New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-26

Eso tbe marched by companies past the grand stand,
and thence TO Police Headquarters in Mu5eTyst, where
| the force was dismissed.
ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS IN BROOKLYN
! ARGUMENT IN on THE BEDFoRp-AvE. IMPROVE
| MENT.
Under an act passed by the Legislature Oh
1885, Frederick scholes J. Carson Brevoort, Samuel v"
Truslow. william T. Audariere, ana Thomas u HUDSON
were appointed a special Commission for the improve
ment of Bedford-ave. Brooklyn. as 10 exteros rom
Fourth-st Eastern District to Fulton-ave The commas
on was authorized 10 repair the entire length OF the
avenue with such improved pavement as aner ihVess
ton should be deemed best Theiaw further PROVIDED
that to pay for the Of tho Improvement city bonds
should be issued bearing interest at seven per cent
able semannualy and the principal to be paid within
10 years Tho assessment for tho improvement was 70
| be levied upon the several lots included In the
district OF assessment The Commission began us WORK
without giving the propertyowners On opportunity 10
inspect the plans required and the general impress
SION is that the Improvement has been very expensive
bne IA very unsatisfactory Tho was repaved
with scrimshaw concrete. tar and gravel pavement
which has proved decided nuisance In nearly every re-
speot The Commission, In Its final report to Inc CON
mon Council gives the following as the cost Oh the i
provement: scrmshaw pavement, superintendence' IN
specton and planting trees t5s 83 49, sewers, t5 I've
aternans $50 81 posts and lanterns 7,7so 52
Tagging $64n AZ grading, 1870 drainage 10 houses
a. $40 engineering and attorneys fees 1882 81 station
cry and advertising. So 90 Total s229si a. There re-
mains 20 the credit Of the Improvement balance oil No
! SIS Il.
The property-owners oppose the confirmation OF the
report Of the Commission and have obtained from Judge
Pratt writ OF certorari that the proceedings OF the
! Commission might DO reviewed. Meetings were also
held and b. Tracy was engaged as counsel 10 appear
for the propertyovners and oppose the coheco Vi D
assessment which Is at The rate OF VS. per SGr6 G
making the total amount 70 b assessed upon Ine ~
Feced the Corporation Counsel to have the writ OF Ger
torari quashed, and the argument on that 5I
before Judge Iappen yesterday. Corporation COuhseI
Dewitt appeared for the city and Mr. Tracy iOr tAo
DsWitt made the objection that the Court would
/ not grant writ Of certOrari, as 1t had alreany
been decided, In where the persons who deemed
tition The Court. under writ Of certorari would not
Sodes Seeause Of slight or technical irregularities Mr..
Dewitt then read the aidavits OF Thomas W. rlea ih
| schoes, one Of the Bedford-ave. Commissioners ne
claimed In part that the Commissioners mad computed
them especially that provision requiring them 20 te
plans and even If they had not done So the act Oh s
Legislature 1870, which directed That the money eA
pended by the city for the Improvement shond De
upon the property adjoining cured a and
tected the city entirely: Tue wit should oe quase e
and the relatOrs Obliged to seek their remedy " P
Mr. Tracy claimed thst the act creating the Bedford
ave- Commission unconstitutional inasuuch a. tbe
Constitution requires that pubhc officers should ne
elected by the people appointed by The local autno
Commissioners were mentioned ny name JAey are Ol-
Gers, and perform functions which properly 3eGhg TO
Tracy claimed the unconstitutional was that te
Constitution requires that any act laying tax nqs
Another irreularity the part Of the Commissioners
fiey had no authority. And still another irregulanty.
| Tie Commissioners were authorized TO reset lamp,
posts They assumed the power TO throw away 1e olu
famp.poss TO purchase ones and double the mum
ber In like IN the matter Of resettng te e9Io
they threw away old curb and purchased new. MT
Tracy claimed that the ComInissi had never hled
plans Of the ToF6 be gone Us C S G b oy r e
nal Commissioners having died, the vacancy was never
filled, consequently the Comnissoners subsequent
acts we're illegal The Commissioners did not, as re-
qured by the Of 1870 over 10 the Commissioners
~ @ained in their hands but expended serwardi n
pairing the avenue. The WITT OF oeru0iaIi Mr. Iiacy
claimed, the proper remedy under the cfcum
| The Cour. took the papers and reserved decision.
CHARITIES TO BE ASSESSED.
The BROOKLYN Board of Aldermen met at 8
NM Yesterday Alderman Jacob l. Bergen in the chair
and received from Mayor Powell veto OF resolution
adopted Nov. H. directing the Collector of Taxes ana
! Assessments 20 cancel the assessment for sewers
IN Districts Nos q, 4, 8, G, H. II, and ls, being
the property occupied by the Roman Catholic Industrial
school Association in Wloughbyave. The Mayor stated
that the charity intended to ne benefited wac most
worthy, upvu examination OF the subject he found
that the power cancel assessments did not rest with
the Common Council but with the Board Of Assessors
The amount Of the assessment IS $780, and as the action
Of the Aldermen had caused considerable public feeling
Bishop Loughlo called the Mayor and requested him
to rescind the action The Mayors communication was
| ordered on hle
| Alderman Richardson Of the Twentysecond Ward pre-
seuted a petition from the Protestant orphan Asylum
Association setting forth that It public charity en-
TREY unsectarian and had lately erected new edifce
In Herkimer-st, Albany ana Kngsland-aves, at large
cost and desired released from an assessment OF
$500 81 levied sewers In District a. Alderman Rich
afdson moved that the petition be granted ana he was
seconded by Alderman Wyie. Alderman Richardson
then proceeded show that the whole assessment for
sewefsin this district S22S9 49, OF which the AssO
citation had SIS pay The sewers had been put there
for the benefit OF other persons and II was clearly wrong
for the city take the subscribed by Sc churches
FOR the support Of this institution TO pay for sewers from
which the Association received benefit lie held that
the eaDcemeut Of this assessment would be no gift
IL was entirely wrong wrest this money from the in
Alderman Ropes replied that he did not believe that
any person connected with the institution expected the
city TO remit their The officers had no right
to expect it, and had only sent In the petition because
similar one had been made by Roman Catholic Dstu-
ton, II this petition granted II was only ques-
ton Of when the Board would be Oyerrun with SIM
liar petitions the doors OF the CITY Treasury thrown
OPEN aud its funds washed away as they had been in
cities. After considerable further discussion,
! Alderman Ropes moved 70 lay the petition on the table,
and the vote resulted as follows Ahrmatlve-Ader-
men Ropes Stryker Douglass, Mcpherson, walter, NO
lam Raher and BOggs--e; Negatiye-Aldermen DWJ er,
Wye BOland. Coffee, Brown, Richardson, Bergen, ana
! motion OF Alderman Richardson, the matter was laid
! over for one week
FATAL EXPERIMENT AT YoNKERs.
Some time last Summer one Coffin, con-
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