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: LAW DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION, Hon. THEODORE W. MYERS, Comptroller of the City of Sir, I have received from the Finance Department the claim of Mr. Peter B. Vermilyea, assignee of Robert L. Baldwin, for services rendered by Baldwin as Inspector of the Board of Excise from May 1, 1886, to July 7, 1886, at the rate of $75 per month. Pursuant to your request, an examination of the claimant and his assignor have been made, by which the claim is presumptively established. I am also informed that the records of the Excise Department sustain the allegation that Mr. Baldwin was employed in the capacity of Inspector at the rate of $75 per month for the period named. I therefore advise you that this claim is of the same character as the claim of James F. Butler and nineteen others mentioned in the letter of the late Corporation Counsel, dated December 5, 1887, addressed to the Finance Department. The claim should therefore be adjusted and paid in the manner indicated in that letter. I remain, Yours, respectfully, HENRY R. BEEKMAN, Counsel to the Corporation. And offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of one hundred and sixty-six dollars and ninety-three cents ($166.93) be and hereby is allowed and appropriated to be paid from the "Excise Licenses," for the payment of the salary of Robert L. Baldwin, for services rendered to the old Excise Board of the City of New York, as Inspector, for two months and seven days, from May 1, 1886, to July 7, 1886, and the Comptroller is authorized to pay the same to Peter B. Vermilyea, assignee, as a settlement in full of the claim of said Baldwin, 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 Comptroller be and he is hereby authorized to pay Michael Foley the sum of fifty-four dollars ($54) out of "Excise Licenses," for ice delivered to the Excise Board from January 1 to July, 1886, as certified by the Commissioners of Excise then holding office. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, President of the Board Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-4. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the title of the appropriation made in the Final Estimate for 1888, to the Department of Public Works, "For salaries of Engineer, Clerks, Inspectors and Measures in the Bureau of Water Register," printed on page 903 of the minutes of 1887, be amended by adding the words "and of the Chief Engineer of the Croton Aqueduct," and, also, that the title of the appropriation for claims of Excise Commissioners, printed on page 926 of the minutes, be amended by striking out the word "judgment" and inserting the words "counsel fees" in its place. 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 amounts following be and hereby are 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 January, 1888, committed by 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 four hundred and forty-one dollars and seventy-eight cents ($441.78) be and hereby is appropriated from the "Excise Fund" to the "Home for Fallen and Friendless Girls," for the support of forty-six inmates, in the month of January, 1888, aggregating one thousand and seventy-five days, at the rate of $150 per annum, pursuant to Section 208, Chapter 410, Laws of 1882 (New York City Consoli lated 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: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, NEW YORK, February 10, 1888. Hon. ABRAM S. HEWITT, Mayor, Chairman 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 Honorable, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment be and the same is hereby respect |