CITY OF BOSTON. IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, May 8, 1871. THE Joint Special Committee on the Suffolk-street District beg leave to represent, that an additional appropriation is needed at this time to carry on the work of improvement on said district. At the beginning of the work, in July last, an appropriation of $500,000 was made on account, with the understanding that further loans would be made from time to time as the work progressed. The expenditures from that appropriation to May 5, have been as follows: Amount brought forward Incidentals - viz: advertising, steps, crossings, fences, &c., &c. Insurance . Expenses of committee $238,944 71 1,525 44 365 60 Raising and underpinning Salaries Superintendents Assistant superintendents Watchmen Book-keeper Engineers and expenses Moving buildings Filling, — John Souther 1,198 47 105,856 79 . $1,145 82 2,145 00 1,620 00 795 83 5,706 65 2,791 12 1,019 93 11,300 00 • $4,303 13 Leaving a balance on hand at that date amounting to about $92,000. That amount will be required, however, before the 20th of the present month, to meet drafts in payment of amounts due on contracts and for estates surrendered. The amount due on contracts May 5th, and unpaid, was $15,449. The whole amount of new contracts for raising buildings and constructing bridges, abutments, retaining walls, &c., was $140,143.42. The receipts from the sale of old buildings, &c., amount to $7,573.69. It should be stated, in this connection, that the amount paid. for estates surrendered to the city, and not required for streets, will be repaid into the city treasury when the estates are sold after the completion of the improvement. The committee would respectfully recommend the passage of the accompanying order. For the committee, G. W. POPE, Chairman. Ordered, That the Treasurer be authorized to borrow, under the direction of the Committee on Finance, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be added to the appropriation heretofore made for the improvement of the Suffolk-street District, so called. |