ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL INCOME AND TAXES. CITY AND COUNTY. 1875-76. Statement, in brief, of the Estimated Income, including Taxes of the CITY OF BOSTON and the COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, for the financial year 1875-76, with an account of the Actual Income and Taxes received during the year: Total amount paid to the Commissioners on Sinking Funds for the redemption of the debt of the City, 179,041 71 $993,595 31 The above amount of $993,595.31, resulting from the actual business of the year, has been paid to the Commissioners on the Sinking Fund, in conformity with the requirements of the ninth section of the Ordinance on Finance, Revised Ordinances of 1869, page 217, and the ordinance in relation to Finance of Dec. 24, 1870. These ordinances require that any excess of income over the original estimated income, or any excess of appropriations over the actual payments, shall be paid to the Commissioners on the Sinking Funds, and be applied to the payment of the percentage required to be set apart annually for the Sinking Funds for the redemption of the debt of the city. The Ordinance on Finance, of 1869, provides that no money shall be drawn for by the Mayor and Auditor, or be paid by the Treasurer, unless the same has been previously appropriated by a special vote of the City Council; hence the necessity of applying to the Council for additional means, if from any cause an Original Appropriation falls short. The additional means thus asked for can only be furnished. by an authorized transfer from some existing appropriation which can spare it, or by a specific loan. In this manner the City Council retain a knowledge and control of all the expenditures, as none can be made unless au appropriation for the same is expressly authorized by them. CITY EXPENDITURES. Statement in detail, under appropriate heads, of the Expenditures made on account of the CITY OF BOSTON, during the financial year 1875-76, by the several Departments, Boards, and Committees of the City Government, the balance of receipts over expenditures on account of Mystic Water Works to the Commissioners on the Sinking Funds, including the payments of interest on the debt of the city, the Temporary Loan, and the amount paid the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the City of Boston's proportion of the State Tax and Liquor License Revenue. The year commencing with the first day of May, 1875, and ending with the last day of April, 1876. Additional Supply of Water. Continuation of payments for surveys and plans, and for constructing the conduit from Farm Pond to Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Addition to City Hospital. Payments on account of erecting five new buildings, viz.: Two brick, one for surgical purposes and the other for medical; two wooden and iron, one-story buildings, one contagious ward for medical cases, and the other for surgical cases; one brick building of one-story, for kitchen and bakery, all on land belonging to the City and within the City Hospital enclosure. Contractors, for foundations, $16,636 00 66 masonry, 60,833 00 35,852 50 21,300 00 Plumbing, 7,510 07 Extra mason work, including mate rials, 3,062 42 Iron work, 2,986 97 Mechanics and helpers, 2,439 10 Plans, specifications, drafting and expenses, 2,696 95 On account of cooking apparatus, 1,600 00 Superintending construction, 1,098 00 Painting, carpentering and materials, 937 33 Carried forward, $156,952 34 $783,613 49 |