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County," dated July 15, 1878, and as amended by resolution adopted August 3, 1916, be and the same is hereby further amended by striking therefrom the following clauses:

"That the grantee waive any and all claim for damages arising out of the closing of the street or avenue.

"That the grantee is the owner of the land fronting on the section of the street or avenue to be conveyed."

The report was accepted and the resolution, adopted, all the members present voting in the affirmative.

The Following Matters Not on the Calendar Were Brought Up by Unanimous Consent.

President, Borough of Queens-Lease for, of Premises in the Queens Subway Building, at the Intersection of Van Alst and Hunterspoint Avenue, in the Borough of Queens.

The Deputy and Acting Comptroller presented the following report and offered the following resolutions:

To the Honorable the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

October 25, 1916.

Gentlemen-On October 19, 1916, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopted a resolution authorizing a lease of the second, third and fourth floors in the premises known as the Queens Subway Building, located at Van Alst and Hunterspoint Avenues, Long Island City, Borough of Queens, for a period from December 1, 1916, to August 1, 1920, at an annual rental of 75 cents per square foot, the area to be leased to be determined by the Comptroller.

This resolution did not provide for toilets in the premises to be demised, nor for the laying of a covering over the concrete floors, which is to be done at the expense of the lessor. The area of the space to be used for the installation of the toilets is not to be included in the lease. The total square foot area to be occupied is 36,270 square feet, which, at the rate of 75 cents per square foot, makes the annual rental $27,202.50.

Inasmuch as there may be some misunderstanding as to the resolution of October 19, 1916, I respect fully recommend that the same be rescinded, and in place thereof that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund adopt a resolution, the rent being reasonable and just, authorizing a lease of the second, third and fourth floors in the premises known as the Queens Subway Building, located at Van Alst and Hunterspoint Avenues, Long Island City, Borough of Queens, for a period from December 1, 1916, to August 1, 1920, at an annual rental of $27,202.50, payable quarterly, for use of the President of the Borough of Queens; the lessor to pay taxes and water rates, furnish heat, light, elevator and janitor service, and make inside and outside repairs, to properly cover the concrete floors of the premises to be demised with linoleum or some other similar material to be approved by the President of the Borough of Queens, and maintain the same during the term of the lease, to erect all partitions required, install additional toilet facilities and wash basins on the fourth floor to the satisfaction of the President of the Borough, and install if required so to do, a ventilating wheel in that portion of the premises to be occupied as a laboratory. Lessor, Queens Subway and Hunterspoint Buildings, Inc. Respectfully,

ALBERT E. HADLOCK, Deputy and Acting Comptroller.

Resolved, That the resolution adopted by this Board at meeting held October 19, 1916, authorizing a lease of space on the second, third and fourth floors in the Queens Subway Building, located at Van Alst and Hunterspoint Avenues, Long Island City, Borough of Queens, for use of the President of the Borough of Queens, for a period from December 1, 1916, to August 1, 1920, at the rate of seventy-five cents (75c.) per square foot per annum, the amount of space to be leased to be determined by the Comptroller, be and the same is hereby rescinded.

Resolved, That the Corporation Counsel be and is hereby requested to prepare a lease to the City from the Queens Subway and Hunterspoint Buildings. Inc., of the second, third and fourth floors in the premises known as the Queens Subway Building, located at Van Alst and Hunterspoint Avenues, Long Island City, Borough of Queens, for use of the President of the Borough of Queens, for a period from December 1, 1916, to August 1. 1920, at an annual rental of twenty-seven thousand two hundred and two dollars and fifty cents ($27,202.50), payable quarterly, the lessor to pay taxes and water rates, furnish heat, light, elevator and janitor service, and make inside and outside repairs, to properly cover the concrete floors of the premises

to be demised with linoleum or some other similar material, to be approved by the President of the Borough of Queens, and maintain the same during the term of the lease, to erect all partitions required, install additional toilet facilities and wash basins on the fourth floor, to the satisfaction of the President of the Borough, and install, if required so to do, a ventilating wheel in that portion of the premises to be occupied as a laboratory; and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, deeming the said rent fair and reasonable and that it would be for the interests of the City that such lease be made, the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized and directed to execute the same when prepared and approved by the Corporation Counsel, as provided by sections 149 and 217 of the Greater New York Charter.

The report was accepted and the resolutions severally adopted, all the members present voting in the affirmative.

Dock Department-Rescindment of $12,514.12 in the Account C. D. D.—25 and a Similar Amount Made Available for the Purposes of Augmenting the Corporate Stock Fund C. D. D.-25A.

The following report was received from the Corporate Stock Budget Committee: October 25, 1916.

To the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

Gentlemen-On October 23, 1916, you referred to the Committee on Corporate Stock Budget a communication from the Commissioner of Docks requesting that $12.514.12 be rescinded in account C. D. D.-25, and that a similar amount be made available for the purpose of augmenting the corporate stock fund C. D. D.-25A. The Bureau of Contract Supervision, to which the matter was referred, reports thereon as follows:

"The purpose of this proposed rescindment and reauthorization is to provide sufficient funds, so that a contract may be awarded to the low bidder for dredging about 450,000 cubic yards and constructing about 1,100 linear feet of sheet pile bulkhead at Mill Basin, Jamaica Bay.

"On February 9, 1911, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment adopted a resolution approving of $950,000 in corporate stock for improving Jamaica Bay, one item (3) of which originally provided $750,000 for the acquisition of land. This original amount, $750,000, has, by two subsequent amendments, been reduced to $594,000.

"The last amending resolution adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on June 4, 1915, reauthorized $80,000 of the sum rescinded in Item 3, for the construction of bulkheads and platform at Mill Basin and for dredging at Mill Basin and Mill Creek. Of this $80,000 there remains and unencumbered balance of $40,877.96.

"On September 9, 1916, the Comptroller, pursuant to the resolution adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on June 9, 1916, approved the form of contract, plans, specifications and estimate of cost in the sum of $41,356.96 (the amount remaining in the fund at that time), for dredging at the head of Mill Basin, Jamaica Bay.

"Bids were received for the work on October 2, 1916, as follows:

Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Company
Walter H. Gahagan

P. Sanford Ross, Inc.

Per Cubic

Yard.
$0.1147

0.13

0.113

"The amount required, therefore, for dredging 450,000 cubic yards at $0.113, the low bid, plus five per cent. additional allowance, would be $53,392.50, or $12,514.54 more than remains in the fund.

"A platform 400 feet in length and a bulkhead 1,600 feet long have been constructed and in order to make these available the dredging is necessary.

"It is the opinion of the Bureau of Contract Supervision that a lower bid would not be received if the contract were readvertised."

We recommend the adoption of the attached resolution granting the request. Respectfully, EDMUND D. FISHER, Comptroller; FRANK L. DOWLING, President, Board of Aldermen; LEWIS H. POUNDS, President, Borough of Brooklyn; DOUGLAS MATHEWSON, President, Borough of The Bronx; Corporate Stock Budget Committee.

The following resolution was offered for adoption:

Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of section 180 of the Greater New York Charter, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby recommend to the

Board of Estimate and Apportionment that the resolution adopted by the said Board on June 4, 1915, which reads, in part, as follows:

"Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of section 180 of the Greater New York Charter, and the recommendations of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, by resolutions adopted January 11, 1911, October 9, 1912, and May 19, 1915, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment hereby authorizes the Comptroller to issue corporate stock of the City of New York in the manner provided by section 169 of the Greater New York Charter, to an amount not exceeding nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($950,000), the proceeds whereof to be applied to the purposes and uses of the Department of Docks and Ferries in the sums and for the purposes as hereinafter specified:

"1-For the construction of a section of bulkhead, sand dyke or riprap retaining wall, intended to retain dredged material to be taken from the main channel or entrance channel of Jamaica Bay, such structure or structures to 'be located along the section or sections of the proposed bulkhead line between Spring Creek Basin and the termination of the bulkhead at the point of Barren Island, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).

"2-For dredging in the main channel in Jamaica Bay between Spring Creek Basin and the southeasterly point of Barren Island, contingent upon the execution of a contract with the United States Government, through which provisions shall be made for the reimbursement of The City of New York by the United States Government, for all or a part of the cost of said dredging, two hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars ($226,000).

"3-For the acquisition of lands located in or on Jamaica Bay needed for filling purposes, the precise location of such lands to be determined upon in the future by the Commissioner of Docks acting co-ordinately with the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund five hundred and ninety-four thousand dollars ($594,000), or a reduction of eighty thousand dollars ($80,000) from the amount authorized for this particular purpose in the amendment adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on October 17, 1912.

"4-For the construction of approximately sixteen hundred (1,600) linear feet of bulkhead and approximately four hundred (400) linear feet of platform at Mill Basin at Flatbush Avenue and Avenue U, Borough of Brooklyn, and to dredge thereat and also to dredge the approach channel from the main channel to deep water in Mill Creek, eighty thousand dollars ($80,000),

"-provided, however, that no obligation shall be incurred by contract or otherwise against the appropriations herein previously recommended, except in accordance with law."

-be further amended to make the amount authorized from Item 3 read "five hundred and eighty-one thousand, four hundred eighty-five dollars and forty-six cents ($581,485.46)," or a reduction of twelve thousand, five hundred fourteen dollars and fiftyfour cents ($12,514.54), from the amount authorized for this particular purpose, as stated in the amendment adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on June 4, 1915; and also to make the amount authorized for Item 4 read, "ninety-two thousand, five hundred fourteen dollars and fifty-four cents ($92,514.54)," or an increase of twelve thousand, five hundred fourteen dollars and fifty-four cents ($12,514.54), over and above the amount authorized in the amendment adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment on June 4, 1915.

The report was accepted and the resolution adopted, all the members present voting in the affirmative.

Adjourned.

JOHN KORB, JR., Secretary.

720-K-250-16 (B)

COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Proceedings of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, at a Meeting Held in Room 16, City Hall, at 11 o'Clock A. M., on Thursday, November 2, 1916.

Present-John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor; Albert E. Hadlock, Deputy and Acting Comptroller; Edward F. Barrett, Deputy and Acting Chamberlain; Frank L. Dowling, Fresident, Board of Aldermen, and Francis P. Kenney, Chairman Finance Committee, Board of Aldermen.

Application of Anna C. Tolman for a Release of the City's Interest in Premises Fronting on Neptune Ave., Between W. 30th and W. 31st Sts., Borough of Brooklyn.

The Deputy and Acting Comptroller presented the following report:

To the Honorable the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund:

October 25, 1916.

Gentlemen-I am in receipt of a communication to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund from Anna C. Tolman, in which she states that she is the owner of Lot 1, in Block 7009, Borough of Brooklyn, and requesting a release of the City's interest in that portion thereof lying north of the Kowalski high water line of 1885.

Chapter 500 of the Laws of 1916 authorized The City of New York to adjust and settle questions of title, taxes and assessments affecting the lands and lands under water filled in or improved in the district between West 23rd Street and West 37th Street, north of Mermaid Avenue, at Coney Island, Borough of Brooklyn, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between The City of New York and the individuals or corporations owning the same.

There is at present outstanding against the premises requested to be released, the sum of $11,474.13 for the assessment levied for the grading, constructing and improving Neptune Avenue, from West 15th Street to Old Lot 47. Up to the present date, there has been paid the sum of $5,468.05 for this assessment by the owners of these premises. In addition thereto there are also the following liens outstanding against the same, with interest up to October 1st, 1916:

Sewer Assessment, 30th and 31st, Neptune Ave..
Street Openings, 30th and 31st Sts...

Regulating and grading, 30th St. foot of Neptune Ave..
Regulating and grading 31st St., Neptune to Surf Ave.
Paving Mermaid Ave., from W. 19th to W. 37th St...
Paving W. 30th St., from Neptune to Mermaid Aves.
Taxes, 1914-15-16, to May 1, 1917....

$10,747 99

3,143 78

1,484 78

1,406 69

139 55

729 77

1,780 99

This brings the total amount of outstanding liens against this property up to the sum of $30,907.68.

These charges include interest thereon. The owner of the premises was not willing to pay these liens when they became due, as the City claimed to have an interest in the premises requested to be released. Were she to pay the same, and the City claim and obtain title to these premises she would be unable to recover the moneys paid. Therefore, in this settlement, I thing the only equitable proposition would be to release the City's interest in these premises upon the payment of the above liens less the interest and $303, which sum should be credited against the assessment for the opening of 30th and 31st Sts., added thereto.

To this proposition Mrs. Tolman agrees, and in addition thereto she will release to the City her interest in that property north of Neptune Avenue, between West 23rd and West 24th Streets. Borough of Brooklyn, containing an area of 99,752 square feet. By this settlement the City will be receiving the flat amount of the liens due which otherwise never will be paid. The owner will then be in a position to improve the property, as her title thereto will become marketable, in consequence whereof, its value will naturally increase and the City will accordingly benefit thereby.

I therefore respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, pursuant to Chapter 500 of the Laws of 1916, authorize a release to Anna C. Tolman,

No. 883 East 19th Street, Borough of Brooklyn, of the interest of the City in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly line of Neptune Avenue with the westerly line of West 30th Street; running thence southerly and along said westerly line of West 30th Street 390 feet; running thence westerly and along a line parallel with the southerly line of Neptune Avenue 118.81 feet to the center line of the block; running thence southerly along said center line of the block 180 feet; running thence westerly along a line parallel with the southerly line of Neptune Avenue 118.81 feet to the easterly line of West 31st Street; running thence northerly along said easterly line of West 31st Street 570 feet to the southerly line of Neptune Avenue; running thence easterly along said southerly line of Neptune Avenue 237.62 feet to the point or place of beginning.

-in consideration of the sum of $20,053.81, payable not later than November 30, 1916. The deed to be in the form of a bargain and sale deed without covenants; the City to pay and discharge whatever liens are against the premises to be demised up to and including November 1, 1916; the deed not to be delivered however, until Anna C. Tolman has released to The City of New York, all her right, title and interest in and to that certain lot or plot of ground in the former Town of Gravesend (now Borough of Brooklyn), City and State of New York, being all that part of Old Lot 37 of the Common Lands of said Town of Gravesend, as shown on the map of said lands of William Kowalski, Surveyor, filed with the Clerk of said Town, September 5, 1878, which lies north of Neptune Avenue, and between West 23rd Street and West 24th Street, as said streets and avenues are now laid out, having a frontage on Neptune Avenue of 237.62 feet more or less, together with all her right, title and interest in and to the land in said streets and avenue in front thereof to the center thereof. And also all her right, title and interest in and to the lands under water adjacent to the above described property, more particularly bounded and described as follows:

All that certain piece or parcel of land under the waters of Gravesend Bay or Coney Island Creek in the Thirty-first Ward, Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City of New York described as follows:

Beginning at a point formed by the intersection of the northerly line of Neptune Avenue with the easterly line of West 24th Street, and running thence north 38 minutes and 55 seconds west along the easterly line of West 24th Street 428.92 feet to the southerly line of land under water granted to Edward Egolf et al.; thence south 86 degrees 43 minutes and 55 seconds east along the said southerly line of land under water granted to Edward Egolf et al. 238.18 feet to the westerly line of West 23rd Street; thence south 38 minutes and 55 seconds east along the westerly line of West 23rd Street. 412.65 feet to the northerly line of Neptune Avenue: thence south 89 degrees 21 minutes and 5 seconds west along the northerly line of Neptune Avenue 237.62 feet to the point or place of beginning; containing two acres and twenty-nine one-hundredths of an acre; said land under water being the same property described in certain letters patent from the People of the State of New York to the Children's Aid Society dated February 3, 1906, and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State in Book of Patents No. 54, at Page 83. Respectfully, ALBERT E. HADLOCK, Deputy and Acting Comptroller.

His Honor, the Mayor, after reading a communication of the Commissioner of Accounts, addressed to the Chamberlain in regard to the matter, interrogated Mr. O'Malley, Appraiser of Real Estate in the Department of Finance as to the points of objection raised by the Commissioner of Accounts. The Mayor being satisfied with Mr. O'Malley's explanation and the Deputy Chamberlain having informed the Mayor that he was directed by the Chamberlain to vote for the resolution, the Deputy and Acting Comptroller offered the following resolution:

Whereas, Anna C. Tolman, in a communication addressed to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, states that she is the owner of Lot 1 in Block 7009, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, and requests a release of the City's interest in that portion thereof lying north of the Kowalski high water line of 1885.

Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 500 of the Laws of 1916, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby authorize a release to Anna C. Tǝlman, No. 883 East 19th Street, Borough of Brooklyn, of the interest of the City of New York in and to all that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the southerly line of Neptune Avenue with the westerly line of West 30th Street; running thence

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