The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-13

BOARD Of supervisors.
. MAY l2-Ths Recorder In the chair The minutes Of
the last proceedings were read and approved.

presentation OF the bill OF Of the officers Of the SUI
prcme Court for S4 for months attendance at 81 so
per day the Supervisor of the Third said he had
objection TO this bill being paid but he would protest
against bills being presented month after month by lazy
officials who did perform the fourteenth part Of the
labor for which they charged. Alderman Oakley said
that the term lazy officials quito uncaed for and he
would that the officers OF the courts performed
faithfully all the duties that were imposed upon them.
Ordered to be paid The bill of Chas May as counsel and
assistant assessorshp of the Twentieth ward for
and counsel fee to Mr. SHEPPARD for $50
| dercd 10 be paid
] MANrrNAScr OF MARGARET loRnsNs
The bill Of Flora Foster for S45 meals at Is Sd
per meal furnished Margaret Lorhens at the City Prison
ordered TO be paid
SALARIES or rik DEPUTY CLERKS of the SUPREME COURT.
resolution and the report Of the Committee
County Offices, recommending that the salaries of the
deputy clerk OF the Superior Court a. T. Maxwc) be
increased from $500 10 81 200 per the clerk in
Equity, CO. II Lynch) from 5000 to 81 300 clerk of Part
Second a. IL Rce) from $500 to 5000; and the Gene
raj ONCE clerk (lesse oakley from 5000 to $780,
presented 10 the Board.
Alderman o,Nry moved that the resolution be adopt
cd The clerks OF the Superior Court performed their
duties efficiently and deserving of better compensa
ton than they now enjoyed.
Alderman SluMrryANr had been practising as law
yer for twenty and bore high testimony to the e
cheney and courtesy of the clerks of the Superior Court
Tho RrcoRprR concurred in the resolution and II
passed without adssentient voice
RreisrER's
The following was offered by the Recorder
Resolved That II be, and is referred to the Commit
tee County Offices TO ascertain and report to this
Board the cxpcdcncy of having the records of the Re-
gstcrs Office indexed aud published in n condensed form
for the use III the public and plan OF so doing; and
also, II any aud what mediums Of improvement can be
adopted In the future arrangement and keeping OF the
rccords IN said Office Referred 10 Committee ON County
| Offices.
| ATTENDANTS on rnr COURTS OF INV yonx.
IL was resolved that committee Of this board be APP
pointed to confer with the judges of the various courts OF
number Of attendants required for their attendance and
report the result 10 this board nc early day Alder
men Denman, Wesley Smith, and Oscar Sturtevant
appointed the committee.
ri,r IMPORT PETITION rur
SOCIETY ron inr REFORMATION OF JUVENILE pELis-
The committee 70 whom referred the annexed rcso-
luton respectfully report =
That the Society for the Reformation Of Juvenile Dein-
quents Is corporation created by act Of the Legislature
passed March lsi composed Of voluntary subscribers
with power hold real estate the extent Of yearly in
Of ten thousand dollars 1t is managed by thirty
directors who subscribers and who inhabitants OF
the city Of New York; nine Of whom by a law passed
April L. 1858 compose quorum To transact business,
except the appointment and removal of officers, TO
which duties twelve form quorum Tho managers by
the act of Incorporation elected by the subscribers
annually on the third Monday of November and in
OF vacancy in the intermediate time it is filled for the
residue Of the term by the board by tho original act
Discretionary given to the managers to receive
into the House of Refuge all such children sha h
| criminal offences in the city OF New Yor .uay be
| deemed proper objects; and, during I'll minority, to
place them at such employments, aud thum to be
instructed i'll such branches OF useful ku Wedge shall
b. suitable To their years and capacity power with
their consent TO bind them out apprentices
the power over the females not to extend beyond the
OF is years BY act passed January IS 1926 the managers
areroqured orece'c those convicted any city
~ in the State unless notice bc given by them that there
is not room for by the Revised Statutes courts
may order any convicted fon under Ii years of ago
be sent the House of Refuge By act of 1888 the
Governor the of the Inspectors
State prison direct the agent of the State prison
remove any convets under seventeen years Of to the
House Of Refuge and 10y act Of February g. 1850, u
! Western House OF Refuge at Rochester was estab
lished, and this has since taken the Juvenile
Nicts from the counties west of Albany, Originally
the capital Of the association raised solely
by voluntary subscription; by various successive
laws was afterwards endowed by the city and State
with additional money and revenue until the time OF the
ordinance Of the Common Council next mentioned and
sheu 'ey heiu ana YET hoiu ~ nominal rent ana en-
joy the of forty lots Of land the foot of East
Twenty third street belonging the city which the
House OF Refuge now stands; they enjoyed and yet
received from the city treasury, four thousand dol
lars per annum; from the State treasury, eight
thousand dollars per annum; and the proceeds Of
licenses TO theatres and crcuses In the city equal
TO - dollars per annum. Total from the city treasu-
ry per annum - dollars Total from the city and
that though originally city institution yet by tho
veral suhequ laws Of the State that far applies
to the conyios II had become State institution They
further report that in or about January 1850 (scc page
oot thelr Ifptliof society authorized the In
sution TO sell the land above mentioned which they
occupy at the foot of east Twenty third street to receive
the proceeds and apply them 10 the erection Of house
OF Refuge provided that they should purchase ground of
an extent not loss than ten in this county Tor the
site Of such househc fee be in the city corpora
tion and It's perpetual use for House Of Refuge Sc
cured That the society thcrcupon purchased ten and
onchith acres on Wards Island which in their report
OF January, lS5 they mention eligible (see page ID
and mention the consideration, which occurred ap
plicabe 10 the selection for site. In that
port, they refer TO the arrangement made with
the Cooperation, "a, IL, and say that a law Is
cessary authorize the measure and that application
for such law and for aid in erecting the buildings the
site made to the Legislature and say that
that could probably be realized from the sale Of the
ground in Twenty third street will probably be adequate
The Committee further report that at the extra session
the Legislature in the summer of 1851 the society OBJ
tanned law granting them fifty thousand dollars from
the state ON the condition that they should erect build
ings to accommodate thousand inmates and dccar-
ing that the land ut the foot of Twenty third street
der lease TO them the sale thereof be discharged Of the
lien Of the sinking fund and any site procured in lieu
thereof be substituted The forty lots occupied by them
and thus declared 10 be released from the lien of the
sinking fund, worth ut least eighty thousand dollars
That in about September of the year 1851 the
ccty applied 10 the Common Council 10 appropriate
their use the south end OF Randas Island comprising all
the land lying south Of the Ditch and line extending
directly across the island and proposed In connection
with the grant OF the petition to convey to the city the
land purchased by them on Wards Island not advert
ing 10 the fact that the tes in this land by the of
the previous ordinance and by the terms of the law last
mentioned OF the Legislature was to be vested in the city
OF New York As grounds for this application they state
among other things that the position selected by them
ON Wards Island not all that can be dercd that the
site ut the south end of Randa Island entirely sepa
rate and far removed from the farms-that the marsh
running across the island renders the south end distinct
location complete in itself aud that the site at present
Is only used az foters Field In the Board of Alder
men. the application referred 10 the Committee
Finance who reported in effect adopting the views and
statements OF the applicants and presenting the matter
as they say IN the words of the petitioner and recon-
mcnding that the application be granted They sub
mtted thereupon, the following resolution, which
| adopted
| Resolved, That all that part Of Randalls Island en-
tracing plots known letters ~ q. A.
the hle in the office Of the Comptroller south
line which uld be continuation northery line Of
One hundred and Twentieth street drawn directly through
the island he set apart and appropriated for the Of the
Society for the Reform alton OF Juvenile Denq be
exclusively used for that purpose and that said society
wall 10 be erected said line highs
and further that the land purchased BY them, FOR oea
ton ON Wards Island be conveyed by thom 10 the city,
By reference 10 the map OF Randas Island. referred
TO in the aoregong resolution IL will appear that plots
~ - l. south OF the line mentioned in the resolution
embrace about eleven and quarter acres north Of the
ditch and SO much more land than asked for by the
applcaton-the whole contents being thirty six acres
and thirty six hundrc dths Of acre the northcrly
line IN fact being within short distance the nursery
buildings ON that island and In fact Of Importance TO
the nursery institutions The resolution last mentioned
was pasrtd by the Board OF Aldermen September Is
! 1891. Erndlls Island conveyed 10 the city for
public purposes ON April 1885 and with the exception
Of about nine acres at the northcry If H. which
appropriated and used the city rotters Field APP
proprated and employed, and yet it, for the public