Journal of the Board of Education of the City of New York

lowest of these is $3,075, and the highest, $4,490; which is for the "National Study Easel, folding-lid and improved Bookbox" desk and seat, a generally preferred article; the other bids are $4,800, and for an ordinary desk, $1,654.80. The award is made to A. H. Andrews & Co., for $4,490.

The Committee concur in these awards, and submit a resolution appropriating the sum required for these contracts from the "Bond Account," the Board having the ability to do so: Resolved, That the sum of six thousand six hundred and

ninely dollars ($6,690) be, and the same is hereby appropriated from the Fund derived from the sale of "School House Bonds" for the purposes named herein, and in the sums specified for each, viz.: For furnishing Grammar School Building No. 82, per specifications designated as Part One, Nathaniel Johnson, Contractor.

$2,200

For furnishing Grammar School Building No. 82, per specification, designated as Part Two, A. H. Andrews & Co., Contractors.....

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$4,490 But no part of said money to be paid until the School Trustees of the Nineteenth Ward shall have duly filed the contracts to be entered into by them with the parties to whom the awards are made, as designated herein, together with such security for the faithful performance of the same as shall be satisfactory to the Finance Committee, nor until the usual requirements as to the form of the contracts and the payments to be made on account thereof are complied with.

Laid over under the rule.

EUGENE KELLY,
FERDINAND TRAUD,

STEPHEN A. WALKER,
For presentation.

Finance Committee.

Commissioner KELLY presented a report from the Finance Committee, to whom were referred the reports of the Committee on Warming and Ventilation, requesting an appropriation of $12,000" for annual cleaning and repairing of the heating ap

paratus in all the school buildings," and an appropriation of $10,000 "for improving the sanitary condition of the several school buildings;" and also, the report of the Committee on School Furniture, requesting an appropriation of $5,000, “for the purchase of new furniture, and the repairs of furniture; stating, that the appropriations required for the contract work are so large in amount as to prevent the appropriation in full of these sums. The amount reserved from the School Fund for the year was only $163,500, and from this there has already been appropriated $18,880, besides payments therefrom for inspection of buildings, &c., of $4,200, leaving for similar payments, and for the appropriations for contract work, presented at this meeting, and for all future contingencies, only about $140,000. The contract work presented and estimated for, from bids made but not confirmed, will amount to $113,000.

Under those circumstances, the Committee deem it prudent to recommend that the appropriations which are additional to the sum required for contracts, asked for by these Committees, be reduced to such an amount as will insure the ability of the Board to meet them, say $4,000 from the sum named, for improving sanitary matters, and $2,000 from the sum named for "new furniture and repairs of furniture." With these reductions the Committee venture to report ability to appropriate the reduced sums. The report of the Committee on Warming and Ventilation, submitting for appropriation the sum of $12,000, is on page 394 of the Journal.

The report of the same Committee submitting for appropri ation the sum of $10,000, is on page 442 of the Journal, which it is proposed to reduce to $6,000.

The report of the Committee on School Furniture, submitting the sum of $5,000 for appropriation, is on pages 377,378 of the Journal, which it is proposed to reduced to $3,000.