New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-04-11

land 30 shall be in OF assessments for
benefits thereto after the shall be determined by the Com
moners Estimate and Assessment and the report OF such
Commissioners confirmed by said Court Such BONDS shall be
issued In the and form other bonds OF the said
bearing interest at Of per
annually The proceeds OF the sale OF such bonds
shall paid tho City Treasury and shall be dsbursed
from time to may be required for the said purpose and
for no other The Board of Supervisors of said County shall
annually by for the oil the annual interest OF
said bonds sufficient for that purpose and the pre-
cedng the maturity osad bonds sum shall be IN Ike manner
raised sufficient to pay the principal oil SAD Dohds.
The law Of 1916 says
And the said sums and estimates compensation and
shall DO borne and reimbursed 10 the said Mayor
Aldermen and Commona BY the persons parties inter
heredamen and premises deemed to be benefited
p las.
The law of 1889 provides that son the application
for the confirmation of the report of the Commission
ers of Estimate and Assessment"
III upon hearing such application persons who .ppssr by
the said to be Interested either By for benefit
award for damages to the amount Of majority in amount
Of the whole and awards shall appear and object
to further in upon the said report tho Court shall
forth be discontinued. II ValensiHs's Lars p l223.
The thing is simple: silence the men whose land is
taken by paying them twice what their property is
WORTH silence the men whose property is benefited
by assessing them but half the actual benefit Or, if
that is not enough, pay three times and assess one
third Who cares! City bonds will cover the differ
ence, be it two millions or be it three.
But this is not all. Those who have watched the
movements in real estate while commissions Of this
kind are sitting, understand how much money is
suddenly acquired by the lucky ones who happen to
know that house and lot No. will be assessed lightly.
that heavy damages will be awarded on No. 80, and,
that the Commissioners will reconsider their present
determination to assess No. so $4,000 and will re-
duce the assessment to $4,000 Such little arrange
ments, which have placed these commissions among
the most lucrative Offices in the City, have hitherto
had one mit the assessments for benefit must in all
cases equal the awards for damages and there must
not be sufficient injustice to disgust majority of the
property-owners.
Not 80 in New-Broadway. In this paradise OF
plumber the two millions worth of property to be
taken, may be bought for three by those who some
how have an idea that the Commissioners will award
FIVE for it.
We may now cease to wondor why Judge Barnard
appointed on this commission not one OF the gentle
men proposed by the property holders not one OF the
gentlemen proposed by Mr.. OGorman on behalf OF
the City, and We may understand why his appontees
were his own father.in-law the representative Of the
chief of Mozart Hall (who is large property hoder
in the vicinity Of Ann.st at present, if not prospect
lively arger) and tho representative Of still larger
property interest," and one which might otherwise have
been fatal at Albany to the Of this precious job