The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-30
S7B,OOO LOAN AUTHORIZED
VOTED BY THE HOARD OF IT,
 NANCE LAST NIGHT.

George W. Lewis Introduces Substitute
 Plan-Director coe Voted sum for
 street Cleaning Needs-Action of AL
 dermen Cutting Out salary Increases
 Discussed-FeIIx ChilIingworth Com
 municates Concerning old AImshouse
 Asairs.
 At the regular weekly meeting of the board of finance held last evening a vote was passed ordering the with drawal of $SO14s from the contingent fund of the sundry account of control- Ter Rowe to be turned over to Director of Public Works coe for the expense of cleaning streets and crossings of snow. Authority was given to Director coe at last weeks meeting to do the work and last nrght the amount of the order was passed on.
 George N. Lewis introduced substi- tute to his resolution relative to the collection of taxes, extinguishment of floating indebtedness and annual in- debtedness and annual adjustment of discrepancy between actual income and total expenditures. The new plan is not to be submitted until after the first of the public hearings on the matter and therefore 1t was not acted upon last evening. The substitute plan reads:
 Resolved, That the corporation coun- sel be requested to prepare a bill and present the same to the next legisla- ture providing for amendments to the city charter in conformity with the fol- lowing changes. to take effect when the tax for 1906 is laid, viz
 First: All taxes shall become due and payable on tie first day of January next after they are laid, and if any of said taxes remain unpaid on the first day of August, 1907, the first day of July, 1908, the first day of June, 1909, the first day of May, 1910, the first day of April, 1911, the first day of March, 1912, and there after on the first day of February next after they become due, interest thereon. from the day when they become due until they are mum shall be collected
 Second: The time provided by the charter for the board of assessors the board of relief, the board of finance and the board of aldermen to consider } the various questions of taxation shall be so changed as not to conflict with the above amendment.
 Third. The board of finance shall appropriate not less than $25,O00 each year for the purpose of paying the floating indebtedness of the city until said indebtedness in cancelled, and hereafter whenever d discrepancy shall be found to exist, at the end of any year, between the actual income and total expenditures, the difference shall | be adjusted when making up the next estimates. If a deficit exists, the total amount of such deficit shall be in lcluded in the appropriations for the ensuing year, and if a surplus exists, the total amount of such surplus shall be included in the income for the en- suing year.
 It was voted to authorize Controller Rowe to borrow the sum of $T5,000 in anticipation of taxes.
 The action of the board of aldermen l in eliminating the increases in pay granted by the board of finance in or der to erect a bell tower in the Flights ward was the subject of quite a little discussion. The board seemed uncer- I tain about the power of the board of aldermen in so doing and as to the ex- tent of the alderInen's action. The
 matter was left with the understanding tha tthe mayor would obtain an opin- ion from the corporation counsel as l to the aldermens power to reduce the salaries of clerks as fixed by the board | of anance and as to whether the order as passed by the board of aldermen will affect the increases granted in teh pay of members of the fire department. A communication was received from Felix Chillingworth relative to the sale of the lands of the old almshouse farm suggests that the exploration counsel's opinion on the subsequent three ques- tions be obtained.
 I. What legislative action has been had in creating and in relation to the old almshouse farm trustees? I 2 Are the funds received by said trustees resulting from the sale of land of the old alfnshouse farm lands avail able for the maintenance or construc- ton of additional buildings or needful repairs of the new almshouse?
 3. What legislation, if any, is neces- sary to cause the future receipts by said trustees to be paid into the treas ury of the city of New Haven?
 The following transfers were made: Fire department. From payroll ac- count to sundries account, $150 Sundries account From Westville school district tax to contingent fund sbS7.s7.
 i From printing journal to advertis- ling, $925O.
 l From printing journal to printing