New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-11
Albany.

NG. sEwARD TO BE RECEIvED-BROOKITN CHAR
IER-MIDLAND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. GER
TAIN PRoCEEDINGS-CANAL SALARIES.
ALBANY, March 10.-Speaker Hitchman pro-
posed resolutions to receive in formal manner exGoy.
Seward, ana they adopted.
The representatives from Kings County have abored
long the Brooklyn Charter, and tho result is 10
duco the Water Commission to three members give the
Mayor the appointment OF Police Commissioners, and
hold them responsible for the sanitary supervision OF the
city.
NewYork City is not yet harmonizad The Senators
want TO keep the Central Park Commission but are
willing to abolish all others the Assembly want clear
sweep. probable that the Senate will give II up. aud
let che new broom sweep out all the commissions
The memorial OF the Chamber OF Commerce OF the
State Of New York. concerning the hew-York and Os-
wcgo Midland Railway will probably exert a strong in
fuence the bill for appropriating N5J0OOO to ad th
enterprise.
Senator Frost has presented hill to free the citizens Of
Staten Island operations Of the law which seem
ngly consigned all their swamp lands TO the tender e
ces OF few orPodtors VIM were chartered forever TO
operate in marshdaniug as basis for stock and bond
fnancleung 10 unlimited extent. There isl great
chance obbng in this drainage business and projects
are on foot TO make the most OF It.
Publishers aud the public are interested in knowing
some particulars of the bill introduced by MI Wood Vi
Wayne concerning extension Of legal publications aud
the charges therefor The bill requires the financial Off
GERS of State Prisons peniteuares. houses OF refuge
state asvums and State charitable Institutions and also
the supCrnteudcnts OF county poOrhOuses and county
insane asylums 10 publish in the nearest newspapers
monthly Statements OF their receipts and expenditures
spccyng the sources of their receipts. the persons to
whom and the objects for which moneys are pad' &c
The bill also requires Supervisors to publish their pro
cecdings IN full IN more newspapers IN each AS
semby District in an adjoining district ~ no journal
Is published therein aud the trustees OF villages
1uired TO publish their proceedings in the village paper
papers. For publications Of such proceedings aud
also for printing the session laws 1t fixes the cost at o.
An important BILL amcndatOry of the law concerning
Tweed It aims to facilitate ,ransntsscn Of letters
packages and merchandise IN New-fork and Brooklyn
and across tho North and East Rivers, by means Of
pneumatic tubes; and authorizes the Corporations OF
chester respectiveiy 10 subscribe stock to an
exceeding in the aggregate 500 for each complete
sideration Of the privileges conferred by this law, the
Pneumatic Company must Wo tSs r taft
Of such may be required by the plans OF drainage
The Canal Committee of tho Senate to-day reported
favoraby the bill raising the salary OF the three canal
commissioners s. 900, with 81 goo year for mileage
or trayelng expenses and raising the pay OF the three
Canal Appraisers also 10 $1,000 but Win only BOW ior
The hi Of Assemblyman Plunket concerning the
1dles Home Society IT the Baptist Churches III the City
70 the Senate for concurrence II authorizes the Com
mssioners of the City Sinking Fund to lease TO hat 90
cciy such OF ground north OF sSysixthst IN SAD
cy as may be necessary for the erection OF nome and
necessary buildings upon such terms ana i1r such NUN
ber of wears annual rent as such leases nave hereto
fore been by the city authorities to charitable IN
sttutonshat is, at u year or other merely nominal
consideration. - -.
Concerning the care and education OF deaf mutes. q
hin passed the Assembly to day, amending the law OF
1894 proydug INDECENT children under - years OF
tbe object OF the amendment being TO Include the IN
stuion for the Improved Instruction OF Deaf Mutes,
on the same terms the New YORK Institution Tor te
Deaf and Dumb" and emitting the new institution 70 oe
paid in the same way by the counties from when sucn
indpent children may be sent for care ana education
An laws concerning deaf nutes areinclnded by TINS D
so as include the new institution III the same way rs
il had been named in those laws. ,
The Governor signed the bill aDoll'hing the on
,,1rns Hoard and the contract system The Canals.