The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-01-25


Van Nostrand. Joseph Tucker, stephen Wrsy, John
Hardness and Thomas Crane, offered surees, with
their assent in wiring
No. Is -RoBeRr PErrIGREw $4,000.
Thomas Cumming and Daniel F. Tieman offered as
sureues, hut no assent given.
No. 1o.-T. &w. p WALLACE, for years at STA $50 /;
for years. at s7slO4 90 for ears, at S7962 50 for
years, at ISL ,bl7 % for yea at SS3,4l3.
Johnson Lowden offered as suretes with their assent
in writing.
No H-GroRoE WETsELI aud PHrLP PlErcH, S7s 900.
Oliver Cobb William Willis Thomas +. Peers and
Abraham Petch offered surees, but given.
No. IS.-J.RvIs B. CuprIs IO6 600
Smith Dunning, Charles Wyckof, and f. S. Marvin Of
tered as sureties with their assest in writing.
Under the resolution unanimously adopted by the com
mitee that no proposal should be acted upon which did
not conform with the notice in respect the certificate of
the assent OF the surtes proposed the proposals
ed2 SO T. and 10, were unanimously rejected by the
committee lnrespect to No ,, the proposal OF Andrew
Brady and Patrick Moore, the committee conceived that
their original proposal for $4,000 and for which sufficient
suretes were offered, with their assent in writing,
withdrawn by their note above forth substituting
proposal OF S42500 without the offer OF suretes
the assent of those whom they had formerly offered
The Committee thereupon adjourned, to meet again At
half past o'clock the evening OF day
January l7th) and met accordingly all the members
of the Committee being present excepting Assistant AL
derman Esqu,rol, who still absent IRON the city
They thereupon proceeded to consider the propo
sails which remained before them after the rejection of
number,
and took them up in the order in which they above
set forth
TIE first that OF Bartlett Smith, for S2i934 AL.
derman Martin moved that the should be g zen
to Bartlett Smith, he being the lowest bidder therefor
but the Committee after full consideration deemng that
the offer upon the face OF was not made in good faith
the contained in being papaby inadequate TO the
performance ofhe work embraced in the contract with
but dissenting voice alderman MARTINI rejected the
proposal, whereupon Alderman Martin withdrew. The
reasons which brought the Committee to this conclusion
will be hereafter stated
The next proposal which they considered was No. L.
that of John P Cumming and Thomas Cumming, junr.
This proposal was in like rejected by the Com
mittee, for the which had induced their
ton in the OF Bartlett Smith. Much discussion how
had upon it, OF the members oil the Commit
ee Alderman Davies having expressed msefin favor
OF giving the contract TO the Mcssrs Cumming But,
upon fall consideration of the SUBJECT and of the facts
and which hereafter particularly stated the
Committee arrived at the conclusion that the PROPOSAL of
the Messrs Cumming being far below those which lad
been made by other parties, who had had great expert
in the performance of the very in question:
OF whom, (Mr Gage) the late Superintendent OF
Streets had proposed for 500 0OO another of them Mr
Berrian former Superintendent Streets had
for $4,000, and third Mr. PettigrewJ who has been
long employed under the Corporation in the performance
owork very similar in its character and most competent
to judge in to the subject who had proposed
for S75000 and who had offered of his ureties
the performance OF the contract Mr.. Thomas Cumming
ofthe very surees offered by the Messrs Cumming
and ben G. moreover wholly dsprop to the ex.
pense incurred by the city for the years which
has annually averaged 900 could be ,idered
by the Committee as made in good faith as upon
performance mere were otner facts also, IN support
Of this conclusion which left the Committee room
to doubt the propriey of their def ation and to
which they shall presently invite the attention of the
Board.
The next proposal which under the consideration
of the committee No. 8, that of Joseph Bron, for
S64 500 Tor five years. the Others those the PRO-
posal OF the Messrs Cumming and Joseph Bron, havn
been rejected, already stated, OF
pliance with the notice calling for estimates his pro
posa the committee deemed to be their duy to accept
as coming within the principle OF the resolution which
fhayh oil tnutt kac
the lowest bidder whose bid shou appear have been
made in good faith They, however, deemed nexpedi-
ent to give the contract to single individual unless he
should be unwilling unite with others by reason of the
fact that the death removal OF sole contractor might
air. time terminate the provided
of the agreement which the Common ounc had direct
ed the committee to execute Regarding it, therefore as
their duty under the resolution which authorized them to
enter into the contract with suitable person or per-
and thus invested them with full discretion on the
subject to consummate it as to insure the city
as human foresight could effect that object the benefits re
sultng from its continuance during the prescribed term
they proposed to Mr. Br,on that or two other per.
of approved character and capacity should he
cated with hum in the contract and the Thomas
Carney and Edwin Townsend both Of whom had esti-
ed for the contract and W no well known the
committee to be of rreproachable integrity and
trey competento the performance Of the contract
suggested for that purpose To afford these parties o
porunity to consult together upon the subject the
mee adjourned until the next day, january sth)
o'clock, +. NJ
A. the time appointed the Committee again met all the
members being present excepting Assistant Alderman
Esquiroi, who still absent from the city. Messrs
Bron Carnley and Townsend also appeared and
that they were ready to accede to the proposal to
cate I'm the execution of the contract and that
they then ready execute it. and give
ties for Its performance their part Messrs Riner
man. The sueties thus offered being known Com.
mittee to lie abundanty responsible accepted with
out objection aud the contract and bond directed
to be presented TO the committee, and the
O'Clock, 7. NJ, OF the same dav, at the City Hail. to
which time and place the committee adjourned
AT the time and place appointed the contract
Cutel, duplicate,
except Alderman Martin. who refused to do So and AS
sstan Alderman Esquro who still absent from the
city by signing the same, and ahXing the seal
othe city thereto directed by the resolution and by
the contractors, Joseph Brit,on Thomas Carney and
Edwin Townsend in the form prescribed by the Common
Council at S64 so" year for five years, and bond for
the faithful performance Of the said contract in the sum
of $4,000 was at he same time duly executed by the
tractors and Rnier C. Worendyke Daniel w. Townsend
and Richard F. Carman their sureties The COMMITTEES
thereupon, alter directing the and bond be
filed in the Comptrollers office, which ha been done ad
journed sine de.
The Committee have thus stated fully and IN detail the
course OF their action in the performance OF the high and
responsible trust devolved upon them by the Common
Council In the performance Of their duty while they
have been conscious that they would be called upon to
encounter the denuDcaonso partisan clamor the
hand and of disappointed applicants the other the
have endeavored ealessy and firmly to meet the respon
sbty cast upon them and regardless of all other
derations to be guided by just OF the magnitude OF
the interests committed to their so far they
personally concerned, they prepared to disregard an
hment OF their motives. which they know be
unjust il is untounded They feel IL to be due to them
selves however, less than to the body whose agents
ey are, and to the constituents through whose conf
dence they have been called upon and to whose
pervision they cheeruy hold themselves amenable,
forth fully the facts upon which they acted and the
which have influenced their action. And they
will permit themselves doubt whenthose facts and
dspassonstey considered, whatever deren.
of opinion may exist If as TO the soundness of the
discretion which they have exercised will be
tanned the n'eresedness and purity Of motive by
which their conduct has been governed
II is well known 10 the Common Council that prior to
the year $780, differ existed in relation the
cleaning OF the ofour city from the which has
ever since that time been They formerly
required to be cleaned by the citizens under pc
nates for the omission TO perform that duty and hence
the nominal burden upon the treasury Of the city
ry Light, while that upon the citizens individually,
found be oppressive and inolerable In order TO OBJ
viate this evil, the Common Council were almost
mousy called upon TO adopt system, by which the bur
den should be removed from individual citizens and by
the establishment oil department upon whom the duty
should be cast and TO be Imported by general tax the
expense referred to, equaiz and reduced. department