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NEW YORK CITY. 



$1,190,428.36; rents, $126,625; armories and 

 drill rooms rents, $39,050; armories and drill 

 rooms wages, $49,776; judgments, $750,000: 

 Law Department, $213,500: Department of 

 Public Works, $3,148,770 ; Department of Pub- 

 lic Parks, $1,003,150 ; Department of Street Im- 

 provements, Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth 

 Wards. $310,200; Department of Public Chari- 

 ties and Correction, $2,170,125; Health Depart- 

 ment, $435,138; Police Department, $5,045,- 

 468.31 ; Department of Street Cleaning, $1.978,- 

 540; Fire Department, $2,301,282; Department 

 of Taxes and Assessments, $120,520 ; Board of 

 Education, $4,448,355.64 ; College of the City of 

 New York, $148,000; Normal College, $125,000; 

 printing, stationery, and blank books, $256,200 ; 

 Municipal Service examining boards, $25,000; 

 coroners, $54,700; commissioners of accounts, 

 $32,500; sheriff, $120,232; register, $130,250; 

 Bureau of Elections, $411.300; preservation of 

 public records, $45.930 ; fund for street and park 

 openings, $306,915.20; jurors' fees, $50.000; 

 salaries city courts, $383,300; salaries judici- 

 ary, $1,098,810 ; miscellaneous, $174,147.73 ; char- 

 itable institutions, $1,232,716.10; total, $35,881,- 

 205.19. Deduct general fund, $3,000,000. Grand 

 total, $32,881,205.19. 



This shows that the amount allowed for 1892 

 is $35,881,205.19, which is reduced by deducting 

 the general fund made up by receipts from vari- 

 ous sources during the year, including the un- 

 expended balances of previous years, amounting 

 to $3,000,000. The total amount to be raised 

 by taxation is $32,881,205.19, which, as com- 

 pared with the allowance made for 1891, shows 

 a nominal reduction of about $300,000 ; but as a 

 matter of fact, the actual expenses of the city 

 government have been increased about $1,000,- 

 000. Of this amount, the sum of $400,000 must 

 be allowed to the Department of Street Clean- 

 ing, and $200,000 additional to the Board of 

 Education. 



Wealth of the City. By law the first Mon- 

 day in July is fixed for the Common Council to 

 receive the tax rolls. It was found that the as- 

 sessed value in 1891 of the city's real estate was 

 $1,464.247,820, an increase of $65,957,813 over 

 that of 1890. The total personal estate was es- 

 timated at $321,609,518, an increase of $22,921,- 

 135. The total of the real and personal estate 

 of the city was found to be $1,785,857,338, which 

 shows an increase of $88,878,948. In detail the 

 rolls are as follow : 



ASSESSED VALUE, 1890. 



Personal estate. 



Resident $233,184,137 



Non-resident 14.854,931 



Shareholders and banks 73,570,450 



Total personal estate $321,609,518 



Department of Public Parks. This bu- 

 reau is under the direction of a board of four 

 commissioners as follows : Albert Gallup, Presi- 

 dent, Waldo Hutchins, Nathan Straus, and 

 Paul Dana. Headquarters of the board are at 

 51 Chambers Street. 



During the year the department completed 

 the improvement of Riverside Park from 72d to 

 79th Street, and partially widened and partially 

 extended the bridle paths in Central Park 

 Work was also begun on the small parks on 

 Park Avenue between 56th and 67th Streets, on 

 the plaza at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street, 

 and the park entrance at 106th Street and 

 Eighth Avenue. Plans have also been prepared 

 for the Macomb's Dam bridge. Two other 

 events of the year were the Sunday opening of 

 the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proved 

 a great success. 



At the Metropolitan Museum 170,000 persons 

 visited the collection from May till the close of 

 the year, showing an average attendance of 

 6,000 each Sunday, while on week days the aver 

 age was over 700 persons. On Oct. 1 the 

 Washington Bridge passed into the control of 

 the Park Board, which then appropriated $6,000 

 to pay the salaries of those who have been hold- 

 ing over under the commission. 



During the summer months free concerts were 

 given in the parks in different portions of the 

 city, there having been -one every night in one 

 park or another. A large number of settees 

 have been added to Central Park and Riverside 

 Drive, and the driveways and bridle paths in 

 Central Park have been increased and improved. 



An entrance to Central Park is being erected 

 at 106th Street and Eighth Avenue. The de- 

 partment engineer has prepared plans for the 

 bridge over the Harlem river, which is to re- 

 place McComb's Dam Bridge. The cost will 

 be $1,250,000. 



At a meeting of the Park Board on Dec. 30 it 

 was decided to grant the petition of the Naval 

 Reserve and allow the battalion to use Castle 

 Garden as an armory. This arrangement is not 

 to be permanent, and it is expressly stipulated 

 that it is to continue only until the permanent 

 use of the building is decided upon. 



Surrogate's Court (Rastus S. Ransom, Sur- 

 rogate). During the year the surrogate heard 

 2.873 motions and wrote 2,303 decisions. He 

 listened to 220 will contests, admitted 1,446 wills 

 to probate and rejected 11, and has but 13 con- 

 tested will cases at present unfinished. In all, 

 1,600 wills were offered for probate during the 

 year. Letters of administration to the number 

 of 2,871 were granted, and 1,485 documents were 

 filed. He signed 13,970 orders and decrees, and 

 clerks in his office recorded 217,188 folios. He 

 issued 570 orders on compulsory accountings. 

 The sum of $693,785 was certified to the Comp- 

 troller as being the amount of collateral inherit- 

 ance tax upon estates as assessed and fixed. 



Judiciary. In the Supreme Court (Presid- 

 ing Justice, Charles H. Van Brunt; Associate 

 Justices, George P. Andrews, George C. Barrett, 

 George L. Ingraham. Abraham R. Lawrence, 

 .Morgan J. O'Brien, and Edward Patterson) 

 about 1,400 cases were tried by juries, and 1,202 

 at Special Term. There were 155 divorces 

 granted. More cases are left on the calendar to 



