Brought forward....... $650 00 100 00 Gilbert S. Nixon, in addition to his salary as By resolution, December 30, 1853. E. Evans, for serving papers for Finance Com- By resolution, approved by the Mayor, Police Justices, for extra services in addition By resolution of the Board of Supervisors, John H. Chambers, for services as Secretary to Committee on Fire Department.... cember 31, 1853. Joseph B. Young, for services as Secretary to Committees..... By resolution, December 31, 1853. Nicholas Seagrist, for services as Sergeant-at- By resolution of Board of Supervisors, Total.... 100 00 3,269 22 300 00 150 00 200 00 $7,469 22 SALARIES INCREASED DURING THE YEAR 1852. Sergeant-at-arms, Board of Aldermen, increased.... ....from $400 to $600 By resolution, April 2, 1852, fixed at Deputy Clerk, Board of Aldermen, in creased..... ..from 1,000 to 1,500 First Clerk, Board of Aldermen, in creased..... ...from 750 to 1,000 Second Clerk, Board of Aldermen, increased....... ...from 750 to 1,000 The salaries of the Deputy, First and Second Clerks, Board of Aldermen, Doormen of Second Patrol District, in creased... .....to $1 50 per day. By resolution, July 15, 1852; to be calculated from January 1, 1852. Chief of Police, increased..........from 1,600 to 2,500 By resolution, Dec. 23, 1852; to take effect from January, 1, 1852. Superintendent of Markets, allowed for By resolution of Common Council, 250 Clerk of Chief of Police, increased from 1,000 to 1,500 By resolution, December 23, 1852, to take effect January 1, 1852. DOCUMENT No. 10. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. JANUARY 20, 1854. The following communication from the Commissioner of Streets and Lamps, with a copy of the contract for cleaning Streets, was received, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. D. T. VALENTINE, Clerk. OFFICE COMMISSIONER OF STREETS AND LAMP", } To the Honorable Board of Aldermen: 1854. GENTLEMEN-I hereby transmit to your Honorable Body, agreeable to resolution, a copy of the contracts for cleaning streets, with the names of the securities. The wording of the contracts are the same-the difference only in the names of the parties. First district, John B. Monell.... securities, J. Hume and J. Robinson for $20,000 amount $30,000 Second district, Peter Shaw..... Appended are the specifications, upon which the contracts are based, to which I respectfully direct your attention; section 10th providing for the non-fulfillment, &c. HENRY ARCULARIUS, JR., Commissioner of Streets and Lamps. Specification for Cleaning the Streets of the City of New York. SECTION I. The several wards of the city shall be divided into contract districts, as follows: The first district shall include the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Sixth Wards. The Second district shall include the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards. The third district shall include the Seventh, Tenth Eleventh, Thirteenth and Seventeenth Wards. The fourth district shall include the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twentysecond Wards. SECTION II. The contractors shall severally, at their own expense, cause all the gutters, streets, wharves, piers, heads of slips, public lands and places, and the limits of the public markets, within their respective districts, to be thoroughly and properly cleaned and swept, and the dirt, manure, &c., collected in heaps at least twice in each week, when the same, from the state of the weather, shall be practicable. And they shall also employ a sufficient number of cartmen to remove, and shall remove all ashes, garbage and offal, manure, dirt and rubbish, of every kind, nature or description, from all public lands and places, and from the streets, wharves and piers within their respective districts forthwith, immediately after being collected; and if the weather will not permit the dirt collected to be removed forthwith, then the same to be removed as soon as practicable. SECTION III. The said contractors shall, severally, at their own expense, cause all dirt, filth and rubbish, of all and every kind, to be removed from each of the public markets, (and such other public markets as may hereafter be erected,) and the limits thereof, within their 'respective districts, every Sunday, before the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, and every other day, excepting Saturday, before four o'clock in the afternoon. |