The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-02-17
Board OF SupcrvIsor;.

The Recorder in the Chair.
Feb l6-Ihe minutes Of last meeting were read
A bill from Patrick Byrne and Teunis Fowkes.
for compensation in exanining the sink at Cham
bers street. in reference to the Colt Affair." was Of.
Bills Of ocfier M'Grath and Bowyer-the one
$50 and the ether $l2O-fsr attending elphia
and Albany steamboats, at 81 per day, were receiv-
ed and referred.
in which he stated that owing to the difficulty re-
lative to the Collector of the 9th Ward, the tax.
payers had not been called upon twice, according
telaw, and consequently the additional per cent
for non-payment could not legally be imposed.
Aid. Lee offered resolution, which was adopted,
author the Collector receive taxes in that
ward until the lst March, without requiring tee
extra interest.
EXPENSES OF CoLr's TRIAL.
The bill of E. G. Barton, for refreshments fur
nished to the jury and attendant officers, ON the
trial of John c. Colt, was presented. II amounted
to 409, So being IS cents each for dinners and so
cents each for breakfast and tea-it also includes
charge Of S22 SO for cigars, and Sl2 or Sl4 for
beer.
Much discussion took place on the apparently
high price Of the bill.
Alderman LEONARD observed that the charge
included refreshments furnished to several officers
The committee deemed it improper that the county
should have to provide for them, but when the
great excitement taken into cousi4 GRAFTON and
the necessity for the officers being in constant At.
tendance, it was concluded to recommend the pay
ment Of the bill. Mr. Barton received an unlimit.
ed order frem Mr.. Wcstervelt, deputy sheriff. to
furnish the jury and officers hate yer thew desired
agreeably to Instructions from the Court, except
spurious liquors. Some contract should have been
entered into but such was not the case and we are
bound TO pay the bill Mr.. Barton had sworn TO the
bill being correct, and believed he had even lost
money by the dinners, as the table was supplied
with the best that the market could afford.
Alderman BENEDICT, after stating that a YER
diet should be set aside, hich had been obtained
after jury had INDUCED in so much smoke and
beer, moved that the charge for beer and cigars
should not be paid. In old times, he said, Jurors
were allowed nothing but water.
Alderman LEoNAR was sorry to find the gentle
man oppose the bill SO strenuously. As to the time
when jurors were allowed nothing but water, it was
when lawyers were not in the habit Of keeping
them for twelve days on a single trial. When
lawyers charge $500 tor defending case, and keep
jurors, we are bound to see them taken proper
care Of
Alderman LEE observed that the amount of beer
actually furnished the Jury itself was small, on an
average about a glass day. He did not think that
sufficient to set aside the verdict.
Alderman WOODRUFF stated that the jury should
have been provided for in the tea room.
Aldermen Benson and LEE thought il would
have cost more than now charged. The latter OBJ
served, that the members Of the Court and one or
two others had dined insde of the hall, and Mr.
Cooper had had the modesty to charge 81 a meal
for each, although he had given them but little
fficassecd chicken and some roast beef.
Aldermen PUspY, ISNEss, and WILLIAMS, also
the Recorder, made remarks in reference to the
matter, after which the report in favor Of paying
the bill was adopted.
Alderman LEONARD then offered . resolution,
which was adopted, stating that hereafter in cri-
minal trials, the Board of Supervisors would not
be responsible for spirituous liquors or fermented
liquor, or cigars, furnished to juries.
tColt's trial will cost the city and county some
thing like S200O.1
PAY OF ASSESSORS.
Alderman PuRpy offered resolution, which was
adopted, authorising the Supervisors Of the re-
spective wards TO designate the salaries they
thought the Assessors entitled to.
The supervisors Of the following wards then
made their reports, and the salaries were fixed a.
follows:
First Ward, 800 I; Second, Third, Fourth, and
Thirteenth same As last year Eigth, Eleventh,
and 18th, S450 Sixteenth, $60c.
The other members were not prepared TO re-
pert.
Thu Roard then sdtourned