The COMPTROLLER presented the following: DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING, Nos. 49 AND 51 CHAMBERS STREET, To Honorable the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen,-I would respectfully request a transfer of the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars to the ap propriation for "Carting above Fourteenth Street," 1888 which is insufficient to enable me to carry on the work of collecting and removing ashes and garbage from the streets daily for the remainder of the year. The sum can be drawn from other appropriations for street cleaning, for 1888, in amounts as follows: We proportion the amount required for street cleaning purposes as accurately as possible among the differe accounts in the Departmental Estimate; but so mar conditions arise during the year to change the differet: estimates that frequent transfers become necessary at itclose, in order to keep the expenditures within the variou appropriations, as allowed. Very respectfully, J. S. COLEMAN, Commissioner of Street Cleaning. And offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) be and the same is hereby transferred from the following appropriations made to the Department of Street Cleaning for the year 1888, viz.: Administration. Removal of snow and ice... $1,000 00 5,000 00 1,000 00 $7,500 00 -the same being in excess of the amount required for the purposes and objects thereof, to the appropriation made to the same Department for 1888, entitled "Carting above Fourteenth Street," for which it is required. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-4. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution : Resolved, That the sum of two hundred and fifty-nine dollars ($259) be and hereby is transferred from the appropriation entitled "Salaries Finance Department: Salaries of Officers, Clerks, etc.," for 1888, which is in excess of the amount required for the purposes and objects thereof, to the appropriation to the same Department for "Salaries of Temporary Clerks in the Bureau for the Collection of Taxes," for 1888, which is insufficient for the objects and purposes thereof. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-4. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500) be and the same is hereby transferred from the appropriation made to the Board of Education for the year 1888, entitled "Public Instruction— For Free Lectures to Workingmen and Workingwomen," the same being in excess of the amount required for the purposes and objects thereof, to the appropriation made to the same Department for 1888, entitled "Public Instruction-For Salaries of Teachers and Janitors in Evening Schools," the amount of said appropriation being insufficient. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assess ments-4. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: CITY OF NEW YORK-DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS, Nos. 49 AND 51 CHAMBERS STREET, December 26, 1888. To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen,-At a meeting of the Board of Parks, held this day, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportion ment be and hereby is respectfully requested to include in the Final Estimate for the year 1889 the sum of twelve thousand dollars for the purpose of raising the iron truss of McComb's Dam Bridge, which now obstructs One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street and the exterior street, to the height required by law. Very respectfully, CHARLES D. F. BURNS, Secretary, D. P. P. Which was received and placed on file. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, (In Board of Education, December 26, 1888.) Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment be and they hereby are requested to add to the amount applied for by this Board for support of the Common Schools during the year 1889, to the appropriation entitled "For Salaries of Teachers and Janitors in the Evening Schools," the sum of sixteen thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Extract from the minutes. ARTHUR MCMULLEN, Which was received and placed on file. Clerk. Dewitt J. Seligman, Commissioner of Education, appeared before the Board and made a statement relative thereto. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, (In Board of Education, December 26, 1888.) Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment be and they are hereby respectfully requested for an additional appropriation of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), for 1889, to be used only for salaries of teachers under a system of payment to be different from the present system of payment. Extract from the minutes. ARTHUR McMULLIN, Clerk. Which was received and placed on file. Henry Schmitt, Commissioner of Education, appeared before the Board and made a statement relative thereto. The CHAIRMAN presented the following: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, No. 31 CHAMBERS STREET, Hon. ABRAHAM S. HEWITT, Mayor, and Chairman Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Sir, The Departmental Estimate presented by my predecessor, Gen. John Newton, for the appropriation for Lamps and Gas and Electric Lighting," for 1889, called 66 |