The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-02

Haven Street Sprinkling company to
continue sprinkling paved streets until
the next meeting of the board of
finance. lust before this vote was
taken Mr.. Ely said that the using of
the appropriation for hardening certain
streets, in hardening portion of those
streets, would amount to exceeding the
appropriations.
A request from the board of health
for the transfer of 5000 from the fund
for removing garbage to the fund for
sundry expenses, to be used in dealing
with contagious dieases, was granted,
and the matter is to be referred to the
common council for ratification.
The mayor called the attention of the
board to the fact that the appropria-
ton for parks and trees had been eX-
pended and that 800 In addition was
needed to balance the pay roll of that
department. He also announced that
all the laborers in that department had
been discharged yesterday. On motion
of Controller Brown it was voted to
transfer from the appropriation for the
salary of superintendent of streets the
$400 still unexpended to the parks and
trees fund. After this the pay roll of
lIlS peti hS anu lltCS uCpthl tlllcilI was
approved.
Mr. Mansfield gave notice that he
would approve no more bills in the con-
tracing of which the head of any de-
partment had exceeded his appropria-
ton.
A communication was read from City
Clerk Lyon, in which he called atten
ton to the fact that section SO of the
city charter makes 1t the duty of the
city clerk to publish three times in two
or more daily papers within one week
after the same shall have been legally
adopted and recorded, assessments of
benefits and damages for public i'm
provements; to section 81 of the charter
which requires the publication of ordi-
nances; to section Al of the ordinances
which requires the advertising of as
sessments; and to section 46 of the new
charter which requires the publication
of estimates and rates of taxation. The
communication then stated that the
city auditor in accordance with section
10, page l09, of the city ordinances had
reported that the bills already present.
ed for advertising are In excess of the
appropriation for the current year and
the appropriation for printing the jour-
nal of the court of common council Is
nearly exhausted AS two ordinances
and several reports of assessments are
now before the court of common coun-
ell, the necessity of some action being
| taken to meet the emergency is pointed
out.
After reading the communication, the
mayor remarked that the idea of adver-
listing all these assessments In the pa
pers is absurd. He said that such ad-
vertising was useless end extravagant,
Reuben II. Brown proposed that the
advertising be offered to the papers for
bids. The mayor said that the last time
| the papers were asked to bid on adver-
tising for the city they got together
| and all bid the same t. e., their regular
rates, as they thought it better for each
| paper to get what it could under its
regular rates than to cut each other.
| Mr. Mansfield asked If the appropri-
! alton for advertising would be suffi-
cient outside of the big bills for adver-
| tising the street sprinkling assess
ments, and Controller Brown replied
| that it was. The matter will be fur
| ther considered at the next meeting of
the board.
The matter of arranging for the
meetings of the board was then dis
cussed and it was voted that during
the balance Of this month meetings
be held on Thursday afternoons at
| o'clock