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LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN.

STATED SESSION.

TUESDAY, May 1, 1883, /. 12 o'clock, M.

The Board met in their chamber, No. 16 City Hall.

PRESENT:

THE CITY RECORD.

OFFICIAL JOUR NA L.

Vol,. XI.

NEW YORK WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, (883

NUMBER 3,016.

Alderman O'Connor moved that the nomination of C. L. Tiffany be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,

Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-24.

Alderman Wells moved the confirmation of the nomination of W. W. Niles. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy Farley,


Alderman Waite moved that the nomination of Luther R. Marsh be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,

Finck, Fitzpatrick Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-24.

Subsequently, Alderman Waite moved that a Committee of one be appointed to inform his Honor the Mayor of the action taken by the Board on the several nominations made by him for Commissioners to select and locate lands for public parks in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, as provided in chapter 253, Laws of 1883.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative.

And the Chair appointed Alderman Waite as such committee, who departed to perform the duty assigned him.

Subsequently, Alderman Waite appeared and reported that he had communicated with the Mayor, cs instructed by the Board, and presented the following

MESSAGE FROM HIS HONOR THE MAYOR.

MAYOR'S OFFICE, NEW YORK, May I, 1883.

Thomas Carroll, John Cochrane, Robert E. De Lacy, Edward Duffy, Michael Duffy, Patrick Farley, Frederick Finck, Edward T. Fitzpatrick,

The minutes of April to,

John O'Neil, Wm. P. Rinckhoff, John H. Seaman, F..dward C. Sheehy, Alexander B. Smith, Charles B. Waite, James L. Wells.

Hon. John Reilly, President ;

ALDERMEN

August Fleischbein, Thomas Foley, Hugh J. Grant, Henry W. Jaehne, Patrick Kenney, William P. Kirk, Michael F. McLoughlin, John C. O'Connor, Jr.,

16 and 24 were read and approved.

To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen : Having been informed by a Committee of your Honorable Body that only six of the seven

Commissioners nominated by me to carry into effect the provisions of chapter 253 of the Laws of 1883, have been confirmed by you, I hereby nominate, and with your consent appoint, George W. McLean as one of said Commissioners.

FRANKLIN EDSON, Mayor.

Whereupon Alderman Kirk moved the confirmation of the nomination of George W. McLean. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy,

Farley, Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Con-nor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-24.

MESSAGES FROM HIS HONOR THE MAYOR.

The President laid before the Board the following message from his Honor the Mayor :

MAYOR'S OFFICE, NEW YORK, May 1, 1883. To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen:

In compliance with the provisions of chapter 253 of the Laws of 1883, I hereby nominate, and, subject to your confirmation, appoint the following-named gentlemen, namely : john E. Develin, Luther R. Marsh, Augustus Schell, C. L. Tiffany, Waldo Hutchins, Louis Fitzgerald, and W. W. Niles, a commission for the purposes set forth in said act, a certified copy of which I present here-with.

FRANKLIN EDSON, Mayor. CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT for the appointment of Commissioners to select and locate lands for public parks in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards of the city of New York and in the vicinity thereof.

Passed April 19, 1883 ; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section I. The mayor of the city of New York is hereby authorized and empowered to nominate

and, subject to confirmation by the board of aldermen, appoint a commission, to consist of seven citizens, whose duty it shall be to select and locate such lands in the twenty-third and twenty-fourth wards of the city of New York and in the vicinity thereof, as may, in their opinion, be proper and desirable to be preserved and set apart for one or more public parks for said city ; and they shall report such selection and location to the legislature at the earliest day practicable.

Sec. 2. The said commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services under this act, but they are hereby authorized to procure maps and plans of the lands selected and located by them, and to employ surveyors for that purpose at an expense of not exceeding one thousand dollars, and the same shall be a charge upon said city and shall be paid as other city charges are paid.

Sec. 3. The said commissioners shall make such selection and location as they may deem desirable in view of the present condition and future growth and wants of said city. The first meeting of the commissioners shall be held within thirty days after the passage of this act at such time and place as the majority of said commissioners shall designate.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. State of New York,

Office of the Secretary of State, ss ' I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify

that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of said original law. Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the city of

[SEAL.]

Albany, this 21st day of April, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty- three.

JOSEPH B. CARR, Secretary of State.

Alderman Kirk called for a division of th:: question, and moved that the Board proceed to act on the nominations, separately.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative.

Alderman Smith moved that the nomination of John E. Develin be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—Aldermen Cochrane, O'Connor, O'Neil, Waite, and Wells-5. Negative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley, Finck,

Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, and Smith—i9.

Alderman Fitzpatrick moved that the nomination of Augustus Schell be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy,

Farley, Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-24.

Alderman Sheehy moved the confirmation of the nomination of Waldo Hutchins. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. :

' Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley, Pluck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells —24.

Alderman Waite moved that the nomination of Louis Fitzgerald be confirmed. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,


INVITATIONS.

Invitation was received to attend an exhibition of the United States Fire Escape and Fire Alarm Company, to be held Tuesday, the 8th day of May, at 3 o'clock P. M., at Hall's Hotel, corner of Chatham and Duane streets.

Which was accepted.

PETITIONS. By Alderman Wells— To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York

GENTLEMEN—The undersigned, residents of the Twenty-third Ward of the City of New York. in the immediate vicinity of the vacant lots situate at the northwest corner of Alexander avenue and One Hundred and Forty-first street, in said Ward, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to pass a suitable ordinance and resolution, directing that said lots shall be fenced in.

The property sought to be thus enclosed is located upon one of the best avenues in the Twenty-third Ward, and is surrounded by private dwellings ; but, owing to the fact that these lots are not protected from public use, they have been in a large measure converted into a receptacle for the refuse of adjoining tenements, and are used continuously as a rendezvous and ball-ground for all the younger inhabitants of the tenement property in the adjoining street, to the great annoyance and danger of persons residing in the vicinity and those who are compelled to pass the locality.

Dated New York, April I I, 1883. Thomas J. Rush, 336 Alexander avenue. Wm. H. Ostrander, 332 Alexander avenue. J. W. Binney, 335 Alexander avenue. Walter D. Willson, 332 Alexander avenue. T. E. Fraser, 337 Alexander avenue. C. A. Tinker, M. D., 302 Alexander ave. C. E. Markert, 337 Alexander avenue. N. S. King, M. D. 305 Alexander avenue. W. R. Beal, 350 Alexander avenue. Wm. J. O'Byme, M. I)., Alexander ave. W. M. Ham, 334 Alexander avenue. and 141st street. C. S. Farrington, 334 Alexander avenue. Nathaniel Wygant, 339 Alexander avenue. Edward E. Hain, 334 Alexander avenue. C. A. Bunner, Jr., 3326 Alexander avenue. Whereupon Alderman Wells offered the following : Resolved, That the vacant lots situated on the northwesterly corner of Alexander avenue and

East One Hundred and Forty-first street be fenced in, under the direction of the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

Which was referred to the Committee on Public Works.

MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS. By Alderman Sheehy —

Resolved, That Solomon D. Epstin be and he is hereby reappointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York, term of office expires April 26, 1883.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz.: Affirmative --The President, Aldermen Carroll, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley, Finck,

Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhofi, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-22.

PETITIONS RESUMED. By the same—

Petition for change of grade of Eightieth street, between Madison and Fourth avenues. To the Honorable the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York :

We, the undersigned, owners of property on the north and south sides of Eightieth street, between Madison and Fourth avenues, would most respectfully petition your Honorable Body to have the grade of said block changed to conform to the diagram hereto annexed. As there are no buildings on either side of the street, and as the present grade is not sufficient to carry off the water, we would most respectfully ask for the adoption of the following resolution :

Resolved, That the grade of Eightieth street, between Madison and Fourth avenues, be changed, at the expense of the petitioners, in accordance with the foregoing petition and the diagram annexed thereto.

Respectfully submitted, EDWARD KILPATRICK, owner 200 feet on north side. TERENCE FARLEY, owner 153 feet south side. SIGMUND OPPENHEIMER, owner 25 feet south side. ISIDOR KAUFMAN, owner 22 feet south side.


MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS RESUMED. By Alderman Fitzpatrick—

Resolved, That Louis Borowsky be and is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York.

Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

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By Alderman Seaman— R :solved, That permission be and the same is hereby granted to the Knickerbocker Ice Co. to

erect and keep a platturm-scale in Bank street, beside the curb, near Thirteenth avenue, work to be done at their own expense and under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works , to continue during the pleasure of the Common Council.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By the same - Resolved, That the Legislature be requested not to pass a certain bill known as the Depart-

of Docks Bill, as it would be detrimental to the interest of our citizens and would cause an expediture of from thirty to one hundred millions of dollars ; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmit ed to the Clerks of both branches of the Legislature.

Alderman Waite moved to refer to the Committee on Docks. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. SVhich was decided in the negative. The President then put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By Alderman Kirk— Resolved, That John W. Crump be and he is hereby

and for the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and

By Alderman Seaman— Resolved, That the following-named persons be and

Deeds in and for the City and County of New York : Raphael Von Damm, Henry McLaughlin, Edward L. Jone

Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and

By the same— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to David S. Huyler 8t Son to extend

the vault on building which they propose to erect southeast corner of Eighteenth street and Irving place, tour feet and four inches beyond the curb-line, they to comply with all the requirements of law. and to save the city harmless from all loss or damage, work to be done at their own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; to continue during the pleasure of the Common Council.

Alderman Kirk moved to refer to the Committee on Streets. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By Alderman Wells— Resolved, That Edward J. Haney be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York, in place of Edward J. Haney, who was recently appointed, but tailed to quality within the time prescribed by law.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,

Huck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Grant, Kenney, Kirk, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, and Wells-2o.

By Alderman Foley— Res -dyed, That permission 13-2 and the same is given to the owner of the property on the east-

erly- side of Nassau street, and the southerly side of Liberty street, and the northerly side of Cedar street, in addition to the usual cornices, to extend the architectural projections of the edifice now building there, not exceeding fifteen inches beyond the respective lines of said streets, upon the payment to the Commissioner of Public Works of a fee for the latter projections at the same rate as Is usual for vaults under the sidewalks ; the work to be done at the expense of the owner, and under the direction of the Commissioners of the Fire Department.


By Alderman Wells— Resolved, That East One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street, between the easterly curb-line of the

Boston road and the westerly curb-line of Union avenue, be regulated and graded, the curb, gutter and flag stones, where not on the established line or grade, be taken up, the curb and gutter stones reset and the flagstones relaid, four feet in width, new curb and gutter stones be set, and new flag-stones four feet in width, be laid on each sidewalk where not heretofore set or laid, and that cross-walks be laid, where not heretofore ordered to be laid, across the roadway at each intersection of said street with each avenue, and at the intersection of each avenue with said street, under the direction of the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.


By the same— Resolved, That the attention of the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks be called

to the dangerous condition of the Boston road, near its intersection with Division street, West Farms, and that they be and are hereby requested to cause to be filled in with good and wholesome earth, the pools of stagnant water existing in said roadway, at and near the above-mentioned point.


By Alderman O'Connor— Resolved, That John H. Webster be and he hereby Os appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and f ,r the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

By Alderman Wells— • Resolved, That gas-mains be laid:lamp-posts erected, and street-lamps lighted in Elizabeth

street and Lorillard street, from North Third avenue to Jacob street, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.

Which was referred to the Committee on Lamps and Gas.

By Alderman Sheehy— Resolved, That the name of Joseph Ankenbrandt, recently appointed a Commissioner of Deeds,

be corrected so as to read Joseph J. Ankenbrandt. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By Alderman McLoughlin— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Richard Gobber to place a

watering-trough in front of his premises, No. 469 Tenth avenue, the work done at his own expense, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman Foley— Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks be and they are hereby

requested to pay the unskilled laborers employed by them the sum of two dollars per day as wages. The President put the question whether the Bard would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By the same— Resolved, That the Commissioner of Public Works be and he is hereby requested to cause the

crosswalks crossing West street and Beach street, opposite the property of the Old Dominion Steam-ship Company, on the northeast corner of West and Beach streets, to be relaid, and the street pavements repaired at his earliest convenience.


By Alderman E. Dully— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Patrick McCann to extend the

show-window on his bolding on the northwest corner of Twenty-second street and Sixth avenue, on the Twenty-second street front of said building, as shown on the annexed diagram ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.

The President put the question whether tke Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By Alderman Carroll— Resolved, That the name of Charles Kruger, appointed a Commissioner of Deeds, be recognized

to read Charles W. Kruger. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By Alderman O'Neil— . Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Ferdinand P. Earle to erect a

storm-door on Centre street side of Earle's hotel, said door to be twelve feet five inches high, five

feet wide, and to extend from house line over the area to sidewalk a distance of six feet ; such per-mission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


• By Alderman Grant — Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to 0. B. Willis to place and keep a

sign across the sidewalk in front of his premises, No. 304 West Fifty-fourth street ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with the said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative.

By the same— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to the proprietor of the barber-shop

located at No. 883 'renth avenue, to place and keep a barber-pole in front of his said premises, on the sidewalk near the curb-stone ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman O'Neil— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to H. J. Tillmann to place an orna-

mental bracket lamp in front of No. 157 Bowery, the said lamp to be within the stoop-line ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman Foley— Resolved, That permission be and the same is given to William Bulger to place and keep a

storm-door, within the stoop line, at the entrance to No. 72 Varick street ; such permission to con-tinue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman Kirk-- Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby given to Oxley, Giddings & Enos to

retain the portico doors on the stoops of their premises, Nos. 224 and 230 Canal street, junction of Walker street ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman Smith-- Resolved, That Elbert L. Burnham, Jr., be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of

Deeds in and for the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

By Alderman Kirk— Resolved, That Peter J. Ryan be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and

for the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

By Alderman Sheehy— Resolved, That James C. Foley be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By Alderman M. Dufly- Resolved, That Joseph B. Roe be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By the same— Resolved, That Herman C. Kinkel be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

By Alderman Farley— Resolved, That Charles Forst be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By Alderman Waite — Resolved, That Wilson G. Fox be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By Alderman Rinckhofl- Resolved, That Henry Templer be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in


By Alderman Finck- Resolved, That Jacob Rieser be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By the same— Resolved, That Maurice F. Harris be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in


By Alderman Foley— Resolved, That Alfred Everiss be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By Alderman Smith— Resolved, That J. W. Boyle be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and for

the City and County of New York. Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

By Alderman Kirk-- Resignation of Samuel Wolf as a Commissioner of Deeds. Which was accepted.

By the same— Resolved, That Solomon W. Ashheim be and he is hereb , appointed a Commissioner of Deeds

in and for the City and County of New York, in the place of Samuel Wolf, who has resigned. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, M. Duffy, Farley, Fmk,

Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, and Wells-22.

(G. 0. 138.) By the same—

Resolved, That a crosswalk be laid across Chatham street, from opposite the northeast corner of North William street to No. 58 Chatham street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.

Which was laid over.

By Alderman Kenney— Resolved, That Henry J. Marrecella be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in


By the same— Resolved, That Francis Burke be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds n


By the same— Whereas, Permission has heretofore been given to various corporations to use the streets in the

City of New York for laying electrical conductors underground, and it is desirable that the corpora. don hereinafter named be enabled and required to relieve the thoroughfare of the city of as many of their wires as can be advantageously replaced by pneumatic tubes and other necessary fixtures, to be placed underground and used for transmission and delivery of messages from and to the Company's offices and stations within the city, and to lay underground as many of the Company's other wires as can be efficiently there worked ;

Resolved, That permission be and hereby is granted to the Western Union Telegraph Com-pany, to use the streets within the City of New York for the purpose of constructing and laying lines of electrical conductors underground, from time to time, in tubes or otherwise, and for constructing,

appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

Offices.

are hereby appointed Commissioners of Charles E. Knapp, Joseph A. McCray,

s. Offices.

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maintaining, and using in such streets, from time to time, upon and below the surface of the ground, boxes, vaults, or other fixtures suitable for distributing and testing, from time to time, the wires and insulators of said lines and for access thereto, and for laying, maintaining, and using, underground in said streets, the pneumatic tubes necessary or proper to be used in transmission of communica-tions between the Company's several offices or stations, or in making delivery of communications received by the Company by telegraph. All excavations in streets, removals and replacements of pavements or sidewalks, shall be done under and according to the directions of the Commissioner of Public Works. The said Company, in acting under this permission, shall he subject to so much of the provisions of Article XLI. of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of 1880 as requires that one wire in each route shall be reserved for the use of the police and one for the fire-alarm telegraph, without charge to the City and County of New York. For each street opened and used by the Company, under this permission, for the purpose of laying therein its lines of electrical conductors or pneumatic tubes, it shall pay to the City a sum equal to one cent for each lineal foot of such street occupied.

Resolved, That said Company be and hereby is required and directed to proceed as rapidly and promptly as may be found practicable in the work of actually laying pneumatic tubes and elec-trical conductors as aforesaid.

Alderman O'Connor moved that the resolutions be laid over. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative. Alderman O'Connor moved to refer to the Committee on Law Department, with instructions to

report at the next meeting of the Board. The President put the question whether the Bcgrok,would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative by tffe folIAing vote, on a division called by Alderman

Fitzpatrick, viz. : Affirmative—Aldermen Cochrane, Finck, Fleischbein, Grant, O'Connor, O'Neil, and Wells-7. Negative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, De Lacy, M. Duffy, Farley, Fitzpatrick, Foley,

Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, and Smith-15. Alderman Waite excused from voting. The President then put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolutions. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, on a division called by Alderman

Grant, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy,

Farley, Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Neil, Rinckhoft, Seaman, Sheehy, and Smith-2o.

Negative—Aldermen Grant, O'Connor, Waite, and Wells-4.

By Alderman M. Duffy— Resolved, That Ninety-first (91st) street, between Fifth and Second avenues, be regulated and

graded, and curb and gutter stones set and reset, andjsidewalks flagged and refiagged, where neces-sary, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordi-nance therefor be adopted.


By the same— Resignation of George J. Smith as a Commissioner of Deeds. Which was accepted.

By the same— Resolved, That John R. Farrington be and he hereby is appointed a Commissioner of Deeds of

the City of New York, in the place and stead of George J. Smith, resigned. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Finck,

Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoft, Seaman, Smith, Waite, and Wells-22.

By the President— Resolved, That William N. Loew be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York, in the place of Jacob Green, deceased. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy,

Farley, Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhofi, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-23.

By Alderman Fitzpatrick— Resolved, That Christian Classen be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York, in place of Peter F. Green, who has failed to qualify. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,

Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Smith, Waite, and Wells-22.

Alderman Smith moved that the Board do now adjourn. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative.

By Alderman Fitzpatrick— Resolved, That Louis B. Allen be and is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in and


By Alderman Waite— Resolved, That the lamp-posts on University place be removed and reset to regular and proper

locations, and new lamps erected where necessary, under the direction of the Commissioner of Pub-lic Works.


By the same— Resolved, That permission be and the same is hereby gived to Thomas Kirkpatrick to remove

the ornamental post and clock from in front of premises at the northwest corner of Broadway and Nineteenth street to the northwest corner of Broadway and Twenty-second street ; such permission to continue only during the pleasure of the Common Council.


By Alderman Sheehy— Resolved, That Louis H. Mayer be and is hereby reappointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, De Lacy, M. Duffy, Finck, Fleischbein,

Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Sheehy, Waite, and Wells —17.

By Alderman McLoughlin— Resolved, That Marcus A. Brummer be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds


By Alderman Fleischbein- Resolved, That an improved ken drinking-hydrant, for man and beast, be erected about fif-

teen feet north of the northwest corner of Thirtieth street and First avenue, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.


By Alderman Sheehy— Resolved, That lamp-posts be erected and street-lamps lighted thereon, in Sixty-eighth, Sixty-

ninth and Seventieth streets, between First avenue and Avenue A. Which was referred to the Committee on Public Works.

Isy Alderman Finck- Resolved, That Oscar H. Graber be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York, in place of Max J. Porges, who has failed to qualify. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Finck,

Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhofi, Seaman, Smith, Waite, and Wells-2o.

By Alderman Grant— Resolved, That crosswalks be laid on both sides of Ninth avenue, at its intersection with

Seventy-second street, within the lines of the sidewalks and parallel therewith, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.


By the same— Resolved, ThacCroton water-mains be laid in Ninth avenue, from Seventy-seventh to Seventy.

eighth street, as provided in chapter 381, Laws of 1879. Which was referred to the Committee on Public Works.

By the same— Resolved, That Croton water-mains be laid in Ninth avenue, from Seventy-ninth to Eighty-first

street, as provided in chapter 381, Laws of 1879. Which was referred to the Committee on Public Works.

By the same— Resolved, That Croton water-mains be laid in One Hundred and Eleventh street, from Seventh

avenue to St. Nicholas avenue, as provided in chapter 381, Laws of 1879. Which was referred to the Committee on Public Works.

By the sam e— Resolved, That gas-mains be laid, lamp-posts erected, and street-lamps lighted in Eleventh

avenue, from One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street to the intersection of said avenue with the Kings-bridge road, at or near One Hundred and Seventieth street, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works.


By the same— Resolved, That Joseph McCann be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds in

and for the City and County of New York, in place of Louis F. Brennan, who has failed to qualify. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy, Farley,

Finck, Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, and Wells-21.

By Alderman Fitzpatrick— Whereas, The East River Bridge, connecting the great Cities of New York and Brooklyn, is a

work of popular interest and importance ; and Whereas, The completion of the bridge marks an era in the commercial and social history of

the United States, and the opening ceremonies should, therefore, take place on some American National holiday ; therefore be it

Resolved, That on the opening day the bridge be free to the general public ; and Resolved, That the Board of Trustees of the East River Bridge be requested by this Board to

change the date for the formal opening of the bridge from the 24th of May to the 3oth of May, Decoration Day ; and

Resolved, That a Committee of three members of this Board be appointed to wait upon such trustees and strongly and emphatically impress upon them the wishes of the City of New York for this change of date.

Alderman O'Connor moved to amend by striking out the words " May 30," and inserting the words, " the earliest day practicable."

But no action was taken on the motion. Objection being made to Alderman Fitzpatrick speaking more than twice to the question before

the Board, Alderman Smith moved that Rule is be suspended, in order to allow Alderman Fitzpatrick to

continue. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative. Alderman Fitzpatrick having concluded, The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, on a division called by Alderman

Fitzpatrick, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M. Duffy,

Farley, Finck,Fitzpatrick, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-23.

And the President appointed as such Committee, Aldermen Fitzpatrick, Cochrane, and E. Duffy.

By Alderman Smith— Resolved, That George W. McAdam be and he is hereby appointed a Commissioner of Deeds

in and for the City and County of New York, in place of William G. McCrea. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said resolution. Which was decided in the affirmative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—The President, Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, M.Duffy, Farley,

Finck, Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, Rinckhoff, Seaman, Sheehy, Smith, Waite, and Wells-22.

Alderman Kirk moved to take up G. 0. No. 90 (the special order for to-day), being a report of the Committee on Markets, with an ordinance relating to the public markets in the City of New York.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative. Alderman Fitzpatrick moved to postpone the consideration of the ordinance until the meeting

of the Board to be held on the 15th instant. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative.

Alderman Jaehne moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the consideration of the ordi. nance relating to the public markets was postponed.

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative by the following vote, on a division called by Alderman

Fitzpatrick, viz.: Affirmative—Aldermen Carroll, Cochrane, E. Duffy, Fleischbein, Foley, Jaehne, ,Seaman,

Sheehy, and Wells-9. Negative—The President, Aldermen De Lacy, M. Duffy, Farley, Fitzpatrick, Grant, Kenney,

Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Connor, O'Neil, Rinckhoff, Smith, and Waite-14.

REPORTS.

(G. 0. 139.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of fencing vacant lots on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, south side, about Igo feet east of Sixth avenue, respectfully

REPORT: That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary.

They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved, That the vacant lots on the south side of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, about

150 feet east of Sixth avenue, be fenced in, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.


(G. 0. 140.) The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance

in favor of fencing vacant lots Nos. 285 and 287 West Sixtieth street, respectfully

REPORT : That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary.

They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved. That the vacant lots Nos. 285 and 287 West Sixtieth street be fenced m, under the

direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee JAMES L. WELLS, on HUGH J. GRANT, Public Works.

1.

(G. 0. 141.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of fencing vacant lots north side of Fifty-seventh street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues, respectfully

REPORT:

That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary. They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee JAMES L. WELLS, on HUGH J. GRANT, 1. Public Works.


882 THE CITY RECORD. MAY 2, 1883.

Resolved, That the vacant lots on north side of Fifty-seventh street, between Ninth and Tenth _ avenues, be fenced in where not already done, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public

Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted. W. P. KIRK, Committee JAMES L. WELLS, on HUGH J. GRANT, } Public Works.

(G. 0. 142.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of fencing vacant lots on west side of the Boulevard, from Ninety-ninth street north two hundred and fifty feet, respectfully


They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved, That the vacant lots on the west side of the Boulevard, from Ninety-ninth street

north about two hundred and fifty feet, be fenced in, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee JAMES L. WELLS, on HUGH J. GRANT, Public Works.


(G. 0. 1434

The Comm ittee c n Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of regulating, grading, etc., One Hundred and Nineteenth street, from Seventh to Eighth avenue, respectfully

REPORT :

That, t fiv:ng examired the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary, but find the resolution and ordinance incorrectly drawn, and have prepared a new resolutionand ordi-nance, marked " A." They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted.

Resolved, That the sidewalks of One Hundred and Nineteenth street, from Seventh to Eighth avenue, be regulated and graded so as to lay a course of flagging a space four feet wide, and that said course be laid between the above-described limits, where not already done, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and t hat the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

JAMES L. WELLS, on W. P. KIRK, Committee

HUGH J. GRANT, } Public Works. Which was laid over.

(G. 0. 144.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor regulating, grading, etc., One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street, from Kingsbridge road to Tenth avenue, respectfully

REPORT :

but find the resolution incorrectly drawn, and have prepared a new resolution and ordinance, That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary,

marked "A." They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved, That the sidewalks of One llundred and Seventy-fifth street, from Tenth avenue to

Kingsbtidge road, be regulated, graded, curbed and flagged, a space four feet wide, where not already done, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee JAMES L. WELLS, on HUGH J. GRANT, . Public Works.


(G. 0. 145.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of flagging the north side of Thirty-fifth street, from Eleventh to Twelfth avenue, respectfully

REPORT:

find the resolution and ordinance incorrectly drawn, and have prepared a new resolution and ordi- That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary, but

nance, marked "A." They therefore recommend that the said resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved, That the sidewalks on north side of Thirty-hfth street, between Eleventh and

Twelfth avenues, be regulated and graded so as to lay a course of flagging eight feet wide, and that said course be laid between the above-described limits where not already done, under the direc-tion of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee on

HUGH J. GRANT, } Public Works. JAMES L. WELLS,

Which was laid over. .

(G. 0. 146.)

The Committee on Public Works, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in

the Boulevard, respectfully favor of regulating, grading, etc., One Hundred and Fifty-first street, from St. Nicholas avenue to

REPORT :


Resolved, That One Hundred and Fifty-first street, from the west curb of Avenue St. Nicholas to the east line of the Boulevard, be regulated, graded, and curbed, under the direction of the Com-missioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

W. P. KIRK, Committee

HUGH J. GRANT, } Public Works. JAMES L. WELLS, on


(G. 0. 147.) The Committee on Public Works, to whom was referred the annexed resolution in favor of

establishing width of sidewalk in One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street, from Tenth avenue to Kings-bridge road, respectfully

REPORT:

That, having examined the subject, they believe the proposed improvement to be necessary. They therefore recommend that the said resolution be adopted.

Resolved, That the sidewalks in One Hundred and Seventy-fifth street, between Tenth avenue and Kingsbridge road, be and they are hereby declared to be 3o (thirty) feet wide, and also that the area and stoop-lines are to be of the width established by the ordinance of the Common Council.

W. P. KIRK, ) Committee JAMES L. WELLS, 'r on HUGH J. GRANT, ) Public Works.


(G. O. 148.)

The Committee on Street Pavements, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordi-nance in favor of paving Seventieth street, from Eighth avenue to the Boulevard, respectfully

REPORT:


Resolved, That Seventieth street, from Eighth avenue to the Boulevard, be paved with granite-block pavement, and that crosswalks be laid where required at the intersecting avenues where not already laid, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

MICHAEL DUFFY, Committee EDWARD C. SHEEHY, on J. C. O'CONNOR, JR., Street Pavements.

Whick was laid over.

(G. 0. 1494 The Committee on Street Pavements, to whom was referred the annexed petition of property

owners to have Sixty-fourth street, from Tenth to Eleventh avenue, paved with Belgian pavement, respectfully


They therefore recommend that the accompanying resolution and ordinance be adopted. Resolved, That Sixty-fourth street, from the crosswalk at the westerly intersection of Tenth

avenue to the crosswalk at the easterly intersection of Eleventh avenue, be paved with Belgian or trap-block pavement, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works; and that the accom-panying ordinance therefor be adopted.

MICHAEL DUFFY, Committee EDWARD C. SHEEHY, on

Which was laid over. J. C. O'CONNOR, JR., Street Pavements.

(G. 0. 15o.)

The Committee on Street Pavements, to whom were referred the annexed resolution and ordinance in favor of paving One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, from Eighth avenue to St. Nicholas avenue, respectfully

REPORT:


Resolved, That One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, from Eighth avenue to Avenue St. Nicholas, be paved with granite-block pavement, and that crosswalks be laid where necessary at the intersecting and terminating avenues, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works ; and that the accompanying ordinance therefor be adopted.

MICHAEL DUFFY, } Committee EDWARD C. SHEEHY, on J. C. O'CONNOR, JR., Street Pavements.


(G. 0. iv.)

Alderman Waite moved that the Committee on County Affairs be discharged from the further consideration of the following resolution

Resolved, That the room now used as the meeting room or chamber of the Board of Aldermen be extended by removing the partition separating it from the room recently occupied by the Keeper of the City Hall, and including that room as part of said chamber ; that additional seats be provided for members, the heads of the several departments, and spectators ; and that the chamber, when so enlarged, be fitted up, painted and furnished in an appropriate manner, using the present furniture and fixtures where available ; also, that the shelves, book-cases, etc., in the City Library room be painted, the floor recarpeted or covered with linoleum, new locks and keys provided where necessary, the chairs, tables, etc., be repaired, and the room generally improved in appearance ; also, that the necessary repairs be made to the office furniture in the offices of the Clerk of the Board, new locks and keys, etc., provided immediately, under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Works, to the satisfaction of the President of the Board of Aldermen, the expense not to exceed ten thousand dollars, to be charged to the appropriation for "Public Buildings--Construction and Repairs."

The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative. The paper was then laid over.

MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS AGAIN RESUMED.

Alderman Smith moved that the Board do now adjourn. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the negative by the following vote, viz. : Affirmative—Aldermen Carroll, M. Duffy, Jaehne, Kenney, Kirk, McLoughlin, O'Neil,

Seaman, and Sheehy-9. Negative—The President, Aldermen Cochrane, De Lacy, E. Duffy, Finck, Fitzpatrick,

Fleischbein, Foley, Grant, O'Connor, Rinckhoff, Smith, Waite, and Wells—I4.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE DEPARTMENTS AND CORPORATION OFFICERS.

The President laid before the Board the following communication from the County Clerk :

COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, /. NEW YORK, May 1, 1883.

To Hon. JOHN REILLY, President of the Board of Aldermen :

Silt—Herewith please find list of names of Commissioners of Deeds whose term of office expire during the month of May, 1883.

Henry Adler May, ;9 2: 188,4 3. Emil S. Arnold Christopher M. Buehler. James R. Cooke Cyrille Carreau Edward C. Chamberlain M. J. Conner Warren S. Earle N. C. Childs William Crosby Christopher A. Carraher. . Lafayette H. De Friese Lorenzo N. Fowler George Finck Samuel F. Gregory Nicholas Gannon George Hoperoft Marlin F. Hatch Charles W. Keeler. James E. Kelly Joseph P. Kennedy. Leopold Luff Martin J. McInerny Joseph McDermott James McLoughlin Thomas J. McGuire David Mankiewitz James J. MOS3 Louis H. Mayer Edward F. Meeker W. H. Newschafer James A. O'Gorman John H. 0. Hara J. Fraser Rowell John M. Ruck Robert J. Rosenthal John F. Ryan Simon Schwarzmann John Stacom Moritz H. Silberstein Henry Schoen John Tracey. Theodore F. Van Zandt Jacob Haubert

Which was referred to the Committee on Salaries and Offices.

MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS AGAIN RESUMED.

Alderman Kirk moved that the Board do now adjourn. The President put the question whether the Board would agree with said motion. Which was decided in the affirmative. And the President announced that the Board stood adjourned until Tuesday, the 8th instant,

at 12 o'clock, M. FRANCIS J. TWOMEY, Clerk.


PATRICK KEENAN, Clerk. Name. Term Expires.

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19, 26, 26,

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12, 12, 5, 5,

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12,

THE CITY RECORD. 883 MAY 2, 1883.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY LAW DEPARTMENT. OF THE

Statement and Return of Moneys received by WILLIAM A. Bovn, Corporation Attorney, for the

month of April, 1883, rendered to the Comptroller in pursuance of the provisions of

Section 26, Article 1, Chapter V. of the Revised Ordinances of 1866; and of Sections 38 and 96 of Chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK.

Latitude go° 45' 58" N. Longitude 73° 57' 58" W. Height of Instruments above the Ground, 53 feet ; above the Sea, 97 feet.

ABSTRACT OF REGISTERS FROM SELF-RECORDING INSTRUMENTS, For Me Week ending April 28, 1883.

Barometer.

TOTAL. AMOUNT.

JUDGMENTS. PENALTIES. DATE. WHAT FOR. COSTS.

1883. April Violation Corporation Ordinances

$2r oo $12 13 $33 13

20 00 889 28 89

8 oo 500 13 oo

500 2 13 7 13

18 oo 16 39 34 39

12 00 9 26 21 26

30 5o 16 02 4652

28 50 19 50 48 CO

6 oo 700 13 oo

zo oo 2 50 12 50

21 00 14 63 35 63

500 4 63 9 63

3 00 2 50 5 50 • ..... 2 50 2 50

IO 00 500 15 oo

3 00 2 13 5 13

In oo 4 26 14 26

2 50 500 7 5o

5 oo 7 50 22 50

8 oo 7 so 25 5o

z6 oo 8 52 24 52

5 oo 4 63 197 13

3 44 it 4

9 10 TI 12 13 14 16

Mean for the Day.

11

41

44

14

11

••

OS

MAXIMUM. MINIMUM. 9 P. M. 7 A. M. P. M.

DATE

APRIL. E b oy 4 a,

to

2 11 g

AA

1 21

I:4 LI.

•S b 8 8

1, p.

sq PC ,t

29 809

T0

..' a cr. .0 17

18 FF 44

14

19 20 21 23 29.672 29.918

29.6zo

29.682

29 822

30. 104

29 . 798

29.800

29.592

29.65o

Sunday, 22

Monday, 23

Tuesday, 24

Wednesday, 25

Thursday, 26

Friday, 27

Saturday, 28

OA.M.

0 A.M.

12 P.M.

12 P.M.

9 A.M.

O&M.

7 A M.

29.710 29.942

29.672

12 P.M.

4 P.M.

0 A.M.

0 A.M.

12 P.M.

12 P.M.

3 P.M.

44

,14 24 25 26

29 585

29.676

29 926

30.044

29.699

29.62o

29 542 29.554 CI

46

29.706 29.696 29.576 st

29,882 29.706 30.044

29.978

29.620

29.622

30 092

30.112

29.906

29.648

30

29.906

29.600

29 576

Total amount collected Less disbursements

30.050

29.680

29 590

8602 62 437 02

Balance due the City 5165 6o 29.648

WILLIAM A. BOYD, Corporation Attorney.

Statement and A'eturn of Moneys Received by ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator in Me

City of New York, for Me month of April, 1883, rendered to the Comptroller in pursuance

of the provisions of Section 3, Part IL, Chapter VI., Title VI., Revised Statutes ; and

Sections 38 and 96 of Chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873.

Mean for the week.. 29.764 inches. Maximum " at 9... M., April 26 30.112 "

Minimum " at 4 P. M., April 23 29.542 Range

Thermometers.

MAX-IMUM.

MEAN. MAXIMUM. MINIMUM. INTESTATE

COMMISSIONS. ESTATES.

TOTAL AMOUNT.

DATE. ESTATE OF

DATE.

APRIL.

.13 .0 0

t=i

04

April 2 10

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" to.

I0

12

it 17 /I 21

" 21

" 21

John Lewis $18 53 Frederick Ramig $14 20 110 Heinrich Zapky 26 I I 4 63 John E. Rosenquist 6 27 81 Otto Grunewald i 5o James Farley 137 50 Thomas McNabb 7 74 Justus 0. Kohler 175 00 Hillel Ornstein 3o 83 Theodore Gentil, costs

G

I. tg. 38

34

34

38

34

34

31

34

Sunday, 22

Monday, 23

Tuesday, 24

39 42.7 40.0 so

36 37.7 37.3 40

37 39.6 37.7 44

35 39.3 34.3 44

40 45.0 39.3 52

49 54.3 46.7 66

44 53.0 46.0 6x

OA. M.

9 A. M.

2 P. M.

2 P. M.

3 P. M.

5 P. M.

I P. AI.

12 P. M.

II P. M.

OA. M.

s A. M.

5 A. M.

5 A. M.

6 A. M.

43 OA. M.

9A. M.

2 P. M.

2 P. M.

3 P. M.

5 P. Al.

I P. M.

53. 41 39

38 37

9. 39

37 40

43 45

50 57

50 49

12 P. M.

II P. M

0 A. M.

7 A. M.

5 A. M.

5 A. M.

6 A. M.

42 47 40

38 46. 38 38 40

42

37

43

52

51

76.

IO2.

210.

112.

113.

36 35

3 ,

35

41

44

44

51

bx

95 00 Wednesday, 25

Thursday, 26

Friday, 27

Saturday, 28

34

35

44

48

34

$46 58 $472 64 $519 22 39

40 45

Dated May I, 1883. 61 43 49 44 ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator, etc.

Statement and Return of Moneys received by GEORGE P. ANDREWS, Counsel to the Corporation

of the City of New York, for the month of April, 1883, rendered to the Comptroller, in

pursuance of the provisions of section 26, article I, chapter V. of the Revised Ordinance's of 1866, and of sections 38 and 96 of chapter 335 of the Laws of 1873.

Wet Bulb. 40.2 degrees. 52 "

Dry Bulb. Mean for the week 44.5 degrees Maximum for the week, at 5 P. M., 27th 66. " at 5 P. M., 27th

Minimum " " at 5 A. M., 25th Range

34- " at 7 A. M., 25th 31. 32. 21.

Wind. RECOVERY IN TOTAL FAVOR OF

THE CITY. AMOUNT. TITLE OF SUIT. DATE.

FORCE IN POUNDS PER SQUARE FOOT. VEL'.CITY IN MILES. DIRECTION.

DATE.

APRIL. 1883.

April 13 Distance for the Day.

Charles G. Bitz and Anna Maria Fett-In settlement of suit :

Twenty years' rent $207 4o Interest to date 1 5 1 84 Costs 25 00

7 A.M. 2 P.M. g P.M. Max. Time. 2 P. M. 9 P. M. 9P. M. 7A M. 2 P. AL 7 A. M.

65

66

2 57 o ,%/

11% 1% 9.00 P.M.

247 % g 0 534 MOO A.M.

128 o o o 2 4.20 P.M

316 5g 531 o x6Y, 11.10 A.M.

186 o I% 3 5Y, 6.10 P.M.

254 2 2g 0 It 6.3o P.M.

163 0 I% 0 4g 2.20 P.M•

NNE

NE

NW

NW

SSW

WSW

NNE

36 56 NE

E

SSW

NNW

S

WSW

SSE

E

NE

NNW

WNW

w

Sunday,

Monday,

Tuesday,

Wednesday,25....

Thursday,

Friday,

Saturday,

$384 24 86 95 George W. Allen-Judgment for personal taxes :

Persor.al tax $126 50

Interest 21 77 Costs 17 50

it 18 48

95

54

95

55 25

89 132

165 77 37 95

94 Benjamin P. Fairchild, on account of judgment

entered in favor of the city, March 9, 1881, for $1 7,809.49

Eastern Transportation Line, judgment for costs, April 27, 1883

" 23 SW 65

78o oo NNW 79 41 43 I' 28

178 10 Distance traveled during the week... Maximum force " "

2,452 mks. 163( pounds. $1,508 II

Rain and Snow. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. Clouds. Hygrometer.

RELA-TIVE

HUMID- ITY.

Abstract of Proceedings for the week ending April 28, 1883. CLEAR, 0. OVERCAST, IO.

FORCE OF VAPOR.

DEPTH OF RAIN AND SNOW IN INCHES.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1883.-SPECIAL MEETING---IO A. M. DATE.

APRIL. Present-Commissioners Wales, Crimmins, and Commissioner Crimmins in the chair. The following communications were received : From Wm. Cauldwell, Treasurer Harlem Bridge, Fordham and Morrisania R. R. Co., in rela-

tion to repairing the roadway of the Third Avenue Bridge over the Harlem river. From H. & A. Raphael and Richard Flanagan, desiring permission to erect a structure for

exhibiting a camera obscura on the Central Park. From Louis D. Beck, relative to furnishing gravel to the Department. From John W. Manning, enclosing bills for loam furnished to the Department. From John W. Manning, proposing to excavate tree holes on Eighth avenue, and to furnish

mould to the Department. From Richard Turley, desiring employment as Foreman in Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth

Wards. From Foreman C. E. B. Coffin, desiring to be allowed pay for Sundays. From Coroner B. F. Martin, presenting a copy of the verdict of the Coroner's Jury on the death

of the Hon. William Sauer, recommending that an ambulance be stationed at the Arsenal, and that certain changes be made in the roadway in Central Park.

From W. H. Fogg, Samuel Sloan and others, from a Committee appointed at the Chamber of Commerce, desiring permission to erect a statue of the late Wm. E. Dodge in the Park at Broad- way, Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street.

From Conrad Helle, Philip C. Roos, and others, desiring that a culvert or drain at North Third avenue and One Hundred and Seventy-second street be reopened.

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DANIEL DRAPER, PH. D., Director.

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From the masons and laborers employed by the Department, petitioning for an increase of pay.

The following resolutions were adopted : Resolved, That Commissioner William M. 011iffe he and he hereby is elected President of the

Department of Public Parks, to serve until November 1, 1883. Resolved, That Commissioner John I). Crimmins be and he hereby is elected Treasurer of the

Department of Public Parks, to serve until June 1, 1883. Whereas, It is proposed by an association of our fellow citizens, to erect, by popular sub-

scription within this city, a life-size bronze statue, commemorative of the public life and private virtues of our late honored townsman, William E. Dodge ; and

Whereas, It is is important to a proper and judicious treatment of the subject that a site should now be designated ; therefore

Resolved, That whenever the design for the proposed bronze statue shall have been approved and the finished work accepted in accordance with the by-laws governing this Department, space in the park, situate at the mteresction of Broadway with Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, be and the same is hereby set apart for the installation of the said statue, subject, however, to such regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Department.

Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionmant be and is respectfully requested to transfer the unexpended balance on the account of " Labor, Maintenance and Supplies," for the year 188o, and for which it is not required, amounting to $2,887.10, to an account for the improve-ment of the triangles at Sixty-third and Sixty-fifth streets and the Boulevard.

Resolved, That the following-named assessment list for " Filling in wet and sunken lots on the west side of Willis avenue, commencing twenty-five feet north of Eas: One Hundred and Forty- fourth street and extending northerly about one hundred and twenty five feet," and also the state-ment of the amount and cost of the work therein mentioned be approved and signed by the Commis-sioners of the Department, and transmitted to the Board of Assessors.

Resolved, '1 hat the Acting Engineer of Construction be directed to prepare and submit to this Board plans and specifications for completing the timber guard pieces on either side of the centre pier of the Madison avenue bridge.

Resolved, That the Automatic Gas-lamp Company be and they are hereby directed to remove, on or before June 1st next, from the Central Park, all the lamps, lamp-posts, etc., belonging to them.

Resolved, That the proposal of Nuhn & Strobacker, amounting to $1,930.50, for constructing an iron railing inclosing two parks on Fulton and Franklin avenues and on Boston and Third avenues, be accepted, said bid being the lowest in legal form for doing said work ; that the same be sent to the Comptroller for his approval of the sureties thereon, and when the same are approved that the Chairman be and he is hereby authorized to sign, on behalf of this Department, contracts for doing said work.

Resolved, That the proposal of McGrath & Dunn, amounting to $7,981.78, for constructing a retaining wall, steps, etc., at the southwest end of the park on Fulton and Franklin avenues, and for erecting granite posts, curb, etc., around said park and the park on Boston and Third avenues, be accepted as the lowest bid, and the same sent to the Comptroller for his approval of the sureties thereon, and when so approved, that the Chairman be and he is hereby authorized to sign, on behalf of this Department, contracts with Messrs. McGrath & Dunn for doing said work.

Resolved, That the Secretary is hereby authorized to take all the action necessary and invite proposals for furnishing Park and Gate keepers' uniforms.

Resolved, That the pay of Charles H. Graham, Assistant to the Topographical Engineer, be fixed at 51,200 per annum, to date from this date.

Resolved, That the employment of twelve laborers on Fourth Avenue Parks, and twenty laborers on Central Park be and the same is hereby authorized.

Resolved, That the action of the Superintendent of Parks in restoring to duty John McDonald, plumber, absent on account of sickness, be and the same is hereby approved.

Resolved, That the President be authorized to sign, on behalf of the Department, the contracts now aw.-.iting execution.

Resolved, That William Murphy be and he is hereby appointed a painter on the force of the Department.

Resolved That Thomas Howard be and he is hereby appointed a laborer for duty at the stables. Resolved, That Jeremiah Healy be and he is hereby restored to duty as laborer on city parks. The Superintending Gardener was directed to furnish plants for planting in and around the

Tombs. On motion, it was ordered that estimates be obtained for constructing a receiving basin in One

Hundred and Thirty-fifth street at Rider avenue, and an order issued to the lowest bidder for doing the work.

Permission was granted to Louis E. Tibbals to operate the swings in the Central Park during the season ending November 15, under the usual license of this Department, upon his paying five per cent. monthly upon gross receipts, and agreeing to hold the Department free from all liability for any proceedings that may be taken in law, or otherwise, against the former owner of the swings.

Orders were issued to Edward Gustaveson for building fence on south side of One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, west of Courtland avenue, at sixty-six cents per lineal foot, and for building fence at Elton avenue and One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street, at sixty cents per lineal foot.

An order was issued to Thomas J. McLaughlin for painting iron railing around Stuyvesant Parks, Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets, at an expense not to exceed 5350. Bills amounting to $695 cis Pay-rolls amounting to 15,926 12 --were audited and sent to the Finance Department for payment.

Contracts for erecting ladies' cottages in Reservoir and Mount Morris Squares were executed with James H. Reilly, contractor, and John Byrons and Michael Maloney, sureties.

E. P. BARKER, Secretary, D. P. P.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

SQ. TAT KM ENT OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH all the Public Offices in the City are open for business,

and at which each Court regularly opens and adjourns, as well as of the places where such offices are kept and such Courts are held ; together with the heads of Departments and Courts

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Mayor's Office.

No. 6 City Hall, to A. M. to 3 P. M. FRANKLIN EDSON, Mayor ; S. HASTINGS GRANT,

Secretary and Chief Clerk.

Mayor's Marshal's Office. NO. z City Hall, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

GEoRGE A. McDEamorr, First Marshal.

Permit Bureau Office. No. 13)4 City Hall, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

HENRY WOLTMAN, Registrar.

COMMISSIONERS OF ACCOUNTS. No. t County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

WM. PITT SHEARMAN, GEO. EDWIN HILL,

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of Clerk of Common Council.

No. 8 City Hall, to A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN REILLY, President Board of Aldermen. FRANCIS J. Twomey, Clerk Common Council.

City Library.

No. 12 City Hall, to A. U.tO 4 P.M.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Commissioner's Office.

No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. IL to 4 P. M. HUBERT 0. THOMPSON, Commissioner : FREDERICK H.

HAMLIN, Deputy Commissioner. Bureau of Water Register.

No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. tO 4 P. M. Joust H. CHAMBERS, Register.

Bureau of lncumbrances. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

josain BLUMENTHAL, Superintendent.

Bureau of Lamps and Gas.

No. 3z Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN MCCORMICK, Superintendent.

Bureau of Streets. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. IL tO 4 P. M.

JAMES J. MOoNEY, Superintendent.

Engineer in Charge of Sewers.

No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHENSON TOWLE, Engineer-in-Charge.

Bureau of Chief Engineer.

No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

ISAAC NEn-rom, Chief Engineer.

Bureau of Street Improventeuts. No. 31 Chambers street A. M. to 4 P. M.

GEORGE A. JEREMIAH, ;-uperintendent.

Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

THOMAS H. AlcAvoy, Superintendent.

Bureau o/ Water Purveyor. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. tO 4 P. M.

DANIEL O'REILLY, Water Purveyor.

Deeper of Buildings in City Hall Park. MARTIN J. KEESE. City Hall.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Comptroller's Office.

Nos. 19 and 20 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller ; RICHARD A. STORRS,

Deputy Comptroller.

Auditing Bureau. No. 19 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

DANIEL JACKSON. Auditor of Accounts.

Bureau for Me Collection of Assessments and Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rentz. No. 5 Nov County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. 1.1.

ARTEMAS CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears.

Bureau for the Collection of City Revenues and o/ Market:.

No. 6 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. AL THOMAS F. DEVOE, Collector of City Revenue and

Superintendent of Markets.

Bureau for Me Collection of Taxes. First floor Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park.

MARTIN T. McMAnos, Receiver of faxes; ALFRED VREDENBURG, Deputy Receiver of Taxes.

Bureau of the City Chamberlain. No. t8 New County Coun-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. /a.

J. NELSON TAPPAN, City Chamberlain. Office of the City Paymaster.

Room 1, New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. MOOR FALLS, City Paymaster.

LAW DEPARTMENT Office of Me Counsel to the Corporation,

Stoats Zeitung Building, third floor, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. tO 4 P. M.

GEORGE P. ANDREWS, Counsel to the Corporation ; ANDREW T. CAMPBELL. Chief Clerk.

Office o/ the Public Administrator. No. 4? Beekman street 9 A. M. tO 4 P. M.

ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN. Public Administrator. Office of Me Corporation Attorney.

No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM A. BOYD, Corporation Attorney.

884 THE CITY RECORD.

POLICE DEPARTMENT. Central Office.

No, 30o Mulberry street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN It. FRENCH, President ; SETH C. HAWLEY,

ChiefClerk ; Joins J. O'BRIEN, Chief Bureau of Elections.

DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORREC- TION.

Central Office. No. 66 Third avenue, corner Eleventh street, 8:30 A M.

to 5:30 P. M. H. H. PORTER. President ; GEORGE F. Marrow,

Secretary

FIRE DEPARTMENT. Headquarters.

Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street. JOHN J. GORMAN, President ; CARL JUSSEN. Se_retary.

Bureau of Chief of Department. ELI BATES, Chief of Department.

Bureau of Inspector of Combustibles. PETER SEERY, Inspector of Combustibles.

Bureau :11 Fire Marshal. GEORGE H. SHELDON. Fire Marshal.

Bureau o/ Inspection of Buildings WM. P. ESTERBRooK, Inspector of Buildings. Office hours, Headquarters and Bureaus, from 9 A. m

to 4 P• M. Saturdays, a P. M.

Attorney to Department. WS!. L. FINDLEY, Nos. t55 and 157 Mercer street and

No. tao Broadway.

Fire Alarm Telegraph. J. ELLIOT SMITH, Superintendent of Telegraph, Nos

t55 and 157 Mercer street.

Repair Shops. Nos. ia8 and t3o West Third street.

JOHN MCCABE, Chief of Battalion-in-Charge, 8 A. M. to 5P. M.

Hospital Stables. 99th street, between 9th and loth avenues (temporary).

JAMES SHEA. Superintendent of Horses.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT. No. 301 Mott street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. N.

CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President; EMMONS CLARK, 'secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS

No. 36 Union Square, 9 A. M. to 4 P. EDWARD P. BARKER, Secretary.

Civil and Topographical Office. Arsenal, 64th street and 5th avenue, 9 A. M. to 5 P. Office of Superintendent of Ryland 24th Wards.

146th street and 3d avenue, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M.

DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

WILLIAM LAINIBEER, President ; JOHN T. CUMING, Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS Stoats Zeitung Building, Tryon Row, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS B. ASTEN, President ; FLOYD T. SMITH,

Secretary.

Office Bureau Collection of ,-I 'rears of Personal Tames Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park, 9 A. M. CO 4 P. M.

CHARLES S. BEARDSLEY, Attorney ; WILLIAM Com-ERFORD, Clerk.

BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Office, City Hall, Room No. ii}k, 9 A. N. 10 4 P. M.

JOHN R. IA DECKER, Cliairrilan ; WM. H. JASPER, Secretary.

BOARD OF EXCISE. Corner Bond street and Bowery, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

WILLIAM P.SliTcHELL, President; JOSEPH S. MICHAELS. Chief Clerk.

SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

Nos. 3 and 4 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M ALEXANDER V. DAVIDSON, Sheriff': JOEL 0. STEVENS,

Under Sheriff ; DAVID MCGONIGAL. Order Arrest Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING. 5i Chambers street, Rooms to, it and is, 9 A. IC

4 P. M. JAMES S. COLEMAN, Commissioner ; M. J. MORRISSON,

Chief Clerk.

REGISTER'S OFFICE. East side City Hall Park, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M.

AuGusTUS T. DOCHARTY, Register ; J. FAMP MCLAUGHLIN, Deputy Register.

COMMISSIONER OF JURORS. No. 17 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 . M.

GEORGE CAULFIELD, Commissioner; JAMES E. CONNER, Deputy Commissioner.

COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. Nos. 7 and 8 New County Court-house, 9 A. 51. to 4 P M.

PATRICK KEENAN, County Clerk ; H. STEVENSON BEATTIE, Deputy County Clerk.

DISTRICT ATT'ORNEY'S OFFICE. Second floor, Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park, 9

A. M. tO 4 V. M. JOHN MCKEON, District Attorney ; HUGH DONNELLY,

Chief Clerk.

THE CITY RECORD OFFICE. And Bureau of Printing, Stationery, and Blank Books.

No. a City Hall, 8 A. M. to $ P. M., except Saturdays, on which days 8 A. M. to P. M..

THOMAS COSTIGAN, Supervisor ; R. P. H. ABELL, Book keeper.

CORONERS' OFFICE. Nos. z 3 and 15 Chatham street.

PHILIP MICHELE, FERDINAND LEVY, BERNARD F. MAR-TIN and WILLIAM H. KENNEDY, Coroners ; JOHN T. ToAL, Clerk of the Board of Coroners.

SUPREME COURT. Second floor, New County_Coun-house, to1/6 A. M. to 3 P. M.

General Term, Rcom No. 9. Special Term, Room No. to. Chambers, Room No. it. Circuit, Part I., Room No. it. Circuit, Part II., Room No t3. Circuit, Part III., Room No. 14. Judges' Private Chambers, Room No. Is, NOAH DAVLS, Chief Justice ; PATRICK KEENAN, aerie

MAY 2, 1883.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT. HEALTH DEPARTMENT—OFFICE rip THE SECRETARY,

No. 301 MOTT STREET, NEw YORK, May a, 1883.

PROPOSALS FOR THE EXCAVATING AND PILING FOR THE FOUNDATIONS OF A HOSPITAL AT THE FOOT OF EAST SIXTEENTH STREET, IN THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK.

PROPOPROPOSALS, SEALED AND INDORSED AS SALS,

required, will be received by the Commis. sioners of the Health Department, at their office, No, 301 Mott street, until 3.30 o'clock P. M. of the 1st day of May, 1883, at which time they will be publicly opened and read by said Commissioners for the excavating and piling for the foundations of a hospital at the foot of East Six-teenth street.

The proposals must be addressed to the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York, be indorsed Proposals for the Excavating and Piling for the Foundations of a Hospital at the foot of East Sixteenth street. City and County of New York," and must contain the name and address of the parties making the same.

Any bidder for this contract must be known to be en-gaged in and well prepared for the business, and must have satisfactory testimonials to that effect ; and the per-son or persons to whom the contract may be awarded will be required to give security for the performance of the contract by his or their bond, with two sufficient sureties, in the penal amount of fifty 'so) per cent. of the estimated amount of the contract.

Bidders are required to submit their estimates upon the following express conditions, which shall apply to and become part of every estimate received

1st. Bidders must satisfy themselves by personal ex-amination of the location of the proposed work, and by such other means as they may prefer, as to the accuracy of the estimate, and shall not, at any time after the sub-mission of an estimate, dispute or complain of the state-ment of quantities, nor assert that there was any misun-derstanding in regard to the nature or amount of the work to be done.

ad. Bidders will be required to complete the entire work to the satisfaction of the Health Department, and in substantial accordance with the specifications of the con-tract and the plans therein referred to. No extra com-pensation beyond the amount payable for both classes of work before mentioned, which shall be actually per-formed, at the prices therefor to be specified by the low-est bidder, shall be due or payable for the entire work.

Bidders s ill state in their estimates a price for the whole of the work to be done, in conformity with the approved form of contract and the specifications therein set forth, by which price the bids will be tested. This price is to cover all expenses of every kind involved in or Incidental to the fulfillment of the contract, including any claim that may arise through delay, from any cause, in the performing of the work thereunder.

Bidders will distinctly write out, both in words and in figures, the amount of their estimates for doing this work.

The person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded will be required to attend at this office with the sureties offered by him or them, and execute the contract within five days from the date of the service of a notice to that effect ; and in case of failure or neglect so to do, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it, and as in default to the Corporation, and the contract will be re-advertised and relet, and so on until it he accepted and executed.

Bidders are required to state in their proposals their names and places of residence, the names of all persons interested with them therein ; and it no other person be so Interested, the estimate shall distin.tly state the fact ; also that the estimate is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same work, and that it is in all respects fair, and without collusion or fraud ; and also that no member of the Common Council, head of a department, chief of a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof; which estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing. of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person or persons making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his or their sure-ties for its faithful performance ; and that if said person or persons shall omit or refuse to execute the contract, they will pay to the Corporation of the City of New York any difference between the sum to which said person or per-sons would be entitled on its completion, and that which said Corporation or the Health Department may be obliged to pay to the person to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work to be done by which the bids are tested ; the consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of the contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities as bail, surety and otherwise and that he has offered himself as surety in good faith, and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York, after the award is made and prior to the signing of the contract.

No estimate will be received or considered unless accompanied by either a certified check upon one of the National Banks of the City of New York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of security required for the faithful performance of the contract. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope con-taming the estimate, but must be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate Box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box until such check or money has been examined by said officer or clerk, and found to be correct. All such deposits, except that of the successful bidder, will be returned by the Comptroller to the persons making the same. within three days after the contract is awarded. If the success. ful bidder shall refuse or neglect within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him to exe-cute the same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall be forfeited to and retained by the City of New York as liquidated damages for such neglect or refusal ; but, if he shall execute the contract within the time afore-said, the amount of his deposit will be returned to him by the Comptroller.

No estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or other. wise, upon any obligation to the Corporation.

Bidders are requested, in making their bids or estimates, to use the blank prepared for that purpose by the Depart-ment, a copy of which, together with the form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the work, can be obtained upon application therefor at the office of the Department.

The Department reserves the right to reject any or all proposals not deemed beneficial to or for the public interest.

Proposals to state the price perpile if the piles when cut for plates measure less than so feet in length ; the price per pile if over 30 feet and less than 40 feet, and the price if over ao feet.

Plans may be examined and specifications and blank proposals obtained by application to the Secretary of the Board, at his office, 301 Mott street, New York.

CHARLES F. CHANDLER, WOOLSEY JOHNSON, WILLIAM N. SMITH, STEPHEN B. FRENCH,

Commissioners.

MAY 2, 1883. THE CITY RECORD. 885

JURORS.

NOTICE IN RELATION TO JURORS FOR STATE

COURTS.

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OP JURORS, NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE,

New YORK, Sept. 15, :881.

A PPLICATIONS FOR EXEMPTIONS WILL BE A heard here, from to to 3 daily, from all persons hitherto liable or recently serving who have become ex-empt, and ad needed information will be given.

Those who have not answered as to their liability, or proved permanent exemption, will receive a "jury enroll-ment notice," requiring them to appear before me this year. Whether liable or not, such notices must be an-swered (in person, if possible; and at this office only) under severe penalties. If exempt, the party must bring proof of exemption ; if liable, he must also answer in person, giving full and correct name, residence, etc., etc. No attention paid to letters.

Persons " enrolled" as liable must serve when called or pay their fines. No mere excuse will be allowed or Interference permitted. The fines if unpaid will be entered as judgments upon the property of the delinquents.

All good citizens will aid the course of justice, and secure reliable and respectable juries, and equalize their duty by serving promptly when summoned, allowing their clerks or subordinates to serve, reporting to me any attempt at bribery or evasion, and suggesting names for enrollment. Persons between sixty and seventy years of age, summer absentees, persons temporarily ill, and United States and District Court jurors are not exempt.

Every man must attend to his own notice. It is a mis-demeanor to give any jury paper to another to answer. It is also punishable by fine or imprisonment to give or receive any present or bribe, directly or indirectly, in rela-tion to a jury service, or to withhold any paper or make any false statement, and every case will be fully prose-cuted.

GEORGE CAULFIELD, Commissioner of Jurors,

Room z7, New County Court-house.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK,

155 AND 157 MERCER STREET, NEW YORK, April a8, 1883.

SEALED PROPOSALS FOR FURNISHING THIS Department with

TWO THOUSAND (2.coo) FEET OF HOSE

will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Fire Department, at the office of said Depart-ment, Nos. 155 and t57 Mercer street, in the City of New York, until to o'clock A. M., Wednesday, May t6, 1883, at which time and place they will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read.

The hose is to be three (3) ply, seamless cotton rubber lined fire hose, Baker Fire Hose brand ; to be made of the best Gulf and peeler cotton an , lined with the best Para rubber, of two and one-half (2%) inches internal diameter, in lengths of fifty 50) feet, with New York Fire Department standard couplings attached. Each and every length of the hose with the couplings at-tached is to he capable of resisting a pressure test of three hundred (3oo pounds to the square inch without twisting or turning more than one revolition, or elon-gating more than forty-two 42) inches, or increasing in exterior diameter more than one-eighth je) of an inch et any point, and is to weigh not more than forty-eight (48) pounds including the couplings.

The contractor will be required to give a guarantee that the hose with couplings attached which shall be delivered, and each and every length. part and parcel thereof, shell and will, well and sufficiently bear and stand for and during the full end and term of three (3) years from the time the same shall be put in use, a pressure test of three hundred (300) pounds to the square inch, and the wear and tear of use by the Fire Department, its officers, agents, and servants ; it being agreed that such wear and tear shall be understood to include all damage to the hose or couplings caused by being run over by vehicles or stepped upon by horses, and all other damage, except that which may be caused by fire or acids. And should any part, parcel, or length of hose or couplings which shall be delivered fail to well and sufficiently bear and stand, for and during the full end and term of three years from the time the same shall be put in use, a pressure test of three hundred (3oo) pounds to the square inch, and such wear and tear of use by the Fire Department, its officers, agents, and servant, then, and in every such case, the same shall be replaced, length for length with hose, and piece for piece with couplings, by the contractor, upon the demand in writing and without expense to said Fire Department.

All of the hose is to be delivered at the Repair Shops of the Fire Department, Nos. 13o and 132 West Third street, on or before the thirtieth day after the execution of the contract.

The damages to be paid by the contractor for each day that the contract may be unfulfilled after the time speci-fied for the completion thereof shall have expired, are, by a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at twenty-five ($25) dollars per day.

No estimate will be received or considered after the hour named.

The award of the contract will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids.

Any person making an estimate for the articles shall present the same in a sealed envelope, to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the kind of hose to which it relates.

The Fire Department reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, wry person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corpo-ration.

Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person be so intere ted, it shall distinctly state that fact ; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and with-out collusion or fraud ; and that no member of the Com-mon Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau. Deputy thereof, or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con-sent, in writing, of two Isouseholders or freeholders of the City at New York, ton% their respective places of business or residence, to the effect that II the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance in the sum of one thousand dollars (ar,000); and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its

completion and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the con-tract may he awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contrast, over and above all his de'.ts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety, or otherwise ; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intent:on to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York before the award is made and prior to the signing of the contract.

No estimate will be considered unless accompamed by either a certified check upon one of the National Banks of the City of New York, drawn to Me order of the Comptroller, or money, to Me amount of fifty dollars ($5o). Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope containing the estimate. but must be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate-box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box until such check or money has been examined by said officer or clerk and found to be correct All such deposits, except that of the successful bidder, will be returnel to the persons making the same within three days after the contract is awarded. If the success-ful bidder shall refuse or neglect, within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him, to exe-cute the same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall Le forfeited to and retained by the City of New York as liquidated damages for such neglect or refusal ; but, if he shall execute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his deposit will be returned to him.

Should the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded neglect or refuse to accept the contract within five days after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or if he or they accept but do not execute the contract and give the proper security, he or they shall be considered as having at andoned it and as in default to the Corporation, and the contract will be readvertised and relet, as provided by law.

Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate, in addition to inserting the same in figures.

The form of the agreement and specifications, showing the manner of payment for the hose, may be seen and forms of proposals may be obtained at the office of the Department.

JOHN J. GORMAN, CORNELIUS VAN COTT, HENRY D. PURROY,

Commissioners.

TO CONTRACTORS.

SEALED PROPOSALS FOR FURNISHING THIS Department with new boiler to Steam Fire En-

gine No. 6, and making repairs to said engine, will be received by the Board of Commiss.oners at the head of the Fire Department, at the office of said De partment, Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street, in the City of New York, until io o'clock A. M., Wednesday, May 16, at which time and place they will he publicly opened by the head of said Department and read.

The boiler to be in all respects as to form and con-struction exactly similar to that now on Engine No. 3 of this Department, being M. R. Clapp's Circulating Tubular Boiler, patent of 1878.

The engine to be delivered at the Repair Shops of the Fire Department in complete working order, with a guarantee that the material and workmanship are of the best character, and to replace, at the expense of he con-tractor, such parts, if any, as may fail, if such failure is properly attributable to defective material or inferior workmanship. Said engine shall have a full and corn-

, plete trial of its working powers at New York, under the superintendence of a competent engineer.

For Information as to the amount and kind of work to be done and time of delivery, bidders are referred to the specifications which form part of these proposals.

The damages to be paid by the contractor for each day that the contract may be unfulfilled after the time speci-fied for the completion thereof shall have expired, are, by a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at twenty-five ($55) dollars per day.

No estimate will be received or considered after the hour named.

The award of the contract will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids.

Any person making an estimate for the work shall pre-sent the same in a sealed envelope, to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates.

The Fire Department reserves the right to decline any and all Lids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Cor-poration.

Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person he so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact ; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or frand ; and that no member of the Common Counsel, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corpora-tion, is directly or indirectly. interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con sent, in writing, of hoc householders or freeholders ofMe City of New York, with their restective places of business or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance, in the sum of eight hundred dollars (4800) ; and that if lie shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the con-tract may be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons sign-Mg the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as ball, surety, or otherwise ; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York before the award is made and prior to the signing of the contract.

No estimate will be considered unless accompanied by either a certified check upon one of eke National Banks of Me City of New York, drawn to the order of Me Comptroller, or money, to Me amount gf forty dollars 'Sao,. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope containing the estimate, but must

be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate-box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box until such checls or money has been examined by said officer or clerk, and found to be correct. All such deposits, except that of the suc-cessful bidder, will be returned to the persons making the same within three days after the contract is awarded. If the succcessful bidder shall refuse or neglect within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him to execute the same, the amount of the deposit matte by him shall be forfeited to and retained by the City of New York, as liquidated damages for such neglec or refusal ; but if he shall execute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his deposit will be re-turned to him.

Should the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded, neglect or refuse to accept the contract within five days after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or if he or they accept but do not execute the contract and give the proper security, he or they shall be considered as having aban-doned it and as in default to the Corporation, and the contract will be readvertised and relet, as provided by law.

Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate, in addition to inserting the same in figures.

The form of the agreement and specifications and showing the manner of payment for the work, may be seen and forms of proposals may be obtained at the office of the Department

JOHN J. GORMAN, CORNELIUS VAN COTT, HENRY D. PURROY,

Commissioners.

HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK,

155 AND 157 MERCER STREET, New YORK, September 23, z881.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Commissioners of this Department will

meet daily, at to o'clock A. M., for the transaction of business.

By order of

POLICE DEPARTMENT.

POLICE DEPARTMENT—CITY OF NEW YORK, OFFICE OF THE PROPERTY CLERK (Room No. 39),

No. 300 MULBERRY STREET, NEW YORK, April 30, 1883.

OWNERS WANTED BY THE PROPERTY Clerk of the Police Department of the City of New

York, No. Soo Mulberry street, Room No. 39, for the following property, now in his custody, without claim-ants : Boats, rope, iron, lead, male and female clothing, boots, shoes, wine, blankets, diamonds, canned goods, liquors, etc., also small amount money taken from prisoners and found by patrolmen of this Department.

JOHN F. HARRIOT, Property Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,

Roost 6, No. 31 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK, April az, z883.

TO CONTRACTORS.

BIDS OR ESTIMATES, INCLOSED IN A SEALED envelope, with the title of the work and the name

of the bidder indorsed thereon, also Me number of the work, as in advertisement, will be received at this office until -Tuesday, May 8, 1883, at ta o'clock, M., at which place and hour they will be publicly opened by the head of the Department, and read, for the follow-in : No.

g z. SEWERS in Ninth avenue, west side, between

Eighty:sixth and Ninety-second streets. No. 2. SEWER in Tenth avenue, east side, between

Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets. No. 3. SEWER in Washington street, between Vestry

and Desbrosses street. No. 4. SEWER in West Tenth street, between Green-

wich and Sixth avenues. No. 5. SEWER in One Hundred and Fourth street, be-

tween Eighth and Ninth avenues. No. 6. REGULATING AND GRADING One Hundred

and Fifty-sixth street, from Avenue St. Nich-olas to Eleventh avenue, and setting curb stones, and flagging sidewalks therein.

No. 7. PAVING Forty-third street, from Second to Third avenue, with granite block pavement, and laying crosswalks at the intersecting streets where required.

No. 8. PAVING One Hundred and Eleventh street, from First avenue to Avenue A, with granite block pavement. and lasing crosswalks at the intersectieg streets where required.

No. 9. PAVING One Hundred and Twenty-third street, from Second to Third avenue, with granite block pavement, and laying cro swalks at the intersecting streets where required.

No. to. PAVING One Hundred and Eleventh street, from Fourth to Madison avenue, with trap-block pavement, and laying crosswalks at the intersecting streets where required.

No. ix. LAYING WATER-MAINS in One Hundred and Forty-ninth, One Hundred and Forty-fifth, One Hundred and Sixty-third. One Hundred and Sixtieth, One Hundred and Sixth, and in Home streets, and in Robbins, Sedgwick, Railroad, Forrest, Lexington, and Madison avenues.

No. za. FURNISHING, DELIVERING, AND LAY- ING SIX-INCH AND FOUR-INCH PIPE TO SUPPLY WATER TO THE HOSPI- TALS ON NORTH BROTHERS ISLAND.

Each estimate must contain the name and place of resi-dence of the person making the same, the names of all persons interested with him therein, and if no other per-son be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact. That it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same work, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud. That no member of the Common Council, head of a department, chief of a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation is directly or indirectly interested in the estimate or in the work to which it re-lates or in the profits thereof.

Each estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party making the same. that the several matters therein stated are true, and must be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York to the effect that if the contract is awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, upon its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance ; and that if he shall refuse or neglect to execute the same, they will pay to the Corpora-tion any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled upon its completion, and that which the Cor-poration may be obliged to pay to the person to whom the contract shall be awarded at any subsequent letting; the amount to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested.

The consent last above mentioned must be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of theper-sons signing the same, that he is a householder or free-holder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of the con-tract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities as ball, surety, or otherwise,

and that he has offered himself as surety in good faith, with the intention to execute the bond required by law.

No estimate will be considered unless accompanied by either a certified check upon one of the national banks of the City of New York, drawn to the order of the Comp-troller, or money, to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the security required for the faithful perform-ance of the contract. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope containing the estimate, but must be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate-box, and no estimate can he deposited in said box until such check or money has been examined by said officer or clerk and found to be correct. All such deposits, except that of the successful bidder. will be returned to the per-sons making the same within three days after the contract is awarded. If the successful bidder shall neglect or refuse, within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him, to execute the same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall be forfeited to and be retained by the City of New York, as liquidated damages for such neglect or refusal ; but if lie shall ex-ecute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his deposit will he returned to him.

Blank forms of bid or estimate, the proper envelopes in which to inclose the same, the specifications and agree-ments, and any further information desired, can be ob-tained at the tollowing offices : Sewers, Room No. 8 ; regulating and grading, Room No. 5; paving, Rcom No. z, and laying Croton pipe, Room No. zo.

HUBERT 0. THOMPSON, Commissioner of Public Works.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. 31 CHAMBERS ST.,

NEW YORK, April so, 1883.

NOTICE OF SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION.

ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, x883, AT x t o'clock A. M., the Department of Public Works will sell at

public auction by Van Tassel and Kearney, Auctioneers, at the Corporation Yard, foot of Gansevoort street, North river, the following articles, viz :

12 Trucks. t Paper Stand. 2 Butcher Carts. z Cart. I Sleigh.

Wagons. 4 Iron Coal Buckets. I Retrigerat r. 3 Fruit St ads. 4 Stepping Stones. 6 barrels of Lime. 4 Pieces Galvanized Gutter Pipe. I Iron Boiler. 2 lots of old lumber. 3 " Packing Boxes. 9" Furniture. z Oyster Stand. 2 Hogsheads. I piece of old Iron.

Dirt Carts. I lot of Signs.

TERMS OF SALE.

Cash payments in bankable funds at the time and place of sale and the immediate removal of the articles pur-chased.

HUBERT 0. THOMPSON, Commissioner of Public Works.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, 36 UNION SQUARE,

NEw YORK, April 20, 1883.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the buildings, fences, etc., standing within the lines

of Webster avenue, as opened by the report of the Com-missioners appointed for that purpose and confirmed by the Supreme Court, November 24, 1882, will be sold at public auction, by Van Tassell & Kearney, Auctioneers, on Monday, the 7th day of May, 1883.

The sale will commence at to o'clock A. te, on the ground in front of the premises No. z on the catalogue, and situated at the Harlem Railroad and One Hundred and Sixty-fifth street.

For the terms of sale and further particulars, giving dimensions of the buildings, parts of buildings, etc., to be sold, see catalogue, which may be obtained at the office of the Department of Public Parks, and on the ground the day of the sale.

By order of the Department of Public Parks. E. P. BARKER,

Secretary.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, 36 UNION SQUARE,

NEW YORK, April r8, 1883.

BIDS OR ESTIMATES FOR EACH OF THE following works, to wit :

No. r. FOR CONSTRUCTING A SEWER AND APPURTENANCES in One Hundred and Forty-fourth street, between College avenue and One Hundred and Forty-third street.

No. 2. FOR CONSTRUCTING A SEWER AND APPURTENANCES in North Third avenue and Boston Road, between Brook avenue and One Hunched and Sixty-seventh street, with branch m North Third avenue, between One Hundred and Sixty-third and One Hundred and Sixty-fourth streets.

No. 3. FOR REGULATING AND GRADING Lincoln avenue, and also setting curbstones and flag-ging the sidewalks from the northern curb line of the Southern Boulevard to the eastern curb line of North Third avenue.

No. 4. FOR REGULATING AND GRADING Willis avenue, and also setting curb-stones, paving gutters, and flagging sidewalks therein, be-tween the Southern Boulevard and North Third avenue.

No. 5. FOR REGULATING AND GRADING Court-land avenue, and also setting curb and flagging therein, from North Third avenue to East One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street.

No. 6. FOR LAYING A CROSSWALK across the roadway. of Washington avenue at each of the intersections of East One Hundred and Sixty-sixth, East One Hundred and Sixty-seventh, East One Hundred and Sixty-eighth, East One Hundred and Sixty-ninth, East One Hundred and Seventy-second, East One Hundred and Seventy-third, and East One Hundred and Seventy-fifth streets, and across the roadway of each of the above-mentioned streets at its intersection with Washington avenue.

No. 7. FOR CONSTRUCTING A SEWER AND AP-PURTENANCES in One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, between Willis and Brook avenues. with a branch in Brown place, between One Hundred and 'Thirty-eighth and One Hundred and Thirty-seventh streets.

—will be received by the Department of Public Parks until ten o'clock A. m., on Wednesday, the ad day of May, 1883.

Special notice is given that the works must be bid for separately, that is, two or more works must nut be in-cluded in the same estimate or envelope.

The nature and extent of each of the several works, as -tear as it is possible to state them in advance. is as fol-lows :

NUMBER I, ABOVE MENTIONED.

54o linear feet of 12-inch Pipe Sewer, exclusive of spurs for hou e connections.

57 Spurs for house connections, over and above the cost per foot of Pipe Sewer.

7 Manholes complete. z,000 feet (B. M.) Lumber furnished and laid.

15 cubic yards of Concrete in place.

— HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK,

TO CONTRACTORS, 155 AND 157 MERCER STREET, NEw YORK, April z8, 1883.

JOHN J. GORMAN, President. CORNELIUS VAN COTE, HENRY D. PURROY,

CARL JUSSEN, Commissioners. Secretary


NUMBER 2, ABOVE MENTIONED.

175 linear feet of Brick Sewer, 3 feet by 2 feet a inches, egg shaped, exclusive of spurs for house connections.

862 linear feet of Brick Sewer, egg steeped, 2 feet 6 inches by 2o inches. exclusive of spurs for house connections.

284 linear feet of 18-inch Pipe Sewer, exclusive of spurs for house connections.

306 linear feet of es-inch Pipe Sewer, exclusive of spurs for house connections.

1,685 linear feet of 12-inch Pipe Sewer, exclusive cf spurs for house connections.

277 Spurs for house connections, over and above the cost per foot of Sewer.

36 Manholes complete. to Receiving-Basins complete.

3,coo cubic yards of Rock to be excavated and re-moved.

to,000 feet tB. M.) Lumber furnished and laid. 400 cubic yards of Concrete in place.


4,77700 cubic ye ds of Filling. 45o linear feet of new Curb-stone furnished and set. 675 linear feet of old Curb-stone reset.

4.550 square feet of new Flagging furnished and laid. 85o square feet of old Flagging relaid.

2,000 pounds of vitrified stoneware Sewer Pipe of any site furnished and laid.


16,000 cubic yards of Filling. 4.00o is yards of Excavation. eeeco lineal feet of new Curh-stone furnished and set. 3,000 lineal feet of old Curb-stone reset. 2,500 square yards of new Trap-block Pavement fur--

niched and 'aid. t5,000 square feet of new Flagging furnished and laid. 2,5oo square feet of old Flagging relaid. 2.500 pounds of Vitrified Stoneware, either in pipes or

other forms in place.


e000 cubic yards of Filling. 2,000 cu! is yards of Excavation. z,000 lined f. et of rfew Curb-stone furnished and set. 3,900 lineal feet of old Curb-stone reset. 5, co square feet of new Flagging furnished and laid.

z2,3co square feet of old Flagging relaid. 2,500 pounds of Vitrified Stoneware, either in pipes

or other forms, in place.


3,040 square feet of new Bridge-stone for crosswalks furnished and laid.


7,270 lineal feet of 12-inch Pipe Sewer, exclusive of spurs for house connections.

147 Spurs for house connections. I Re:eiving-Basin complete.

14 Manhsles complete. z.,5o cubic yards ef Rock to be excavated and re-

moved. 1,coo feet B. M.; Lumber furnished and laid.

to cubic yards of Concrete in place.

As the above-mentioned quantities. though stated with as much accuracy as is possible in advance, are approxi-mate only, bidders are required to submit their estimates upon the following express conditions, which shall apply to and become part of every e-timate received.

I. Bidders must satisfy themselves by personal examin-ation of the location of the proposed work, and by such other means as they may prefer, as to the accuracy of the foregoing statement, and shall not at any time after the submission of an estimate dispute or complain of such statement nor assert that there was any misunderstanding in regard to the depth of the excavation to be made or the nature or amount of the work to be done.

2. Bidders will be required to complete the entire work to the satisfaction of the Department of Public Parke, and in substantial accordance with the specifications for the work and the plans therein referred to. No extra compen-sation beyond the amount payable for the several classes of work before enumerated, which shall be actually per-formed at the prices therefor, to be specified by the lowest bidder, shall be due or payable for the entire work.

The person making any bid or estimate must furnish the same irclosed in a sealed envelope, to the head of said Department, at his office, on or before the clay and hour above mentioned

The envelope must be indorsed with the name or names of the person presenting the same, the date of its presenta-tion, and a statement of the work to which it relates..

The estimates received will be publicly opened by the head of the said Department at the place and hour last above mentioned and read.

Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact ; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and with-out collusion or traud ; and that no member of the Com-mon Council, head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof, or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any por-tion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con-sent in writing of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of busi-ness or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance ; and that if he shalt omit or refuse to execute the same, they will pay to the Cor-poration any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or per-sons to whom the contract may be awarded at any sub-sequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by Which the bids are tested. The consent above-mentioned shall be accom-panied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of the contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilinies as bail, surety, or otherwise ; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by section 27 of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordi-nances of the City of New York, if the contract shall be awarded to the person or persons for whom he consents to become surety. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York.

No bid or estimate will be considered unless accompa-nied by either a certified check upon one of the national banks of the City of New York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money, to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the security required for the faithful performance of the contract. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope containing the estimate, but must be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate Box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box until such check or money ha, been examined by said officer or clerk, and found to be correct. All such deposits, except that of the successful bidder, will I ,e returned to the persons making the same, within three days after the contract is awarded. If the successful bidder shall refuse or neglect, within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him, to execute the same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall be forfeited to and retained by the City of

refusal . • but if he shall execute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his deposit wilt be returned

New York as liquidated damages for such neglect or

to him. N. B.—Theprices must be written in the estimate, and

also stated in figures, and all estimates will be considered as informal which do not contain bids for all items for which bids are t erein called, or which contain bids for items for which bids are not he ewith called for. Permis. sion will not be given for the withdrawal of any bid or estimate. No bid will be accepted from, or contract awarded to any person who is in arrears to ;he Corpora-tion upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corpora-tion.

The amount in which security will be required for the performance of the several contracts is as follows :

For No. z, above-mentioned 6600 oo

" 2, 17,oco 00

3, 14 2,000 CO

,.4, 12,000 00

" 5, 44 3,000 00

" 6, 900 00 " 7, 4,000 00

The Department of Public Parks reserves the right to reject any or all the bids received in response to this ad-vertisement if it should deem it for the Interest of the c,ty so to do, and to re-advertise until satisfactory bids or pro-posals shall be received. But the contracts when awarded will in each case be awarded to the lowest bidder.

Blank forms for proposals and forms of the several contracts which the successful bidders will be required to execute, can be had at the office of the Secretary, and the plans can be seen and information relative to them can be had at the office of the Department, 36 Union Square.

EGBERT L. VIELE, SALEM H. WALES, JOHN D. CRIMMINS, WILLIAM M. OLLIFFE,

Commissioners cf the Department of Public Parks. E. P. BARKER,

Secretary.

CORPORATION NOTICE.

PPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all

houses and lot-, improved or unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following assessments have been completed and are lodged in the office of the Board of Assessors, for examination by all persons interested, viz.:

No. r. Sewer in Fortieth street, between Tenth avenue and Hudson river, with alterations and improvements to existing sewers.

No. 2. Extension of sewers in Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets at Hud on river, with alterations to existing sewers in Sewerage District No. 2.

No. 3. Regulating and grading One Hundred and Sev-enteenth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

No. 4. Sewer in One Hundred and Fifteenth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

No. 5. Paving Eighty-seventh street, between First avenue and Avenue A.

No. 6. Paving One Hundred and Second street, be-tween Third and Lexineton avenues.

No.. Paving One Hundred and Third street, between Second and Lexington avenues.

No. S. Paving One Hundred and Twelfth street, be-tween Fourth and Madison avenues.

No. 9. Paving Eighty-fourth street, between Eighth and Tenth avenues.

No. io. Paving intersection of Fourth avenue and One Hi ndred and Twelfth street.

No. it. Sewer in One Hundred and Sixteenth street, between Eighth and New avenues (between Eighth and Ninth avenues).

No. z2. Sewer in Ninety-second street, between First and Second avenues, from end of present sewer in First avenue.

No 13. Regulating, grading, setting curb and flagging One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, from Manhattan street to Boulevard.

No. 14. Regulating, grading, setting curb and flagging Eighty-second street, between Avenue A and Avenue B.

No. 15. Regulating, grading, curbing and flagging One Hundrei and Fifteenth street, from 'Tenth to Morning- side avenue.

No. zie. Regulating, grading, setting curb and flagging One Hundred and Twe:fth street, from Sixth to Seventh avenue.

No. 17. Curbing and flagging Eighty-seventh street, between Eighth and Tenth avenues.

No. 18, Flagging One Hundred and Nineteenth street, between Second and Third avenues.

No. 19. Fencing vacant lots on west side of Sixth ave-nue, between One Hundred and Twenty-second and One Hundred and Twenty-third streets ; south side of One Hundred and Twenty-third street and north side of Ore Hundred and Twenty-second street, 140 feet west of Sixth avenue.

No. zo. Fencing vacant lots both sides of Seventy-first street and Seventy-second street, between Eighth and Ninth avenues, and both sides of Eighth and Ninth ave-nues, between Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets.

No. 21. Paving One Hundred and Eighteenth street, from Third to Fourth avenue.

The limit embraced by such assessments includes all the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lots, pieces and parcels of land situated on—

No. i. Property situated between the north side of Thirty-third street and south side of Fifty-fourth street, and between Fifth avenue and Hudson river ; also prop-erty between north side of Fifty-fourth street and south side of Sixty-first street, from land including) east side of Seventh avenue to (and including) west side of Ninth avenue.

No. 2. Property situated between the north side of Thirty-third street and south side of Fifty-fourth street, and between Fifth avenue and Hudson river ; also prop-erty between north side of Fifty-fourth street and south side of Sixty-first street, from (and including) east side of Seventh avenue to and including, west side of Ninth avenue.

No. 3. Both sides of One Hundred and Seventeenth street, from Fifth to Sixth avenue.

No. 4. Both sides of One Hundred and Fifteenth street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.

No. 5. Both sides of Eighty-seventh street, between First avenue and Avenue A, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersection of said avenues.

No. 6. Both sides of One Hundred and Second street, from Third to Lexiugton avenue, and to the extent of half the block at the intersection of said avenues.

No. 7. Both sides of Oue Hundred and Third street, from Second to Lexington avenue, and to the extent of half the block at the in ersecting avenues.

No. 8. Both sides of One Hundred and Twelfth street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, and to the extent of half the block at the intersection of said avenues.

No. 9. Both sides of Eighty-fourth street, from Eighth to Tenth avenues, and to the extent of half the block at the intersecting avenues.

No. to. Both sides of One Hundred and Twelfth street, extending half way between Fourth and Madison avenues and Fourth and Lexington avenues ; also both sides of Fourth avenue to the extent of half the block be-tween One Hundred and Twelfth and One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Twelfth and One Hun-dred and Eleventh streets.

No. It. Both sides of One Hundred and Sixteenth street, between Eighth and New avenues ; also block hounded by One Hundred ani Fifteenth and One Hun-dred and Sixteenth streets, Eighth and New avenues, (between Eighth and Ninth avenues'.

No. 12. Block bounded by Ninety-first and Ninety-second streets, First and second avenues, and both sides of Ninety-second street, between First and Second ave-nues.

No. z3. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, from Manhattan street to Boulevard.

No. 14. Both sides of Eighty-second street, between Avenues A and B.

No. 15 Both sides of One Hundred and Fifteenth street, from Tenth to Memingside avenue.

No. ze. Both sides of One Hundred and Twelfth street, from Sixth to Seventh avenue.

No. 17. Both sides of Eighty-seventh street, between Eighth and Tenth avenues.

.No. t8. Both sides of One Hundred and Nineteenth street, between Second and 'Third avenues.

No, 19. West side of Sixth avenue, between One Hun-dred and Twenty-second and I Inc Hundred and Twenty-third streets, and north side of One Hundred and Twenty-second and south side of One Hundred and Twenty-third streets, extending 14o feet westerly from Sixth avenue.

No, ao. Both sides of Seventy-first and Seventy-second streets, between Eighth and Ninth avenues.

No. az. Both sides of One Hundred and Eighteenth street, between Third and Fourth avenues, and to the extent of half the block at the intersecting avenues.

All persons whose interests are affected by the above-named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, or either of them, are requested to present their objections in writing to the Board of Assessors, at their office, No. nee City Hall, within thirty days from the date of t his notice.

The above-described lists will be transmitted as pro-vided by law to the Board of Revision and Correction of Assessments for confirmation, on the 15th May ensuing.

j

OHN R. LYDECKER, OHN W. JACOBUS, OHN MULLALY,

HENRY A. GUMBLETON, Board of Assessors.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF ASSESSORS, No. ziee CITY HALL,

NEW YORK, April 13, 1883.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHAR-ITIES AND CORRECTION.

DEPARTMENT OF PUP'.IC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, No. 66 THIRD AVENUE.

TO CONTRACTORS.

PROPOSALS FOR FLOUR, GROCERIES, CROCKERY, HARDWARE, ETC.

SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES FOR FURNISH-ing

FLOUR.

2,000 barrels Flour, as per sample No. 1.

2,000 2. Empty barrels to be returned and price to be

deducted from bill.

GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.

4,000 pounds Dairy Butter, sample on exhibition on Thursday, May zo, 1883.

35,000 Fresh Eggs. 20,000 pounds Rice.

ro,000 " Coffee Sugar. 3,000 " Chicory.

2,500 Pepper. 2,c0o " Macaroni.

6 casks Prunes (Turku-h!. 3 bbls. Mustard.

200 lbs. Chocolate. 12 doz. Canned Plums (2 pounds), 20 " L. & P. Worcestershire Sauce, pints. 5o kits best No. z Mackerel, 20 lbs., net. 20 bags Rock Salt (Turk's Island), 2 bushels each. 20 bbls. P ck es, 4c, gallons, 2,0410 to the barrel. so " Syrup.

2,000 bushels Oats. 300 bags Coarse Meal. zoo bushels Beans. zoo bags Hominy Meal, zoo lbs. each. zoo bbls finest quality Charcoal, 3 bushels. 30o bbls. Irish Potatoes, good quality and size, to

weigh t68 lbs. net, per barrel. too barrels prime quality Carrots, 137 lbs. net per

too barrels prime me quality Turnips, 144 lbs. net per barrel.

5o barrels prime quality Onions, 144 lbs. net per barrel.

DRY GOODS. Sep Quilts. 600 doz. Men's Straw Hat's. too doz. Women's Straw Hats. too blue Flannel Blouses.

LIME AND PLASTER.

5o barrels first quality Whitewash Lime.

25 " Plaster.

CROCKERY.

3 gross Pitchers, 3-quart. " Feed Cups.

I " Spit Cups. 5 " Saucers.

—or any part thereof, will be received at the office of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, in the City of New York, until 9.3o o'clock A. Si.,f Friday, May t, 1883. The person or persons making any bid or estimate shall furnish the same in a sealed envel-ope, indorsed "Bid or Estimate for Groceries, Crock-ery, Dry Goods, etc.," and with his or their name or names, and the date of presentation, to the head of said Department, at the said office, on or before the day and hour above named, at which time and place the bids or estimates received will be publicly opened by the head of said Department, and read.

The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest, and to accept any bid or estimate as a whole, or for any one or more arti-cles included therein. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or a contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation.

The award of the Contract will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids.

Delivery will be required to be made from time to time, at such times and in such quantities as may be directed by the said Department.

Any bidder for this contract must be known to be en-gaged in and well prepared for the business, and must have satisfactory testimonials to that effect ; and the person or persons to whom the contract may be awardea will be required to give security for the performance or the contract by his or their bond, with two sufficient sure-ties, in the penal amount of fifty (5o) per cent. of the esti-mated amount of the contract.

Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person he so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; also that it is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for :he same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without coeusion or ;mud • and that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any por-tion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated there-in are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con-sent, in writingf two householders or freeholders in the

Y City of New York, with their respective paces of busi-ness or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on

Its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for it faithful performance ; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they shall pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persoes signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety, or otherwise : and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by section 27 of Chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of New York, if the contract shall be awarded to the person or persons for whom he consents to become surety. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New 'fork.

No bid or estimate will be considered unless accom-panied by either a certified check upon one of the national banks of the City of New York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money, to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the security requited for the faithful performance of the contract. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the sealed envelope con-taining the estimates, but must be handed to the o.ficer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Estimate-box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box ttntil such check or money has been examined by said officer or clerk and found to be correct. All such deposits. except that of the successful bidder, will be returned to the persons making the same within three days after the contract is awarded. if the successful bidder shall refuse or neglect, within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him, to execute the same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall be forfeited to and retained by the City of New York as liquidated damages for such neglect or refusal ; but, if he shall exe-cute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his deposit will be returned to him.

Should the person orpersons to whom the contract may be awarded neglect or refuse to accept the contract within five days after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or if he or they accept, but do not execute the contract and give the proper security, he or they shall be considered as having abandoned it, and as in default to the Corporation ; and the contract will he readvertised and relet as provided by law.

The quality of theariicles, supplies, goods, wares, and merchandise must conform in every respect to the samples alike same respectively at the office of the said Depart. meet. Bidders are cautioned to examine the spedfica-tions far particulars of Me articles, etc., required, before making their estimates.

Bidders will sate the prices for each article, by which the bids will be tested.

Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures.

Payment will be made by a requisition on the Lump-troller, issued on the completion of the contract or from time to time, as the Commissioners may de'ermine.

Bidders are informed that no deviation from the speci-fications will be allowed, unless under the written instruc-tion of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction.

The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment, can be obtained at the office of the Department.

Dated New York, April 27, 1883.

HENRY H. PORTER. THOMAS S. BRENNAN, JACOB HESS,

Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction.

DEPARTMENT OP PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, I No. 66 THIRD AVENUE.

TO CONTRACTORS.

PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES.

ESTIMATES FOR THE FOLLOWING-NAMED Work, viz. :

FOR THE PLUMBING WORK AND MATERIALS FOR PAVILION AT' ALMSHOUSE NOW IN COURSE OF ERECTION ON BLACKWELL'S ISLAND,

will be received by the Board of Commi-sioners at the head of the Department of Public Charities and Correc-tion, at the office of said Department, No. 66 Third avenue, in the City of New York, until 9.3o o'clock A.m.. of Frit ay, May 4, 1883, at which place and time the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contract, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids.

Any person making an estimate for the work shall fur-nish the same in a sealed envelope to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates.

The amount of security required is Thirteen Hundred ;11,300) dollars.

For information as to the amount and kind of work to be done, bidders are referred to the specifications, which are annexed to and form part of these proposals, and the plans, which can be seen at the office of said Department.

The work to be completed within 40 working days from the date of the commencement thereof.

The damages to be paid by the contractor for each day that the contract may be unfulfilled after the time speci-fied in the contract for the completion thereof shall have expired, are, by a clause in the contract, fixed and liqui-dated at twenty dollars per day.

Should the person or persons to whom the contract is awarded neglect or refuse to accept the contract for five days after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or estimate, or if after acceptance, he or they should refuse or neglect to execute the contract and give proper security, for five days after notice that the contract is ready for execution, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it and the contract will be readvertised and relet, and so on, until it be accepted and executed.

The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or esti-mates if deemed to be for the public interest. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation.

Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact ; that it is made without any connection with any other person making an esti-mate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud ; and that no member of the Common Council, head of a department, chief of a bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation. is directly or indirectly interested therein, or m the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested.

Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the con-sent in writing of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of busi-ness or residence, to the effect that if the contract be

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awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance ; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the C rpora-tion may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accom-panied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities as bail, surety, or otherwise ; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City. of New York, after the award is made, and prior to the signing of the contract.

Bidders will state the price for doing either of the works, by which the bids will be tested.

Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures.

No bid or estimate will be cons tiered unless ac-companied by either a certified check upon one of the national banks of the City of New York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the security required for the faithful performance of the contract. Such check or money must not be inclosed in the se led envelope containing the estimates, but must be handed to the officer or clerk of the Department who has charge of the Fstimate.box, and no estimate can be deposited in said box until such check or money has been examined by said officer or clerk and found to be correct. All such deposits, except that of the successful bidder, will be returned to the persons making the same within three days after the contract is awarded. If the successful bidder shall refuse or neglect, within five days after notice that the contract has been awarded to him, to execute the. same, the amount of the deposit made by him shall be for-feited to and retained by the City of New York as liqui-dated damages for such neglect or refusal ; but, if he shall execute the contract within the time aforesaid, the amount of his depo it will be returned to him.

Payment will be made by a requisition on the Comp-troller, issued in the manner specified in the contract.

Bidders are informed that no deviation from the speci-fications will be allowed, unless under the written instrer-tion of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correc-tion.

The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the work, will be furnished at the office of the 1)epartment.

Dated, New York, April 20, 1883.

HENRY H. PORTER, THOMAS S. BRENNAN, JACOB HESS,

Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction.

BOARD OF EDUCATION.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY the School Trustees of the Nineteenth Ward, at

the Hall of the Board of Education, corner of Grand and Elm streets, until Monday, the 14th day of May, 5883, and until 4 o'clock e. hi. on said day, for the erection of a New School-house on the southeast corner of Lexington avenue and Sixty-eighth street.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and blanks for proposals and all necessary information may be obtained at the office of the Superintendent of School Buildings, No. 146 Grand, corner of Elm street, third floor.

Proposals ve,11 be received only for the entire work and materials required for the erection of the building, and must be indorsed " Proposals for the Erection of a School-house on Lexington avenue, in the Nineteenth Ward."

The Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all of the proposals submitted.

The party submitting a proposal, and the parties pro-posing to become sureties, must each write his name and place of residence on said proposal.

Two responsible and approved sureties, residents of this city, are required in all cases.

No proposal will be considered from persons whose character and antecedent dealings with the Board of Education render their responsibility doubtful.

CHARLES L. HOLT, ISAAC P. CHAMBERS, JOSEPH KOCH. ABRAHAM DOWDNEIT, C. E. SIMMONS, M. D.,

Board of School Trustees, Nineteenth Ward. Dated New YORE, April 30, 1883.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED by the School Trustees of the Tenth Ward, at the

Hall of the Board of Education, corner of Grand and Elm streets, until Monday, the 7th day of May, 1883, and until o'clock A. si. on said day, for alterations, etc.., at Grammar School-house No. so, on Chrystie street, near Delancey street.

Sealed proposals will also be received at the same place and time for new steam heating apparatus for said school-house.

Plans and specifications may be seen, and blanks for proposals, and all necessary information may be obtained at the offices of the Superintendent of School Buildings, and of the Engineer, No. 146 Grand, corner of Elm street.




No proposal will be considered from persons whose character and antecedent dealings with the Board of Education render their responsibility doubtful.

HENRY R. RO9ME, JOHN C. CLEGG, JOSEPH BELLOWS. GEORGE HEY, PATRICK CARROLL.

Board of School Trustees, Tenth Ward. Dated New YORK, April 23d, 1883.

QEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED ts..7 by the School Trustees of the Sixteenth Ward, at the Hall of the Board of Education, corner of Grand and Elm streets, until Thursday, the 3d day of May, 1883, and until 4 o'clock is M. on said day, for erecting two stair-ways to Grammar School House No. xi, on West Seven-teenth street, near Eighth avenue.

Plans and specifications may be seen. and blanks for proposals and all necessary information may be obtained at the office of the Superintendent of School Bull lungs, No. x46 Grand, corner of Elm street. third floor.




No proposal will be considered from persons whose sharacter and antecedent dealings with the Board of Education render their responsibility doubtful.

JAMES HARRISON, G. W. VAN S1CLEN, PETER MACDONALD, JOSEPH ROGERS, JAMES M. EDGAR.

Board of School Trustees, Sixteenth Ward. Dated New Yong, April t8, 5. 83.

DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS.

DEPARTMI • I OF 'FAXES AND ASSPSSMENTS, S IAA "2 ZIEI UNG BUIL DING, 711

NEW Vora/January 8, 1883.

TN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 9, CHAPTER .I. 302, Laws of 1859, it is hereby advertised that the books of " The Annual Record of the Assessed Valuations of Real and Personal Estate " of the City and County of New York, for the year 1883, are now open for examina-tion and correction from the second Monday of January, 1883, until the first day of May, 1883.

All persons believing themselves aggrieved must make application to the Commissioners of 'Taxes and Assess-ments, at this office, during the period said books are open, in order to obtain the relief provided by law.

Applications for correction of assessed valuations on personal estate must be made by the person assessed, to the said Commissioners, between the hours of IO A. M and a P. 5t. at this office during the same period.

THOMAS B. ASTEN. GEORGE B. VANDERPOEL, EDWARD C. DONNELLY,

Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments.

SUPREME COURT.

In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works for and in behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, from the Boulevard to Tenth avenue, in the City of New York.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-en-

titled matter, hereby give notice to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots and im-proved or unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit :

First. That we have completed our estimate and as-sessment, and that all persons interested in these pro-ceed ngs, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same. do present their objec-tions in writing, duly verified, to us at our office, No. 73 William street (3d floor), in the sa d city, on or before the second day of June, 1883, and that we, the said Commis-sioners, will hear parties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said second day of June, 1883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at a o'clock P. M.

Second. That the abstract of the said estimate and as-sessment, together with our maps, and also all the affi-davits, estimates and other documents which were used by us in making our report, have been deposited in the office of the Department of Puldic Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the 8th day of June, 1883.

Third That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New York, which taken together are bounded and described as follows, : Commencing at a point in the easterly side of the Boulevard, distant 99 feet and ix inches southerly from a point formed by the intersection of the easterly side of the Boulevard with the southerly side of One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street ; runniness thence easterly and parallel with One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, and along a line distant 99 feet and xi inches from One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street to the westerly side of Tenth avenue ; thence northerly along the westerly side of Tenth avenue and across One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street to a point in the west-erly side of Tenth avenue, distant 99 feet it inches northerly from a point formed by the intersection or the westerly side of Tenth avenue with the northerly side of One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street ; thence westerly and parallel with One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and along the cenne line of' the blocks between One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and One Hundred and Thirty-ninth street to the easterly side of the Boule-vard, thence southerly along the easterly side of the Boulevard and across One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street to the point or place of beginning, excepting there-from all the lands embraced within the streets and ave-nues within said area.

Fourth. That our report herein will be pres nted to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a spe-cial term thereof, to be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on Friday, the rsth day of tune, :883, at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated New York, April as, 5883. ELLIO r SANDFORD, THOMAS McSPEDON, CHARLES W. WELSH,

Commissioners. ARTHUR BERRY, Clerk.

In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, from Tenth avenue to Avenue St. Nicholas, in the City of New York.

MOURSUANT TO THE STATUTES IN SUCH 1 cases made and provided, the Department of Public Works, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, hereby gives notice that the Counsel to the Corporation will apply to the Supreme Court in the First Judicial District of the State of New York, at a Special Term thereof, to be held in the Chambers of said Court, at the County Court-house, in the City of New York, on Friday, the eighteenth day of May, a. D. 1883, at 10.3o o'clock In the forenoon of that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, for the appointment of a Commissioner of Estimate and Assessment in the above proceeding, in the place and stead of James Graydon Johnston, resigned.

Dated New York, April 24, 5883. GEORGE P. ANDREWS,

Counsel to the Corporation, Tryon Row, New York.

In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works for and in behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of theCity of New York. rel-ative to the opening of One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, from Eighth avenue to Avenue St. Nicholas, in the City of New York.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled

matter, hereby give notice to the owner or owners, occu-pant or occupants, of all houses and lots and improved or unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit :

First. That we have completed our estimate and assessment, and that all persons interested in these pro-ceedings, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their objec-tions in writing, duly verified. to us, at our office, No. 73 William street ;3c1 floor,, in the said city, on or be-fore the eighteenth day of May, 1883, and that we, the said Commissioners, will hear parties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said eighteenth day of May, 1883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at a o'clock, P. si.

Second. That the abstract of the said estimate and assessment, together with our maps, and also all the affidavits, estimates and other documents which were

used by us in making our report. have been deposited in the office of the Department of Public Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the twenty-ninth day of May, 5883

Third. That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying cod being northerly and southerly of One Hundred •ind Thirty-fourth street, and bounded westerly by the easterly side of Avenue St. Nicholas, southerly by the centre line of the block be-tween One Hundred and Thirty-third street and One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, easterly by the west-erly side of Eighth avenue, and northerly by the centre line of the block between One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street.

Fourth. That our report herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a special term thereoCto be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 8th day of June, 1883, at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated New York, April so, 1883. PATRICK DALY, JOHN CARLIN, NEVIN W. BUTLER,


In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works, for and in behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Comm malty of the City of New York, rela-tive to the opening of One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, from Eighth avenue to New avenue, west of Eighth avenue, in the City of New York.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-en-

titled matter, hereby give notice to the owner or own ers, occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots end im-proved or unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit :

First. That we have completed our estimate and assess-ment, and th t all persons interested in these proceedings, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their objections in writing, duly venue I, to us, at our office, No. 73 William street (3d floor), in the said city, on or before the 58th day of May, 1883, and that we, the said Commis-sionsrs, will hear parties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said t8th day of May, r883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at a P. M.

Second. That the abstract of the said estimate and assessment, together with our maps, and also all the affi-davits, estimates and other documents which were used by us in making our report, have been deposited in the office of the Department of Public Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the twenty-ninth day of May, 1883.

Third. That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lets, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being northerly and southerly of One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, and bounded westerly by the easterly sides of New avenue and Avenue St. Nicholas, southerly by the centre line of the block between One Hundred and 1 hirty-fourth street and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, easterly by the westerly side of Eighth avenue, and northerly by the centre line of the block between One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street.

Fourth. That our report herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a special term thereof, to be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the ei_shth day of June, 5883. at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a mo ion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated New York, April to, 5883. PATRICK DALY, JOHN CARLIN, NEVIN W. BUTLER,


In the matter of the application of the Department of Publ c Works for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, rela-tive to the open ng of One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, between Eighth avenue and Avenue St. Nicholas, in the City of New York.

\ AT E, THE UNDERSIGNED. COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled


First—That we have completed our estimate and as. sessment, and that all persons interested in these pro-ceedings, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their ob-jections in writing, duly verified, to us, at our office, No. 73 William street (third floor), in the said city, on or before the 16th day of May, 1883, and that we, the said Commissioners, will hear parties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said '6th day of May, 1883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at two o'clock e. M.

Second.—That the abstract of the said estimate and assessment, together with our maps, and also all the affi-davits, estimates and other documents which were used by us in making our report, have been deposited in the office of the Department of Public Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the 23d day of May, 1883.

Third.—That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New York, which taken together are bounded and described as follows, viz. : commencing at a point in the easterly side of Avenue St. Nicholas, distant one hun-dred and one feet and one-fourth of an inch southerly from a point formed by the intersection of the southerly side of Ore Hundred and Twenty-eighth street with the easterly side of Avenue St. Nicholas ; running thence east-erly and parallel with (Joe Hundred and Twenty-eighth street and along the centre line of the block between One Hunared and Twenty-seventh street and One Hundred and Twenty eighth street to the westerly side of Eighth avenue ; thence northerly along the westerly side of Eighth avenue, and across One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street to a point in the westerly side of Eighth avenue. distant ninety-nine feet and eleven inches north-erly from a point formed by the intersection of the northerly side of One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street with the westerly side of Eighth avenue ; running thence westerly and parallel with One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street, and along the centre line of the block between One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street and One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, to the east-erly side of Avenue St. Nicholas ; thence southerly and along the easterly side of Avenue St. Nicholas; and across One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street to the point or place of beginning.

Fourth.—That our report herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a Specie. Term thereof, to be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the sit day of June, 1883, at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated New York, April 7, 1883. GEORGE W. McLEAN, DE WITT C. GRAHAM, CHARLES W. WEST,


In the matter of the application of the Department of Pubic Works for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, between Avenue St. Nicholas and Tenth avenue, in the City of New York.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled

matter, hereby give notice to the owner or owners, occu-pant or occupants, of all houses and lots and improved or unimproved lands affected thereey, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit :

First.—That we have completed our estimate and assessment, and that all persons interested in these pro ceedings, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their objections in wriang, duly verified, to us. at our office, No. 73 William street, third floor, in the sand city, on or before the 16th day of May, 1883, and that we, the said Commissioners, will hear parties so objecting with-in the ten week-days next after the said reth day of May, 1883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at a o'clock P. M.

Second.—That the abstract of the said estimate and assessment, together with our maps, and also all the affidavits, estimates end other documents wh ch were used by us in making our report, have been deposited in the office of the Department of Public Works, in the City of New York, there to remain until the 23d day of May. 1883.

Third —That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New York, which taken togulier are bounded and described as follows, viz. : Commencing at a point in the easterly side of Tenth avenue, distant southerly 99 feet and ix inches from a point formed by the intersection of the southe ly side of One Hundred and Fifty-fourta street with the easterly side of Tenth avenue ; running thence easterly and parallel with One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street along the centre line of the block between One Hun-dred and Fily-third street and One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, to the westerly side of Avertle St. Nicholas ; thence northerly along the westerly side of Avenue St. Nicholas, and across One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, to a point in the westerly side of Avenue St. Nicholas, distant 1o2 feet and of inches northerly from a point iormed by the intersection of the northerly side of One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street with the wester-erly side of Avenue St. Nicholas ; running thence west-erly and parallel with One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street, and along the centre line of the block between Otte Hundred and Fifty-fourth street and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street to the easterly side of Tenth ave-nue; thence southerly and along the easterly side of Tenth avenue, and across One Hundred and Fifty-fourth street to the point or place of beginning.

Fourth.—That our report herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a spe-cial term thereat, to he held in the County Court-house at the City Hall in the City of New fork, on the rst day o June, 1883. at the opening of the Co-irt on that day, and that then an 1 there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated, New YORK, April 7, 5883.

CHARLES A. STODDARD, BERNARD CASSERLY, JAMES GRAYDON JOHNSTON,


In the matter of the application of the Mayor, Alder-men, and Commonalty of the City of New York, rela-tive to the opening of Beekman place, between Forty-ninth street and Fifty-first street in fhe City of New York.

PURSUANT TO THE STATUTES IN SUCH cases made and provided, notice is hereby given that

an application will be made to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a Special Term of said Court, to be held at the Chambers thereof, in the C ninty Court-house, in the City of New York, on Friday, the fourth day of May, 1883, at the opening of the Court on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard there-on, for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled matter. The nature and extent of the improvement hereby intended is the acquisition of title, in the name and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, to all the lands and premises, with the buildings thereon and the appurtenances thereto belonging, re-quired for the opening of Beekman place. between Forty-ninth street and Fifty-first street, in the City of New York, being the following described lots, pieces or par-cels of land, viz. :

Beginning at a point in the northerly line of Forty-ninth street distant three hundred and fifty (330') feet easterly from the easterly line of First avenue; thence northerly and parallel to First avenue two hundred feet ten inches 200' to") to the southerly line of Fiftieth street ; thence easterly along said south-erly line of Fiftieth street fifty (se'. feet ; thence south-erly and parallel with First avenue two hundred feet ten inches '230' 10") to the northerly line of Forty-ninth street, and thence westerly along said northerly line of Forty-ninth street fifty (so', feet to the point or place of beginning.

Also beginning at a point in the northerly line of Fif-tieth street, distant three hundred and fifty (350') feet easterly from the easterly line of First avenue ; thence northerly and parallel to First avenue two hundred feet ten inches (200. no ; to the southerly line of Fifty-first street ; thence easterly along said southerly line of Fifty-first street fifty (so') feet ; thence southerly and parallel to First avenue two hundred feet ten inches (200' 10") to the northerly line of Fiftieth street, and thence westerly along said northerly line of Fiftieth street fifty so') feet to the point or place of beginning.

Said street to be fifty (so') feet wide between the east-erly and westerly lines there if, from the northerly line of Forty-ninth street to the southerly line' of Fifty-first street.

Dated, New YORK, April 5, x883.

GEORGE P. ANDREWS, Counsel to the Corporation,

Tryon Row, New York.

In the matter of the Application of the Department of Public Works for and m behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Third street, from Eighth avenue to Riverside avenue, in the City of New York.

E, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in theabove-entitled

matter, hereby give notice to the owner or owners, occupant or occupants, of all houses and lots and im-proved or unimproved lands affected thereby, and to all others whom it may concern, to wit. :

First.—That we have completed our estimate and as-sessmen., and that all persons interested in these pro-ceedings, or in any of the lands attested thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their ob-jections in writing, duly verified, to us, at our office, No 73 William street, third floor, in the sail city, on or before the eleventh day of May, 1883. and that we, the said Commissioners, will hear parties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said el eventh day of May, 5883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at two o'clock P. M.

Second.—That the ab tract cf the said estimate and assessment, together with our map., and also all the affi-davits, estimates and other documents which were used by its in making our report, have been deposited in the


office oldie Department of Public Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the eighteenth day of May. z883.

Third.-That the limits emb aced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pieces or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New York, which, taken together, are bounded and described as follows, viz.: Commencing at a point in the westerly side of Eighth avenue, distant ion feet and ix inches southerly from a point formed by the intersection of the southerly side of One Hundred and Third street with the westerly side of Eighth avenue ; running thence westerly and parallel with One Hundred and Third street, and along the centre line of the blocks between One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Third streets, to the easterly side of Riverside avenue ; thence northerly along the easterly side of Riverside avenue and across One Hundred and Third street to apoint in the easterly side of Riverside avenue, distant zoo feet and zi inches northerly from a point formed by the intersection of the northerly side of One Hundred and Third street with the easterly side of Riverside avenue ; thence east-erly along the centre line of the blocks between One Hundred and Third and One Hundred and Fourth streets, and parallel to One Hundred and Third street to the westerly side of Eighth avenue ; thence southerly along the westerly side of Eighth avenue, and across One Hundred and Third street to the point or place of beginning ; excepting there rom all the lands embraced within the streets and avenues within said area.

Fourth.-That our repeal herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a special term thereof, to be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on Thursday, the 3ist day of May, 1883, at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a motion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated, NEW YORK, April 4, 1883.

PATRICK DALY, GEORGE W. McLEAN, NEVIN W. BUTLER,

Commissioners. ARTHUR BERRY. Clerk.

In the matter of the Application of the Department of Public Works, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, between Avenue St. Nicholas and Tenth avenue.

PURSUANT TO THE STATUTES IN SUCH cases made and provided, nonce is hereby given

that an application will be made to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a Special Term of said court, to be held at the Chambers thereof, in the County Court-house, in the City of New York, on Friday. the 4th day of May, 1883, at the opening of the court on that day, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, for the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment in the above entitled matter. The nature and extent of the improvement hereby intended is the acqui-sition of title, in the name and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, to all the lands and premises, with the buildings thereon, and the appurtenances thereto belongine, required for the opening of One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, be-tween Avenue St. Nicholas and Tenth avenue, in the City of New York, being the following described lots, pieces or parcels of land, viz.:

Beginning at a point in the easterly line of Tenth ave-nue, distant one hundred and ninety-nine feet ten inches ;199' to") northerly from the northerly line of One Hun-dred and Forty-filth street ; thence can erly and parallel with One Hundred and Forty-fifth street eight hundred (Boo') feet to the westerly line of Avenue St. Nicholas ; thence northerly along said line sixty 6o' feet ; thence westerly eight hundred Boo') feet to the easterly line of Tenth avenue, and thence southerly along said line sixty (60') feet to the point or place of beginning.

Said street to be sixty (6e) feet wide between Tenth avenue and Avenue St. Nicholas.

Dated, New York, April 5, 1883. GEORGE P. ANDREWS,

Counsel to the Corporation, Tryon Row, New York City.

In the matter of the Application of the Department of Public Works for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder-men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Fourteenth street from Fourth avenue to Eighth avenue, in the City of New York.

AvE, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSIONERS of Estimate and Assessment in the above-entitled


First.-That we have completed our estimate and as-sessment, and that all persons interested in these pro-ceedings, or in any of the lands affected thereby, and who may be opposed to the same, do present their objections n writing, duly verified,to us at our office No. 73 William street, 3d floor, in the said city, on or before the 11th day of May, 1883, and that we, the said Commissioners, will hearrties so objecting within the ten week-days next after the said izth day of May, 1883, and for that purpose will be in attendance at our said office on each of said ten days, at a o'clock P.M.

Second.-That the abstract of the said estimate and assessment, together with our nips, and also all the affidavits, estimates, and other documents, which were used by us in making our report, have been deposited in the office of the Department of Public Works in the City of New York, there to remain until the 18th day of May, 1883.

Third-That the limits embraced by the assessment aforesaid are as follows, to wit : All those lots, pie, _s or parcels of land, situate, lying and being in the City of New York, which taken together are bounded and de-scribed as follows, viz : Beginning at a point in the easterly side of Eighth avenue, distant zoo feet and xi inches southerly from a point formed by the intersection of the southerly side of One Hundred and Fourteenth street with the easterly side of Eighth avenue, and running thence easterly along the cent, r line of the blocks between One Hundred and Thirteenth street and One Hundred and Fourteenth street, and par.. lel with One Hundred and Fourteenth street to the westerly side of Fourth avenue ; thence northerly along the westerly side of Fourth avenue and across One Hundred and Fourteenth street to a point too feet and 1x inches north-erly from a point formed by the intersection of the northerly side of One Hundred and Fourteenth street with the westerly side of Fourth avenue, running thence westerly along the center line of the blocks between One Hundred and Fourteenth street and One Hundred and Fifteenth street and parallel to One Hundred and Fourteenth street, to the easterly side of Eighth avenue ; thence southerly along the easterly side of Eighth avenue and across One Hundred and Fourteenth street to the point or place of beginning, excepting therefrom that portion of the above-described premises which is con-tamed within the lines of the streets and avenues laid out through the same.

Fourth.-That our report herein will be presented to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, at a special term thereof, to be held in the County Court-house at the City Hall in the City of New York, on Thursday, the 3ist day of May, 1883, at the opening of the Court on that day, and that then and there, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon, a mo-tion will be made that the said report be confirmed.

Dated New YORK, April 4, 1883. GEORGE W. McLEAN, jOHN WHALEN. JOHN T. BOYD,


THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

SEALED PROPOSALS FOR THE ERECTION on Twenty-third street of a Laboratory Building

and Workshop. connected with the College of the City of New York, will be received at the Hall of the Board of Education, corner Grand and Elm streets, up to Thurs-day, May TO, at 4 o'clock P. M.

Plans and specifications may be seen and all necessary information obtained at office of W. Wheeler Smith, Architect, No. 7 Wall street.

The Trustees of the College reserve the right to reject any or all proposals submitted if deemed for public interests.

The party submitting any proposal and the parties pro-posing to become sureties must each write his name and place of residence on said proposal.

Two responsible and approved sureties, residents of this city, will be required.

WM. WOOD, FERDINAND TRAUD, ALEX. S. WEBB, GILBERT H. CRAWFORD,

Sub-Committee on Laboratory. Proposals to be addressed to

L. D. KIERNAN, Secretary of Board of Trustees.

THE CITY RECORD.

C OF THE CITY RECORD CAN BE •••-• obtained at No. a City Hall (northwest corner, basement]. Price three cents each.

FINANCE DEPARTMENT.

D. M. SEAMAN, AUCTIONEER.

SALE OF JAMES SLIP AND HOUSTON STREET FERRIES.

-r EASES OF THE FERRIES BETWEEN J AMES .Lf Slip, East river, in the City of New York, and Hunter's Point, Long Island Lefty, and of Houston street, Last river, and Grand street, Brooklyn, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidders, at the Comptroller's office, at to o'clock noon, on Tuesday, May x5, t883, under resolutions of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, adopted April 25, t883, as provided by chapter 498, Laws of 1880.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

The franchise of the ferry between James Slip, East river, and Hunter's Point, Long Island City, will Le offered for sale at the time and place above mentioned, along with the wharf property belonging to the City of New York at said slip, required and used for ferry pur-poses, for the term of ten years from May 1, 1883, at a minimum yearly rent or upset price of $4,600, payable quarterly, the lease to contain a condition that the lessee shall repair the bulkhead and landing at James Slip at his own expense and at an expenditure of not less than Sio,coo during the present year.

The franchise of the ferry between Houston street, East river, and Grand street, in the City of Brooklyn, will also be offered fur sale at the same time and place for the term of five years from May t. 1883, at a minimum yearly rent or upset price of $4,000 per annum.

The rates of ferriage of the said ferries stall not exceed those heretofore and now charged during the terms of said leases, which shall contain all such covenants and conditions as are required by law and ordinances of the Common Council and are prescribed by resolutions of the Sinking Fund. relative to the leasing of ferries and wharf property, upon a form of lease prepared by the Counsel to the Corporation, and filed in the Comptroller's office ; provided that sworn returns of the receipts and expenses of the ferry shall be made by the lessee to the Comptroller when required by him, and that the books of accounts shall be subject to his examination.

The highest bidders will be required to pay the auc-tioneer's fees and deposit with the Comptroller at the time of sale the sum of 81,250 on each, which sums shall apply to the rent first falling due, if the leases are executed, and shall be forfeited to the City if the purchasers shall fail or refuse to execute the leases when notified a id required by the Comptroller ; provided, also, that satisfactory security shall be furnished for the faithful performance of the covenants thereof.

The right to reject any bid is reserved, if deemed for the interests of the City.

ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller.

YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMEN I', May z, 5883.

D. M. SEAMAN, AUCTIONEER.

S +LE OF STATEN ISLAND FERRY.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY-OWNERS.

-rN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER .1. 33 of the Laws of r881, the Comptroller of the City of New York hereby gives public notice to property-owners that the assessment list for the opening of Seventy-fourth street, from Eighth avenue to Hudson river, confirmed by the Supreme Court, on the 27th day of September, 1882, and entered on the aoth day of April, 5883, in the Record of Titles of Assessments kept in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents.

Section 5 of the said act provides that, " If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said record of titles of assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer au-thorized to collect and receive the amount of such assess-ment, to charge, collect, and receive legal interest there-on at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the date of such entry to the date of pay-ment."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents," from g a. M. until 2 P. M., and all payments made thereon, on or before June 25, 1883, will be exempt from interest as above provided, and after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry io the Record of Titles of Assessments in said Bureau.


CITY OF NEW YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT,

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, March 8, 1883.


IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER 33 of the Laws of 1881, the Comptroller of the City

of New York hereby gives public nonce to property-owners that the following lists of assessments for local improvements in said city were confirmed by the " Board of Recision and Correction of Assessments," on the 3d day of March, i881, and, on the same date, were entered in the Record of Title; of Assessments kept in the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents," viz. :

Eighth avenue regulating, grading, etc., from One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street to Harlem river.

One Hundred and Second street regulating, grading, etc., from Fifth avenue to Harlem river.

One Hundred and Third street regulating, grading, etc., from First to Fifth avenue, etc.

Section 5 of the said act provides that, If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said Record of Titles of Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to collect and receive the amount of such assessment, to charge, collect and receive legal interest thereon, at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be cal mlated fi out the date of such entry to the date of paym nt."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents," from 9 A. se until a P. M., and all payments made thereon, on or before May 7, 1883, will be exempt from interest as above provided, and after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry in the Record of Titles of Assessments in said Bureau.

ALLAN CAMPBELL, :omptroller.


COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, April 5, 5883. J


TN PURSUANCE OF SEC PION 4 OF CHAPTER 1 33 of the Laws of x881, the Comptroller of the City of New York hereby gives public notice to property owners that the assessment lists for the opening of One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, from First to Second avenue, and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, from Eighth to St. Nicholas avenue, were confirmed by the Supreme Court on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1883, and entered on the third day of April, t883, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in the Bureau for the Col-lection of Assessments, aed of Arrears of Taxes and Assesrments, and of Water Rents.

Section 5 of the said act provides that, " if any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry tnereof in the said record of titles of assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer au-thorized to collect and receive the amonnt of such assess-ment, to charge, collect, and receive legal interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calcu-lated from the date of such entry to the date of payment."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," from 9 A. M. until a P. M., and all payments made thereon, on or before June 4, 083, will be exempt from interest as above pro-vided, and after that data will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry in the record of titles of assessments in said Bureau.



COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, March 26, z883.


I N PURSUANCE OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER I. 33 of the Laws of z882, the Comptroller of the City of New York hereby gives public notice to property-owners that the assessment list for the opening of Concord avenue, from Denman place to Home street, was confirm:A by the Supreme Court, on the 9th day of March, 1883, and ent red on the 13th day of March 2883, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents.

Section 3 of the said act provides that, " If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said record ce titles of assessments, It shall be the duty of the officer au-thorized to collect and receive the amount of such assess-ment, to charge, collect, and receive legal interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calcu-lated from the date of such entry to the date of payment."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the '• Bureau for the Collection of A ssessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," from q A. M. until P. M., and all payments made therein, on or before May 25, 1881 will be exempt from interest as above pro-vided, ar.d after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry in the record of titles of assessments in said Bureau.


CITY OP NEW YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT,

COMPTROLLFR'S OFFICE, March 26, i883.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY-OWNERS. TN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER .1. 13 of the Laws of z881, the Comptroller of the City of New York hereby gives public notice to property-owners that the assessment list for the acquisition of lands for Gansevoort Market, act May 7, 1880, was confirmed by the Supreme Court, on the 25th day of January, 1883, and entered on the z3th day of March, 1883, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents.

Section 5 of the said act provides that, " If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said record of titles of assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized to collect and receive the amount of such assessment, to charge, collect and receive legal interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the date of such entry to the Late of payment."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," from 9 A. M. until m., and all payments made thereon, on or before May 25, x883, will be exempt from interest as above provided, and after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry in the Record of Titles of Assessments in said Bureau.


CITY OF NEW YOEK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT,

COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, April 5, 1883.

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

TN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 4 OF CHAPTER .1 33 of the Laws of z88z, the Comptroller of the City of New York hereby gives public notice toproperty owners that the assessment list for the opening of Spuyten Duyvil Parkway and streets connecting same with Broadway, from the Spuyten Duyvil and Port Morris Railroad to Broadway, confirmed by the Supreme Court on the thirtieth day of December, zefla, and entered on the thirteenth day of January. 1883, in the Record of Titles of Assessments, kept in the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assess-ments, and of Water Rents."

Section 5 of the said act provides that, " If any such assessment shall remain unpaid for the period of sixty days after the date of entry thereof in the said Record of Titles of Assessments, it shall be the duty of the officer au-thorized to collect and receive the amount of such assess-ment, to charge, collect, and receive legal interest there-on at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the date of such entry to the date of pay-ment."

The above assessments are payable to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at the " Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrear.rosinof ,TAax A. mes

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Assessments, and of Water Rents," until a P. M , and all payments made thereon, on or before June 4, 1883, will be exempt from interest as above provided, an I after that date will be subject to a charge of interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum from the date of entry in the Record of Tides of Assessments in said Bureau.

ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller

CITY OF NEW YORK-FINANCE DEPARTMENT, BUREAU FOR COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS, AND OF

ARREARS OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS, AND OF CROTON WATER RENTS,

OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF ASSESSMENTS AND CLERK OF ARREARS.

November ts, :882.

NOTICE OF THE SALE OF LANDS AND TENE. ments for unpaid tax's of 1877, z878, and 1879, and

Croton-water rents of n876, 1877, and 1878, under the direction of Allan Campbell, Comptroller of the City of New York.

The undersigned hereby gives public notice, pursuant to the provisions of the act entitled " An act for the col-lection of taxes, assessments, and Croton water rents in the City of New York, and to amend the several acts m relation thereto," passed April 8, 587z.

That the respective owners of all land. and tene-ments in the City of New York on which taxes have been laid and confirmed situated in the Wards Nos. • to 24 inclusive for the years 1877, 1878, and 5879, and now remaining due and unpaid ; and also the respective owners of all lands and tenements in the City of New York, situated in the wards aforesaid, on which the regular Croton water rents have been laid for the years 1876, x877, and 1878, and are now remain-ing due and unpaid, are required to p iy the said taxes and Croton water rent so remaining due and unpaid to the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, at his office, in the Department of Finance, in the new Court-house, with the interest thereon at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, as provided by chapter 33 of the Laws of 288i, from the time when the same became due to the time of payment, together with the charges of this notice and advertisement, and if default shall be made in such payment, such lands and tenements will be sold at public auction, at the new Court-house, in the City Hall Park, in the City of New York, on Monday, March 5, 5883,. at 12 o'clock, noon, for the lowest term of years at which any person shall offer to take the same in consideration of advancing the amount of tax or Croton water rent, as the case may be, so due and unpaid, and the intere t thereon, as aforesaid, to the time of sale, together with the charges of this notice and advertise-ment and all other costs and charges accrued thereon, and that such sale will be continued from tune to time until all the lands and tenements so advertised for sale shall be sold.

Notice is hereby further given that a detailed statement of the taxes and the Croton water rents, the ownership of the property on which taxes and Croton water rents remain unpaid, is published in a pamphlet, and that copies of the said pamphlet are deposited in the office of the Col-lector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, and will be delivered to any person applying for the same.

A. S. CADY, Collector of Assessments and CI irk of Arrears.

POSTPONEMENT. The above sale is postponed by the Comptroller, as

provided by sections 5 ana 6 of chapter 381, Laws of 187z, until Monday, May 7, 1883, at the same hour and place.

ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller,

FINANCE DEPARTMENT-COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. ( NEW YORK, March 3, 1883. I

REAL ESTATE RECORDS. •

THE ATTENTION OF LAWYERS, REAL Estate Owners, Monetary Institutions engaged in

making loans upon real estate, and all who are interested in providing themselves with facilities for reducing the cost of examinations and searches, is invited to these Official Indices of Records, containing all recorded trans-fers of real estate in the City of New York from 1653 to 1857, prepared under the direction of the Commissioners of Records. Grantors, grantees, suits in equity, insolv ent s' an d

Sheriffs' sales, in 6x volumes, full bound, price. $too oo . The same, in 25 volumes, half bound so 00 Complete sets, folded, ready for binding is 00 Records of Judgments, 25 volumes, bound zo no

Orders should be addressed to " Mr. Stephen Angell. Comptroller's Office. New County Court-house."



COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, April 25, x883.

CITY OF NEW

A LEASE OF THE FRANCHISE OF THE ferry between Whitehall street. in the City of New

York and Staten Island, Richmond County, State of New York, along with the wharf property used for ferry pur-

) belonging to the Corporation of the City of New York, at the loot of said street, west of Pier No z, East river, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder, at the Comptroller's office, a 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday, May z5, I1383, under resolution adopted April 25, 1883, by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, as provided by chapter 498, Laws of 1880.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

The lease of the franchise or right to operate said ferry, along with the said wharf property, will be offered for sale at the time and place above mentioned, on a lease for the term of ten years from the first day of May, 1883, at a minimum rental or upset price for the franchise of five per cent. upon the gross receipts for ferriage of said ferry, and a yearly rent of 85,000 per annum for the first five years, and $io,000 for he remaining five years for the wharf prope ty at the foot of said Whitehall street, payable quarterly ; the said lease to contain all such covenants and conditions as are required by law and ordinances of the Comm in Council, and are prescribed by resolutions of the Sinking Fund. relative to the leasing of ferries and wharf property, upon a form of lease pre-pared by the Counsel to the Corporation and filed in the Comptroller's office ; provided, that the lease shall con-tain a so such conditions as to security for the faithful performance of all its covenants, and of liquidated dam-ages for their violation, as the Counsel to the Corpora-tion may deem necessary and advisable for the protec-tion of the interests of the city and the public ; provided, also, th .t the rates of ferriage during said lease shall not exceed the rate_ of a schedule referred to in the Comp. troller's report presented to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund and annexed to the form of lease prepared by the Counsel to the Corporation ; and that sworn returns of the receipts and expenses of the ferry shall be made by the lessee to the Comptroller, when required by him, and the books of accounts shall be subject to his examination.

The highest bidder will be required to pay the auc-tioneer's fee, and deposit with the Comptroller, at the time of sale, the sum of 85.000, which sum shall app.), to the rent first falling due, if the lease is executed, and shall be forfeited to the city if the purchaser shall fail or r efuse to execute the lease when notified and required by the Comptroller ; provided, also, that satisfactory secu-rity shall be furnished for the faithful performance of the covenants thereof.

The right to reject any bid is reserved. if deemed for the interests of the City.


CITY OF NEW YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, } May 1, i883.

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