of New York are hereby authorized and required, as soon as conveniently may be after the passage of this act, to order and cause to be levied and raised by tax upon the estates by law subject to taxation within said county, and to be collected according to law, for the use of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, an amount of money equal to the aggregate of the several sums hereinafter stated, after deducting from such aggre gate, according to law, the estimated amount of income and receipts of said corporation for the current year, that is to say: tising for council. Advertising for the common council, fifty thousand For adver dollars. The comptroller of the city of New York is common hereby directed to select three daily and three weekly newspapers, published in the city of New York, as papers wherein the proceedings of the common council, or of either branch thereof, and the notices of its committees, shall be published, and shall communicate to the common council, and to the clerk of each board thereof, the names or titles of the papers which he has selected as official papers. And no proceedings of the common council, or of either branch thereof, or notices of its committees, shall be officially published in any other paper or papers. And hereafter the said corporation shall not be liable for any debt incurred for advertising in contravention of this provision; and no person or corporation other than the proprietors of such selected papers shall be entitled to receive any money from or recover any judgment against the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, for publishing or advertising the proceedings of the common council, or of either board thereof, or notices of its committees. Aqueduct repairs and improvements, eighty thou- Aqueduct sand dollars. Belgian, or other new pavement, seventy-five thousand dollars, out of which shall be paid that portion of the expense of laying Belgian pavement which is borne by the city under contracts now let. Central park, for deficiency in the maintenance and government for the years eighteen hundred and repairs, etc. Donations. sixty-five and eighteen hundred and sixty-six, fortyone thousand and ninety-five dollars. Charges on arrears of assessments, five thousand dollars. Charges on arrears of taxes, five thousand dollars. Cleaning streets under contract, including the incidental expenses of the street cleaning commission, five hundred and four thousand seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars and eighty-six cents. Cleaning markets, twenty-five thousand dollars. City chamberlain, fees of, an annual salary of ten thousand dollars, and all provisions of any law under which a greater salary is claimed or allowed, are hereby repealed. City contingencies, fifty thousand dollars. City dispensaries, twelve thousand dollars. lars. Contingencies, comptroller's office, twenty-five thousand dollars. Contingencies, law department, including five thousand one hundred and thirty-one dollars and twenty-six cents for rent of offices, thirty-five thousand dollars. Contingencies, street department, fifteen thousand dollars. Contingencies, Croton aqueduct board, ten thousand dollars. Donations, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the commissioners of charities and correction. Donations (special), for donations to the following institutions, viz.: five thousand dollars for St. Francis' hospital; five thousand dollars for Ladies' Union aid society; five thousand dollars for St. Joseph's asylum; five thousand dollars for house of the Good Shepherd; five thousand dollars to the New York women's medical college and hospital for women and children in the city of New York; five thousand dollars for the society for the relief of destitute children of seamen; five thousand dollars for the ladies' union relief association, for care of indigent soldiers and their families; twenty-five thousand dollars for house of mercy, upon condition that a like sum shall be raised from private sources; five thousand dollars for the ladies' home mission, Five Points; twenty thousand dollars for the Five Points house of industry, for the erection of a working women's home, on condition that the same amount be raised by private subscription within the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; one thousand five hundred dollars for the New York female assistance society; thirty thousand dollars for the institution of mercy, in Houston street, on condition that the same amount is raised by private subscription within the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; ten thousand dollars for St. Bridget's school; five thousand dollars for St. Stephen's school, Twentyeighth street; five thousand dollars for St. Gabriel's school, Thirty-seventh street; five thousand dollars for the Holy Innocents' school, Thirty-seventh street, near Broadway; for the school attached to St. Peter's Church, five thousand dollars; five thousand dollars for St. Mary's school of the Seventh and Thirteenth wards; five thousand dollars for St. Teresa's school, in Rutgers street, near East Broadway; five thousand dollars for the school attached to the Transfiguration Church; five thousand dollars to the young men's christian association of New York; New York prison association, three thousand dollars. Donations to the blind, twenty thousand dollars, to be disbursed to the blind of the city of New York, under the direction of the commissioners of charities and correction. For the New York society for the relief of the ruptured and crippled, twenty-five thousand dollars, upon condition that a like sum shall be raised from private sources. For arching the cut on Fourth avenue, between the south side of Ninety-second street and the south side of Eighty-eighth street, and for filling in behind said arch, and for filling in behind the side walls erected or to be erected by the New York and Harlem railroad company on said avenue, from Seventyninth street to the south side of Eighty-eighth street, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Judgments and interest in certain report. may be necessary under the provisions of the law relating to the same, passed - -, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. For the grading and regulating of Hamilton square, in the city of New York, thirty thousand dollars. Interest on revenue bonds, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Judgments and interest, as set forth in a report to as set forth the legislature, made in pursuance of chapter six hundred and forty-six, laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, four hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents; but no part of said sum shall be expended in payment of judgments obtained in contravention of the provisions of chapter eight hundred and seventysix of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-six. Lamps and gas, one million and eighty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars. Lands and places, thirty thousand dollars. Mount Morris square, improvement of, ten thousand dollars, to be expended by the commissioners of the Central park. Monument in Greenwood cemetery, for the completion of the soldiers' monument in Greenwood cemetery, thirty thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the comptroller and street commissioner of the city of New York. New stone bridge at Kingsbridge, five thousand dollars. North-western dispensary, for the erection of a building for the use of said dispensary, and to be paid by the comptroller when the managers of said dispensary shall have raised a like amount by private subscription, fifteen thousand dollars. Opening new streets, expenses of, ten thousand dollars. Police station-houses, forty thousand dollars. Printing for the common council, seventy thousand dollars. Printing for departments, forty thousand dollars. Public buildings, construction and repairs, including three thousand dollars for repairs of Jefferson market court-room, fifty thousand dollars. Public drinking hydrants in the city of New York, two thousand dollars. Rents, fifty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars. Removing night soil, offal, and dead animals, forty thousand five hundred dollars. Removing obstructions in streets and harbor, one thousand five hundred dollars. Roads and avenues, sixty thousand dollars. Salaries, legislative department, for pay of clerks Salaries, and attendants, fifty-six thousand and sixteen dollars and sixty-six cents. Salaries, mayor's office, thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. Salaries, department of finance, including two thousand dollars for salary of the general inspector; fifteen hundred dollars for salary of the assistant inspector; five thousand dollars each for the salary of the clerk of arrears, the chief clerk of county bureau, and the county book-keeper; three thousand dollars for salary of the first assistant clerk of arrears; four thousand dollars for salary of the clerk to the comptroller; one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for salary of the fourth assistant bookkeeper, and twelve hundred dollars for salary of the janitor in such department, which salaries are hereby fixed at said amounts per annum respectively, one hundred and eighty-eight thousand five hundred dollars, and the salary of the stock and bond clerk of the county is fixed at one thousand dollars per annum, from January first, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, the same being a county charge. Also the further sum of twenty-seven thousand two hundred dollars to provide a fund for the payment of the salaries of the officers of the bureau for the prevention of fires, as authorized by an act entitled "An act relating to the keeping and storing of combustible and explosive materials in the city of New York, and to create a bureau for the prevention of fires in said city," passed at this session of the legislature, said fund to be reimbursed from time to time, as provided for by said act. To J. G. & L. Edge, for fireworks furnished for the For fire works. |