New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-28
FIXING FINAL ESTIMATES
OVER THIRTY.THREE MILLIONS GIVEN.
THE AMOUNT AWARDED Is CONSIDERABLY
LARGER THAN LAST YEAR, BUT THE Dh-N-
ERAL FUND HELPS TO LOWER THE
TAX RATE.

TAX RATE.
The Board of Estimate finished its work yesterday
and The budget for 1889 was passed finally anu
signed after SHUTDOWN The sum total Is s37 637 o60 o.
Last year IL s7 o5l, o53 93an increase oil nearly
soO0.O 900. The amount &c come out OF the Genera
Fund IS 81 6O2 200 "a which leaves $4,000 3o9 IL
to be raised by taxation. Last year 1921 OoJ %"
was taken from the General Fund, and the amount
raised by taxation was S-}3sOO.o00. The Con'roier
said that Notwithstanding the Increase Of appropriations
for the year the levy would be about T7oo'ooO
less than in 1855 and the rate reduced from -
to about ZIG This was due in part 10 Increased
valuations, but large accounts notably the C"nscerce
Fund which had been standing upon the Coniioler ;
books for years, have been iumed mo me
General Fund. swelling it, total to nearly million
and qua,ter over last ycaI. The total Of the city
debt now s.-als at 1892 1895 As.
The Board OF Educations requests. made yesterday
for SIC 400 additional for night teachers salaries anu
100000 for day teachers refused The allowances
of the Department OF Public Works were Increased
$4,000 for lighting making the appropriation
for gas lamps and electric lights 100000
abou' the original estimate. The Mayor
asserted that the appropriations for 1soo
were in fact less than those COR 17so in nearly al
the departments. The principal exceptions We're me
Fire and Health Departments. The increase u
5000 900 I'm the budget due, he said TO the ehS
Of the city debt and interest. The Controllers r.
quest for 100000 to be applied upon interest Tor
bonds 10 be issued year, including S9'oou'Voo
for the new parks 80 100000 for the new a4ueduc''
and about - 800 for armores and other buildings
granted.
The Controller made the funded debt OF the city
January l. si2s, 26s, 710 A. During the year 80
1s7 215 had been issued I'm stocks and bonds
and - 096 $50 II in old stocks and bonds was re-
deemed The sinking fund confirms $43,746,425 %
in stocks and bonds and S506.355 "a in cash Taking
.La nlpbcedueSS would
leave the net Indebtedness S5S,17O,214 Il NJ inc
beginning Of 1858 II S-s,74o,ooo'
The theatrical and concert saloon license flhu u
be distributed Is sol $50: S10675 OF this was gwen
to the Actors Fund. on the Mayors notion Inc IT.
malnder absorbed in the following appropriations
Grand Army Relief Committee. 5000 Ladies Ihloh
Relief Association. $500 Wilson Industrial school,
81 900: New-York Dspcnsary. 81 900; De Mlt Dis
pensary, 81 600: Northern. Eastern Norihcasteril'
Northwestern and Harlem Dspensaries, $1,000 cach
Diet Kitchen 81 900; Manhattan Hospital ana DIS
pensary II 900 Manhattan Eye and Ear Ho pial'
81 900 TOmpkins Square homeopathic Dlsl1 hsaiS
$3.50: West Side German Dispensary .S2oO; NorkVihe
Homeopathic Hospital $3.50 NewYork Homeopathic
College and Hospital $500: Prison Belief Association
81 900: Charity Organization society, $1,000; Isaac
T. Hopper Home. $500 shelter for Respectable Glfls'
$3.50: Wetnorc Home for Fricndlcss Girls. SlOOo
United Hebrew Charities. $1,000; society for lmproV-
ing the Condition of the Poor $1,000; New YORK
Orthopocdic Dl-pcnsary, $3.50; Ncw-Nork lnirmary
for women and Children $3.50; Little Sisters Of The
Poor. II 900: ST. Mays Lodging House, ~ 900;
ST. Vincent de Paul society, $1,000.
After the budget had been signed ard the Board
had adjourned Deputy Controller sos stated to the
Mayor that the total Of loo0 lower than that Of
1888. and that tho debt had boon reduced also.
TIE mandatory appropriations Of the Legislature lie
said were al that prevented the wipng out Of the
debt in a few years by the sinking Fund.
The following statement shows the appropriations
made for 1sss. and the amounts allowed the final
estimate for 1859: