BEFORE THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT. IN THE MATTER OF The claim of BANKSON T. MORGAN, for the audit and allowance, as charges against the City, of the reasonable costs, counsel fees, etc., paid and incurred by him in defense of his title to the office of Police Justice, in proceedings instituted to oust him therefrom, in the suit of The People ex rel. Hogan against Morgan. In pursuance of the provisions of Section 196 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, as amended by Chapter 574 of the Laws of 1888, and of Section 211 of said act, as amended by Chapter 246 of the Laws of 1886, which provides that no appropriation or payment for the testing of the office of Mayor, or any seat in the Board of Aldermen, or office in any department, or the office of any officer, whose salary is paid from the City Treasury, shall be made to any but the prevailing party, nor shall any such appropriation or payment be made to such prevailing party, except upon the written certificates of the chief officer of the Law Department, and of the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, for the City and County of New York, certifying who is such prevailing party, and the value of the services rendered in the case. I do hereby certify that in the proceedings and action above referred to, wherein the People of the State of New York, on the relation of Edward Hogan, were plaintiffs, and said Bankson T. Morgan, the claimant above mentioned, was the defendant, the said Bankson T. Morgan was the prevailing party in said action, which was instituted for the purpose of testing the title of said defendant to the office of Police Justice in the City of New York. I do further certify that, in my opinion, the professional services rendered in said case, on behalf of the said Bankson T. Morgan, were reasonably worth the sum of $5,294.90. September 18, 1888. HENRY R. BEEKMAN, Counsel to the Corporation. BEFORE THE BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT. IN THE MATTER OF The claim of BANKSON T. MORGAN, for the audit and allowance, as charges against the City, of the reasonable costs, counsel fees, etc., paid and incurred by him in defense of his title to the office of Police Justice, in proceedings instituted to oust him therefrom, in the suit of The People ex rel. Hogan against Morgan. In pursuance of the provisions of Section 196 of the New York City Consolidation Act of 1882, as amended by Chapter 574 of the Laws of 1888, and of Section 211 of said act, as amended by Chapter 246 of the Laws of 1886, which provides that no appropriation or payment for the testing of the office of Mayor, or any seat in the Board of Aldermen, or office in any department, or the office of any officer, whose salary is paid from the City Treasury, shall be made to any but the prevailing party, nor shall any such appropriation or payment be made to such prevailing party, except upon the written certificates of the chief officer of the Law Department and of the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York, certifying who is such prevailing party, and the value of the services rendered in the case. I do hereby certify that in the proceedings and action above referred to, wherein the People of the State of New York, on the relation of Edward Hogan, were plaintiffs, and said Bankson T. Morgan, the claimant above mentioned, was the defendant, the said Bankson T. Morgan was the prevailing party in said action, which was instituted for the purpose of testing the title of said defendant to the office of Police Justice in the City of New York. I do further certify that, in my opinion, the professional services rendered in said case, on behalf of the said Bankson T. Morgan, were reasonably worth the sum of $5,294.90. Dated September 18, 1888. R. L. LARREMORE, Chief Judge of the Court of Common After discussion, the PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN moved that the full amount of the said claim be audited and allowed. Which was lost by the following vote: Affirmative―The President of the Board of Aldermen—1. Negative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments-3. The PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS offered the following resolution: Resolved, That, pursuant to the authority conferred upon the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, by Chapter 574 of the Laws of 1888, this Board hereby audits and allows, as a charge against this City, for reasonable counsel fees paid by Bankson T. Morgan, in the action of the People on the relation of Edward Hogan vs. Morgan, brought in the Court of Common Pleas to determine his title to the office of Police Justice, in or about the year 1874, and decided in his favor by that Court and the Court of Appeals, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) with interest thereon, from an average date of the payments made by him. for and on account of such counsel fees, to the first day of January, 1889, the whole amount to be appropriated and included in the Final Estimate for 1889, for the purpose of making such payment to said Bankson T. Morgan in full settlement of the claim presented by him to this Board. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assess ments-3. Negative-The President of the Board of Aldermen-1. 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 July, 1888, committed by magistrates to the institutions named, pursuant to law: |