New-York tribune., 1842-04-12
Blessings to the Taxpayers under the new
SCHOOL system.

For The Trbuas.
Blessings to the Taxpayers under the new
SCHOOL System.
l.t. There are to be T,co inspectors and Fire
! Trustees elected BIZ each Ward, whose actual and
reasonable expenses while attending TIC the duties
of their Offices are to be audited and allowed BY the
Supervisors of the C;ly and County.
ID. Trio Commissioners Q. Common Schools
are to be elected by each Ward, who are together
10 form 3 oard Of Education and their reasonable
and actual expenses are to be audited and allowed
in like manner.
Sd. 4 CierA is to bo appointed b. the Cosnuis-
.ioners forming the Board OF Education. whose
salary is 10 be fixed and paid BY the Supervisors
Of the City aud County.
4th. A Clerks 70 be appointed by ,he=Cona-
missioners of each Ward. whose salary Is to be
settled and paid b. the Board Of Supervisors.
9TH. a Deputy Superintendent ct Common
Schools is to be appon,ed=by the Board OF Super
visors with salary of two dollars per day wien
in service.
For services now given glantousIy we are then
to have the following officers, to whom their ex-
y,enscs are to be paid or salaries allowed:
in each Ward lH
, Inspectors for each Ward ..---....-- ---34
) Trustees for each Ward ..-...-....---.-.85
] Clerk Of Board Of Education .-.--..---. !
l Clerk for Commissioners Of each Ward 49,
| Deputy Superintendent Of Schools. ----....
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. %
One Hundred and .ftly.fre persons to be paid
bv the Public for services now better performed
oitlout cost
10 Tax Payers remember that by Maclay's
bill the whole CITY is to be taxed 20 build the
School-I1ouses which ninc-lcnihs Of YOU deem
wholly unnecessary. Ten Of them Will add some
100000 to the burthens under which you
now stugger. How do you like this Why not
let those who are dissatisfied with the present
Schools provide School-rooms for themselves,
they are perfectly willing tc do, and would have
done under Spcnccr's and Dickinson bill2
% The following additions to the public
burthens of our City have been made since the
LocoF ocos rcgancd the ascendcncy:
&G,OOO.OOO Of a Watcr-Loan; Right.
100000 Interest on do. VERY wrong
should have bcenpad as it accrued
$4,000 per nnnam as our Share of the
State Tax to stop the Public Works;
$4,000 (probaby more) run away with by
Tom LLOYD, their pet Collector.
These are but a few items. They have refused
to allow the Streets to DC swept By the lowest bid
der. whereby at least 100000 per annu,n nigh,
have been saved they have squandcrcd at least
500 900 by balriaccd. corrupt .iobhng laying
watcr-pipcs and they propose 10 add $4,000
per alnu''l to themselves 81 600 each year.
Eve are in f,ver of paying the Aldermen for their
services but s 600 year is out OF all rcason)
How much longer shall they so on in this hummer
IGe The par,sans of tojcrt II. Norris are
boot licking around tie Wings to support him on
the prctencc that ho is xuch good .Nayor, II
would be d pity to supcrccdc him. The miserable
!vpocritcs Where their regard for good Of
iccrs, where was has, when he turned one hundred
poor and faithful public servants oil the CITY
Watch for the crime of voting the Wing ticket?
This man Morris 10y that carried Political
Prescription TO a lower deep than it ever before
reached and now his acqueys havc,the impudcnce
TO come tawning round 70: Wig votes !WHIos !
avcnge the insult to your understandings ayengc
the wrongs of your poor brethren, who alter
twenty years faithful service were deprived of
their hard-earncd subsistence because they dared
think us YOU think and vote as they thought, like
honest men Wings of New-Yorl>. remember
their opprcSsor.
D' JoNATuAS RIDER has declined standing
the Wing candidate for Alderman in the Eleventh
Ward and NEHEMIAH WATERBURY hal
been nominated in his stead. We are assured he
is good and true man, and ,llat there is a chance
Of his election Where is the Wing who would
not get up at midnight to carry the old Eleventh?
JOHN MCGOWAN, our candidate fer Assistant, i,
good and true Whig-ot the Old Guard, and there
are strong hopes for him. Come out in your
strength Eleventh Wardcrs
u The Stsadard says that Senator SCOTT did
not vote on the School Bill because he had Pai'ta3
of viii, Senator CORNING CT Albany. But Mr.
Corning had already paired OF with MrPl
who, on tho strength Of their agreement, had left
Albany Here is an important bill passed by Il
shameful fraud or n diShoncs, shUlhtng OF q vote
which aur Senator stood pledged to give Which
is ii. Mr. Scott What say You, Mr.. Corning ,
~ The new School Law creates sirty-4icht
new Ward Officers. who IRE TO be paid ''Meirme-
ccss0ry crpcmses. All experience shows that
this is the very dearest and most waSeiul way of
paying for public services. Ii is u direct lAclte-
ment to prodigalilv and gluttorv. 1t works so
bad in the Common Council that our Loco rulers
propose change loa salary Of 81 ,00t each per