The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-11


Although this important duty is entirely independent
of the Mayor, would suggest, as have before to the
Common Council, the exrediency OF application
the Legislature fix the time of making up and de-
yerins rolls, and also that your
nieeng SO that the corrected and equazed rolls
FIRST Of July. This would then correspond with the
PERIOD at which collections are made of the income
impused by the federal gos ernment
The total amount OF the taxable property within the
county Is estimated att
Real. $427, 800, 1874
Total s60s 7s4 355
and the amount authorized TO be raised for city and
county purposes will make the ratio Of taxation about
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payment OF bountcs to voune fortunately ended,
and your committee has made report Of their steward
ship in this matter involving the disbursement of
raj mill ons o. dollars Under the pledges made
sder that local authorities still bound provide
for the widows and orphans Of those who have fallen
the adequate RELIEF Is not afforded for the
support OF the destitute by the United States.
Before your next annual meeting tho spacious edice
in tho Park desil ned for county court house will be
completed. IL will be highly ornamental; and, by af
ford ng The courts of justice suitable
will tend to shat respect for law which should
peN I'D; the III nds OF the people.
would suggest that the coroners be authorized In all
cases where bodies on which inqucss are held are not
identified, photographs OF the features to be
taken and descriptions made and that the clothes and
articles found thereon BIO deposited in suitable place
Tor examination Tn S, together with the establishment
by the commissioners OF Charities Of an institution SINH
lar TO thar OF the Norgue at Paris would probably tend
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crime cden whose fate might otherwise be involved
In mystery.
partment was disconnected with tho city organization
and placed under board Of Commissioners and its
penses to be paid out OF the county treasury confess
my sympathics with the volunteer system; for
IL is impossible to avoid the influence Of long cher
iscd associations and the friendships formed under
. them. 1t Is simple justice to say that the noble
manner in which the fremen have behaved, their
submission to law, and cheerful and magnanmous
discharge of d.ty have won respect of all classes
. department,
according to the estimate submitted to your honorable
body will DC about seven hundred and fifty thousand In
my opinion such expenses should either b. assessed
the iisurncc companies clso the county should be-
underwater for all property destroyed by rc and
be reimbursed by the value Of all buildings and
movable property within its limits
The requirement that all boards Of commissioners or
public departments supported out OF tho county treasury
should report their proceedings your honorable body
is very proper and may be found expedent to confer
unadvised or extravagant expenditure by tho Al
present they either act Independently or the power OF
them back recons deration when, II the demands
made on the public treasury are adhered TO- they become
-dnai and u5ve.
To your honorable body representing not only the
people, but property OF the county, Us the special
instrument Tor raising the mems Of carrying ON the
local government and the custodian OF the same,
earnestly recommend stric adherence to the
cardinal virtue o. economy without which the approba
lion OF your constituents cannot be expected.
G. GODFREY GUNTHER, Mayor.
The quarterly report OF the Comptroller was
and showed the amount Of the expenditure OF the county
six and sixty-one Thousand six hundred and
sixteen dollars and eighty ive ccnts.
A bill OF A. Oakley Hail, District Attorney, for six
Thousand iour hundred and ory-fve dollars and two
cents for disbursements and expenses Of hrs Office for
the months ending June 80 1885, was ordered to be
paid
several other subjects OF minor importance then
gagged the attention Of the Beard till they adjourned.
Board OF CounciImcn.
This Board met yesterday, President Hayes in the
chair.
VETO FROM THE MAYOR RELATIVE TO A GIRLS
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL,
The following veto message received from Mayor
MAYORS OYYIcE NEw YORK, July 10, 1885.
To THE HoNcRAHLa THE COMMON CouSCL-
GgATLEMES--The resolution directing the Comptroller
to pla-e the Sisters OF Charity, under the charge vi
Mother Mary jerome, In that portion Of the building,
OF Fifty first street and Lexington avenue not
in by the Northeastern Dspensury, for girls
tndustr al school, Is herewith riIod for cons deratlon
The building question erected under the authority
OF aresout OF your honorable body approved ID Gem
Der 10 1858, for the purpose OF an nians Home and
TO be under the control Of the Mayor and First Directress
of tho Nursery and Chd's Hospital" Mrs. nary A.
Du Bos the First Directress OF The Nursery aud thds
Hospita is now in possession Of said building under
The above resol on, and informs me that she Is pre-
pared at once 10 go on with the institution Tor which II
WIS desI ned.
On tue other hand It is represented to me by the
highest thorty that the sistcrs OF Mercy, actny in
that spirit which belongs to their title unwilling tC
accept buiid ng on which there is any Grim.
therefore return the paper, and respectfully recon
meul that some other s.isaOl site b, granted the ISIS
tiers oi Mercy" and building erected thereon for
{. GODFREY GUNTHER, Mayor.
QuB.ToN
The Board coDcurred with the Aldermen in requesting
the Mayor and the Street Commission to take steps
havu the streets OF the city cleaned
After holding short the Board adjourned I'll
Thursday.