES—PAYABLE FROM TAXATION, To Beb. 3, For March, Salaries and contingencies—various | departments of city government, .$1,816,729 $1,17,553 City courts and Court expenses. 46,0 3 32,74 Interest on city debt.......... 31}195 Cleaning streets under Police De- partment........ «195,666 85,333 Fourth avenue improvement fun: 152,761 84,176 Miscellaneous... 22,053 15,725 Amount payable from taxation. CONSTRUCTION OF NEW WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS, Paya BLE FROM ISSUE OF BONDS. provements, &c $514,081 Public Parks—Coni improvements, 73,911 Docks and slips ris Museums of Art and tory—Museum building: 21,927 Pubile school building: tion and repairs. id Consotidated debs ments vacated - 406,000 Amount payable from issue of bonds. ++, $2,042,811 $1,176,905 1D TRUST ACCOUNTS, debt (bonds paid off)... 7 $1,171, Amount payable from special and trust accounts... a Total amount warrants drawn on city account in March. Add ‘amount previously drawn. $7,972, 686 Total amount warrants drawrmon city account. . County Account. PAYABLE FROM TAXATION. For State purposes—State taxes. $865,798 General expenses. .....4 709 Salaries—Legisiative, executive and judiciary. : 14,020 Interest on county debt. 120,152 | Asylums, reformatorie: itable institutions. 141,093, 30,087 Amount payable from taxation.... $1,276,773 $490,307 SPECIAL AND TRUST ACCOUNT! County claims and judgments $19, rt 1, 782 Assessment iund, cost of openiny . Boulevard, norih of 153th street... 87, 63.473 New York County Court House. 3,730 1,691,700 = Redemption of county debt... yayable from special and ‘trust accounts. i Total amount, account in 3 Add amount p1 . Total amount warrants drawn on county account. coecaeee SHO ABL Add amount warrants drawn on ‘eount.. fea 16,383,506 ‘Total amount warrants drawn to date...... $19,990,933 City and County Debt. city account. Dei, Feb, 23, Mar. 3, ist.” “18H taxation and sinking. Leer woos $75,239,752 77,097,504 77,666,104 from assessinents. 21,927,872 21,664,472 21,773,372 chapter 625. Laws 2,088 2,034 | Revenue bonds, 18 A | _ able 1874 1472.47 161,400 bie from taxes, 1874. — 2,995,350 4,567,350 NTY ACCOUNT, taxation... $31,562,965 91,671,365 $1,726,095 Revenue bonds ot and anti- cipating taxes, 1874. Totals 25,277,059 363.471 109, 429,437 110,919,296 treasuries, (less ing tor redemp' of revenue bond) $1,623,007 ‘304,42 The following stocks and bonds have becn issued tor purposes, viz. :— For Public Works, Croton water, Sewer repairs and street. improve: iis uc ft north of Iaith reet. short bonds issued to j \d debts ments, chapter 75 ponds, anticipating taxes of 1874... The following stocks and bonds have been paid:— Revenue bonds juened to pay old debts in 1872, payable lo7& Water stock of 1s Oo), ——— $10,626,194 The above stocks and bonds were issued under special jaws for works in progress; assessment bonds on aecount of improvements in progress and to be repaid from as- sesyments to be collected; consolidated stock for pays ment or short bonds fssued in 1572 to pay old debe and to reimburse the Street Improvement Fund tor asseas- ments vacated by order of the Supreme Court pro- vided by ¢ ter 44, Laws of 16/2, ana pter 7, Laws ls for lawl tion of claims and judg. s prior to January 1, 1872, 4 revenue bonds tom able from taxes of 1874. neet current ex- City and County Tre ary. Comptroller Green reports the following dia+ bursemenuts and receipts of the treasury yoster- DISATREY WRN Total (No. of warrants 221)....... REORIPTS. From of 1873 and interest seieteeeseses QBTO From ai irs OF taxes, assessments and interest. Ue From tion of AxsessinEnts and Interest, From fe ati WM SOWOF POTIMIEH ees eveses ; From gales vitrified stone pipe... Praabeee ri Hrom stenographor's sees--Court “of Common — vesvseses QM Total... eee 1287 a ould be Of interest. Either theapacity. the. two REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF ECEMBER 31, 1873. No. 32 Cuamaxns 106, chapter 335, Laws of 1 Kecord, 4 statement in sESD, commissioners of Accounts. i CRORE OWE “at, tra, Be S8She is a5 » td S oe a tity wee 3 S 1Stiiigiit 235 1° Be Se ES S555 ea oie: SS SSENSSESSSES SSESESSSESESTESSE: a in| of 1887. stock of 1893. ditional Fund Stock or 1874. en' improvement Fund mtock of central Park Improvement Fund Stock of 1! vem! Loan Stock No. 4 of 1873. “al Estate Bonds of 1873. 5 B22. S Sed 3 Se! F od Ss ju ests = hittin SSSSSe! a ee Be See8 Pe ¢ | lessessssseesesses BESEEE 3 se 58 $3 Ss = BESE= rer 2 BS City Cemetery Stock of 1383, City Improvement Stock tie Asylum Stock of I eS aes Ttitit ars Ee i} S eS S S Ss 82 £ SSSSRSSSSSHESCSEASSELSES! 3 at 5 1g of Croton Water Pipe New York ep Debi Street Improvement Bonds of 1834... ent Bonds of 1879-82... milly Aid Fund Bonds, 1678-70. tHouse Bonds, 1900.0 ‘3 2 = =e yor and Comptroller, have not yet been paid and caucelled. = S 3 S gi eS rs 3 se SI Eg ey gs 3 Sisitiiti Be 3 ey Volunteer. Ninth Diatslet Normal School Fund Stock, Public i ge » Bey sey Secs 3 SEEESSSESSESES = = = £. 3 = 3 rk, 1882., . id Natural History Stock, 1 Museum of Art anc 1908, H YS Count 1 Of Claims and Judgments, 1876 N.Y. County Bonds for Liqu’ Total.....00--. Tem; able from asscaesaelits Or. sure avenues and rards— senna 1873-1878. | |SSesesessse' Eg ge: =s: 2 ae a ts ioe opening an dtreet Improvement Fund Bonds, 1876-8. Central Fark Cominission Improvement Department of Parks [mprovement Bonds, 1873 Department ot Parks Improvement Department of Parks Improvement Bonds, 1875-8. Improvement Bonds, 187 Bonds, 1813-6. : ‘Bonils. 7 per cent Revenue 1, Laws of 1872), payable| Jan. 19, 137 er cent Revenue Bonds (Chap. 9, Laws ‘ot i b, 6 per cent Reveni Reven Revenne Bonds o IB| $0,508,526 08 drawn and outstanding December 31, 187° $100,000 00) For Bonds 50, Be 102,01) 0)| For Bonds No. Being for the same amount ot above bonds maturi Statement. : House Stock, 1875-84. For Bonds No. 43. For Bonds No. ie ¥. County’ Court ! Connty Court House Stock, i ¥; County Court House Stock, No. 2. 1877-31 County Court House County Court House St “, County Court House Stock, Soidiers’ Substituie Bot peck, No. 3, Us84-85. tock, 1804, No, 4. pitti No. : lemption Bonds. c ant ki 1805-97. ent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Redemption, No. cent Hot Damage Redemption Bonds, § per cent Riot Damage Inde: 8 Per cent Assessment Fund stock, 1887 ‘Assessinent Fund Stock, 1887 Assessment Fund Stock , 1993, Accumulated Debt Bonds. York Uo. Sepairs to Building 1 Stock (1991) coupot Westchester Co. Li 6 per cent New 6 per cent Consol pr ids, 1597 jouds for Liquidation 6 and 7 per cent of Claims and Judgmen: 7 per cent Revenue Bonds ( January 15, 1374 e' Bouds ‘Chap Revenue Bond * Warrants drawn aud For Bonds No. # INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS SINKING FUND FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE CITY DEBT. = cad 28 . ity. ve per cent Water Stock, 1 Five per cent Water Stock, I! cent Water stock, 1579. ent Water Stock, i279... r ceut Water Stock, 18/5. EB 3 2 see gs fy 2s 85s ve per cent Water Stoc! Five per cent croton Wat t Croton Water stock, 189). nt Croton Water stock, 138% nt Croton Water Main stock, ven per ceut Croton Wi fix per cent Additioual mnt Additional New Croton Aque per cent New Aqueduct Stock, 1634 Six per cent Croton Aqueduct Borids, 1907. er cent Croton Aqueduct Bonds, 1995. t Croton Aqueduct Bonds, 1909. t Croton Aqueduct Bonds, t Croton Aqueduct Bonds, 1911 Croton Reservoir Bonds, I Reservoir Bonds, 1909. Keservoir Bonds, 1910. t Croton Reservoir Bonds, 1911 Croton Reservoir Bond: mnt Stocks for Docks and Slips, 1875... nt Stocks for Docks and Slips, 1876. Six per cent Market stock, 1897... it City Improveiment Stocl . 1 Floating Debt Fund Stock, 1878. nt Lunatic Asylum Fund stock, Depar ment Fund Stock, 1899 ilding Fund sto: » 1880. er Stock, 1800. 2 ss £ nh Stor Sroton Water stock, 159) : iNew Crovon Aqueduct Stock, 190) 8 3 = Sae85es ees See Six per cent Croton iS i = FetFeseeTeses Bae g = 1t Normat Sehool F' nt Public School Bui ent Central Fark, Pund stock, 188. nt Central Parl SHE Per Gomt Central Park Fund Stock, 1:8 cenit Central Park Improvement Fund ste ‘ent Central Park Improvement Fund stock, ent Central Park Jinprovement Fund stock. nt Central Park Additional Fund stock, Six per cent City Parks Impro' Six per cent City Pa Six per cent City Pai Six per cent Consolidated stock, 18% Six per cent Sewer Repair Stock Fix per cent Volunteer soldiers’ i Seven per ceut Street Improvement street Improvement Be ‘Assessment Bonds, 1874... Bix per cent Assessment Bonds, 1575, Six per cent Assessmnent Bonds, 1870 r cent Dock Bonds, 1902. Per cent Dock Bonds, 1904 Hew ork Bridge Bouds iis. er cent Fire Telegraph Bonds, 1834. .. Beven per cet Revenue ssonds (Chap. 5 venue Bonds, I veinent Fund Stock, 10; rks Improvement Fund Stock, 1902 4 Improvement Fund Stock, 1933. 1882... ‘amily Aid Fund Bon ind Bonds, 1374 1888, 4 S5552 Sese2 £ 3 # ou or alter Dee. kevenue Bonds, 1573, payable on or atter Jul; 1874. Museum of Art and Natural Histor Bonds tor Liquidation of Ch 18, 1873, payable on or after Nov. Six per cent Revenue Bonds (Chaps. 9 aad 2, Lav Six per cent Revi ty: Court House Stock, ! ee One unty qoute ae Stock, uate Six per cent New York County Court House Stock, 1% Rix per cont New York County Court House stock, 188) Six per cent New York Couaty Court House Stock, 1881 New York County Court House Stock, 1832. County Court House Stoc! unty Court House Stock, ew York County Court House stock, 1339. jaw York County Court House Stock, 1835 House Stock, 1887 House Stock, 1388: House Stock, 188) r Six per cent New York Count; SX fer cent New ¥ Rix per cent New York County Six per cent New York Cou Six per cent New York ( Six per cent New York Coun Six per cent New York Coun Six per cent New York County ( Six per cent New York County Court House, No. 2 per cent New York County Court per cent New York County Court per cent New York Count per cent Assessment Fund Stock, 1887. A Six per cent New York County Repairs to Building Stock, Six per cent New York County Repairs to Building Stock, 1R&5. Six per cent New York County Repa’ Bix per cent New York County Repairs to Building stock, 1837 Six per cent New York County Repa rs to Buildin Six per cent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, 18% Six per cent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, 1344 Six per cent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Honds, 1835. x per cent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, 1285 x per cent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, rcent Soldiers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, 1384. Soldiers’ Bounty Fuad Bonds, 1859, ers’ Bounty Fund Bonds, 19)... Adiers’ Botinty rund Bonds, No. 3, i896. titute Bounty Redemption Bonds, ia. titute Bounty Redemption Bonds, 1875. stitute Bounty Redemption ionds, 1876 stituie and Kelief Redemptio bstitute and Kell Mages Indemnity Bix per cent Riot—vamages R -dempti Six per cent Riot—Dami Six per cent New York Seve er cmt petting (et Seven per cent Accumula ond s ro ‘ork County Bonds tor Liquidation of UI & Hrouse Stock, 1 kN House Stock, Ni House Stock, N sto building Stock, 1585 Bix per cent Soldi | jor help ana the thief ran away. Some labouars ice Rielly, said his name was Jonn i. Linber, aa he was ‘employed as bookkeeper at No. es Redemption Bonds, Is? aunty Improvement Bonds, isi... Six per cent New ¥i Total City Debt ‘Total County Debt. bt. eves ty Outstanding. <:B181 204071 Total... s+. Prerer! + ee ess\es sop: PG 00s sesso nbgsee ins se scevegvenes Less amount Stocks and Bonds heldyy Commissioners of the Sinking Fund $24,773,456 SNOW AT WATERTOWN, N.Y. WATERTOWN. April 3, The ground in this vicinity had\veen entirely bare jor weeks until Jast ni the depth ot six tnohes, MontaomeRY, April 3, 1874. ‘There was alight frost here this moratog, but | Qo damage was done by tt ight, wuek snow icll to BEECHER'S Y NIGHT TALK. The Thoughts of This Week — Mr, Beecher Disappoints the Curiosity of the Multitude. The Friday evening prayer mecting was un. usually crowded last evening in expectation of the continuance of the business mecting held ou Wednesday morning week. After the usual exer. cises Mr. Beecher said :— There is something impressive in the thought that all the world at any one time are engaged ia a like train of thought, though, of course, the same day 1s not the same to ali alike. So it is rather an illusion to suppose that the whole Chris- ret thoughts 85 peasy and Ui p moral impressions that lilt men’s thoughts OU of the finite into the infinite. ‘This is a week of serious thought of the closing scenes of our Saviour’s life on earth. 1 do not myself feel the benefit derived from the pe sical representa- tion of these things; far from it. 1 think tt produces in my mind the opposite effect trom what it does on the generality of other people. Many have the wer ol reproducing the life of Christ, 0 that, al- hough tt was 1,800 years ago, they have the power to bring it back as if it was contemporaneous; and that many derive benefit trom it I cannot doubt. But itdon’tseem to me that because the world | Was lost and Jesus seg Ae that by His death the whole world partneis in the possession of God, it don’t seem to ine raat reaches the realization of the trath—our wi oF. taking to make the sufferings of Christ adapted to any code of justice; or, to put tt in that judicial way, I like the Apostle’s way better. Paul, after giving that remarkable inventory ol personal & oe » Saysi—‘Always beating about In the ody the dying of Christ.” Now, do you suppose Paul was always thinking about Gethsemane? always bearing about in the body the dying of Christ, that the te plso of spens may be made mani(ést in our body? The death of the Lord Jesus Christ represents in Him the POWER OF SYMPATHY with everything belonging to the fopering side of humanity. Now, in tis relation, what a power you get! You think you ate Néur to Curist ia the mo- ment of pre 3 but every single weakness you Hine got it you only knew it) is anotuor cord to you to Jesus. Every time the cloud descends and everything goes, as it were, to the botton every such experience brings you nearer to Go at | Now we are all struggling to get nearer to God; we are all struggling to nave faith that shall be a WER, LIVING PO | but there is too little of it, Oh, if it 1s given to us to bind ourselves to Christ by all our imperiections! Christ was tempted tn all points like as we are. Without sin He conquers in you, and for you, and by ie through sympathy. He is your elder orother, and if we, belug evil, know how to give good gifts unto our children, how much more shall your Father in heaven give good gilts unto His children. So, then, every day we don’t go to the sepulchre. It happened 1,800 years ago, and, I was going to say, He had forgotten it almost; but He has not for- gotten you. So, then, we come to a high pricst, and as the high priests of old were selected from those clothed with infirmities, s0 that they might have compassion on all the afilicted and out of the way, it 19 the great High Priest I bring to vou. Ought any tobe un- willing to come to Christ? Is there @ heart here tiat has not its load? Is there one that does not need nourishing care? Christ stands through ages bearing men’s sins and bringing men into that state where they shall all be as God. ‘ Mr. Beecher stated that after the close of the meeting the committee to receive applications for membership would meet, and after that the ad- journed annual business meeting. “ut,” said Mr. Beecher, “#0 far as curiosity might influence you, there is nothing to be curious about. We mean to go straight along, as if Jerusalem never tell. Our work 18 not to stop and consider this, that or the other, but bring life and light, striving, with meekness, gentleness and humility, through life. THE LATEST TEMPERANCE TEXT. | | Inquest Over the Body of William J. Rigney. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon before | Coroner Jones and a jury into the circumstances attending the sudden death of Willian J. Rigney, (600 00 | 00 | who died on Sunday last at the Tenth precinct station house after overinduigence in intoxicating hquors. The father of deceased, John Rigney, tes- tified that he resides at No, 96 Sterling place; that he never knew that his son visited liquor stores; never knew him to partake of liquors. John Bolman, a young man, testified that he invited William J. Riguey into the saloon of Long | & Brother, corner of Bergen street and Sixth ave- nue, 1m company with a youth named Screbner. They had three or four rounds of drinks and cigars and then went out. Shortly alter that they saw some of the party carry deceased along Sixth avenge and lay him down under a stoop, Dr. A. W. Shepard testified to having made the post-mortem examination in connection with two other physicians. Tne lungs were slightly congested, and the stomach was dis- tended with a pint and a half o1 fluid. Tne brain Was also congested, and death resulted trom con- gestion of the brain, superinduced by alcoholic stimulants; should call it acute aicoholism, The inquest was adjourned until Monday next. CAPTURE OF RIVER THIEVES IN BROOKLYD. At an early hour yesterday morning Ofiicer Looney discovered a party of men on the dock at the pier foot of Elizabeth street, Red Hook Point, in the act of removing the cargo from & canai boat. Suspecting that the fellows were river thieves he proceeded to the precinet station house and procured the assistance of a detachment o} officers. ‘They succeeded in arresting five men, | Who gave their names as James ONeill, Hugh Cal- | lahan, James Bell, Daniel Sullivan and Jame: | Walsh, all of whom are said to be notorious char- acters. Callahan was a deck hand on the canal boat Charles Bates, and was left in charge of the vessel oa Thursday night. He chartered a tugboat and, being joined ‘by his confederates, commence: unloading ‘the cargo, which consisted of 1,004 bushels of wheat. The prisoners nat their pictures taken lor the adornment of the Rogues’ Gallery yesterday, and Will ve examined beiore Justice Detmar to day. THE POPE AND VIOTOR EMMANUEL. The directions given by the Pope for the celebra tion by the Church of the jubilee of King Victor Emmanuel’s twenty-five years’ reign (28th of July) are that His Majesty being, by the grace of God, King of Sardinia, Piedmont and Liguria, and by regular treaties of cession, King of Lombardy and Venetia, the jubilee 18 to be celebrated in ail the churches of these provinces and “Te Deums” ure tobe chanted. In the churches of the rest of ltaly, where the King ts considered by the Pope as a temporary, illegitimate master, no Church cele- | bration of the jubilee is to take place, i Dr. Adolph Lewe lectured last evening before | the New York Liberal Club, at Plimpton Hall, op ‘he Inner Structure of Plants.” He said, first, 55 | that we can only reach perfection by imitating nature, and then enlarged upon the importance of the stady of natural science, especiaily botany. There is no possibility of obtaining scientific re. sults regarding plants while the simple elements forming the foundation of their different forms ts not ascertained. With the ald of a microscope we are enabled to find the starting point for the whole theory regarding plants, their size and characteristics, ‘Ine lecturer referred at length to the growth of plants and the saccor they re- ceive trom the sap, wad concluded his remarks by advising that, us the toundation for the structure of all piants, however much they may differ in jorm and size, is the cell, this must of necessity be thoronghiy understood before the plant can be studied with any degree of satisfaction or success. GILLEN, VICE VANDSRWERKEN, Mr. Daniel Gilien was yesterday appointed Dep uty Collector in Mr. Freeiand’s office, Brooklyn, iu place of Alfred Vanderwerken, resigned. His de- partinent will be that of legacies and successions, ihe same which caused 80 Much iMconvenience ta his predecessor in office. KIGHWAY ROBBERY IN BROOKLYN, Mr, George Talcott was on his way to business yesterday morning snd waa passing along Clinton avenue, in the vicinity of Dr. Budington’s church, when suddenly he was caught about the neck by a man from vehind and his watch and chain were seized at the same moment. Mr. Talcott cried out vho heard the cry gave chase and caught the low, ihe prisoner, upon being arraigned before 20 Broudway, New York, He claimed to have been so much under the influence of liquor that he did not know what he was avout. He is held ior examina- tion, EDUCATIONAL REFORM At the meeting of the New York Evucational Society held April 2 Mr, G. B, Hendrickson, Princ pai ot St. Jolin’s school, was elected President, and Mr, W. A. Frost, Secretary, for the ensuing year. This ts a chartered organization, having tor its object the promotion o/ educational reform. TROTTING IN CALIFORNIA San FRANCISCO, April 3, 1874. At Oakland Park yesterday the California mare, Ludy Mac, made what is said to be the best time on record in @ five mile trotting race. She trotted | against Jerome and Omaha. — sne sold in the pools at $2 against their $20 and $60 respectively, and | Won the race. Time. 13 minntam ee :