New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-12

OPENING OF STREETS, AND ASSESSMENTS.
To The Ed'iOr1 The NJ Y 7ribune
Sin: Your honesty aud courage in exposing the
fraudulent acts of the Common Council meet with ths
applause of every honest citizen.
Exposed in the japanese swindle oiled in the mat
ter of the Prince Of Wales and generally suspected and
watched they have for months been afraid to
medde with snything greater than public receptions d
distinguished persons or public funerals Of decsased
officers.
They have become hungry by abstinence, and &C
hundreds Of dollars have 10 be divided among many,
that the share of each is SMALL they have oo2sladed To
20 into pluDder by wholesale.
As George Bounijoy Is safe from examination N
Canada and cannot expose the sreetcleaning job of
$40 0O0--as 10 how and to whom il was divided and
paid-tbey have orlered by resolution no fewer than
TwESrY-Two streets TO be opened by the Corporatlou
Council on paper only, not 20 be regulated or worked
but only for the benefit Of MessFs. Tweed and othsr
as Commissioners, Messrs. Edward Boyle, John A.
Bagey and others, Surveyors, aud divers extoronats
double ehsrges for room-rent clerk hire, posting
tices, &c.
In this way the owners Of unproducve lots viii be
assessed hundreds Of thousands of dollars for imagna
~ openings of streets, while Eighy-sixth and many
other streets have been opened in law, but have fog
many years remained in a state Of nature, though the
owners Of lots have been assessed hundreds Of thoa
sands OF dollars for their opening.
Why, Mr.. Editor this Is now rednced to system oS
leglzed pluuder the following now or lately
pendinz in the Street Commissioners oice, exclusive
Of the - new cases;
Ff ye ghh street from PiaL syslus 70 Ess, River % py
s4y hi dollars Of awards and COS 50 GslesaeIla In his
eas he Con 'aoaeI se's 90 ieSs and a.s to1 70, %
worth 20 Rent Of Office sS"-Printins. SSS-sas-
SiI f5arth .trse, from Tbrd Flhh svenuss only I've
BLOCK; awards. = l.ia0i asseawenis, ss,f18. .
,vso,s ~ .sG, .ls-.srnests. sS5Ss ~
sIt eighth oH EEh,h Tenth aveHae' two boekst
seventy arh street from Eishh avenue to BlOOninsd&s
rad; avgards E126 assessments S5hj4.
ss5rny-,iI,h street from Eighh 10 Holden RverI
awards. ! 5J05s, assessments, SS.6l4 81!
M .esss. .s IS .s..sn. S lrs ssssS s
fh second street, from Eghth avenue to River swuds.
One Huadred and por,yeisht street f,o Tsrth 70
Fif, ninth street from snh sysnue0 East River now pesd-
ni N.ue ,.rsst from 1 avenue to E... RvsI now pend
ins =,
Now in these cases the only surveyors are MessrA
Edward Boyle. John A. Bagey, Egbert l.. Visic,
Stevenson Towe and q. A. Sage; and w. William NJ.
Tweed ia commissioner in number, as well az in tho
widening of Worth street, where his fees were oyer
$500.
In tlia last case the awards were six hundred sud
tbiItyoue thousand dollars the ot own
els sx hundred ard iyfour thousand dollars, and The
costs now taxed and paid by the Controller at eighteen
thousand one hundred and ninetytwo dollars' And
this matter, which involved million fro hHHdTed
and nine, to4r HOataad tDo hundred GRS sereaty-oas
dollars, wan pushed through the court with as little
ceremony az if II involved fry dollars only.
In the matter Of extending Chambers street to tho
Eas River az the foot OF Oliver street, the expenses
and amounts were sttH gysater and still less ceremony
was used in pushing it through the Supreme Court
Special Term although Il is fact thai this measure
passed the Board of Aldermen in one year, and the
Couneilmen in another year! which was declared By
the Court Of Appeals in the Ninth avenue case In
regular.
ind have already exceeded my proposed limits,
and must postpone any further remarks. sEYEx.
September y l6el