ally had under consideration the estimates for my Court and office for the ensuing year, was not specially directed to so much of my requisition as called for two additional clerks to act as examiners of the wills and other papers required by law to be recorded by me. This requisition as to these clerks is contained in the communication submitting the estimates, a copy of which has been heretofore transmitted to your Board. The urgent necessity of an appropriation for their em ployment is disclosed in the communication mentioned, and I appeal to your Honorable Board to make the provision I therein ask for them. As the Board of Estimate and Apportionment had com pleted its provisional consideration of my estimates, I make this appeal at the suggestion of its President. Very respectfully, (Signed) RASTUS S. RANSOM. Surrogate. Resolved, That two additional clerks be added to the Provisional Estimate of the Surrogate for the year 1889, at a salary of $1,000 per year each, to act as examiners of wills and other papers required by law to be recorded by the Surrogate, these clerks having been omitted from the Provisional Estimate, are now added at the request of the Surrogate. Which were received and ordered to be printed in the minutes. The COMPTROLLER offered the following resolution: Resolved, That this Board hereby designates and fixes Tuesday, the 11th day of December, 1888, at 11.30 o'clock, A.M., for a meeting to take up for consideration the Final Estimate for the year 1889, and that a notice thereof be published in the City Record, to allow the taxpayers of the city a hearing in regard thereto, as provided by Section 189 of the Consolidation Act of 1882, and at meetings to be held thereafter daily for the consideration of said Final Estimate. Which was adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments —4. The CHAIRMAN moved that Mayor-elect Hon. Hugh J. Grant be invited to attend the meetings of this Board (as designated in the foregoing resolution) for the purpose of familiarizing himself with the method of making the Final Estimate. Which was agreed to. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: OFFICE OF BOARD OF EXCISE, No. 54 BOND STREET, CORner of BoweRY, Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen,—The Commissioners of Excise respectfully ask for the following transfers: From unexpended balance of fiscal year ending April 30, 1887, the sum of $1,673.36, to pay the claims of George B. Colby for legal services, filed with the Comptroller April 13, 1887; from unexpended balance of Salaries Account, fiscal year ending April 30, 1888, to account of Stationery and Printing, the sum of $403.24, to pay the claim of John Polhemus for $981.06, for stationery, printing, etc. Respectfully, CHARLES H. WOODMAN, President. Which was received and referred to the Comptroller. The COMPTROLLER presented the following: DEPARTMENT OF STREET CLEANING, 49 AND 51 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK, November 15, 1888. To the Honorable the Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen, I beg to request that you will transfer the sum of $18,000 from the appropriation for "Sweeping above Fourteenth Street," 1888, to the appropriation for "Final Disposition of Material," 1888, as this additional amount will be necessary to carry on the work of removing the city's refuse to the close of the year. The amount asked for in the Departmental Estimate for 1888 was $243,000, the amount allowed was $230,000-a reduction of $13,000, while the price of the dumping-boats employed by the Department has been unexpectedly raised from $17.50 to $20 each, per day. The whole amount expended for "Final Disposition" of material to October 31 is $215,166.77, leaving a balance for November and December of only $14, $33.23, which is insufficient. Very respectfully, J. S. COLEMAN, Commissioner of Street Cleaning. And offered the following preamble and resolution : Whereas, The Commissioner of Street Cleaning has re quested the transfer of the sum of eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) from the appropriation to his Department for 1888, for "Sweeping above Fourteenth Street" to the appropriation for "Final Disposition of Material," on account of an increased expense for dumping-boats, for which the appropriation is insuffi cient, Resolved, That the sum of eighteen thousand dollars ($18,000) be and is hereby transferred from the appropriation entitled "Cleaning Streets, Department of Street Cleaning, Sweeping above Fourteenth street,” for 1888, which is in excess of the amount required for the purposes thereof, to the appropriation entitled Cleaning Streets, Department of Street Cleaning. Final Disposition of Material," for 1888. 66 Which were adopted by the following vote: Affirmative-The Mayor, Comptroller, Vice-President of the Board of Aldermen, and President of the Department of Taxes and Assessments 4. The SECRETARY presented the following: Board of Estimate and Apportionment: Gentlemen, – I wish to acknowledge and thank the members of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the very kindly sentiments expressed in the resolu ion adopted November 8, 1888, a copy of which reached ne two days since. Very respectfully, CONSTANCE A. FORSTER. No. 49 WEST NINETEENTH STREET, November 27, 1888. Which was received and ordered to be printed in the minutes. The SECRETARY presented the following: NEW YORK, November 16, 1888. Gentlemen,--At the request of Elbridge T. Gerry, the Chairman of the Executive Committee on the Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of George Washington as President of the United States, I have the honor to call your attention to a law which was passed by the State of New York during the last session of the Legislature, and which is as follows: "AN ACT authorizing the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the City of New York to appropriate money for the celebration of the Inauguration of the First President of the United States." Approved by Governor, May 7, 1888. Passed, three-fifths being present. "The People of the State of New York, represented in Assembly and Senate, do enact as follows : "SECTION I.-The Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the City of New York is hereby authorized and empowered to include in the final estimates of the moneys to be raised by taxation for conducting the public business of said city for the year one thousand eight hundred and |