New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-02-16

Sl6f,Il0 IS
Statement No l. appended to this Report, gives the
eral heads OF Expenditure and IN spending column
the amount received into the City Treasury.
Among the payments out OF the Treasury end into H. the
following are the most prominent;
Opening and paving streets 81 81 s91l6l 90
Common Schools. 65j gJj o. 40,o2l 81
Police. blfWO ~ - %
Aims House Neutrality-suspicious.. $4,000 90
Cleaning streets and lamps ana - o.-o.
observation-disclosures. oo.yy1 % O''V'' ~
Street eNpenses..............., Zof1n f3
Salaries. 2ilS}l 10
Revenue Bonds 2So5,J1O 20 2ySj 100 %
Assessment Bonds for paving -.
strc.ts....,.......,........ 5lIo II oheCo W
Docks and Shps..''........'' ~yiSdo - .,Ssot -
From money borrowed payable
by taxes and otherwise....... ...... o3I,"I ~
The items IN Statement No all the operations Of
the Treasury proper, as distinguished from the recep %
payments the property set apart and pledged
ioi the payment fthe City Debt. ~
The expenditures and receipts on account OF the CITY
Government, not including Trust Funds or the SINKING
Fund for the ending Dec 81 lSo@ were as % az
Expenditures ~ ~
Receipt. other than from taxation. 1850 90
Balance payable for taxation. OS9 as "
The detailed items together with the appropriations
of the Common Council for the various objects OF eIpend-
tsre are given IN the Statement No annexed TO this BE-
port The appropriations in this table include the extra
appropriated make up deficiencies beyond the orig
inal estimate of the Department.
Although the additional appropriations to make up de-
fcences for the Of the year embodied in the
Controller Report Of the 18th December yet known
that the appropriations exhausted much eaTeI
period In the City Inspectors Department an additional
County contingencies which many irregular clans are
hsaped gave out the day and the contingent ex-
seans streets was aided by s 600 on the 10th Septe
Der, and $500 more on the 18th November. Lamps
ard gas had $4,000 the 10th Of September, and S9l
on the 18th OF November TIE Police too required $4,000
the 18th OF Noyember street expenses required oOO
Nov Is and s00O3e in December salaries came II ioI
CISCO Nov. Is. The appropriation for Docks and Slips
was exhausted early the season and the 4h OF August
tleocoo added for these objects Appended 10 this
Statement No ID list Of The additional appropriations
oflSa made subsequent 10 the first estimates and show
Inc the deficiency Of 1882 The total Of the deficiency Is
sSS7 100 From this the Controller makes sundry
deductions by which he reduces the aggregate deficiency
s74 59 81 But the financial incidents hieh ne calls
TO his aid in reducing the aggregate deficiency do
bsve the several Departments from the responsibility sthsr
oeaIeessnes.is then estimates extrsyassnce in taeir
II. estimates And smother % 600 more the latter s not
entitled TO have the difference OF 5000 Offset against us
OF sl09ooo aud IN this way apparently reduce rs
amount Of the deficiency OF 1852 by item which he
enters his statement 10 the Common Council t5S Of the
10 the following words Gain on mill tar Of s52 Il hay-
ms been reduced from mill on sl(o TO OF mil. by
SS7 9{2 90 Certainly not the taxpayers On the l5h
day April the legislature passed act reducing the tax
Supervisors the City. who made up the levy in July,
al of giving the the beoedt Of tins exep-
on according 20 Iae Intention OF the Legislature levied
half min under tie old law instead Of oceioarth cf mill
under the amended law. And this, IN the estimation OF
the Controller, na gain o. ssl- 90 was doubtless
serse ssir 10 the inhabitants OF The city.
The charter of 1850 "a .ol declares that
shall Be- the duty he C0fnncn Sogn 10 pOpha iSo
osik before The annual election Of ehartef oes ~ e4e yet
for the normsucn Of the eens New fo'k a. and
eed Of The receipts su sxgea ares Of tie Sopora
Ter difrs the enns the hrsf Day o. me mouth n Sah
'Sie puhlNsren - hhsde"
on the 6th Of September last sa,emeai was pahshed,
emanatins from the Finance Department 70 which Il -
expressly admitted thar the detailed statement Instead OF
embracing the information required BY the charter 10 %
teore the people for the snding on the nrs cay
" me moaih IN which said publication gade insndes
Only elsht mo nths-trom Jan 1884, 10 AUG /, OF tie
ne sesr-the report being published IN Septenoet Ies
con for the general information Of the citizens
iolk what 10 required BY the charter that
ne tn evy would Be % 7loorhs without any ausoR 10
the Of expenditures VIII sh had been apparent
.e te ,A'.s appropriations commencing on the An Of
Aussst III ths month Of December fsl0w1g docurnsnt
was ss before the Common Counci also prepared At the
Finance ut IN which expressly stated thst
The e1gsrdIlIts 81 the City GoveFnment for the
'lS VIII DC increased Aadrcd aud fvtv tfsBs
aHd seays fer dssey y israfH II 1859 and also TIA,
Tie total sun to be levied by the AK OF 1855 will be So
t76o2 "a beIns an increase the tax eyy Of lG5 Of
sl,7sl SyI "a
Iii the amount Of the deficiency heEnrs vven WHICH is
thus crowded into the l hi keen properly brousht
into the 10 which y belonged The Tax lew Of 1852
would have been S g and the rate instead Of being
% ooh. woad lave been 81 II 2lQogh On easA Sl00 Of
valuation -
THE SINKING FUND
The great buk Of the City properly estimated Il sn
ftesr 10 twenty millions Of dollars AID the eveuae there
on which with the rent yield annual income OF
nearly million of dollars not included in the
mt before referred This property and these revenues
are BY an ordinance adopted in 1914 placed in the h1nis
Of eeran Trustees end pledged for the payment OF the