The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-05

s6,1S4; allowed, $4,450 allowed last year,
 $4,400.
 Sundry accounts-Asked for, $575 765,-
 55; allowed $457 7,223.74; allowed last
 year, $339, 9,42219.
 Totals-Asked for, 0,629.69; all
 lowed, $1,799,9sS41; allowed last year, $1,500, 2S305.
 In the amount allowed to the sundry
 account, $457, ,223.74, is included s29,700,
 making the total appropriation for the
 department of education $452.650.
 The total estimated income last year
 was $1,5OO,2sSO5, while this year 1t is $299, 70536 more.
 After having been read by Assistant
 City Clerk Martin the report of the
 board of finance was received on motion
 of Alderman Chillingworth. Alderman
 Hall said that he thought the members
 were unprepared to discuss it fully He
 moved that the estimates should be
 separated and referred to various joint
 standing committees to consider and l report back recommendations within
 one week. Alderman ChillingWorth
 seconded. Alderman Cooley did not
 see how that would help matters Some l portions of the estimates might be re- | ferred to regular committees, but he | thought that nothing would be accom- plished by dividing up the report. He | moved an amendment to have the es- | inmates referred to a special commit tee to consist of two aldermen and three councilmen. to hold public hear ings and report back within one week. Alderman Baldwin seconded the amendment
 | Alderman Chillingworth said that he | thought the estimates should have | fair hearing and he moved that the | chairman of the joint standing com- | mittee be appointed a committee to l consider the estimates. He asked MT. Cooley to accept the amendment: Al derman c. F. Brennan seconded. % MT. Cooley thought that the commit tee contemplated in Mr. Chillingworth' amendment would be too large. He did not care if the committee consisted of three aldermen and five councilman, but thought that the committee should not be so large as it would be if com posed of the chairman of the joint standing committee. He insisted upon his amendment.
 Mr. Chillingworth said that last year
 
 were referred was not large enough. He thought that no members were so com petent to pass upon certain appropria tions as the chairman of the committee to which matters relating to those ap- propriations were referred.
 The amendment to the amendment was carried by vote of 15 to 6, and the original motion as amended by Al derman Chillingworth was adopted.
 The estimates were then transmitted to the board of councilmen
 Alderman Chillingworth offered the following resolutions which on his mo- tion was referred to the corporation 1 counsel:
 Whereas, the amended charter of the | city of New Haven provides in Sec tion A Qast paragraph as follows:
 '"The board of finance, upon the rec ommendation of the court of common | council, shall have the power to make | appropriations for public receptions. | parades, concerts, and celebrations to an amount not exceeding fifteen hun dred dollars, for any one of said pur- poses in any one year. No amount ap propriated for any one purpose, wheth CT general or special, shall be used or appropriated for any other purpose ex- cept the same be authorized by the board of finance"
 And whereas, there is doubt as to the true intent and meaning of the forego- ing,
 And wheras, if the board of finance has the power to authorize the trans fer and to authorize the expenditure of the funds transferred for a purpose not contemplated in the original appro- priaton, and without the consent of the court of common council it is mere form ad practically of no fleet for the court of common council to approve or disapprove of the recom- of the board of finance making appropriations for the ensuing year.
 And whereas, if the board of finance can transfer a part of the appropria tions they can also transfer the entire appropriations and thus defeat the ob- ject of the election by the people of the members of the court of common council to transact their business for them and to pass orders for public inn upon petitions after public hearings and reports made thereon Therefore be it
 Resolved, That the honorable corpor- ation counsel of the city of New Haven ] IS such be, and he hereby is, requested and directed, for the information of the court of common council and it's gov to answer the following oues- ions: 1. Under this section who can be au- horized by the board of finance to ap- ! oropriate or use moneys for purposes l other than those for which they were i appropriated? (Enumerate :, he several persons, committee, legisla- i've bodies, etc.. if they have the pow / 'r) ( ?. If an appropriation is made for ( general or a special purpose, and the l board of finance should authorize the | whole or a part of said appropriation to I ,e used for another purpose, what leg station, if any, Is necessary to legally transfer and authorize the expenditure n f an appropriation, or any part there f?
 The recommendation of the special ommitlee on he general registrars = ills, that the bills be paid, was adopted = with no dissenting votes. Y petition for the return of taxes to !, he Essex Savings bank-$1 ,219-was ;. rnc llf fG6 hry hN nti