FOR THE OFFICE IN CITY HALL. One new troy balance and set of weights Repairs necessary on avoirdupois balance. The above is the estimate of E. Howard & Co. Total There will be no income. Respectfully, your obedient servants, WM. F. REED, $500 00 75 00 $575 00 $9,565 00 For the Northern District. FRED G. POPE, Middle District. EMERY N. MOORE, Southern District. ALFRED T. TURNER, Esq, Auditor of Accounts : DEAR SIR, The Committee on Weights and Measures have approved the foregoing estimates of the Sealers of Weights and Measures, and would respectfully request an appropriation of $9,565, to meet the expenses of the department for the financial year 1871-72. NEHEMIAH GIBSON, Chairman. SEWERS. OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SEWERS, CITY HALL, BOSTON, Feb, 22, 1871. DEAR SIR, — The Committee on Sewers estimate the appropriation necessary for this department for the next financial year at one hundred thousand dollars. The estimated income of the department is forty thousand dollars. Respectfully, your obedient servant, ALFRED T. TURNER, Auditor. W. H. BRADLEY, SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS. CITY HALL, Feb. 15, 1871. TO ALFRED T. TURNER, Auditor of Accounts:— At a meeting of the Board of Commissioners on the Sinking Funds, for the payment or redemption of the city debt, it was Voted, To request the Auditor of Accounts to ask for an appropriation from the City Council, of $2,500, to defray the expenses of this board for the financial year 1871–72. WM. GASTON, Chairman. SURVEYOR'S DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF CITY SURVEYOR, CITY HALL, BOSTON, Feb. 8, 1871. ALFRED T. TURNER, Esq., Auditor of Accounts : DEAR SIR, — The expenses of the City Surveyors' Department for the financial year ending April 30th, 1872, are estimated as follows, viz: Pay-roll, estimated at sixty-five dollars per day $20,000 00 Salary of City Surveyor 3,000 00 Incidental expenses, stationery, drawing materials, instruments, and repairs of same, car fares, etc. 3,000 00 $26,000 00 At a meeting of the Committee on the City Surveyor's department, held February 8th, 1871, the above estimates were approved. EDWARD A. WHITE, Chairman. UNLIQUIDATED STREET CLAIMS" CLAIMS"-WIDENING STREETS. CITY HALL, Feb. 13, 1871. ALFRED T. TURNER, Esq., Auditor of Accounts DEAR SIR,It is estimated by the Committee on Streets, that there will be required in the settlement of unliquidated claims from laying out and widening streets, for the financial year ending April 30, 1872, the sum of sixty-five thousand ($65,000) dollars. For the Committee, CHARLES E. JENKINS, Chairman. CITY HALL, Feb. 17, 1871. ALFRED T. TURNER, Esq., Auditor of Accounts: SIR, The Joint Standing Committee on Laying out and Widening Streets have estimated the expenses of their department for the financial year 1871-72 as follows: For unsettled claims $65,000 00 For local improvements not provided for by special loans, and also for expenses in making estimates, etc. 150,000 00 Total $215,000 00 It is provided in the ordinance on finance, that all receipts on account of assessments for benefit from the improvement of streets, shall be paid into the sinking fund for the redemption of the city debt. The income of this department cannot, therefore, be taken into the account in making up the appropriation. For the Committee, CHAS. E. JENKINS, Chairman. OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF STREET COMMISSIONERS. To the Auditor of Accounts for the City of Boston: — SIR, It is estimated that there will be required for the Department of Street Commissioners, for the ensuing financial year, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($150,000.) * Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JOSEPH SMITH, Chairman of Board. WATER WORKS. COCHITUATE WATER BOARD OFFICE, Feb. 18, 1871. ALFRED T. TURNER, Esq., Auditor of Accounts :— SIR, The estimate of this Board for the expenditures and * This amount is included in the amount asked for by the Committee on Laying out and Widening Streets. |