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are nevertheless important showing the partial ten
dencY Of that report

dency Of that report.
The late Street Commissioner on leaving Office paid
into the Treasury several unexpended balances va
rous accounts, amounting in the aggregate to upwards
Of S6000 The Comptroller credits the expenditures on
these accounts with balances thus returned in making
up the actual expenditure Of the compared with
the previous year, but gives credit for them in CON-
pairing the expenditures under the respective Common
Councils For instance on page the Comprolr states
From the expenditure Of 1856 81 or street expenses
should be deducted the amount Of $as75 90, paid into
the Treasury by the late Street Commissioner "This
will make the actual cost for the SIS O9 pages
g. in giving the comparative expenditures under
the former on this account be 50 1873 45where
the Of So 375 &C. acknowledged to have been PAID
IN by the late Street Commissioner should have peen DC
Quoted iron it, which would have shown the actual ex-
pendure have been but S576l SO for the four and
half months. which being added to the sum OF S227
o. the expenditure stated have been made during the
end half months under the present Corporation
would show the actual expenditure to have been
80. as stated by the Comptroller on page 49,
To what extent similar inaccuracies run through the
report Of course unable to judge from the short
time have occupied in examining the repsr-but
enough has been shown trust conrovert the state
msnts contained in the extracts to which have REFER
red and that the calculations have been made upon false
premises producing results erroneous and unworthy OF
credit.
The which have given are but examples of in
correctness in relation to all the other branches of ex
penditure OF which the two sums assumed by the Comp
troer AZ the basis of comparison composed
There is scarcely an item which will not admit Of re-
the months showing that theae do net represent
the actual expenditures within these periods OF time
That there other expenditures made within the
months not included in the Comptrollers statement OF
the expenditures fol that period refer for proof to the
report Of the Superintendent of the Aims House. page 20
Comptrolers ReporJ in which it IL stated that the bills
incurred by the Aims House Department, remaining un
paid at the end of the year. amount TO the sum OF $9 494
md the same may be safely said Of all the other depart
ments
The only correct data upon which to make the compa
rison of the expenses of the two Common Councils,
would BE- as have shown In II. case o. salaries 70 as
belonging to the previous year and deduct such amount
from the expenditure charged by the Comptroller to that
perod and the amount of bills incurred by the present
Common Council, within the succeeding n months,
which has been thrown into the present year. and ada
,ns n ae ,ne
however, would have been, to have compared the
expenditures of the present Common Council with those
OF their predecessors during the same period Of the pre-
vous year. In either have doubt but that such
comparison would be strongly in favor Of the previous
sua amount Of the expenditure Of the II months
present Common Council has been thrown into the pre-
which has been presented to the public in the Compro
ers report but to conceal the fact of large increase
expenditure during the year ls44-he same having ex
ceeded according to the Comptrolers computation o.
expenditure the amount levied for the purpose
| 05 and having exceeded in a large sum the amount
have shown in the case of salaries that larger sum
by $5672 81 has been thrown for the seven and hall
months into The present pay ment than thrown
half months of ls44 which should be added that
amount have also shown that the of $40 444 of the
Aims Mouse expenditure OF tue seven months
has been thrown into the present cannot be
uncharabe towards the present Common Council to
suppose that 81 large sum thrown from l943
for ayment within the first four and half months OF
lsa4 that would involve the necessity OF deductng
amount from the Of $l06 SSs o. stated by the
Comptroller ION page 29) the expenditure within the
four and halt months which would leave the actual
expenditure within that period to have been but 1864
or while the amount being require to be added
of $i4s 7s the stated expenditure for the
and halt months, shows the actual expenditure
nave been So7 Oil IS for that period 1t is evdent how
ever that the additions from these two expenditures,
alone, will swell the excess of expenditure the
amount levied by tax to at least $500 000 while the
tual amount, by investigation OF the books of the
finance department. will necessarily prove to be much
greater.
Where then is the saving or decrease in the city
penditures to the amount Of $220 81 40 00hs for the
months referred to by the Comptroller? Where is
the decrease OF thousand dollars day? submit tn e
following statement, made up from the Comptrolers
port Page % gives the information in relation 70 the
watch, and lamps and gas which being deducted from
the sum Of 81 42s TAT g. given as the total expenditure
gives the expenditure Tor the county contingencies
have stated them The Comptroller. however. has not
stated in his report the amount levied for county conn
yences including also cleaning and repairing
This amount, fortunately has Been obtained from Doc.
No2o Of the Board of Supervisors, who made the levy
October last =