Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-30
9o1lrnaI arro GOu1isx.
Saturday, Dec. 80. 1882. THE MAYORS MESSAGE.

Ge1atlenaen'0f the C0urt 0f Common Council:
 have called you together this evening in accordance with the time honored custom of reviewing in part the condition of the city affairs at the close of municipal year.
 Not many years ago New Haven was but | an overgrown village, with a small fire and | police force, with but few paved. streets and | an occasional sewer in a few of the principal | streets, each sewer being built upon an inde- pendent basis, without much reference to 1 other sewers or to systematized outlet for l sewers in general Since then rapid strides have been made in everything which tends to 1 the healthy development of city, and we can safely assert that at present we are fully ] abreast of the times when compared with other cities of about the size of New Haven. ! The h ,rd times that succeeded the inaug uration of we'll devised and comprehensive plans for the improvement of our sewerage l and pavement system caused considerable delay in the carrying of them to completion, but the present general prosperity has been I noticeably felt in the pressing and numerous demands for the continuance of the works undertaken in accordance with those plans
 When taxpayers are constantly petitioning for improvements that will necessitate @ di- rect tax upon themselves, it is pretty safe indication of the fact that they prosper I ing. So numerous have been the demands l of this nature during the past year that our ! expenditures exceeded our receipts and yet I the wants of the various localities have not
 been fully met.
 It is a constant source of annoyance to
 those in charge of executing the orders oi your honorable body when the funds avail
 able are not adequate to the requirements o
 the services. The tendency to order sewers pavements and other works of public na ture simply because they are petitioned for
 and without regard to the sufficiency of fund
 with which to execute such works, is to b. I guarded against because it gives rise to de
 sire with interested parties to limit the gen
 eral estimates for ensuing year to specif
 objects ordered in preceding year, an
 which would not have been passed withou = fuller consideration were the consequence
 more fully appreciated.
 The receipts Of last year less tha s9 ! those of the preceding year by fifteen thot ho I sand six hundred and thirty six dolla,
 ($15, ,636), while the expenditures of 1Ss
 exceeded those of 1881 by eighty six tho,
 sand, two hundred and twenty seven IS -1(
 dollars ($S6, 227.18). The net indebtedness ID. the city at present is six hundred and thirt
 one thousand, nine hundred and seven 3
 100 dollars ($631, ,9O7.35), an increase ley twenty seven thousand one hundred al fly. twenty one 45 100 dollars (S27, ,121.45) ov ng- the indebtedness of year ago. The fund' the debt is twenty thousand dollars less than our rear ago, by reason of the annual payment it twenty thousand dollars worth of the ci 0 bonds in aid of the Derby railroad, leavir led the present funded debt of the city at sew all hundred and twenty y-nine thousand dola for ($729, ,000).
 SSs d a The floating indebtedness of the city mp limited to one note of twenty-five thousal by dollars for account of Derby railroad, oA- which the railroad company pays the intere
 We have cash and nd................... .s94 581 ana Sewerage bond sin king fund .......... 10000
 Municipal bond sinking fund ............ 37 oil