erect hospital buildings upon the bluff, to protect it by the erection of a sea-wall, before many years. 3d. The cost of such a sea-wall has been estimated by the Engineer of the Harbor Commissioners to be abont $86,000. I have not surveyed the location, but I am under the impression, from an examination of the chart, and the cost of similar walls, that a suitable wall for that exposed locality cannot be built for less than that sum, and will probably cost $100,000. 4th. The position is one of great exposure-fully as great as that of the most prominent headlands of the outer harbor, and will entail additional expense in construction to secure the requisite stability in a building of the size required for the Hospital, say 900 feet in length, at an elevation of eighty feet above the water. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed,) J. G. FOSTER, Brevt. Major-Genl. U. S. A., CITY OF BOSTON. GENERAL AND SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1869-70. MONTHLY EXHIBIT. OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS, CITY HALL, TO THE HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL: December 4, 1869. GENTLEMEN, — The undersigned, in compliance with the 3d Section of the Ordinance on Finance, herewith presents an Exhibit of the General and Special Appropriations for the present financial year of 1869-70, as shown in the books in his office, December 1, 1869, including the December draft, being eight months' payments of the financial year, exhibiting the original appropriations, the amount expended, and the balances of each unexpended at that date. Respectfully submitted. ALFRED T. TURNER, Auditor of Accounts. |