THE MEANS ON HAND FOR PAYING THE DEBT. Cash in charge of the Board of Commissioners on the Sinking Funds, Six per cent. certificates of indebtedness of the $1,649,662 14 10,034,675 00 680,798 90 484,023 27 THE NET DEBT OF THE CITY. Total funded and unfunded Debt, of all descriptions, of the City of Boston, April 30, 1872, Total means on hand for paying the same, April 30, 1872,* Net Debt of the City, April 30, 1872, Increase of the net Debt, $28,628,535 82 12,849,159 31 $15,779,376 51 15,033,476 82 $745,899 69 The increase of the Gross Debt during the year, was $1,962,099 09 The increase of means for the redemption of the debt during the year, 1,216,199 40 Net increase of the Debt, as above, $745,899 69 THE EXPENDITURES. CITY OF BOSTON. Ordinary expenses, which includes the interest, premium and exchange paid on the entire debt of the city ($1,560,489.26), Suffolk-street District, Laying out and building new streets and widening $7,717,278 34 1,269,737 99 old ones, not included in the annual appropriations for such objects, 1,030,053 35 The Treasurer's payments, in addition to the regular expenditures on account of the City of Boston, as given above, were, to the Commissioners on the Sinking Funds, $13,222,601 34 1,726,907 28 $14.949,508 62 COUNTY OF SUFfolk. Court Expenses, including Jurors' and Witnesses' Amount carried forward, $197,451 88 $197,451 88 Amount brought forward, Jail Expenses, Salaries of Officers, Repairs, keep ing and feeding prisoners, Repairs, care and lighting of, fuel and furniture for Court House and Probate Building, Coroners' Inquests and Views, Miscellaneous, REVENUE. CITY OF boston. $197,451 88 29,154 06 19,685 39 7,039 55 18,610 50 $271,941 38 Sale of Grammar School-house lot, Ferdinand street, 47.194 91 Sale of land adjoining Eustis Street Cemetery, Amounts received on account of the various street widenings, for estates sold and betterments: Eliot street, Tremont street, Devonshire street, Federal street, Avon place, Boylston street, Bowker street, Dover street, Brimmer street, High street, Oliver street, Zeigler street, 600 00 Battery street, Broadway extension, Richmond street, Temple street, From Fines and Costs collected in the Criminal Miscellaneous, $133,839 90 7,750 64 16 80 $141,607 34 EXPENSES OF THE DEPARTMENTS. The regular expenditures of the principal departments of the city, for the financial year 1871-72, are given below, including the salaries of all officers attached to each, compared with those of the year previous, viz. :— CITY HOSPITAL. Expenses, 1871-72. $113,371 05 Income, 1871-72, $4,393 83; 1870-71, $5,686 88. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Expenses and Salaries, Fire-Alarm Department, Repair of Engine Houses, 1870-71. $101,290 00 Income, 1871-72, $2,472 10; 1870-71, $3,810 73. |