pay said Committee of architects for their services, and also to provide for the awards of premiums for plans of said public building. Which were adopted by the following vote : Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-3. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: CITY OF NEW YORK-FINANCE DEPARTMENT, July, 1888. To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Assessments for street improvements amounting to $3,912.40 are due and payable on the plot of land belonging to the City designated as Ward No. 73, Block 12864, in the Twelfth Ward, which was sold at public auction at the Corporation sale held May 15, 1888, and the balance remaining unexpended of the appropriation entitled "Real Estate-Expenses of," for 1888, is insufficient to pay said assessments. It is necessary to discharge this lien upon the city property sold by the payment of said assessments, and as such charges are properly payable from said appropriation, I recommend that a transfer be made to it to provide for the payment of said assessments and meet other current expenses of city real estate during the present year, of the following unexpended balances of appropriations for 1887, viz.: Interest on Revenue Bonds of 1886 and 1887" for 1887............. "Real Estate-Expenses of". $2,000 00 900 54 $2,900 54 A resolution to make such transfer is submitted. Respectfully, THEO. W. MYERS, Comptroller. And offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of two thousand nine hundred dollars and fifty-four cents ($2,900.54), be and is hereby transferred from the following unexpended balances of appropriations for the year 1887, viz.: "Interest on Revenue Bonds for 1886 and 1887," for 1887---- Total.... $2,000 00 900 54 $2,900 54 -which amounts are in excess of the amounts required for the purposes of said appropriations for said year to the appropriation entitled "Real EstateExpenses of," for 1888, which is insufficient for the purposes thereof. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-3. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the amount following be and hereby is appropriated from the "Excise Fund," under the provisions of Section 210, Chapter 410, Laws of 1882 (New York City Consolidation Act of 1882), for the support of children in the month of June, 1888, committed by magistrates to the institution named, pur Mission of the Immaculate Virgin. 1,091 31,681 $2 per week. $8,868 71 Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-3. The COMPTROLLER offered the following preamble and resolution : Whereas, Under a requisition of the Commissioners appointed by authority of Chapter 487 of the Laws of 1885, to construct a bridge across the Harlem River, dated October 21, 1887, for the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000), this Board has authorized the issue of Consolidated Stock of the City of New York, for the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000), to wit: the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) under a resolution adopted March 7, 188S, and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) under a resolution adopted May 28, 1888, leaving the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) to be issued under said requisition; and Whereas, The Counsel to the Corporation, under date of May 10, 1888, has advised this Board that the charges for construction of the bridge are in accordance with the terms of the contract, and that compensation for extra work and modification of the plans is provided for and must be paid in addition to the sum mentioned in the contract; therefore, Resolved, That the Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized and directed to issue from time to time as may be required, and at such rate of interest as he may determine, not exceeding three per cent. per annum, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000) Consolidated Stock of the City of New York, as provided by Sections 132 and 134 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, for the purpose of providing the money necessary for the expense connected with the completion of the bridge across the Harlem River, in the City of New York, now being constructed during the year 1888, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 487, Laws of 1885, in full of requisition of the Bridge Commissioners, dated October 21, 1887. Which were adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-3. The CHAIRMAN presented the following: To the Honorable the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the City of New York: The petition of Bankson T. Morgan, respectfully shows: FIRST.-—That heretofore and on or about the 25th day of October, 1873, your petitioner, on nomination by the Mayor, and confirmation by the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York, was duly appointed a Police Justice, under and as required by Chapter 538 of the Laws of 1873, entitled "An Act to secure better administration in the Police Courts of the City of New York," and that a certificate of such appointment was made out in duplicate, signed, delivered and filed in accordance with the act, and also that the proper oath of office was duly taken by your petitioner, and that he entered upon the performance of the duties of Police Justice, and continued to perform the same until the term of his appointment expired. day of SECOND. Your petitioner further shows, that on or about the 1873, while he was duly performing his duties as such Police Justice, an action was begun against him by The People of the State of New York on the relation of Edward Hogan, in the Court of Common Pleas, for the City and County of New York, under Chapter two, Title thirteen of the Code of Procedure, to determine the right of the said plaintiff, Edward Hogan, and of your petitioner, respectively, to said office of Police Justice of the City of New York. THIRD.—That said action was brought to trial, and tried on the 26th day of January, 1874, in said Court of Common Pleas, before Hon. Frederick W. Loew, one of the judges of said Court, and a jury. FOURTH.-That upon said trial such proceedings were had, that said judge refused to instruct the jury, that said plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, but instructed them to find, as they did, a verdict for your petitioner, to which refusal and instruction, said plaintiff duly excepted. FIFTH.-That the judgment entered upon said verdict |