The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-16
The city Printing-The Official Newspaper
--Applicatlon for Pap, Sc.

In the early part Of May tho following petition
was sent to tho Common Council =
To THE Hon. THE COMMON COUNCIL
The undersigned, publishers of the several news
papers employed by the Corporation to publish its
Proceedings ordinances, &C., respectfully represent
to your honorable body that the compensation now
allowed for the services rendered by the subscribers
falls far short not only Of fair compensation. but
of the actual expenses incurred in doing the work.
When the present contract was entered upon, the
sum then allowed barely indcmnifed for an 40
tual outlay; st the present time, tho service rem
dercd is many times greater than it was then, and
ysur petitioners think they arc entitled to, and do
hereby ask, that from and after this date, an an
nual sum more proportionate to the expenses in
cured, be allowed them.
w. G. BRYANT & Co., Proprietors of the
Evening Post.
j. Sc. Brooks New York Express.
FRANCIS HALL & Co, Commercial advertiser.
New YORK, May |, 1852.
Shortly after, judging from the date, tho annexed
was handed to the Board
DAY Book OFFICE, 203 BRoADwAY,(
NEW YORK. May 8, 1852.
The Merchants Day Book, through its agent, F.
Z. Nolan, proposes to insert the Corporation adver
tiscments Of the city in the columns ofsad paper for
the yearly sum Of ono thousand dollars; said adver-
tisements to DO inserted in said paper, which il
published every day, with the exception of Sunday
These documents wero received, and referred to
the Committee on Ordinances, consisting Of Messrs
Denman, Tiemann, and Ward, who made the follow
ing reIort:-
The Committee on Ordinances. to whom was re-
frrcd the annexed petitions, respectfully report that
they have carefully considered the petitions, and
deem it ineypedient to recommend their adoption.
Firstly Because, before and at the time the So
lection OF Corporation newspapers made there
was no complaint by the petitioners that the conn
rensaion was inadequate to the services rendered.
Secondly-Because they have propositions from
newspapers of as large circulation those of the
petitioners, to do the Corporation printing at tho
sane rate now paid them, viz: thousand dollars
per annum.
ThiIdly--Because the Common Council has om-
ployed almost double the number of newspapers
hitherto employed, which has greatly increased tho
expenses OF Corporation printing, and considering
the enormous taxes now imposed upon the city, do
notfeel disposed TO recommend any unnecessary in
crease.
Fourthly-At the time the selection was made
your committee was disposed to continue the petit
TONERS papers in the employment Of the Corpora
tion Gas they had long been employed by the Corpo-
ration to do their printing and as they were still do
sirous to be retained in the Corporation employ)
Notwithstanding their newspapers were Of limited
circulation, which has long been subject of COM
plant by our citizens which induced the committee,
on former occasion, to recommend IN increase Of
the number Of Corporation newspapers, among which
was the New York DAILY HERALD-whch recon-
mcndation received the unanimous appreciation Of
the two Boards, and the sanction of the Mayor, at
three thousand dollars per annum, because its daily
circulation, among all Of our citizens, was nearly
poraries was only from three to five thousand
And here it may be proper to state that, at the
time they recommended the present Corporation
newspapers they ascertaned as nearly they could
that the Commercial -fdcctiser, Erening Post and
Morning cypress did not exceed four or i've thousand
each while the circulation Of the DAILY HERALD
was nearly forty thousand thus admitting the cir
culatioD the three abovenamed to have
been even five thousand each showing that the ag-
gregate circulation Of the Commercial, Post, and
Express, is only fifteen thousand per day, Coach re-
ceiviDg one thousand dollars per annum for Corpo-
ration printing! while the DAILY HERALD has near
ly forty thousand subscribers or circulates about
twenty ive thousand per day than the CONNER
c,ai, Post and Express, all togcther-thus showing
that in paying the HERALD three thousand dollars
per annum, your committee did the petitioners ne
injustice.
Finally, the committee, in selecting the HERALD,
adopted the policy Of national Congress, which
selects newspapers throughout the country for
Post Office advertisements, remunerating them ae-
cording to their energy, circulation, aud public
utility.
This report was adopted by the committee, and
presented to the President the last night Of tho
May session, but was left with the unfinished BUSH
ness. Before it could be presented by the President
to the Board, the application for the pap was with
drawn by tho petitioners, ascertainng, probably,
that the report would be adopted by both boards.