New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-25
= TX RVS CONrRoIdER's BIII NrHs sTRnEr eTrAkI-
DOCUMENT.
M,Sert :. Dillon, Cor
poration Counsel,
nosts and disDnree-


Totl........,.. $1,000 Oil
Ia the document furnished byfMr. HsvyS during the
gear 1855 against the entry "Raoert j, Dson CoFo'
ration Counsel. costs and Disbursements. there are
charges TO the amount of $9i2u IL. ACHING to TINS
the "eos,s. charges Sc, in the tiove bill, Of
$3S9S A. IN the Street Commissioners report, we
have s2s 1919 larger .nan the salary of the P~si-
dent OF the United States at the rate'of about $50
aaythe year round. Under the head of :" Counsel
fees for the same year, is charged osl Of g 25.
These charges of eosns fees, snd Us and dtsdurse-
,oens are compounded IN the Cli.stree,whienng and
IN the extension Of Avenue ID TO Fou neeHth street,
making altogether $3.50 more There were costs taxed
Cor the ope1rg CT uine streets in 1859, and from the
charge for posting notices one would think that the
city must hve been pretty thoroughly clustered over
with handbls. For the nine jobs of biliposting there
wac paid the esOrous sun of $l574; and this is less
shan the average fog the last fveyears.
Take the i,sm of room.-ent FER 1860. Richard Bus
seed tas three charges for Different of $693, $50,
S7Q5-S226S; H. 6. Bronson has 500 and $sS-
ti2s; l.. j. Belloai $772; NWIdes Z. Walker, SG4S,
sl7A 1882 and the rent Of room for Commissioners
tf Central Park extension charged and sworn TO at
$3.50. bet s79l deducted, 81 SS9 81 ,s03; making a
total for roon-rent last year of $S,2 The items Of
bilpostlg and rent Of course Butterflies in the ag
gregate charges but they ndicea of the way the
CITY Treasury has been dealt with in the matter of
"stseet openings" The fetal smoaSt paid within the
last FIVE years for sIeet-opeungs--the second bill,
amounting 20 az SO for opening First avenue, not
fneIuesd-s 500 363 90. If to THE be added the bill
Of costs for the Park extension $4 6SS 06,
have 1856, O5O II, and, adding the First-avenue BILL
,he grand total of $685. i2S 81 expended in 1850 for
"opeIuDgs."
And what does it all amount to Some surveying,
which good engineers ready to make affidavit
could be done for 20 and sometimes IS per cent less
than charged wi.lla good margin for pront at that
and the awarding of benefits and assessments, or IN
other words srosser Of the tte-Of the land from pri
vate citizens to tae city.
1t woud be easy to go into part'culas-to show now
much ,he Bus:eeds Orchard and George b. made Out
OF il; the Liggardly pay received by Henry G. Bron
son for " drafting and copying REPORTS &c, &c but
we shsuld hardly know where t0sop. Last year Geo
W. Basteed, az Commissioner and bill poster, made
A. 1872 Richard Bueteed beside the item Of s., 26s
for rosn rent figures in two openings" clerk, in
one case at 81 246 and in the other 81 055 making for
him in 1860 1862 Thus the two Busteeds last year
pocke.ed &C. 0I their share of the street opening
Poils
AZ sample Of the general run of openings" by
which the city plundered Of hundreds Of thousands
yearly, take the following bill of costa for "opening
Chambers strees-snd all this expense incurred prior TO
shovel full dirt being removed, days work of
al labo bein dame