The Committee recommend that all day laborers be employed at the market price.

The average pay for laborers is $2 per day. The average amount of the monthly pay-roll is $2,332.73.

The Committee recommend that all day laborers be employed at the market price.

The average pay for laborers is $1.75 per day. The average amount of the monthly pay-roll is $666.46.

The comparitive rates of pay per day for other officers is as follows:

ASSESSORS' DEPARTMENT.

There are from thirty to thirty-five clerks employed in this department, on a basis of fifty cents per hour. The time for which they are employed depends upon the amount of work to be done in the department.

13 Assistants at $5 per day on street, and $4 per day in office.

32 Assistants at $4 per day. 17 Clerks at $4 per day Secretary of Board

22 Assistants at $6 per day on street, and $300 for attending sessions of Board

22 Assistants at $5 per day on street, and $250 for attending sessions of Board

28 Clerks at $4 per day

33 First Assistants at $7 per day on street, and revising, and $400 for attending sessions of Board

33 Second Assistants at $6 per day on street, and revising, and $350 for attending sessions of Board.

41 Clerks, estimate

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.

The new School Board will undoubtedly give the question of salaries their careful consideration. There are 215 instructors who receive salaries of $1,000 and upward, and the aggregate amount of their salaries is $458,000. Your Committee can see no reason why a general reduction of ten per cent. should not be made, as recommended for other departments.

An examination of the foregoing statements will show that the salaries of city officials have been largely increased since the close of the war. Since that time the expenses of living have been gradually but steadily reduced, and your committee feel that the tax-payers and the public generally expect a decrease in the burden now imposed upon them.