Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-05-31
A G.. Smoot,

1855 Oct. l. A g. Smoot, 90
Therefore resolved, That the City Register
be required to exhibit to this Board, under
whose direction and by whose authority these
amounts have been 50 overdrawn from the
city treasury.
REGIsrER's OFFICE, M,y 26, 1856.
Sir L received a copy of the preamble and
resolution adopted by the Board of Common
Council May 10, 1856; the preamble stating
that the appropriation of two hundred dol
lars for the casual repairs of streets, avenues,
&c, in the First W ard, approved February s,
1855, has been overdrawn by the sum of
s4j0.06;" and that the appropriation to pay
the expenses of cleansing the city, approved
May IL, 1855, has been Overdrawn in the sum
OF S242 Sc; and the resolution requiring "the
City Register TO exhibit to this Board under
what authority and by whose direction these
amounts have been so overdrawn from the city
treasury
In reply to the above / would respectfully
state that the above amounts for the casual
repairs Of streets, avenues, &c, and for clean
ing the city have been paid TO the several
persons who were engaged in that work by
the commissioners of the Wards, under the
direction and by the approval of the Mayor.
By referring to the books Of this office find
that the appropriations for the casual repair,
Of streets, &c, and the appropriations for the
removal Of nuisances have been repeatedly
Overdrawn during the past six years; and it
would seem that these appropriations, from
their nature, have been considered as cOntin-
uous rather than special, nor is il to be sup
posed that work Of this character should cease
Immediately on the amounts appropriated
having been expended Respectfully, DC.
SAMUEL L. DOUGLASS, Register.
J. 7. CLEMENTS, ESQ, President of Board
Of Common Council.
ELECTION NOrICEs.-It was considered a
pretty rich joke, that our Cooperation author
tiles having advertised the tax sales in a pa
per having no circulation, were obliged after.
wards to announce to the public through the
columns of another paper where the aforesaid
advertisement could be found They are
furnishing the public with more fun of this
description, by inserting the election notices
in the Organ, as, of course, they might as
well for all practical purposes, be consigned
to the dead letter Office.
Feeling disposed, however, to do the hand
some and magnanimous thing, and in order
that the public may know where they are to
go, we give the places Of voting in the differ
ent precincts:
First WARD.-Ffrst Precinct-On the north
side of street, between Nineteenth and Twen-
tieth streets.
Second PTsciaet-0n Twentieth street, be-
tween Ii street and Pennsylvania avenue.
SECOND WARD.-First Precinct-At the
corner of Massachusetts, avenue and Eleventh
street.
Second Precinet-At the corner Of Pennsyl-
vanis avenue and Eleventh street.
THIRD WARD.--FiTSt PrscInct--At the
southeast corner Of Eighth and l. streets.
Second PTseInct-At the northeast corner
of and Ninth streets.
FOURTH WARD.-PIra Preeincf-At the
corner Of III and Fourth streets.
Second PTecinet-At the City Hall.
fHTa WARD.--FIrst Prsclnct--At the
schOol-house on the corner of A street south
and Third street east.
Second PreciHet-At the corner Of First
street east and Pennsylvania avenue.
sixth WARD First Precinct--At the
American Hook and Ladder house.
Second PTseIHet-At the Anacostia Engine
house.
SKVESTH WARD -Ftrst Precinct-At Is
land Hall.
Second PJ.etnet-At the corner Of Seventh
street and Maryland avenue.
The WEATHER.-0ur Georgetown friend
B." again fayOrs Us with the range of the
thermometer for the past week, beginning at
noon Of Saturday, May "a, and ending this
morning