School-house Bonds- PAGE Exempted from taxation... .24, 37, 95, 141, 159, 203, 211, 241, 253, 309, 339, 370, Report on sale. Held by Commissioners of the Sinking Fund.. Cancellation and payment of, due November 1, 1894.. .92, 117, 193, 254, 528, 599 IO .279, 282, 540, 570, 663 570 94 T Towle, Frank E., City Surveyor, claim paid.. "Times," advertising bill. Taxes and Assessments, Department of— Leases of offices... No. 27 Chambers street, for Board of Assessors and Surveyor.. W 203 427 I, 2, 5, 39 296 607 Washburn, W. T., executor, for release.... White, Mary, executrix, for confirmatory deed. Williams Brothers, posting notices.... Wiman, Erastus, fare for passengers, Staten Island ferry.. WATER-FRONT, PIERS, ETC. Surrender of land by Dock Department- Northerly of One Hundred and Forty-sixth street, North river... Improvement of the water-front- North river: Between Seventy-second and One Hundredth streets. 62 78 117, 166 458 32 557 .180, 185, 235, 236 .183, 184, 238, 579, 580 184, 238 Sea-wall through Piers, old 19 and 18, John H. Starin... Bulkhead between Vestry and Watts streets, Pennsylvania Railroad Bulkhead at Hoboken street, New Jersey Steamboat Company... 401, 403 360 642, 651 669 One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street to Seventh avenue. .184, 238, 405, 495 440 Wharf property purchased— North river: Bulkhead and water rights between Pier, old 28, and Pier, old 29.. 334,338 582,583 Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets, Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues..... 635, 641 Land under water northerly of East One Hundred and Fourteenth Northerly half of Pier, old 14, and southerly half of Pier, old 12. ·390, 404, 556 East river: Southerly side of South street, between Market and Pike Slips...... Piers 12 and 13...... Bulkheads between Piers 47 and 48, Clinton street... 187, 188, COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund at a Meeting held at the Mayor's Office at 12 o'clock M. on Friday, January 20, 1893. Present-Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor; Theodore W. Myers, Comptroller; Thomas C. T. Crain, Chamberlain, and Nicholas T. Brown, Chairman Committee on Finance, Board of Aldermen. The Board met pursuant to the following call: CITY OF NEW YORK-OFFICE OF THE Mayor, The Secretary, Sinking Fund Commission: SIR-I am directed by the Mayor to request you to cali a meeting of the Sinking Fund Commission, to meet at this office on Friday, January 20, at noon, to maké provision for office room for the Department of Taxes and Assessments, made necessary by the expiration of the lease of the Department's present quarters. Respectfully, WILLIS HOLLY, Secretary. The following certificate of the appointment of Alderman Nicholas T. Brown, as Chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Board of Aldermen, was received from the Clerk of the Common Council: OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN, To the Honorable the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: This is to certify that at a meeting of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York, held in the City Hall on Thursday, January fifth, A. D. 1893, at one o'clock P. M., the President of the Board, the Hon. George B. McClellan, appointed Alderman Nicholas T. Brown to be Chairman of the Committee on Finance. Which was ordered on file. MICHAEL F. BLAKE, Clerk. On motion of the Comptroller, the Honorable Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor, was appointed Chairman of the Board for the ensuing year. On motion of the Comptroller, Mr. Richard A. Storrs was appointed Secretary. The following communications were received from the Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments: DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS-COMMISSIONER's Office, NEW YORK, January 14, 1893. To the Honorable Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: GENTLEMEN-The Commissioners of the Department of Taxes and Assessments beg to represent that the lease of the offices now occupied by them will expire with May Ist next, and call attention to the fact that the annual increase of business of this Department renders the present offices totally inadequate, and the absence of suitable accommodations is embarrassing to the proper discharge of the duties of this Department. We deem it our duty to call attention to the lack of accommodations for storing the records of this Department. At this time, part of them are in the basement of the Brown Stone Building. If in any manner they are destroyed, they cannot be replaced, and their loss in the transaction of the business of this Department, in the Collection of Arrears of Taxes by the Finance Department, to the City in the matter of suits and to persons substantiating titles to property, would be serious. Suitable accommodations are respectfully asked for, and, if possible, fire-proof vaults should be provided in which to store the maps, records, field-books and other valuable property of this Department. Very respectfully, E. P. BARKER, President, etc. DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS-COMMISSIONER'S Office, Hon. THOMAS F. GILROY, Mayor, City of New York: SIR-We beg to call your attention to our communication to the Sinking Fund Commissioners, reciting that the lease of the offices now occupied by this Department will expire with May 1st next, and that the accommodations are inadequate to the needs of the Department. In view of the fact that we this morning learn from the Board of Health that two cases of defined typhus fever have been discovered in a newsboy and an employee, who have been sleeping together in the basement of this building, and have been removed and isolated, warrants us in calling your attention to the matter, believing it to be a menace to the health of the many thousands of people who at this season are called here in relation to taxation. The Board of Health have taken action in the matter and inform us that they propose giving the building a further sanitary inspection. We feel that speedy action should be taken, as we are unwilling to be responsible for subjecting any person, calling at this office on business, to the probabilities of contagion, and ask that you will take such action to supply such proper accommodations as the condition of affairs as recited demand. Respectfully, E. P. BARKER, EDWARD L. PARRIS, Which was referred to the Comptroller. } Commissioners Taxes and Assessments. The following communication was received from the Counsel to the Corporation: LAW DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION, To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund: DEAR SIRS-I think it my duty to lay before you for your consideration and such action as you may deem advisable the facts in relation to the condition of the building commonly known as the Staats Zeitung Building, Tryon Row, in this city, of which a part is occupied, as you know, by the Law Department. There have been matters which have given rise to complaint at various times in connection with the building, and there have now been two cases of typhus fever, one at least of a very severe type, which have originated therein, and, I have no doubt, resulted from its condition. In view of the large number of persons, fifty-five, employed in this Department, and the very serious danger to their health which would seem to be possible from the existence of typhus originating in this building, I deem it my duty to call these facts to your attention in order that you may consider them with a view to such action on your part as would seem advisable under the circumstances. Respectfully yours, Which was ordered on file. WM. H. CLARK, Counsel to the Corporation. Hon. Charles G. Wilson, President of the Board of Health, read the following report of Cyrus Edson, M. D., Sanitary Superintendent, on the sanitary condition of the Staats Zeitung Building: HEALTH DEPARTMENT, No. 301 Hon. CHARLES G. WILSON, President, Health Department: SIR-I have the honor to report that I made a personal inspection of the Staats Zeitung Building this day, in company with Mr. Beebe and Dr. Huddleston of this Department, for the purpose of ascertaining the danger that might exist from infection |