Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-22
BOARD OF FINANCE.
bllector Hunt Wants Quarter of Sal- Y ary to Pay Current Expenses.

ary to Pay Current Expenses.
 At a meeting of the board of fi- ance yesterday afternoon the follow ne communication was received from ollector Hunt; Honorable Board of Finance of the
 City of Waterbury:
 GentlemeR--I take this method of bringing certain matters before this board and request your favorable con liberation of them
 First. The city charter provides tor an allowance to the tax collector If $1,OO0 per annum. for clerical ex- benses. I request that one-quarter If this sum, $250. be forthwith paid o me to pay current clerical expenses. It does not seem that I ought to be obliged to advance such expenses, es- becially if the board decided that l i'm not to receive my salary monthly.
 Second. 1 also wish to submit to Ehe board the question whether ms Salary ought not to be paid in month Nv installments. It seems that the Appropriation for Taxes and Abate- ments'' has this year been made suf- hciently large so that my salary can Doe paid out of It. I understand that Ehe appropriation was made to that hmount for the purpose of so doing,
 It is true that Special Acts of 1899, relating to the collection of taxes in $the City of Waterbury. contains the Following provision: He shall re ceive the sum of $2.O00. to be paid at #the expiration of each year" respectfully submit, however, that the proper construction of this statute lis that while the tax collector cannot Fequire his salary to he paid until the end of the year, the city is tot Forbidden to do SO. and that this board may order the payment of this salary in monthly installments. if ii sees fit to do so.
 Third. Finally, I request that the amount charged by the Aetna Indem. nity Go for my bond as tax collector Dbe paid by the city. As I stated to the board, this expense is $175. In many respects such bond is more satis- Sfactory to the city than an individual Bbond and it is worth the price to the Scitv to have it. The bonds of all state officials are paid for by the state and *the same practice is followed in a #nuHnDeE Ol ClLlSc. uAOStoleehN lA$a New Haven pays for the bonds Of Its zohicials.
 It seems to ne only fair that this payment should De u'ada good to me and that I should net be obliged to Hose this amount.
 Respectfully.
 EDWIN S. HUNT,
 Collector of Taxes. & Tho matter was laid on the table until after the baord gets an opinion from the city attorney regarding their authority in the premises.
 The bonds of John J. Fitzgerald clerk of the board of education, fol GOO, Eugene J. Sullivan, surety, and &Comptroller A. I. Goodrich for $25, 900. H. H. Peck, George H. Cowell Alfred T. Shipley. Ruel 9. Pierpont and Luzerne M. Camp, sureties, were received and referred to the city at 8torney. The recommendation of the board of education that the salaries Of E the clerk of the board. the school in spector, the truant officer and the sup , ply clerk be S1,O00, 5000. $75O and $G00. respectively, was approved, saz The bonds of Treasurer Northrop of 5 $40,OO0 and of Sheriff Rigney of $10, ] GOO, held over for correction, were ap proved.
 It was voted to continue the com mittee on unpaid assessments, Messrs McEyoy and Lord.
 The meeting adjourned subject te the call of the chair.