[Under this head, the appropriations are the balances brought from last financial year, and appropriations made the present financial year.]

* Trans, from the appropriation for Stony Brook Sewer to Back Bay and Surface Drainage,
Trans. from the appropriation for Hose House No. 3 to Comins Gram. Sch.-house,
Trans, from the appropriation for Station House, Ward, 13 to Comins Gram. Sch.-house,

$11,500 00 4,200 00 ¡1 800 00

UNCOMPLETED PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND PUBLIC WORKS, MAY 1, 1869.

TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES FOR EACH.

The following table shows the total amount of appropriations made from time to time by the City Council, and the objects for which they were made, — the amount expended and balance unexpended, including the February draft:

CITY OF BOSTON.

IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, February 7, 1870.

The Committee on Paving, to whom was referred the petition of the proprietors of India and other wharves in relation to the work on Atlantic avenue, respectfully report that they have given the petitioners an attentive hearing, but have failed to elicit any evidence to substantiate the allegations in the petition that the wall has not been built in a substantial manner, or that the plans and specifications are in any respect defective.

Section 4, chapter 149, of the General Laws of 1866, prescribes that "All persons that have been or may be authorized by the legislature to build over tide-water any bridge, wharf, pier, or dam, or to fill any flats, or to drive any piles below high-water mark, who have not already begun such work, shall, before beginning it, give written notice to the harbor commissioners of the work they intend to do, and submit plans of any proposed wharf or other structure, and of the flats to be filled, and of the mode in which the work is to be performed; and no such work shall be commenced until the plan and mode of performing the same shall be approved in writing by a majority of the said harbor commissioners. And the said commissioners shall have power to alter the said plans at their discretion, and to prescribe the direction, limits, and mode of building of the wharves and other structures, to any extent that does not diminish or control the legislative grant; and all such work shall be executed under the supervision of the commissioners."

In accordance with the above law, the plans and specifications for the Atlantic avenue sea-wall, drawn by the City Engineer, were submitted to the Board of Harbor Commissioners, and