New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-15
ASSEMBLY.


To erect fire proof Library building.
To incorporate the Thistle Benevolent Atso,s
ton Of New York
Inrelstion to the Sheriff and Clerk of KingG
To alter Commissioners map Of brooklyn
To-day was set apart for the purpose Of rel
ing engrossed bills a third time.
The following were passed unless otherFn
To amend the Charter Of sksneateles
To alter the Commissioners Map Of the City
Brooklyn.
TO amend the act entitled Tn Act TO pnra
for .ick and disabled seamen-pa.sed Apr 81
1881, and all the acts amendatory OF the same.
Mr.. TOWNSEND said be felt it TO be his days
move 10 recommend this bill to the Committee
the Whole for reconsideration. He had hentn
explanation of the provisions OF the bill md
knew of no principle that would allow isct n
appropriation. The fund which ought to Be 10
turbed by this law was raised by mariner r1
their private funds, and he was conyincedt ne
bill was passed it would operate nervously 'Ps
the contributors 10 this fund
Mr.. WAKEMAN expressed great surprise AZ,
opposition of his colleague, and was not convnt
at the position assumed by him. 1t was asecoa
hand position. No one arrived at careful inva
tigation The object Of the fund was 10 sbls
the poor, sick and disabled seamen, and TIE or
reason for passing this law was TO secure thef
pcintment OF new Trustees to carry outthe 20
visions of the bill, which would insure 70 q,
mariner that which he was entitled 10 By histia
ton. IL was mertorious object, and he bog
every man would cast his vote for il.
Mr.. NARNUM was sorry to dlifer from hs .
league Mr.. Townsend,l and be hoped the I.
would pass. He was glad TO know that the liti
bad interested themselves In It's behalf ana
was convinced that il was a noble object sA
the Colonial Government was established AN
of one dollar was levied on seamen for TIE ~
pose Of providing an hosp for the care Of 81
and disabled seamen. This fund was ors~
time used in common with fund from Pn'~
gers. Some few years since the Le6suI
passed law directing a division of those las1
and Seamen's Retreat was established y
fund amounted from all sources 10 Sl00OO0, O.
the Retreat was commenced from the income nc
this fund, and finding themselves unable 70 aJ
on this fund, they applied for leave to bor
money from the Mariners Fund. The so1
600 was SO borrowed That sum, by an y
Of the Legislature, was afterwards excepted ~
the operation of the law creating passeos'
fund la 1881 the trustees were authorn"
erect an Hospital adjoining the Retreat l@ =
sick sesmen, and $4,000 was appropriated %.
the Sic, coo. For various reasons the Ifusx'
did not feel authorized TO proceed 10 oaid III ~
pita not knowing when they might be dePi''-
ask the Legislature to give them the sss
$4,000 formerly appropriated Tor tns w
named in the bill, and they assure US me hO'g.
can be built for that sum. he thought me Pn.a
pie in the bill creating a new Board oil if'''
was wrong, as there was already las wv
statute books which created like BOARD.
Mr. n. HARRIS said that in lsil, 49,
passed authorizing the creation OF this iahe :,
In le47 another law was passed directing me-
ton OF building for sick and disabled sesmeh
40 law was passed for paying 70 the trustee
this fund asum, In the whole, amouniine~ ~
for the purposes Of those buildings II po'
pears the present Trustees refuse to pay ogs -
sum in erecting suitable buildings, and =
is sought to be accomplished by this bill Is ns
penditure Of this money for the specihc p"F~
for which II raised.
Mir WARD hoped the motion 70 recommH w.
not prevail, and hoped the bill would pass
out delay. III
Act was to divert the money from ia 0rigini
iect, and read from the Session laws Of 1884,
and 1919 to sustain him 10 his position y
question was q simple one, and settled dor
the point whether the money now lying dofsb
should be expended for the purpose OF ers1c
buildings or be left for some future time to -
tify Staten Island or some other place.
hr. TOWNSEND asserted that this tax VIZ
posed on the Mariners, creating the funds %.
for the purpose Of assisting the Mariners 10 ~
Of sickness or distress. The appropriation >,
red to, vas made with the understanding hb :,
Trustees should make use oft when they ~
fit so TO DO, and leaving It optional VIII ".
refrain from using, until such time az they r.
see proper TO build the Seamens Retreat
out any imputation existing against the - |
board, we are now asked to pass laS 4
shall create q new board authorised % - |
this sum OF ten thousand dollars Tor 20 -
different purpose from the one for s1irn !"
originally devoted For one, he was oPP.-sst
any such division, and be could never GoD. -
countenance any such movement nc
vote for q recommittal. -.
Mr.. o. ALLEN opposed the motion 70 rec.-vt
and considered the application for an spr3ss
ton of this fund proper one, ana wv
righteous and meritorious.
The motion TO recommit was lost. .ses
The bill was then read third time s''f
Ayes 81, Noes6. .of5st
To provide for the erection OF ire P'O"
ing for a State Library, and for the oeH Ma.,r
mediation OF the Legislature Ayes al, ~
The SPEAKER appointed the ioIo" 2Dge
Committee to consider the inyltaIyn va
Drew and Isaac Newton TO vlsit No II
Messrs. Green, Burroughs, w. D. o'es0'"
and Swords. ,-ois,t ~
To INCORPORATE the Thistle Beneyoien'
citation OF the City Of New Yorl. .,,h. CO
In relation to the Sheriff and clefA VI
'y S Of S amend the Charter of the City Of s'''
tsdy.