INDORSED: Admission of a copy of the within, as served upon us this FRANKLIN EDSON, the Mayor. S. HASTINGS GRANT, the Comptroller. JOHN REILLY, the President of the Board of Aldermen. THOMAS B. ASTEN, the President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments. The minutes of the meeting held November 15, 1883, were read and approved. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the amounts following be and hereby are appropriated from the Excise Fund, under the provisions of Section 210, Chapter 410, Laws of 1882, for the support of children in the month of October, 1883, committed by police magistrates to the institutions named, pursuant to law: Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, 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 seventy-three dol lars and seventy cents ($273.70) be and hereby is appropriated from the Excise Fund to the "Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls," for the support of 31 inmates in the month of October, 1883, aggregating 666 days, at the rate of $150 per annum, pursuant to Section 208, Chapter 410, Laws of 1882 (New York City Consolidation Act of 1882). Which was adopted by the following vote : Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments 4. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: D. S. VEITCH, STENOGRAPHER, To the Honorable the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen, The undersigned respectfully represents to your Honorable Body that he has presented a bill to the Comptroller of the City of New York, amounting to one hundred and five dollars and seventy-five cents ($105.75), for services rendered as stenographer in the Fifth District Police Court, taking testimony and furnishing transcripts in the several cases referred to in said bill, which bill has been approved by Justices Morgan and Gardner. Your petitioner was informed that there is no appropriation from which said amount can be paid this present year. Your petitioner, therefore, respectfully requests that pro vision be made for the payment of the same in the final esti mate for the year 1884. Very respectfully, D. S. VEITCH. Which was received, and referred to the Comptroller. The COMPTROLLER presented the following preamble and resolution : Whereas, Section 203 of The New York Consolidation Act of 1882, provides that "The Board of Estimate and Apportionment shall file with the said Final Estimate during the month of December in each year, a schedule of the names of all persons not within a department, employed under the City Government, the designation of their offices and employments respectively, and the salaries and compensation fixed for each, which said schedule shall be published in the City Record; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to prepare and to present to this Board, before the adoption of the Final Estimate for 1884, a schedule in conformity with the provisions of the law above recited; and for this purpose is authorized to obtain from all officers and boards of the City Government, not within a department, a statement of facts required by said law, to be filed and published. Which were adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-4 The COMPTROLLER presented the following: HEALTH DEPARTMENT, No. 301 MOTT STREET, S. HASTINGS GRANT, Esq., Comptroller : Sir,-At a meeting of this Board, held on the 21st instant, it was Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment be, and is here respectfully requested to transfer the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) from the appropriation for 'Hospitals for Care of Contagious Diseases, 1883,' which is in excess of the amount required for the purposes and objects thereof, to the appropriation Hospital Fund for the Erection of a Hospital Building for Contagious Diseases at the foot of East Sixteenth street,' 1883, which is insufficient." EMMONS CLARK, A true copy. Secretary. Which was received, and referred to the Comptroller. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, Hon. FRANKLIN EDSON, Mayor, and Chairman of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Sir,—I transmit the following proceedings of the Board of Public Charities and Correction, at a meeting held this day: Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment |