The New York herald., 1873-08-24
THE PEOPLES MONEY.
How the Board Of Apportioument Spent Over
Million of 1t Yesterday and Refused After
wards to Spend Three or Four Thou
band More-TWeediedum and
Tweedledse with illustrations.

Tweedledse with illustrations.
The Board OF Estimate and Apportionment met
| yesterday morning in the office OF the City Cham
| berlain. Present-The Mayor, the Comptroller
the President Of the Department OF Taxes ana As
sessments and the President OF the Board OF
! Aldermen. The members, somehow, managed to
get up into corner OF the apartment, where 1t was
next to impossible to get near them or to hear
| what was being said. To add to the embarrass
ments OF the affair there were not sufficient seats
for the reporters. tide OF noise from the rush oil
traffic on Broadway swept In through the open
i window, TWO or three carpenters we're saving ana
| hammerng at the other end Of the room, and the
| proceedings were conducted IN conversational
| tone of voice, from VIII ich only few words could
| be caught at intervals.
| To the best of the reporters knowledge
THE BUSINESS TRANSACTED
| was as folows:-
resolution was adopted directing the issue Of
bonds to the amount OF s150,0OO on requlsition Of
| the Department OF Public Works. for "addiuonal
| alterations of Aqueduct." This completes the
total of 5000 900 asked for few weeks since, when
the laborers on the big pipes in Tenth avenue were
| clamoring lor their pay.
| A resolution was adopted authorizing the issue
| Of Croton Aqueduct bonds to the amount Of
100000.
| Also 100000 on requisltion OF the Department
| of Parks, account of the City Parks (and OBJ
| servatories) Improvement Fund, which is limited
to 81, 600, 900 and has thirty years to run.
! In each case the various provisions OF law au-
| tnorizing these issues were read by President
Wheeler, and in voting on this last resolution
| President VANCE said Il vote aye under the law,
| which requires these issues to be made on GER
tifcate and requisltion; but II 1t didn't make it
| imperative should
| VOTE AGAINST EVERY ONE
Of them.
On requsition from the Department OF Public
| Works bonds were authorized to be issued to the
amount Of 100000 for the taking up and repairing
Of sewers, provided by chapter 22O Laws Of 1871
| The MAYOR asked what was meant by this
'taking up and repairing of sewers" and upon
| the Comptroller explaining 1t,
His Honor said-That law seems to be framed TO
enable men to lay a sewer a foot or two higher or
| foot or two lower than the mains, so that they
might soon need repairing or taking up. l vote
aye, according to law.
A resolution adopted authorizing the issue
OF $500, 900 assessment fund bonds under the law
for the issue of such bonds, for
IMPROVEMENTS AUTHORIZED
to be made where the cost is to be assessed for
such improvements against the property bene-
fted
Bonds to the amount OF 100000, having three
years to run, at seven per cent interest, were au
thOriZed 1or the payment OF judgments obtained on
claims against the city.
"A communication was received from the Depart
ment OF Public Works setting forth that the apprO-
praton OF $40 900 for 1873 'for the Improvement Of
bsulevards roads and avenues' had already been
to be done and the present iorce employed is in
sufficient, and that s25OOo additional is necessary
| to complete the work.
The matter was referred to the Comptroller for
| examination anu report thereon.
The requistlon OF the Commissioners Of Ac-
| counts, winch created such
A BREEZE AT THE LAST MEETING
| of the Board, was then called up.
motion was made to lay 1t over. but
President WHEELER said 1t was impossible for
the commissioners to do the work expected of
them unless this appropriation OF about thirty-ive
hundred dollars for clerical assistance was made
He didn't propose to argue the matter, as he
of the case at a former meeting.
The MAYOR asked what provision Is made for
stationery for the Commissioners.
President WHEELER replied that he had looked
after their wants in that regard so far. There
no special provision made even for pens ana Ink.
The MAYOR suggested that the matter be laid
The COMPTROLLER read from the city charter the
provision authorizing the Board OF Estimate and
Apportonment to. provide for the maintenance
and publication Of the city Record, and held that
If the law had contemplated any extra, provision
for the Commission OF Accounts it would have de-
President WHEELER said he had examined the
law since the last meeting, when the Comptroller
stipulated to bring the matter up at the next
meeting He had also obtained the written
opinion OF MIR. Strahan, formerly connected with
the Department OF Finance, on the subject, and he
could not learn that there was anything unauthor-
Hed contemplated in the requisiton.
SOME ONE THEN MOVED
that the matter lay over till the next meeting
President WHEELER said he would not oppose an
adjournment TO Monday.
The MAYOR thought that would be too soon.
President WHEELER said that Tuesday would suit
| him If IL were made special order.
| The COMPTROLLER suggested that they adjourn
subject to the call Of the Chair.
The MAYOR said-My own impression OF this
matter is this. When the commission was ap-
providing Tor a couple OF clerks who should run
round the Offices and take look at a book here
and a book there, and that they really didn't know
the extent OF the duties they were imposing on
them. Now, have no doubt at all that these Com
missioners will, by the time they have been through
the books and caught up with the current business
OF the departments, he able to
DO THE BUSINESS WITHOUT HELP.
At present their duties are very 0nerous. They
cannot go into an Office and pick up pen and u
provided for, and, in my Judgment, 1t IS necessary
that they should have the proper amount oi clerical
aid to accomplish their work.
PREsiDENT-We only want this assistance tenn
porarily say up to January.
The matter was finally laid over to the next meet
ing subject to the call OF the Chair.
Supervisor DIsBECKER appeared and explained
the objects of his reqnsit1On FOR $1,000 for the
tingencies of the Bureau of the City Record.
On motion OF President VANCE this also was laid
over.
communication was presented addressed by
Commissioner Van Mort to the Mayor, in which the
Commissioner referred to the appropriation made
for payment Of expenses OF stationery and print
ing. The Commissioner stated that he had CON-
mlinicated several times with the Comptroller in
IN fha ouonn tan iat tad nd nd