Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-28
POLICE DEPARTMENT BILLS.
They Reduce tho Appropriation to O
Very Low Limit--Thursday' Meeting
of City Council.


of City Council.
Council Thursday evening reduced to
$110.T the amount to the credit of the
police appropriation. A long list of
bills of the Board of Police Commits
sioners' contraction was presented, and
after 1t had been read Mr.. Griffin in
quired whether their total exceeded the
balance of the appropriation. Mr.. DAN
nenberg. chairman of the police COM
mittee, said he thought they aggregated
$1,471.30, which sum, some of his coll
leagues declared, must be miscount
Mr.. Murray stated that the unexpended
balance was $1,651.08, and on his mo-
alone, Council took a few minutes re-
cess for the purpose of giving the COM
mittee opportunity to ascertain the total
amount of the bills presented. When
Council reassembled Mr.. Dannenberg
announced that the bills aggregated
S1,471.31, whereupon orders for their
payment were directed TO be drawn.
Among the bills allowed were the fol-
lowing: Justis & Davidson, 81, ,113.29,
for police uniforms; William Legg,
$61.02, for feeding prisoners last month;
james e. Writ, SIT, for killing dogs
during that period. Many other bills
were allowed, among them being vast
number contracted by the public build
ings' committee. Bondholders interest
for February, amounting to $8, ,150, was
ordered paid and the Board of Educa-
tion's monthly appropriation, amount
ing to 50, ,l230S, was granted. Mr.. Col
ton gave notice of the introduction of an
ordinance making an extra appropria.
ton for the police department.. Mr..
Pagan asked what had become of the
ordinance offered by him regulating the
police payroll. Mr.. Dannenberg said
the law committee will report on the
latter ordinance this week.
The city treasurer reported Council
has $S0,907.15 in Union National Bank
and $3.50 in each of the four deposit
tory banks to the credit of current ex-
penses and S4,454.62 in Union National
Bank to the credit of special fund. He
also reported the following receipts:
From Tax Collector Mitchell, $3.50, city
and school taxes for 1890; from Admin
istrator Mealey, $500, city and school
taxes for 1890 and 1891; from the de-
pository banks, $26.52, interest; from
the Board of Water Commissioners,
$3,750, interest, from City Auditor
Billany, $46.75, interest on sales of Auc-
tioneers Stidham.
The city auditor certified to the cor
rectness of the accounts of the city trea-
surcr and reported that they show the
balance in bank to be $100,076.77. He
also certified to the correctness of the
accounts of the secretary of the Board
of Directors of the Street and Sewer
Department and gave the following
figures contained in that officials report:
Receipts for December, $2,544.07; ex-
penditures, $40, ,042.60; balance in bank
to the credit of current expenses, $43,-
073.S5; to the credit of paving and i'm
proving streets, $40, ,179 10; to the credit
OF lntercepting sewer, $l0.64.
The law committee reported that the
auctioneers licensed by the city have
not complied entirely with the city
ordinances, they having neglected to
pay to the city interest on their sales.
70 the committee was referred an ordi-
nance introduced by Mr. Cotton, regu-
lating auctions and auctioneers. 1t is
lengthy and differs from the existing
ordinance in that it proposes to do
away with paying to the city one-fourth
of one per cent of all sales, to give to
auctioneers the right to employ an
assistant and to require the sheriff when
he employs an auctioDeer for sales here
to employ one licensed by the city, &c.
The proposed ordinance is one which
has been drawn up by the auctioneers
and it is said il will be considerably
amended before it is adopted.
The committee on overhead bridge re-
ported that Mr.. Cotton, accompanied by
Street and Sewer Director Gawthrop,
visited Superintendent Hutchinson of
the r., w. s. b. railroad, presented the
communication from Council and the
Board of Directors of tho Street and
Sewer Department, were treated cour-
teously and were promised an early
hearing.