New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-16

IN which they hsvs bee, piled up from tins 10 ee,
til crediop forward ard threaten to eel The vsry
chair from under tie Msyor TO satisfy their claims, We
.bo I'D scMoeiy DO surprised TO see q San Francisco
deno.> trs,ioa against the men who have made and
prosecu.eA 'uch claims to their prssnt position The
Lowber juden.,t is pretty fair illustration of the
amer in which tie business doae. The job, ss the
public well know has bsen carried through in the face
Of all equity and justoe, bst having the technicsli-
ties Of the iav in in favor, it has gore so
far that tie city property has been sold by
the Sheriff to sstisfy the judgment; and il is pow
deemed impossible TO avoid the fins. collection of The
entire amount with costs. The Treasury has already
paid out 81 600 in similar judgments and s6s5 0oo
more have been presented to the Controller and pay
ment demanded. Beside these, it is supposed taat
within three months $4,000 more viii be wanted Or
Judgments not yet perfected and then the Sta.e ha
iucg gmett against The city for Sl100 The Street
Department puts IA 8 claim for arrears Of $4,000,
pin cpay growing cut Of the difficulties during tAe
disputed administration Of Devn aud Conover; while
tts miscesneous arrears for the year 1853 foot Up
sSol 600 There is no doubt that these
an enormous amount of fraud snd corruption OF every
description but the fact tia. most of them have passed
the oriesl OF the Courts ard now IN the form OF
iujeue euts with the threat Of eyecntion is made the
argument for boily psssirg them $, once and siibg
ore.third to tie otherwise enormous tax levy to pay
them of.
On the ist of January, the Finance Department
one, cd new books and commence anew, and we hope
thorough system Of accounts with all departments OF
the Government II thsse auesrages must be paid,
perhaps il quite well that they should be cleared
off at once Ii the endless confusion, which hiss char
Al Il -oet hal aspf
for tie psst ten years cannot be Strengthened out salts
fory, and cleared Off by an extra assessment OF two
million dollars presume the people would cheeridly
accept the release even at that price.
Beside the direct taxation TO which we have here
alluded there is another branch Of expenditure which
should he mentioned The extension of ser works the
opening regulating and paying of new streets the work
upon the Central Psrk, the building of sewers, and
some other work of like nature is done under what
sre called Trust Accounts that IT, If street is TO be
ops1eo 81 assessment list is made charging the pro-
pe,ty benefited and awarding that which is damaged,
so that ths whole amount Of expense for opening the
street is assessed upon the property in the i'm
mediate vicinity. The Finance Department issue
assesement bonds in payment OF She work ss II pro-
greece and susse luently collect from the property
owners the entire amount so that The transaction
temporary load the only expense 70 thc cily a1AABo
being tte interest upon the bonds between the time OF
Issue and redemption For all these trust accounts,
TIE Finance Department. estimate that over four and
half millions of dols,s will be needed this year and
in addition TO this there is half million in the treas-
ury Of unexpended balances of old appropriations,
which are appropriated to the same purpose' In
come of tteee trust sccounts, however sconsderabs
proportion of the assessment falls directly upon the
people at large, being chagedto the City Treasury, "
for Instance all the streets Immediately surrounding
the Central Park must be graded and paved AMI put
in proper order. AS the city owns the property on
one side of these Streets hall the expense will be
charged to the Treasury, and thus it amounts to taxa
.ion although appearing uudc. the head OF assessment
accounts The trust accounts are as follows: