Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10

cut off Sill, 900 from that tax, and makes tn,
net increase in this years taxes only $62, 5o(
over last year-only one-fourth of q mill or
the present valuation.
'sWe made cut of 81. 600 on Chief Bige
lows estimate for lighting, and thai
amount will be made up by using gas il
City Hall. Under the Pittsburg Gas Com
pany's charter they are required to furnish
u, SOC, 900 feet of gas each year free of cost
to the city, but since the electric light ha.
been adopted on the streets the contract has
been lost sight of until now.
Where Economy Was Practiced.
s'we cut s17, 900 off the Water Bureaus
general estimate and $25, 600 off the esti'
mated cost of new reservoir site. The
S100, 600 cut off the parks estimate seemed
necessary on account of public opinion,
though it is doubtful if it had not been bet
ter to leave it as it was The S29, 900 taken
off the Bureau of Highways and Sewers
seems rather poor policy also; but the S10.-
600 taken off tine Bureau of Public Property
was not needed. 1t had been intended to
build a bridge over Market street connect
ing the two market buildings with S., 600 of
the money and the other s., 600 was for
painting buildings.
There is one item in Mr.. Bigelow's ap-
preparation that was not changed and |
think if the public understood it there
would be no objection to it. The item ap-
peared as property optioned' in his esti-
the sum desired. Mr.. Bigelow secured
options on IS acres of land east of and ad-
joining Highland Park two years ago for
that amount To-day it is worth S112, 900
at a conservative figure, and if Councils re-
fuse to approve their purchase, Mr.. Bigelow
having the options in his own name, can
turn the property over and make a clean
$40, 900 on it inside of month. 1t will
make valuable addition to Highland Park
and no more ground will be needed there
after this"
Status Of Special Taxation.
The ordinance as approved provides In
its first section that the city tax shall be
levied upon all property taxable for State
or county purposes, shall be u mills, max
NJ al lowance for rural and agricultural
property. The East Birmingham special
tax is reduced from ~ to 6ve-tenths of a
mill, Mt Washington special from three
tenths to one-quarter of a mill, and the
Temperanceville special stands at 1 mill
The business tax reduction is as follows:
articles OF trade sold in the city in any man.
ner reduced from i mill to y mill on each
dollar; upon the actual yearly sales OF each
person, corporation or firm in the auc-
tioneering business, from 2 mills to mill on
each dollar of sales; upon the gross COM
mission of all merchandise brokers, real es-
tate brokers, commission merchants, re-
duced from mill to mills upon the gross
receipts of express companies, electric light,
conduit, gas incl, telegraph and tele-
phone companies reduced from i mill
persons running pool or billiard tables ana
tenpin alleys reduced from 20 to 10 mills. As
before stated, the distinction which marked
liquor dealers at l0-mill tax is wiped out
and they are assessed at a half mill. Real
estate brokers are added this year to the list
OF commission men taxed, and corporations
are added to the auctioneers' list, these
having been exempt heretofore.
The Poor Farm Money Set Aside.
The water tax rates of 1891 are adopted
for 1892 and no further changes from the
old form of the ordinance until section 10 is
reached. 1t appropriates all moneys
received from the sale of the CITY Poor
Farm to the purchase of a new farm and
the erection of buildings, and is amended to
include the interest received from money
paid in on the old farm.
The appropriations for 1892 are as follows:
Department of Public Safetv-GeneraI ex-
pense, 100; Fire Bureau, 1909 222l CA: Police
Bureau, s360,346 81: Electricity Bureau, S3O,-
600; Health Bureau, SAC, 1852 AZ; Building and
system police and fire wires, $40 600: engine
house, Twenty and Thirty-frst
wards, $4,000; engine house, Thirty fifth
ward. $4,000 Total, $sO4, ,1oO
Department of Public Works-Gen-
eral expense. slo,5Oo; Engineering and
sngTeys BureaR Rrs.S lSc Highways
and Distribution Bureau. S475 800: Water AS
sessment Bureau. sl1.5Os: public lighting,
SIS. $50; viewers. $4,000 Total, 81, ,Os5 sos
Department of Public Charities $50, ,O0c
Printing, $4,000: contingent fund, $40, 600:
city election, Sl.500; outstanding warrants
ceipts, $685. 50; finance fund, 500
600: judgments, $4,000: interest and tax
on city loans, s740COO; salaries, $4,000;
delinquent tax liens, S4 600;
Board of Assessors, SIS, 600: water loan sink
ing fund, $50 900: funded street Improvement
sinking fund, $4,000; sinking fund. 50. 600;
water loan sinking fund No. 2, $40, 600: re-
funded City Hall bonds sinking fund. Sc, l0O
and Fifth Avenue Market House sinking
fund. $500: fire department loan sinking
fund, $1,000; improvement bond sinking
fund, Sl24500: municipal consolidated sink
ing fund, s., 900; education. A51, $40; street re-
paving (schedule Az, 1853 500; bridges (sched-
ule Az, $l99, 900; assessment against city for
street improvements. 500 600: public parks
side, s35 00O; total, s., ,999, ,s02 so.
Estimated Receipts OF the Year.
The estimated receipts for 1892 are as fol- |
lows: City valuation s240, OOO, ,O0O which in
cludes reduction on account of rural and |
Agricultural properties, less percentage for |
discounts and lost taxes.
Estimated 1892.
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