The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-05-04

U Wes'coss do. July 81, le57.... go 20
Total. "a Gao II
1t VIII be by referring to the preceding statement
the time tAai b smith t,ok charge OF lie books
nectaa with The pay NEXT OF assessment contracts.
The transactions were limited TO few hundred dollars
A upe until the 10th Of June 1857 wteu the amount
rose to ~ 2S end from that Date 10 the LIST Of Septem
eer period Of seventy sx days, Smiths noses end rsed
by Devhn, discounted at the 8owefy Bank IA the
amount Of $40 0oo and OF the large Of $24 $50 IL
arcoar ted % Smiths notes during vo years, the sum o.
81 ITO for Smith
The following amounts In checks or bonds have been
Of contracts assieDed bank and winch 10
some cases, charged the books Kept by smith
uoi OF 70 jobs that hsa previously been pAii fun
Nastersop check No ga. $3.50 70
For regulating Fifty sixth street,
Hhth avenue asd Broadway.
Esdorsed by Enoch Dean, Prcst
Oct 8, BsweYy BANK assignee, check
No ,cso. .....,...........$ 1899 GO
Bend. .........................4 Soo 90
For balance regulating Forty
second street and Tenth
nue. and a. river. 81 ,00o %
he whole amount was receipted
BY John BraniEan
The cheek h endorsed by Enoch
Dean, Prest and ChAs Devhn.
This precise rum, - The balance the contract, was
paid 70 the hechaaics and rrAders' Bank February
Bank had Ary connection with that contract
Oct 8, ls67-Bovery Bank assignee, check No.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Ve4 80
bono.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Z.400 w
For balance Thty eighth street, second and Tnrd ave-
nues.
Tbis check endorsed BY Enoch Dean, President,
Oct TO- lsb7-Bowery Bank check, No 1900 .s2l4s e6
For amount collected for Tortieth street sewer.
This check lie eEoorsed by EDocb Dean, President.
Oct, 10, 1857. Bovery Bank check, No O72 76S Il
For amount collected Forty
eighth street paving
This cheek endorsed By Epoch
Dean, President
This contract had been .sssnsd 70 the Bovery Bank, BY
July II, 1851 An assessment bond for 81 SEQ d.
reosed 70 Be made Connolly and was ASHAMED that
ene Fifty nfb street. Fir st and Third This hood
ASHAMED by Enoch Dean President 70 the Manhattan
The contract fer tagging Fifty nfth street. First and
Third avenues appears 70 have been assigned by Gal
iasher aud paid 10 full 70 The heehanos ana r'sders
The .oa payments 70 the Bowery Bank as shown in the
An the preceding payments bu. one we're made IL The
month Of October, the very month the Bo~ery Bans
faiec and several Of these transactions Ater the
appointment OF n. G. Bradford receiver
IL worthy Of remark, also, that as sooD the affairs
Of the bank scrt into the hands Of Mr. Stewart petition
presented To the Supreme Court by Jonn Fitzpatrick.
the general assignee Of all the OF Charles Dew
lin claiming that the contracts In the hands Of The Bowery
Bank should be assigned and order for
rignment wac made about the goth OF November 1857
II h tnus seen that the preceding pay ments 70 the
Bowery Bank apparently based on assispment in ns
hands 20 tar they connected with the
IN winch Fitzpatrick or Devlin had 40 interest, were
placed beyoDd the reach Of the receiver Of the bank.
Feb rs 1851 check, No 12e, for IS 742 S. payable
TO Renry Beelov assignee for paving, curbine, grading
&C, thirty suth street, Eighth and Ninth avenues, s
1882.
% the Cd February, 1857, payments appear to have
10 henry v. Archer, for regulating Thirty
seventh street, Ninth and Tenth avenaes-on
account. sIse IS
DO osiance.... o5s III
Total. Observation-Disclosures ,ns 81
The shove pAymep's were charged upon the cheek
book and checked having been posted 70 the
proyrAte Job but Asse work found 70
with the page the logger with the work
10 which the pay mept can be made W apply.
Archer abo by the entry Of the bank where they we're
Deposited appear TO have been passed W the credit Of
The shove items. amounting to s22 AS So do DOT in.
clude two bonds OF 50 900 each check for 81
Which are Dow uDder Investigation by the Recorder.
In ths aggregate OF 81 As 81, will
Of 81 3s5 % paid the Bowery Bank bul.
stead OF beng charged on the books kept by Smith
bark had asssumen they were charged IN some cases
10 Tbs which the bank had control;
Others 70 jobs which had been assigned 10 the bank bat
which bad been pad in fall and In Others jobs which
do not appear 70 have any exstepce
ON two Of The contsc,s gned BY Charles D-vin 70
the Bcvery Bank more than twenty thousand dollars
have been PAD Tor retaining wall, which Il v believed
to included 10 toe original contract; although
appears The record book OF contracts the street. no
payment The Comptroller addressed Q note Mr.
levin. askips him 70 furpsh . copy Of The agreement
ply tss been received.
ne preceding statement is the payments Aoooun, OF
Assessu sonirscs for the year 1851 Similar exAmi
nation. for the years 1850 and 1850 ana general er.mi
going psch 70 the commencement year 1854
hAv. since been completed.
TIE examination for the year 1850 shows that tho
sessnent contracts confirmed by the Common Oouoc IN
that year numbered 2os, amounting 70 the tosal Of
The Transcript made from the confirmed assessments
upon the ledger sep by b Smith have been compared
with the record kept by the asessors, found
every ns'Apoe 70 correspond ~fn that record
The ments on these confirmed contracts, far a.
the contrat0rs ana surveyors concerned
correspopd . th the sums in The assessment rolls The
total cunt paid inspectors IN 1863 t2i s34 30
Whilst ,be sum tnc,hded in the assessment,
rolls confirmed In the same year, for tbs pay
OF inspectors, ony........ 1851 =
Showing that the paid from the treasury,
on account 81 inspectors beyond the amount
that vii be REIMBURSED Il all the assessmsps
In the semi annual report from ths d.p.r,m.nt sep
tenber Il 1914, document 50 OF Coupcim-p the Cump
roer stated the amount pad 10 inspectors for the street.
ths and Added that the poy y inspectors
the Street Detsrment Of practical peneh, the
on the 94th Of octo ser, 1855, the oommoo Council
pass,d resoluon IN disoortpDe tho employ ment n
spector, In all contracts, for rerul.tng and grading
stre@U setting ,urb an gutter stones n-rrps sde-.ks
filing surkep lots fencng vacant lots ana digging celia
90 ne Istn on Ash IsSo, reso'nhon 80 saopted oy
before referred 10 ana authorizing the appointment Of
speotorr IN the Street Department
On 2stb Of May month After the approval Of the
resolution by the Mayor The bills of inspectors paid
eighty number amounting N s2ti7 Is On the
ld ~ july smother rsquision covering the NJ 27 in
tp.ctor. ana amounting 70 o., s2i so, vas paid The
crsfs the treasury we're 20 excesive from the multi
pbc.'ion o. inspectors, thaa the Comptroller deter
mined be would not pay The inspectors on jobs Of
$1,000 and unoer, until the work v1 complete1
and the Ssessmenb confirmed, and then, that the
amount w DO paid IN tho Inspector should be
LIMITED 70 the sum put In The ssscssmeu, roll.
IN practice sdne~ed In 1857, and probably &C
courh fer the small difference between the amount paid
and The smount the assessment rolls Of that year on
soroubt o. inspectors.
ne following Of fraudulent payments are found
In isse,-