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NEW YORK (CITY). 



the Governor may select seven Supreme Court 

 judges for service at Albany as a second court 

 of appeals, to visit the regular court, was adopt- 

 ed by a vote of 498,114 yeas to 55,822 nays. 



NEW YORK (CITY). Government. The follow- 

 ing is the list of officers during the year : Mayor, 

 Abram S. Hewitt, Democrat; President of the 

 Board of Aldermen, George H. Forster ; Regis- 

 ter, James J. Slevin ; Sheriff, Hugh J. Grant. 



Debt. The following table gives the condi- 

 tion of the finances : 



the borrowing capacity of the corporation is 

 limited to about $130,000,000, and as the lia- 

 bilities which it has already incurred amount 

 to over $98,000,000, it follows that the amount 

 of money which the city may rai<e by pledging 

 its credit for further improvements can not ex- 

 ceed the sum of $32,000,000. 



Schools. The president of the Board of Edu- 

 cation is J. Edward Simmons, and the superin- 

 tendent is John Jasper. There are 84 gram- 

 mar schools and 39 primary schools and also 



Total funded debt $182,445,095 46 



Less amount held by commis- 

 sioners of the sinking fund 

 as investments $38,896,425 95 



Cash (includes Marine Bank, 



$110,000) 6,038,264 17 



44,434,690 12 



Net funded debt, Dec. 31, 1883 $88,010,405 34 



Revenue bonds 3,302,730 49 



Debt, including revenue bonds, Dec. 81, 



$91,313,135 83 



By the new constitutional amendment, the 

 city is forbidden to increase its indebtedness 

 beyond an amount equal to ten per cent, of 

 the valuation of the real estate within its limits. 

 The assessed valuation for 1888 was $1,302,- 

 818,879. An examination of the above state- 

 ment will show that the gross bonded indebt- 

 edness is $132,445,095.46, while the amount 

 held by the sinking-fund for the redemption 

 of the "city's debt is $44,434,090.12. The net 

 indebtedness of the city, therefore, amounts 

 to $88,010,405.34. For the purchase of new 

 parks, for the improvement of the river-front, 

 and for the discharge of other obligations al- 

 ready imposed upon it, says the Mayor, the 

 city will be compelled to issue additional bonds 

 amounting to about $19,561,000. The city's 

 net income accruing to the sinking-fund for 

 1889 is estimated at over $9,000,000. It is 

 fair, therefore, to assume that during the cur- 

 rent year the city will be compelled to increase 

 its indebtedness by about $10,000,000. As by 

 the provisions of the constitutional enactment 



a school-ship, the " St. Mary's." The average 

 attendance at the grammar schools during the 

 year was 114,710; at the primarv schools, 19,- 

 538; total 134,248. The total number taught 

 at the grammar schools during the year was 

 214,461; at the primary schools, 40,328; to- 

 tal, 254,789. At the evening schools the aver- 

 age attendance was 7,357, and the total number 

 taught was 21,839. According to the financial 

 statement of funds down to Jan. 1, 1889, the to- 

 tal resources were $5,589,525.59 ; total expend- 

 iture, $4,503,797.71 ; total sum relinquished, 

 $18,503.55 ; total balance of all funds, Dec. 31, 

 1888, $1,067,224.33. The chief details of the 

 expenditures were : Salaries of teachers in 

 grammar and primary schools, $2,824,327.69; 

 salaries of janitors in grammar and primary 

 schools, $124,232.68 ; salaries of professors et 

 al. in Normal College, $74,468.94; salaries of 

 teachers in training department, $19,185.62; 

 salaries of janitor and engineer in Normal Col- 

 lege, etc., $3,999.99 ; salaries of teachers and 

 janitors in evening schools, $109,661.69 ; sala- 

 ries of officers and clerks of Board of Education, 

 $39,490.56; salary of counsel to the board, 

 $3,000 ; salaries of city superintendent and as- 

 sistants, $34,558.47 ; salaries of truant agents, 

 $11,781.79; support of nautical school, $27,- 

 541.86; depository books, maps, supplies, etc., 

 $144,709.19; rents of school-buildings, $40,- 

 664.24; fuel, $93,021.34; gas, $18,381.89. 



Vital Statistics. The president of the Board 

 of Health is James C. Bayles. According to 



