Wm. Oland Bourne Left-handed Penmanship Contest Box 4 Folder 2 Series 1 193-200 1865 Dec 30 Series 1 193 Wm Thomas 1 Page A Reminiscence of the War It is a question which suggests itself to the mind; but which prudence forbids to ask, when conversing with the brave soldiers, Did you enlist from patriotic, or mercenary motives? In my own case I will not say, but relate the incidents, and leave an impartial public to decide. I enlisted at camp Deleware, Ohio, Sept 28, 1863, in the fifth Regiment U.S. col'd Infantry, in company D, in which I served as Sergeant untill my discharge. At that time no bounty was paid to colored soldiers, and $7.00 per month was paid to such as would accept. It was under these circumstances that I, with many other young men, entered the service, and for a year we received no pay. During the first four months, after leaving Ohio, my regiment was stationed at Norfolk, Va. and was the principle participant in the famous "General Wild's raid" in North Carolina, in the latter part of 63. After this we removed to Yorktown, Va. and contented ourselves with making occasional reconnaissance toward Richmond, on the Deep Bottom road. 2 page on one of these occasions we encountered Gen'l Kilpatrick's ?omes who were returning from their well remembered raid down the Shenandoah Valley. Each surpassing the other to be the enemy, we remained under arms all night; however, daylight setting matters right, we had a pleasant shaking of the hands and a laugh over our mistake. In April we received orders to report to Fortress Monroe, to join the expedition finting out under Maj Gen'l Butler. For the campaign up the James we embarked and landed at City Point, Va. May 4th 1864, where we employed the time in alternate picket and fatigue duty. Here we began the campaign in earnest. Shortly after this, we removed to the right of the Ap- pomatttox, were the same routine of duty awaited us. On the 14th of June we reversed, and on the fifteenth participated in the first assault upon the city of Petersburg. From that time up to the 18th of the month, we were engaged with the enemy, the last day being a direct assault upon their works. From this untill July 30th, our ranks became gradually depleted. On that occasion we were not active par- ticipants, but held the lines to the right of the assaulting columns. 3 page During August we lay in the the trenches, quietly watch- ing the enemy, and now and then witnessing bril- liant displays of pyrotechs, gotten up at our ex- pense by the enemy. On the 29 of Sept, 1864, having in the meantime, removed from Petersburg, to Deep Bottom, we made a direct assault upon the enemy's lines, with the inten- tion of capturing Richmond, though, we but partially succeeded in our design Here, as most of the officers were hors de combat the command of the campaign naturally devolved upon the non-commission officers, who, I am proud to say, discharged their duties to the entire statisfaction of superiors. On the 30 of Sept, we repelled the assault made by the enemy to recapture Fort Harrison, repulsing them with great loss they having made seven consecutive charges. our loss was comparatively few. On October 27th we made that detour which enable General Meade to capture 4000 prisoners on the Melvan Rail Road. [*4th pg*] From this untill December 7th we were quiet[*,*] and watching the movements of the enemy. On this day we sailed in the first expedition to Fort Fisher. Our genl we caused a reembarkation - January 4th 65. Under Gen'l Perry we effected a landing[*,*] and at once invested the fort[*;*] our part of the work being to protect the rear from attacked. With a[] entire sweep[*,*] we remained to complete arrangements for a further advance. One month and a half later found us wending our way toward the Sugar Loaf fortifications[*,*] which we invested and captured without loss of life. From this we marched to Wilmington[*,*] North Carolina[*;*] while engaged in developing the strenth of the enemy[*,*] I received a wound which reselted in the loss of my right arm. I was removed north to Hospital[*,*] where I remained[*,*] July 25[*,*]-65. When I was discharged from the service. Here my naration ends;[*,*] but I will add[*,*] that the government seeing the injustice did me in regard to pay;[*,*] paid me the same as other soldiers from January 1st[*,*] 64.. 5 page In conclusion, we ask no favors in our behalf, but we do ask, if such devotion is not a test of Loyalty? and since the evidence is so conclu- sive, and we have shared alike in the dangers and vicissitudes of the war, might we not to partake of all the immunities pertaining to the rights of citizens, even, as our Anglo saxon Brothers? What say you? We ask this in the name of the noble braves, who first at Milikens bend, by retiring and fidelity to the union, succeeding in repelling a vast horde of would be conquerors, and again at fort Hudson, where by their deeds of valor, they showed to the world their fearlessness of death in the cause of liberty and justice. and again at Fort Wagner, and olustee, and time Warn Md to desist. Petersburg, new market heights, Fort Guliver, and Haney Hill, Nashville, Wilmington, and Fort fisher, with their wounded and dying nerves present themselves to our mental visions, asking that justice may be meted out to those living defenders of American Liberty. [*page 6*] List of Engagement, in which I have participated [*,*] Prestonburg, Ky- [*,*] Cumberland ?ap[*,*] Tenn[*.*] Jackson[*,*] and Vicksburg, Miss[*.*] Peterburge.[*.*] new Market Heights[*,*] Fort Harrison.[*,*] Va Fort Fisher. [*,*] Sugar Loaf Fortifications[*,*] and Wilmington[*,*] North Carolina. The Sutter place[*,*] I was wounded Feb 20[*,*] 65[*.*] which resulted in the amputation of right Arm[*,*] Will H. Thomas. Sergeant Co. I Fifth Regiment U.S.C.I Captain U.L. Marvin. - Post Office address. Kent Portage Co. Ohio Col. Giles W. Shurtleff P. O. Oberlin Ohio No 193 - Dec 30/65 Mr Bourne, Pardon my lateness in sending in the "manuscript" I could not get the time to write before, and completed this. this morning in a-- about one hour, I conclude it is quite prob able no prise will be forthcoming for this attempt hoping to hear from you Soon I am yours Will H. [Thomas?] Box 92 Alleghenny City Penn Wm. Oland Bourne No 12. Centre Street New York City [*Ruip 1 Sept. 27, 1865*] A reminiscence of the War. It is a question which sergests itself to the mind but which prudence forbids to ask. When conversing with the brave soldiers of the union. Did you enlist from patriotic or mercenary motives? in my own case I will not say, but relate the incidents and Leave an impartial Public to decide. I enlisted at Camp Deleware Ohio Sept 23d 1863 in the Fifth Regt. U. S. Colored Troops. in company J commanded by Capt U. S. Manim, in which Company I served as sergeant untill my discharge. I will here state that the Regt was commanded by Col Giles N. Shirtleff from Oberlin Ohio. At that time, no Bounty was paid to colored soldiers and $7 00 per month pay was given to such as would accept - it was under these circumstances that I, with many other young men entered the servince and for a year we received no pay. During the first four months after leaving the Ohio. my Regt was station at Norfolk Va and was the principal participant in the famous Genl Wild's raid in North Carolina in the latter part of 63. After this, we removed to Yorktown Va, and contented ourselves with making occasional reconnonisence toward Richmond, on the Deep Bottom road on one of these occasions we encountered Genl Kilpatrick forces who were returning from their well remembered raid down the "Shennandoah Valley," Each suposeing the other to be the Enemy, we remained under arms all night, however daylight seting matters right, we had a pleasant shaking of the hands and a laugh over our mistake. 2 In April. we received orders to report to Fortress Monroe to join the Expedition, puting out under Maj Genl Butler, for the Campaign up the "James." We embarked, and landed at City point. Va. May 4th 64. Where we employed [the] the time inn alternate picket and fatique Duty - here we begann the campaign in ernest. Shortly after this we removed to the right of the "Appomattox" where the Same Routine of Duty awaited us. On the 14th of Junne we recrossed and on the fifteenth, participated in the first assault upon the city of Petersburge. from that time up to the 18th of the month. we were engaged with the enemy the Last day being a direct assault upon their works - from this time, untill July 30th. our ranks became gradually depleted - on that occasion we were not active participents, But held the Line to the right of the assaulting colum. During August, we Lay in the Trenches quietly wacthimg the Enemy - and now, and then, witnessing brillient discharges of pyrotechnics, apparently gottenn up at our expense, by the besieged. On the 29th Sept 64. Having in the meantime removed from Petersburge to Deep Bottem.- we made a Direct assult upon the Enemy's Line, with the intention of captureing Richmond, and but partially succeeded in our design. Here as most of the officers were Hors De combat. The commanded of the companies naturely devolved on the non commission offincers, who I am proud. to say dischareged. their duties to the entire 3 Satisfaction of their superiors- on the 30th of Sept. we repeled the assault. Made by the enemy to recapture Ft. Harrison, repulseing them with great loss they having made seven Consetutive charges - our Loss was comparitively few- On Oct 27th we made that "Detour" which assisted Gen'l Meade in capturing 4,000 prisoners on the Weldon Rail Road. from this untill Dec 7th we were quit and wacthings the movement of The Enemy. on this day we sailed in the first expedition to Fort Fisher. [em penilme?] caused a rerembarkatiom of The Troops Jan 4th 65- Under Genl Terry we suecceeded inn effecting a Landing. and at once invested the Fort. Our part of the work being to protect the rear from attacked- With our entire success. we remained to complete arrangements for a father advance. one, and a half months. Later found us wending our way toward the Sueger Loaf fortifications - Which we invested and captured without loss of Life - from this we marched on toward Wilmigton N. C. While engaged in developing the strenth of the Enemy - I received a wound. which resulted in the loss of my right Armn. I was removed north to Hosp where I remained untill July 25th 65 when I was Dischareged from the service. here my narration ends but I will add - That the Government. seeing The injustice 4 did no in regard to pay - paid the same as other soldiers from Jan 1st 64. In conclusion - we ask no favor's in our own behalf, but we do ask, if such Devotion is not a test of Loyalty and since the evidence is so conclusive, and we have Sharred alike in the Danger's and viciscitudes of The War. aught we not to pertake of all the immunities pertaining to the rights rights of the citezen's even as our white brother. What say you.? We ask This. in The name of The noble braves. Who first at Miliken's friend by untiring zeal and fidelity to the union - succeeded in repelling a vast Horde of these would be conquerers and again at Fort Hudson, where by their Deeds of valor, they showed to the world their fearlessness of Death in the cause of Liberty and Justice. and again at Fort Muyner and Olnstee and time wanes us to desist whom. Petersburge, New Market Heights, Fort Girlner and Honey Hill, Nashville Wilmington and Fort Fisher with their dead and dying Heroes. presenting themselves to our mental vision. asking that justice may be meted out to those Living Deffenders of American Liberty. We say no more but submit this appeal to the candid and sincere judgement of the American people A wounded Soldier, Alleghany City Sept 27th 65 No 193 - Dec 30 65 Beaty Hall Sept 27th 65 Gentlemen. I noticed your liberal offer a few days ago, and entended to send the enclosed not to compete for the prizes, but to give an expression of a Colored man's view on the subject of The war. I am a young man 22 years of age. I Live in Deleware Ohio and entered the Service When 18 year old. I escaped all the Dangers of The War untill Feb 20th 65. You will see I say I ellisted Sept 23d 63 this is correct as I went into the Colored organization at that time - before I was a member of a white organization. I lost my arm - and now I am finishing my Theological Studies preparatory to entering the ministry I study at the "West Theo Seminary" at This City now - I dont expect to secure a position as clerk being proscribed on account of my color but if you Gentlemen will assist me in obtaining my education by helping me to get an appointment as Teacher south in the spring I shall be deeply obliged or if you have any second hand Books that can be be Bought cheap I shouuld like to get them Especially - Theological Works. You can address either here or at my Home. Address Home. Will H. Thomas Box 240 Deleware Ohio My present address untill spring will be Will H. Thomas Box 92 Allegheny City Pa Hope to hear from you soon about The Books - Page. 1st The incidents of a day' march. There are a thousand little episodes known to every soldier, which if reduced to writing, would form interesting incidents in the future pages of History; But, which one hid forever from public notice; unless some event, should call them forth. With this introduction, one begins our story. It, was on one of those bright mornings in autumne; when the goldenn Leaves begin to shed their bright colors: and while our armies were opperating before Richmond, that we received orders to prepare three days rations, and be ready to start, at a moments notice. Page 2. The Sun was just Emerging from the Eastern Horizon, when with the bright colors of our Regiment, gleaming in his golden rays; we past General B. Headquarters, on our way to join the main columne. The men seemed to be unusually cheerful, in thought, and happy expressions, though, coupled at times with great solemnity, and who will say, but, that many of this noble who fell that day, victims to a ruthless and mercenary fore, saw their destiny in the dim vista of the future. During the forepart of the day, the sun shone brilliently, apperently promising us a pleasant march, But in this, we were mistaken, for toward the middle of the afternoon Page 3. The sky darkened, Heavy clouds were seen gathering in the west; presenting every indication of a storm. Coming to the Williamsburge, and Richmond Road, we found our father progress impeded by a Line of worrks, throw directly acrossed the road; Evidently, belonging to the Enemy. We formed a line of Battle, and Lay down, to await further developments of the Enemy's presence. Having, in the meantime, sent out skirmishers to cover our front. presently the sharp cracking from the Rifles of our sharpshooters told too plainly, that fighting had begun in ernest; our Boys were on their feet in a moment, [*?*] Page 4th. and ready for action. As if a fit sequel to the incessent roar of musketry, the deep thunder tones of our "parrots," echoed most fearfully in the distance, as shot, after shot, found its way into the closed "columns" of the Enemy, scattering the missiles of destruction, in every direction. We contemplated in Silence, this wonderful exhibition of courage, and stragetical knollege, on the part of our troops, for though, the dying, and wounded, were thickly strewn around them, yet, while tenderly caring for these; they held triple they number at bay. night coming on we prepared to withdraw, Having accomplished our design. A feigned attack[ed] Page 6 on the outer defenses of Richmond, this, giving General Meade an oppertunity, of our attacked on the South Side rail road, [which he immposed,] with entire sucess. Now came the hardest part of the recomnissennce, Rain had fallen during the day, and the road was flooded with water, this together with the darkness; rendered it almost impusible to get along. And, as the colum wound slowly down the road, doubtless, we presented quite a ferlorne apperance; as one, after another, mizsing their footing, would fall full lenght in the mud; and thenn call piteously for a comrade to Lend, a helping hand. Page 6 But we bore it patiently. [Sorry] after three oclock, we reached our outer Lines, throughly exausted. Hastily partaking of a Hot cup of coffee, the Soldier Friend, - we Rolled ourselves in our Blankets, and Lay down to Rest. our thoughts reverting back to the happy days of 'yore; when no traitor's hand had been Lifted against our flag; when we were enjoying the comforts of home, and companionship of friends, with no thoughts of war; and its terible reselts. And, with a prayer to our heavenly father to restore peace, and tranquility, to the Land, our hearts full of Loyal Emotions, and Ernest devotions, to our country. We Entered dreamland. Page 7 Will. H. Thomas. Sergeant Co D. 5th Regt. Capt U. S. Marin. Co I 5th Regt U. S. C. T. present p.o. Address "Kent Portage Co. Ohio." Col. Giles W. Shurtleff, P. O. Oberlin Ohio. List of Engagemennts. Prestonburge Ky. Cumberland Gap Tenn Jackson. and Vicksburge. Miss. Peterbuge. New market Heights. Fort. Gilner. Fort Harrison. Fair Oaks. Va Fort Fisher. Sugar Loaf Fortification, Wilmington North Carolina. at which place I was first wounded, resulting in the Loss of my right Arm. Febuary 20th 1865 [*193*] [*W H Thomas*] [*5th Colored Infy*] February 24, 1881. THE CITY RECORD. 329 (column 1 of 4) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. _________ STATEMENT OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH all the Public Offices in the City are open for business, and at which each Court regularly opens and adjourns, as well as of the places where such offices are kept and such Courts are held ; together with the heads of Departments and Courts. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Mayor's Office. No. 6 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM R. GRACE, Mayor ; JOHN TRACEY, Chief Clerk ; WILLIAM M. IVINS, Secretary. Mayor's Marshal's Office. No. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. CHARLES REILLY, First Marshal. Permit and License Bureau Office. No. 1 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. HENRY WOLTMAN, Registrar. Sealers and Inspectors of Weights and Measures. No. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM EYLERS, Sealer First District; THOMAS BRADY, Sealer Second District ; JOHN MURRAY, Inspector First District ; JOSEPH SHANNON, Inspector Second District. ________ LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of Clerk of Common Council. No. 8 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. President Board of Aldermen. FRANCIS J. TWOMEY, Clerk Common Council. _______ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Commissioner's Office. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. HUBERT O. THOMPSON, Commissioner ; FREDERICK H. HAMLIN, Deputy Commissioner. Bureau of Water Register. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 . P. M. JOHN H. CHAMBERS, Register. Bureau of Incumbrances. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, Superintendent. Bureau of Lamps and Gas. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN McCORMICK, Superintendent. Bureau of Streets. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JAMES J. MOONEY, Superintendent. Bureau of Sewers. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEVENSON TOWLE, Engineer-in-Charge. Bureau of Chief Engineer. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN C. CAMPBELL, Chief Engineer. Bureau of Street Improvements. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ORGE A. JEREMIAH, Superintendent. Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS KEECH, Superintendent. Bureau of Water Purveyor. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL O'REILLY, Water Purveyor. Keeper of Buildings in City Hall Park. JOHN F. SLOPER, City Hall. _________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Comptroller's Office. Nos. 19 and 20 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller : RICHARD A. STORRS, Deputy Comptroller. Auditing Bureau. No. 19 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL JACKSON, Auditor of Accounts. Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents. No. 5 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ARTEMAS CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. Bureau for the Collection of City Revenues and of Markets. No. 6 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS F. DEVOE, Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets. Bureau for the Collection of Taxes. First floor Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park. MARTIN T. McMAHON, Receiver of Taxes; ALFRED VREDENBURG, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. Bureau of the City Chamberlain. No. 18 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. NELSON TAPPAN, City Chamberlain. _________ LAW DEPARTMENT Office of the Counsel to the Corporation. Staats Zeitung Building, third floor, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, Counsel to the Corporation. ANDREW T CAMPBELL, Chief Clerk. Office of the Public Administrator. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator. Office of the Corporation Attorney. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM A. BOYD Corporation Attorney. __________ POLICE DEPARTMENT. Central Office. No. 300 Mulberry street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN B. FRENCH, President; SETH C. HAWLEY Chief Clerk DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. Central Office. No. 66 Third avenue, corner Eleventh street, 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. JACOB HESS, President ; GEORGE F. BRITTON, Secretary _________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. Headquarters. Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street. VINCENT C. KING, President ; CARL JUSSEN, Secretary. Bureau of Chief of Department. ELI BATES, Chief of Department. Bureau of Inspector of Combustibles. PETER SEERY, Inspector of Combustibles. (Column 2 of 4) Bureau of Fire Marshal. GEORGE H. SHELDON, Fire Marshal. Bureau of Inspection of Buildings. Wm. P. ESTERBROOK, Inspector of Buildings. Office hours, Headquarters and Bureaus, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. (Saturdays to 3 P. M.) Fire Alarm Telegraph. J. ELLIOT SMITH, Superintendent of Telegraph. Repair Shops. Nos. 128 and 130 West Third street. JOHN McCABE, Captain-in-Charge, 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Hospital Stables. No. 199 Christie street. DEDERICK G. GALE, Superintendent of Horses. _______ HEALTH DEPARTMENT. No. 301 Mott street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President; EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. ________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS No. 36 Union square, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. EDWARD P. BARKER, Secretary. Civil and Topographical Office. Arsenal, 64th street a d 5th avenue, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Office of Superintendent of 23d and 24th Wards. Fordham 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. EUGENE T. LYNCH, Secretary. ________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS Brown-stone Building, City Hal Park, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS B. ASTEN, President; ALBERT STORER, Secretary. ________ BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Office, City Hall, Room No. 11 1/2, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN R. LYDECKER, Chairman ; Wm. H. JASPER, Secretary. ______ BOARD OF EXCISE. Corner Mulberry and Houston streets, 9 A. m. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, President ; J. B. ADAMSON, Chief Clerk. ________ SHERIFF'S OFFICE. Nos. 3 and 4 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. PETER BOWE, Sheriff ; JOEL O. STEVENS, Under Sheriff. _______ REGISTER'S OFFICE. East side City Hall Park, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. AUGUSTUS T. DOCHARTY, Register ; J. FAIRFAX McLAUGHLIN, Deputy Register. ________ HEALTH DEPARTMENT. HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, } No. 301 MOTT STREET, } NEW YORK, February 12, 1881. } AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH of the Health Department of the City of New York, held at its office on the 8th day of February, 1881, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That under the power conferred by law upon the Health Department, the following amendment of the Sanitary Code for the security of life an health be and the same is hereby adopted , and declared to form a portion of the Sanitary Code: Resolved, That section 85 of the Sanitary Code be and is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 85. That no petroleum oil., kerosene, oil (or other liquid having like composition or qualities as a burning fluid as said oil) shall be kept or exposed or offered for sale as a burning fluid for lamps or any receptacle for the purpose of illumination, nor shall such oil or fluid or any description thereof be sold or kept or exposed or offered for sale or given away for use, or be used as a burning fluid for any such lamp or receptacle, or by kept in such use, unless such oil or fluid shall be of such quality and ingredients that it shall stand and be equal to the following test and conditions, to wit: It shall not evolve in inflammable vapor at a temperature below one hundred (100) degrees of the Fahrenheit thermometer. [L. S.] CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President. EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. _________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } No. 66 THIRD AVENUE. } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR GROCERIES, TIN, AND MISCELLANEOUS MERCHANDISE. SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING Groceries, Etc. 12,000 pounds Dairy Butter (sample on exhibition March 5,1881.) 20,000 fresh Eggs (all to be candled). 50 barrels Oatmeal. 100 prime quality City Cured Hams. 100 " " Tongues. 20 barrels Pickles (40 gallon barrels, 2,000 to the barrel). 20 kits No. 1 Mackerel (20 pounds net each). 1,000 barrels good sound Irish Potatoes (to weigh 168 pounds net per barrel.) 250 bales best quality Timothy Hay. 100 barrels bet quality Carrots (145 pounds per barrel net). 100 barrels best quality Russia Turnips (145 pounds per barrel net). TIN 25 boxes 14x20 XX best Charcoal Tin. 1,000 pounds L. and F. Block Tin. 10 bundles 1-inch Hoop Iron. MISCELLANEOUS. 20 kegs rod. Cut Nails. 5 kegs Turned Roofing Nails. 5 barrels best quality Raw Linseed Oil 50 barrels Charcoal. 1,000 U. S. Infantry Caps. 35 barrels Rockland Lime, for new pavilion, Hart's Island. 1 coil best quality 6-inch Manila Rope. 1 " 3-inch " 1 " 2-inch " —or any part thereof, will be received at the office of the Department of Public Charities and Correction, in the City of New York, until 9 1/2 o 'clock A. M. of Monday, the 7th day of March, 1881. The person or persons making any bid or estimate shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed "Bid or Estimate for Groceries, Tin, and Miscellaneous Merchandise." and with his or their (Column 3 of 4) name or names, and the date of presentation, to the head of said Department, at the said office, on or before the day and hour above named, at which time and place the bids or estimates received will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest, and to accept any bid or estimate as a whole, or any one of or more articles included therein. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or a contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The award of the contract will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Delivery will be required to be made from time to time, at such times and in such quantities as may be directed by the said Department; but the entire quantity will be required to be delivered on or before thirty (30) days after the date of the contract. Any bidder for this contract must be known to be engaged in and well prepared for the business, and must have satisfactory testimonials to that effect; and the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded will be required to give security for the performance of the contract by his or their bond, with two sufficient sureties, in the penal amount of fifty (50) per cent. of the estimated amount of the contract. Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same ; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein ; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; that it is is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud ; and that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect, that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they shall pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting; the amount in each chase to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety or otherwise; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by section 27 of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of New York, if the contract shall be awarded to the person or persons for whom he consents to become surety. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York. Should the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded neglect or refuse to accept to contract within forty-eight (48) hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or if he or they accept but do not execute the contract and give the proper security, or he or they shall be considered as having abandoned it and as in default to the Corporation, and the contract will be readvertised, and reset as provided by law. The quality of the articles, supplies, goods, wares, and merchandise must conform in every respect to the samples of the same respectively at the office of the said Department. Bidders are cautioned to examine the specifications for particulars of the articles, etc., required, before making their estimates. Bidders will state the price for each article, by which the bids will be tested. Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures. Payment will be made by a requisition on the Comptroller, issued on the completion of the contract, or from time to time as the Commissioners may determine. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instruction of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Corrections. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest, and to accept any bid or estimate as a whole, or for any one or more articles included therein. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment, can be obtained at the office of the Department. Dated New York, February 19, 1881. JACOB HESS, TOWNSEND COX, THOMAS S. BRENNAN. Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction. _________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } No. 66 THIRD AVENUE, } NEW YORK, February 10, 1881. } IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDINANCE OF the Common Council. "In relation to the burial of strangers or unknown persons who may die in any of the public institutions of the City of New York," the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction report as follows: At Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island - Ann McKelligott; aged 40 years; 5 feet 2 inches high ; black hair and eyes. Had on when admitted brown calico wrapper, broche shawl, black straw hat. At Workhouse, Blackwell's Island - John Kelly ; aged 40 years. Committed November 17, 1881. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. At Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island - Mary Ann Brown; aged 60 years ; 5 feet 2 inches high ; gray hair ; brown eyes. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. Maria Fleming ; aged 35 years ; 5 feet 5 inches high ; brown hair ; gray eyes. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Homœopathic Hospital, Ward's Island - William Shea ; aged 33 years ; 5 feet 8 inches high ; blue eyes ; brown hair. Had on when admitted blue overalls, dark woolen shirt, black felt hat. Nothing known of this friends or relatives. John Trainor ; aged 26 years ; 5 feet 6 inches high ; gray eyes ; black hair. Had on when admitted black coat and pants, blue vest. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. By Order, G. F. BRITTON, Secretary. _________ CORPORATION NOTICE. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lets, improved or unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following assessments have been completed and are lodged in the Office of the Board of Assessors for examination by all persons interested, viz: No. 1. Regulating, grading, curb, gutter, and flagging Thirteenth avenue, from Eleventh to Sixteenth street. (Column 4) No. 2. Paving Thirteenth avenue, from Eleventh to Sixteenth street, with granite-block pavement. No. 3. Sewer in Twelfth avenue, between One Hundred and Thirty-first and One Hundred and Thirty-third streets. No. 4. Sewer in Seventy-third street, between Eighth and Tenth avenues. No. 5. Sewer in One Hundred and Third street, between Third and Lexington avenues. No. 6. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Seventh avenue and summit east of Seventh avenue. No. 7. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth avenue and summit west of Sixth avenue. No. 8. Sewer in Avenue A, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 9. Sewer in Jackson street, between Grand and Madison streets. No. 10. Sewer in Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets. No. 11. Sewer in Macdougal street, between West Fourth street and West Washington place, from end of present sewer in West Washington place. No. 12. Sewer in Avenue B, between Seventy-ninth and Eighty-second streets. The limits embraced by such assessments include all the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lots, pieces and parcels of land, situated on - No. 1. Both side of Thirteenth avenue, between Eleventh and Sixteenth streets, and to the extent of half the block at the intersection streets. No. 2. Both sides of Thirteenth avenue, between Eleventh and Sixteenth streets, and to the extent of half the block at the intersecting streets. No. 3. Both sides of Twelfth avenue, between One Hundred and Thirtieth and One hundred and Thirty- third streets; also both sides of One Hundred and Thirty- first and One Hundred and Thirty-second streets, between Boulevard and Twelfth avenue, and south side of One Hundred and Thirty-third street, between Boulevard and Twelfth avenues. No. 4. Both sides of Seventy-third street, between the Eighth and Tenth avenues, also west side of Eighth avenue, both sides of Ninth avenue, and east side of Tenth avenue, between Seventy-second and Seventy- fourth streets. No. 5. Both sides of One Hundred and Third street, between Third and Lexington avenues, and east side of Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Third streets. No. 6. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 7. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 8. Both sides of Avenue A, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 9. Both sides of Jackson street, between Grand and Madison streets. No. 10. Both sides of Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets. No. 11. Both sides of Macdougal street, between West Fourth street and West Washington Place. No. 12. Both sides of Avenue B. between Seventy-ninth and Eighty-second streets. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, or either of them, are requested to present their objections in writing to the Board of Assessors, at their office, No. 11 1/2 City Hall, within thirty days from the date of this notice. The above described lists will be transmitted as provided by law to the Board of Revision and Correction of Assessments for confirmations, on the 25th day of March, ensuing. JOHN R. LYDECKER, EDWARD NORTH, DANIEL STANBURY, SAMUEL CONOVER. Board of Assessors. OFFICE BOARD OF ASSESSORS, } No. 11 1/2 CITY HALL, } NEW YORK, February 24, 1881. } ___________ PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lots, improved and unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following assessments have been completed and are lodged in the Office of the Board of Assessors for examination by all persons interested, viz: No. 1. Regulating, grading, setting curb and gutter stones, and flagging in One Hundred and Fifty-second street, from the Boulevard to the Hudson river. No. 2. Regulating, grading, setting curb stones and flagging full width, and paving Broadway from Manhattan street to One Hundred and Thirty-third street, with granite- block pavement. No. 3. Paving intersection of Fourth avenue with Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty- sixth streets, with Belgian pavement. No. 4. Paving One Hundred and Fourth street, between Second and Third avenues, with Belgian or trap-block pavement. No. 5. Sewer in One Hundred and Fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 6. Fencing vacant lots on the southeast and southwest corners of Madison avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street. No. 7. Constructing sewer in One Hundred and Twenty- ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 8. Constructing sewer in One Hundred and Fourth street, from 650 feet east of Tenth avenue to 75 feet west of Ninth avenue. No. 9. Sewer in Sixty-eighth street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, from end of present sewer to near Fourth avenue. No. 10. Sewer in Seventy-second street, between First and Second avenues, from end of present sewer to near Second avenue. No. 11. Sewer in Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Third and One Hundred and Fourth streets. No. 12. Sewer in Laight street, between Washington and West streets. No. 13. Fencing vacant lots on block bounded by Eightieth and Eight-first streets, Madison and Fifth avenues. No. 14. Sewer in Second avenue, between Seventy- fifth and Seventy-sixth streets. No. 15. Receiving-basin on northwest corner of Sixtieth street and Fifth avenue. No. 16. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Sixth avenue and summit wet of Sixth avenue. No. 17. Regulating, grading, setting curb and gutter stones and flagging in Ninety-third street, from Second avenue to the East river. No. 18. Receiving-basin on the southwest corner of Eleventh and Dry Dock streets. No. 19. Fencing vacant lots on the south side of Seventy- ninth street, between Fourth and Lexington avenues. No. 20. Sewer in Eleventh avenue, west side, between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth streets. No. 21. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 22. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Madison and Fifth avenues, and in Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth streets. No. 23. Receiving-basin on west side of Fifth avenue, between Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets. No. 24. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Tenth avenue and summit east of Tenth avenue. No. 25. Regulating, grading, curb, gutter, and flagging Eleventh avenue, from Fifty-ninth to Seventy-second street. The limits embraced by such assessments include a the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lots, piece and parcels of land, situated on - No. 1. Both sides One Hundred and Fifty-second street, between Boulevard and Hudson river. No. 2. Both sides of Broadway, from Manhattan to One Hundred and Thirty-third street, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersecting streets. No. 3. Both sides of Fourth avenue, between Eighty- second and Eighty-seventh streets, and to the extent of 330 THE CITY RECORD. February 24, 1881. (column 1 of 4) half of the block at the intersections of Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth streets. No. 4. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between Second and Third avenues, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersections of Second and Third avenues. No. 5. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 6. Both sides of Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Twenty-sixth and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh streets, and south side of One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, extending 110 feet east of Madison avenue and 85 feet west of Madison avenue. No. 7. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 8. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 9. Both sides of Sixty-eighth street, extending 100 feet west of Fourth avenue. No. 10. Both sides of Seventy-second street, extending 100 feet east of Second avenue. No. 11. Both sides of Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Third and One Hundred and Fourth streets. No. 12. Both side of Laight street, between Washington and West streets. No. 13. Block bound by Eightieth and Eighty-first streets, Madison and Fifth avenues. No. 14. Both sides of Second avenue, between Seventy- fifth and Seventy-sixth streets. No. 15. East side of Fifth avenue, between Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets. No. 16. Both sides of One Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 17. Both sides of Ninety-third street, between Second avenue and East river. No. 18. West side of Dry Dock street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 19. South side of Seventy-ninth street, between Lexington and Fourth avenues. No. 20. West side of Eleventh avenue, between Fifty- ninth and Sixtieth streets. No. 21. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty- seventh street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 22. Both sides one One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Madison and Fifth avenue, and both sides of Madison avenue, between One hundred and Thirteenth and One hundred and Fifteenth streets. No. 23. Central Park. No. 24. Both sides of One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 25. Both sides of Eleventh avenue, between Fifty- ninth and Seventy-second streets, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersecting streets. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, or either of them, are requested to present their objections in writing to the Board of Assessors, at their office, No. 11 1/2 City Hall, within thirty days from the date of this notice. The above described lists will be transmitted as provided by law to the Board of Revision and Correction of Assessments for confirmation, on the 14th day of March ensuing. JOHN R. LYDECKER, EDWARD NORTH, DANIEL STANBURY, SAMUEL CONOVER, Board of Assessors. OFFICE BOARD OF ASSESSORS, } NO. 11 1/2 CITY HALL, } NEW YORK, February 12, 1881. } ___________ POLICE DEPARTMENT. POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, } PROPERTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ROOM NO. 39, NO. 300 MULBERRY STREET, } NEW YORK, February 5, 1881. } OWNERS WANTED BY THE PROPERTY Clerk of the Police Department of the City of New York, Room No. 39, 300 Mulberry street, for the following property now in his custody without claimants : Boats, rope, harness, trunks and contents, bags, straw hats, coffee, blankets, boots, shoes, tea, revolvers, gold and silver watches, accordeons, etc ; also small amount of money found and taken from prisoners by Patrolmen of this Department. C. A. ST. JOHN, Property Clerk. _________ ASSESSMENT COMMISSION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A MEETING of the Commissioners under the Act, chapter 550 of the Laws of 1880, entitled "An Act relating to certain assessments for local improvements int he City of New York," passed June 9, 1880, will be held at their office, No. 27 Chambers street, on Wednesday, February 23, 1881, at 2 o'clock P. M. EDWARD COOPER, JOHN KELLY, ALLAN CAMPBELL, GEORGE H. ANDREWS, DANIEL LORD, Jr., Commissioners under the Act. JAMES J. MARTIN, Clerk. _________ THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY CHAPTER 550 of the Laws of 1880, to revise, modify, or vacate assessments for local improvements in the City of New York, give notice to all persons affected thereby that the notices required by said act must be filed with the Comptroller of said city and a duplicate thereof with the Counsel to the Corporation, as follows: First. As to all assessments confirmed prior to June 9, 1880, on or before November 1, 1880. Second. As to all assessments confirmed subsequent to June 9, 1880, for local improvements theretofore completed, and as to any assessment for local improvements known as Morningside avenues, within two months after the dates upon which such assessments may be respectively confirmed. The notice must specify the particular assessment complained of, the date of confirmation of the same, the property affected thereby, and in a brief and concise manner the objections thereto, showing that the assessment was unfair or unjust in respect to said real estate. Dated NEW YORK, July 13, 1880. EDWARD COOPER, JOHN KELLY, ALLAN CAMPBELL, GEORGE H. ANDREWS, DANIEL LORD, Jr., Commissioners under the Act. __________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS, } No. 12 CHAMBERS STREET, } NEW YORK, January 10, 1881. } NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOOKS of Annual Record of the assessed valuation of Real and Personal Estate of the City and County of New York for the year 1881, will be opened for inspection and revision, on and after Monday, January 10, 1881, and will remain open until the 30th day of April, 1881, inclusive, for the correction of errors and the equalization of the assessments of the aforesaid real and person estate. All persons believing themselves aggrieved must make application to the Commissioners during the period above mentioned, in order to obtain the relief provided by law. By order of the Board. ALBERT STORER, Secretary (Column 2 of 4) SUPREME COURT. In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Parks, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of a certain road, etc., known as Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, and streets connecting the same with Broadway, from the Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris Railroad to Broadway, in the City of New York. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BILL of costs, charges, and expenses incurred by reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter will be presented for taxation to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the Chambers of said Court, in the New Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 5th day of March, 1881, at 10 1/2 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. The said bill of costs has been filed in the Department of Public Works as required by law. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, SAMUEL A. LEWIS, NATHANIEL JARVIS, Sr., Commissioners. Dated New York, February 19, 1881. __________ I the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Alder- men and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Eighth street, from Fifth avenue to the bulkhead line, Harlem river, in the City of New York. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BILL of the costs, charges, and expenses incurred by reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter, will be presented for taxation to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the Chambers of said Court, in the New Court-house, at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 5th day of March, 1881, at 10 1/2 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. The said bill of costs has been filed in the Department of Public Works, as required by law. RUFUS F. ANDREWS, CHARLES H. HASWELL, ALLEN J. CUMING, Commissioners. Dated New York, February 12, 1881. _________ THE CITY RECORD. OFFICE OF THE CITY RECORD, } No. 2 CITY HALL. } PUBLIC NOTICE. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE BUSINESS OF the CITY RECORD office will be transacted as Room No. 4, City Hall, northeast corner. THOMAS COSTIGAN. Supervisor. __________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, } 117 and 119 DUANE STREET, } NEW YORK, February 16, 1881. } TO CONTRACTORS. (No. 128.) PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING ABOUT 4,000 BARRELS of "PORTLAND" CEMENT. ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING THIS MATERIAL will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department Docks, at the office of said Department, Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, in the City of New York, until 12 o'clock M. of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1881. at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contract, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Any person making an estimate for the work shall fur- nish the same in a sealed envelope to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The bidder to whom the award is made shall give security for the faithful performance of the contract, in the manner prescribed and required by ordinance, in the sum of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars. The cement required under the contract must be "Portland" cement, fully up to the standard of the best brands imported, and average at least 400 pounds gross weight to the barrel. The quantity to be delivered under the contract is 4,000 barrels, and the delivery is to be made in such a manner as shall be necessary to furnish at least 500 barrels on or before the 10th day of April, 1881, and at least 500 barrels within every ten days thereafter, until the whole quantity shall have been delivered. The contract is to be fully completed and to terminate on the 1st day of July, 1881. The damages to be paid by the Contract for each day that the contract, or any part thereof, may be unfulfilled, after the respective times specified for the fulfillment thereof may have expired, Sundays and holidays not to be excepted, are, but a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at Fifty Dollars per day. The empty barrels will be relinquished to the Contractor, as provided for in the specifications, and bidders must estimate the value of the empty barrels, when considering the price for which they will furnish the Cement under the contract. Bidders will state in their estimates the price for each barrel of Cement to be furnished in conformity with the annexed specifications. By this price the bids will be tested. This price is to cover all expenses of every kind involved in or incidental to the delivery, including any claim that may arise through delay, from any cause, in the receiving of the material by the Department. Bidders will distinctly write out, both in figures and in words, the amount of their estimates for furnishing this material. Should the lowest bidder or bidders neglect or refuse to accept to contract within forty-eight (48) hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or estimate, or if, after acceptance, he or they should refuse or neglect to execute the contract and give the proper security for forty-eight (48) hours after notice that the contract is ready for execution, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it, and as in default to the Corporation ; and the contract will be re-advertised and re-let, and so on until it be accepted and executed. Bidders are required to state in their estimates their names and places of residence; the names of all persons interested with them therein; and if no other person be so interested, the estimate shall distinctly state that fact; also that the estimate is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and that it is in all respects fair, and without collusion or fraud ; and also that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof, or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof ; which estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of (Column 3 of 4) New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person or persons making the estimate, they will, upon its being so awarded, become bound as his or their sureties for its faithful performance; and that if said person or persons shall omit or refuse to execute the contract, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which said person or persons would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person to whom the contract amy be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested ; the consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of the contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities as bail, surety, and otherwise; and that he has offered himself as surety in good faith, and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York, after the award is made and prior to the signing of the contract. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instructions of the Engineer-in-Chief. No estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation, upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The right to decline all the estimates is reserved, if deemed for the interest of the Corporation. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the material, is annexed. Bidders are required, in making their bids or estimates, to use the blank prepared for that purpose by the Department, a copy of which, together with the form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the material, can be obtained upon application therefor at the office of the Department. HENRY F. DIMOCK, JACOB VANDERPOEL, WILLIAM LAIMBEER, Commissioners of the Department of Docks. _________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK, } 155 & 157 MERCER STREET, } NEW YORK, February 18 1881. } SEALED PROPOSALS FOR DOING THE WORK and furnishing the materials required in the proposed alteration, rebuilding and repairing of the house No. 99 Wooster street, used as quarters of Engine Co. No. 13 — will be received as above, until 10 o'clock A. M. on Saturday, March 5, 1881, when they will be publicly opened and read. No proposal will be received or considered after the hour named. Plans and specifications and the form of contract to be entered into by the successful bidder may be seen, and blank proposals will be furnished on application at these Headquarters. The work must correspond in all respects to the require- ments of the specifications, and bidders are particularly cautioned to closely examine the same. Two responsible sureties will be required with each proposal, who must each justify thereon, prior to its presentation, in not less than one-half the amount thereof. Proposals must be addressed on the envelope, "To the Board of Commissioners," with the indorsement "Proposal for alterations, etc., to quarters of Engine Company No. 13," and the name of the bidder. The Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all of the proposals submitted, if deemed to be for the interests of the city. VINCENT C. KING, JOHN J. GORMAN, CORNELIUS VAN COTT. Commissioners. __________ HEADQUARTERS FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK, } 155 and 157 MERCER STREET, } NEW YORK, November 7, 1878. } NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Commissioners of this Department will meet daily at 10 o'clock A. M., for the transaction of business. By order of the Board. VINCENT C. KING, President JOHN J. GORMAN, Treasurer, CORNELIUS VAN COTT, Commissioners CARL JUSSEN, Secretary __________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, } BUREAU FOR COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS, } AND OF ARREARS OF TAXES AND ASSESS- MENT, AND OF WATER RENTS, } NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, CITY HALL PARK, } NEW YORK, February, 1, 1881. } NOTICE TO PROPERTY-HOLDERS. PROPERTY-HOLDERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following assessment list was received by the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, January 29, 1881, for collection : CONFIRMED JANUARY 25, 1881, AND ENTERED JANUARY 29, 1881, NAMELY: 153d street, opening, from the easterly line of the New Avenue lying between 8th and 9th avenues, to the Harlem river. All payments made on the above assessment on or before March 30, 1881, will be exempt (according to law) from interest. After that date interest will be charged at the rate of seven (7) per cent. from the date of entry. The above assessments are payable at the "Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents," from 9 A. M. until 2 P. M. A. S. CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. ___________ DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, } BUREAU FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES, } No. 32 CHAMBERS STREET, } NEW YORK, November 1, 1880. } NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PERSONS who have omitted to pay their taxes for the year 1880, to the Receiver of Taxes, that unless the same shall be paid to him at his office before the first day of December next, one per cent. will be collected on all taxes remaining unpaid on that day, and one per cent. in addition thereto on all taxes remaining unpaid on the 15th day of December next. No money will be received after 2 o'clock P. M. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. MARTIN T. McMAHON, Receiver of Taxes. (Column 4) ARREARS OF TAXES. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW York hereby gives notice to owners of Real Estate in said city, that, as provided by chapter 123 of the Laws of 1880, they may now pay any arrears of taxes for the years 1877, 1878, and 1879, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, until the first day of April, 1881, and if not paid before that date, interest will be payable at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum. The Act, chapter 123, Laws of 1880, containing this provision of law, is published below. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. CITY OF NEW YORK - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. } COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, January 26, 1881. } CHAPTER 123. AN ACT in relation to arrears of taxes in the City of New York, and to provide for the reissuing of revenue bonds in anticipation of such taxes. Passed April 13, 1880; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. At any time after the passage of this act, and before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty, any person may pay to the Comptroller of the City of New York the amount of any tax upon real property belonging to such person, heretofore laid or imposed and now remaining unpaid, together with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the time that such tax was imposed to the time of such payment, provided, also, that the time when such payment may be made on the amount of any such tax laid or imposed in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine shall extend to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. The comptroller shall make and deliver to the person making any such payment a receipt therefor, and shall forthwith cancel the record of any such tax on the books of the finance department; and upon such payment being made such tax shall cease to be a lien upon the property and shall be deemed fully paid, satisfied and discharged, and there shall be no right to any further interest or penalty by reason of such tax not having been paid within the time heretofore, required by law, or by reason of any statute passed requiring the payment heretofore of any penalty or interest over seven per centum per annum upon any unpaid tax. Sec. 2. Any revenue bond heretofore issued in anticipation of the taxes in the first section specified which may fall due and become payable before said taxes are collected, may be reissued by the comptroller of said city, in whole or in part, for such period as he may determine, not exceeding one year. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. __________________ ORDER OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CONSOLIDATING CERTAIN BUREAUX IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. SECTION 3 OF CHAPTER 521 OF THE LAWS of 1880, required that heads of departments shall reduce the aggregate expenses of their respective departments by a reduction of salaries, and confers upon them authority to consolidate bureaux and offices for that purpose, as follows, to wit: "In making the reduction therein required, every head “ of department may abolish and consolidate offices and “ bureaux, and discharge subordinates in the same “ department.” The Comptroller of the City of New York, in pursuance of the duty imposed and the authority thus conferred upon him, hereby orders and directs that the following Bureaux in the Finance Department shall be consolidated, the consolidation thereof to take effect on the first day of January, 1881, viz: First - "The Bureau or the Collection of Assessments," and "The Bureau fo the Collection of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," shall be consolidated as one bureau, and on and after January 1, 1881, shall be known as "The Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," and possess all the power conferred and perform all the duties imposed by law and ordinance upon both of said bureaux, and the officers thereof, the chief officer of which consolidated bureau shall be called "Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears.” Second- The Bureau for the Collection of the Revenue accruing from rents, and interest on bonds and mortgages, revenue arising from the use or sale of property belonging to or managed by the city." and "the Bureau of Markets," shall be consolidated as one Bureau, and on and after January 1, 1881, shall be known as "the Bureau for the Collection of City Revenue and of Markets," and possess all the powers conferred and perform all the duties imposed by law and ordinance upon both of said Bureaux, and the officers thereof; the chief officer of which said consolidated Bureau shall be called "Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets." CITY OF NEW YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, } COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Dec. 31, 1880. } ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. ________________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT - COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, } NEW YORK, January 22, 1880. } NOTICE TO OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE IN THE TWENTY-THIRD AND TWENTY-FOURTH WARDS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW York hereby gives notice to owners of real estate in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, that pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment and payment of unpaid taxes due the county of Westchester by the towns of West Farms, Morrisania, and Kingbridge, lately annexed to the city and county of New York," passed May 22, 1878, the unpaid taxes of said town have been adjusted and the amount determined as provided in said act, and that the accounts, including sales for taxes levied prior to the year 1874, by the Treasurer of the County of Westchester, and bid in on account of said towns, and also the unpaid taxes of the year 1873, known as Rejected Taxes, have been filed for collection in the Bureau of Arrears int he Finance Department of the City of New York. Payments for the redemption of lands so sold for taxes by the Treasurer of the County of Westchester, and bid in on account of said towns, and payments also of said Rejected Taxes of the year 1873, must be made hereafter to the Clerk of Arrears of the City of New York. N. B. - Interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum is due and payable on the amount of said sales for taxes and said rejected taxes. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller _____________ REAL ESTATE RECORDS. THE ATTENTION OF LAWYERS, REAL Estate Owners, Monetary Institutions engaged in making loans upon real estate, and all who are interested in providing themselves with facilities for reducing the cost of examinations and searches, is invited to these Official Indices of Records, containing all recorded transfers of real estate in the City of New York from 1653 to 1857, prepared under the direction of the Commissioners of Records. Grantors, grantees, suits in equity, insolvents' and Sheriffs' sales, in 61 volumes, full bound, price. $100 00 The same, in 25 volumes, half bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 00 Complete sets, folded, ready for binding . . . . . . . . . . 15 00 Records of Judgments, 25 volumes, bound . . . . . . . . 10 00 Orders should be addressed to "Mr. Stephen Angell, Comptroller's Office, New County Court-house." ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. No. 193. 1. A Reminiscence of the War. It is a question which suggests itself to the mind, but which prudence forbids to ask when conversing with the brave soldiers, "Did you enlist from patriotic or mercenary motives? - In my own case I will not say, but relate the incidents, and leave an impartial public to decide. I enlisted at Camp "Delaware", Ohio, on the 28th September, 1863, in the fifth Regiment U. S. Colored Infantry, in company "I", in which I served as sergeant until my discharge. At that time no bounty was paid to colored soldiers, and seven Dollars per month was paid to such as would accept. It was under these circumstances that I, with many other young men, entered the service, and for a year we received no pay. During the first four months, after leaving Ohio, my regiment was stationed at Norfolk, Va. and was the principal participant in the [James] famous "General Wild's raid" in North Carolina, in the latter part of 1863. After this we removed to Yorktown, Va, and contented ourselves with making occasional reconnaissances toward Richmond, on the Deep Bottom Road. On one of this occasions we encountered General Kilpatrick's forces, who were returning from there [*No. 193. 2.*] well remembered raid down the Shenandoah valley. Each supposing the other to be the enemy, we remained under arms all night; however, daylight seting matters right, we had a pleasant shaking of the hands and a laugh over our mistake. In April we received orders to report to fortress Monroe, to join the expedition fitting out under Major Genl Butler, for the campaign up the James. We embarked and landed at City Point, Va. May 4th, 1864, where we employed the time in alternate picket and fatigue duty. Hence we began the campaign in earnest. Shortly after this we removed to the right of the Appomattox, where the same routine of duty awaited us. On the 14th of June we recrossed, and on the 15th participated in the first assault upon the city of Petersburg. From that time up to the 18th of the month, we were engaged with the enemy; the last day being a direct assault upon their works. From this until July the 20th our ranks became gradually depleted; on that occasion we were not active participants, but held the lines to the right of the assaulting columns. During August we lay in the trenches, quickly watching the enemy, and now and then witnessing brilliant displays of Pyrotechnics, gotten up at our expense by the enemy. - [*No. 193. 3.*] On the 29th of September, 1864, having, in the meantime removed from Petersburg to Deep Bottom, we made a direct assault upon the enemy's lines, with the intention of capturing Richmond, though, we but partially succeeded in our design. Here as most of the officers were hors de Combat, the command of the companies naturally devolved upon the non-commissioned officers, who, I am proud to say, discharged their duties to the entire satisfaction of their superiors. On the 30th of September, we repelled the assault made by the enemy to recapture Fort Harrison, repulsing them with great loss; they having made seven consecutive charges, our loss were comparatively a few. On October 27th, we made that detour, which enabled General Mead to capture 4000 prisoners on the Weldon Rail Road. From this until December, the 7th we were quiet, watching the movements of the enemy. On this day we sailed in the first expedition to Fort Fisher. Our failure caused a reembarkation January, the 4th, 1865. - Under General Perry we effected a landing, and at once invested the fort; our part of the work being to protect the rear from attacks. With an entire success, we remained No. 193. 4. to complete arrangements for a further advance. One month and a half later found us wending our way toward the Sugar Loaf Fortifications, which we invested and captured without loss of life. From this we marched to Wilmington, North Carolina. While engaged in developing the strength of the enemy, I received a wound which resulted in the loss of my right arm. I was removed North to a hospital, where I remained till July, the 25th 1865, when I was discharged from the service. - Here my narration ends; but I will add, that the Government, seeing the injustice done us in regard to pay, paid us the same as other soldiers from January 1st, 1864. - In conclusion, we ask no favors in our own behalf, but we do ask, if such devotion is not a test of loyalty ? and since the evidence is so conclusive, and we have shared alike in the dangers and vicissitudes of the war, ought we not partake of all the immunities pertaining to the rights of citizens, even, as our Anglo-Saxon brothers ? We ask this in the name of the noble braves, who first at Miliken's Bend, by untiring zeal and fidelity to the Union, succeeding in repelling a vast horde of would-be conquerors; No 193. - 5. and again at Fort Hudson, where by their deeds of valor, they showed to the world their fearlessness of death in the cause of "Liberty" and "Justice"; and again at Fort Wagner and Olustee, and time warns [U. S.] us to desist. When Petersburg, New Market Heights, Fort [Gilmor] Gilmore, Nashville, Wilmington, and Fort Fisher with their wounded and dying heroes present themselves to our mental vision, asking that justice may be meted out to those living defenders of "American Liberty". List of engagements in which I have participated: " "[?] Ky; Cumberland Gap, Tenn:; Jackson and Vicksburg, Miss:; Petersburg, New Market Heights, Fort Gilmore Fort Harrison, Va.; Fort Fisher; Sugar Loaf Fortifications, and Wilmington, North Carolina". - At the latter place I was wounded, which resulted in the amputation of my right arm, Feb. 20th, 1865. - Will. H. Thomas Sergeant Co. "I" 5th Regt. U. S. C. T. Present P. O. Address "Kent Portage Co, Ohio. Col Giles W. Shurtleff P. O. Oberlin, Ohio. No 193. - 6. The incidents of a day's march. There are a thousand little episodes, known to every soldier which if reduced to writing would form interesting incidents in the future pages of history; but which are hid for ever from public notice, unless some event should call them forth. With this introduction I begin my story. "It was on one of those bright mornings in autumn, when the golden leaves begin to shed their bright colors and while our armies were operating before Richmond, that we received orders to prepare three days rations, and be ready to start at a moment's notice. The sun was just emerging from the Eastern horizon, when with the bright colors of our Regiment, gleaming in his golden rays we past General B . . headquarters, on our way to join the main column. The men seemed to be unusually cheerful, in thoughts, and happy expressions, though, coupled at times with great solemnity, and who say, but, that many of these noble fellows, who fell that day, victims to a ruthless and mercenary foe, saw their destiny in the dim vista of the future. During the forepart of the day the sun shone No 193.- 7. brilliantly, apparently promising us a pleasant march. But in this we were mistaken, for towards the middle of the afternoon the sky darkened. Heavy clouds were seen gathering in the West, presenting every indication of a storm. Coming to the Williamsburg and Richmond Road, we found our farther progress impeded by a line of works, thrown directly across the road; evidently belonging to the enemy. We formed a line of battle and lay down, to await further developments of the enemy's presence ; having in the meantime sent out skirmishers to cover our front. Presently the sharp crackings of the rifles of our sharp shooters told too plainly, that fighting had begun in earnest. Our boys were [at] on their feet in a moment, and ready for action. As if a fit sequel to the incessant roar of musketry, the deep thunder tones of our " " echoed most [*page 4. ?*] fearfully in the distance as shot after shot found its way into the closed columns of the enemy, scattering the missiles of destruction in every direction. We contemplated in silence this wonderful exhibition of carnage and strategical knowledge on the front of our troops, for though, the dying and wounded were thickly strewn around them, yet, while tenderly caring for these, they held triple No 193. - 8. - their number at bay. Night coming on we prepared to withdraw, having accomplished our design. A feigned attack on the outer defences of Richmond gave General Meade an opportunity of an attack on the Southside railroad with entire success. Now came the hardest part of the reconnoissance. Rain had fallen during the day and the road was flooded with water, this together with the darkness, rendered it almost impossible to get along. And, as the column wound slowly down the road, doubtless, we presented quite a forelorne appearance; as one after another, missing their footing would fall full length in the mud, and then call piteously for a comrade to lend a helping hand, but we bore it patiently. After three o'clock we reached our outer lines, thoroughly exhausted. Hastily partaking of a cup of coffee, "the Soldier's friend" - we rolled ourselves in our blankets and lay down to rest, our thoughts reverting back to the happy days of "yore"; when no traitor's hand had been lifted against our flag; when we were enjoying the comforts of home and companionship of friends, with no thoughts of war, and its terrible results. And, with a prayer to our heavenly Father to restore peace, and tranquility to the land, our hearts full of loyal emotions, and earnest devotion to our country, we entered dreamland. - Will. H. Thomas Sergeant Co "I", 5th Regt U. S. C. T. Series 1 194 Shiloh, Cumb Co, N. J. Dec 28th 1865 Mr, Wm. O. Bourne, Sir, After reading the encouragement you have offered through the news-paper columns, to those who have given their right arm to our country or become disabled in the same for its cause, I have concluded to forward you a specimen of my hand-writing. As my name comes under the list of the first class mentioned. I was a Corpl. in Co, D. 10th Regt. N. J. Vols. enlisted Oct 9th 1861, and served with the same from that date, untill the time of being wounded, during which period I re-enlisted and participated in the following battles, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spottsylvania, and a number of smaller engagements, Was wounded in one of the latter near Winchester, Va, Aug. 17th 1864. which caused the amputation of my right arm the same date, I am now attending school at Union Academy, in the above named place, which is my P. O. Address in full. Writing is a branch that I do not practice in school and have delayed writing till now, thinking I would get more practice, but other branches that I am pursuing have occupied my time so that I have had but little devotion to it. "Good by, right arm! 'tis hard to part With one so true and tried, And that so long hath served my heart And waited at my side. Thy work is done, thy pain is o'er; When tear-drops dim my eye, Thy hand will dash them forth no more - Good by, right arm! good by Good by, right arm! no more thou'lt start Eager to greet my friend, Yet this, poor one that's near my heart No colder clasp will lend. And should my country ever need A guard so maimed as I It would be just as proud to bleed Good by, right arm! good by." Very Respectfully Yours, Alfred Y. Randolph, No 194 - Dec 30 / 65 No. 195 1. Series 1 195 Louisville Stark County Ohio 1st December 27th 1865. In accordance to suppliment received of the "Soldiers Friend" Dec. 23d 1865 soliciting penmanship of "left armed soldiers": I have the honor to submit the following as a specimen of left hand writing to the Honorable Committe of Award. I shall not attempt an Essay but merely state in a brief manner my military experience in late rebellion. In April 1861, when every true American heart was aroused by the call of our late lamented President Lincoln to resent the insult inflicted on our noble flag, I responded to call of our country then in need, volunteered in U. S. service as private in company J 19th Regiment Ohio Vol. Infantry commanded by Col. S. Beaty which was organized at Alliance Stark County Ohio. The Regt. left Ohio in October 1861 for Louisville Ky. where it 2nd remained about six weeks, was there ordered to Columbia Ky. distant sixty miles, remained several months. My Regt. was assigned to Gen. Boyle's Brigade. [in] In January we marched to Ky. and encamped on the banks of the Cumberland; with the 9th Ky. Inf. and 6th Ohio Bat. blocaded the river. In Feb. 1862 we marched to Bowlen Green where a battle was expected but on our arrival the rebels had evacuated. We then followed the rebels to Nashville Tenn. where we encamped in sight of the City, all the bridges destroyed. Shortly after we moved camp on the other side of the river, remained several weeks. In latter part of March Gen Buel's Corps was ordered to reinforce Gen. Grant, then at Pittsburgh Landing: we arrived at Savannah Gera. on the 6th of April, eight miles from the landing Same evening, embarked on a boat and early in the morning landed; we were placed into position on the right of the line, and was immediately engaged with the enemy; the battle 3rd lasted until four P. M. when the rebels withdrew their forces and fell back to Corinth Miss.. Our army then comprising Gen. Grant and Gen Buel's corps advanced gradually towards Corinth where the enemy had fortified themselves. After the victory of Shiloh, I was taken sick with camp fever and by that means I obtained a leave of absence for twenty days and left the department same day Gen. Hollick allowed Gen. Bauregard to escape from Corinth. Wilst at home a second call was made for 300,000 men. I obtained a first lieuts. commission for a new regiment and elisted forty men joined 107th Regiment Ohio. Vol Inf. commanded by Col. S. Meyer. When Said regt. was organized I was appointed Captain of Company H. and mustered in the service as such on the 9th day of september 1862 by Captain Praxton 15. U. S. A. In September we were ordered to Cincinnati Ohio to defend the city againts the expected attack 4th of Morgan. In November we were ordered to Washington City D. C. where we remained but a few weeks when we marched to Fairfax C. H. Va. and from their to Brook's Station five miles from Aquia Creek where we remained all winter. My regiment was assigned to second Brigade first Division Eleventh army Corps commanded by Major Gen. F. Sigel Major Gen. J. Hooker Commanding army of the Potomac. In April 1863 Gen. O. O. Howard relieved Gen. Sigel and in the latter part of April the whole army moved forward. Destination (Richmond) Va. crossed the Rapidan and Rappahannock and arrived at Wilderness on the second of May 1863: we were placed into position on the right and advance of the army; about four P. M. the rebels made the attack compelled us to fall back. I lost nineteen men in that engagement; we recrossed the river and returned to our old winter quarters. On the 13th of June the army was ordered to march so as to intercept Gen. Lee's raids, passing through Maryland and arrived at Gettysburg on the 5th 1st day of July; the 1st corps was engaged with the enemy, we were ordered on the right of the line about two miles from the city and also took part in the engagement. at that time I was shot by a Shell or Solid in my right arm which took it partly off I fell into the hands of the enemy, remained three days a prisoner without medical attendance; on the third of July my arm was amputated above the elbow by our surgeons. I remained three weeks at 11th Corps hospital two miles from the City where Sanitary supplies reached us great credit is due to the kind and noble persons who conducted and attended to the wants of disabled soldiers, especially the kind ladies who cared for us so well, their kind service shall never be forgotten. On the 21st of July I returned home to Louisville Stark County Ohio, where I now reside, on a leave of sixty days. in October I reported to Washington City and started for my regiment which was then transferred to the Department of the South Stationed [Stationed] on Folly Island S. C. I joined my Regt 6th the 21st of October and assumed command of my Company: in December I was promoted to Major. Shortly afterwards the Col and Liut Col resigned their positions, thus having me in command of the regiment from the 6th of Feb. 1864. In Feb. the Division which my regiment belonged was ordered on a raid in rear of Charleston, S.C. and was engaged with the Enemy: we were then ordered to Jacksonville Florida to reinforce Gen Seymor, remained at said place about eight months. I was frequently ordered out on raids with my regiment and engaged in Several skirmishes up to Sept. 30th 1864 when I resigned and was accordingly honorably discharged when I returned home. making three year's Service and fought at the battle of Shiloh Penn. Chancellorsville Va. and Gettysburgh, Pa. I am now residing at Louisville Stark Co. Ohio. My Post office address is the same Respectfully Submitted Augustus Vignos No 195 - Dec 30 65 [*195*] [*A Vignos*] [*Major*] February 24, 1881. THE CITY RECORD. 329 (column 1 of 4) OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. STATEMENT OF THE HOURS DURING WHICH all the Public Offices in the City are open for business, and at which each Court regularly opens and adjourns, as well as of the places where such offices are kept and such Courts are held; together with the heads of Departments and Courts. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. Mayor's Office. No. 6 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM R. GRACE, Mayor; JOHN TRACEY, Chief Clerk; WILLIAM M. IVINS, Secretary. Mayor's Marshal's Office. No. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. CHARLES REILLY, First Marshal. Permit and License Bureau Office. No. 1 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. HENRY WOLTMAN, Registrar. Sealers and Inspectors of Weights and Measures. N. 7 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. WILLIAM EYLERS, Sealer First District; THOMAS BRADY, Sealer Second District; JOHN MURRAY, Inspector First District; JOSEPH SHANNON, Inspector Second District. _____________ LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. Office of Clerk of Common Council. No. 8 City Hall, 10 A. M. to 4 P. M. President Board of Aldermen. FRANCIS J. TWOMEY, Clerk Common Council. ___________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Commissioner's Office. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. HUBERT O. THOMPSON, Commissioner; FREDERICK H. HAMLIN, Deputy Commissioner. Bureau of Water Register. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 . P. M. JOHN H. CHAMBERS, Register. Bureau of Incumbrances. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, Superintendent. Bureau of Lamps and Gas. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN McCORMICK, Superintendent. Bureau of Streets. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JAMES J. MOONEY, Superintendent. Bureau of Sewers. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEVENSON TOWLE, Engineer-in-Charge. Bureau of Chief Engineer. JOHN C. CAMPBELL, Chief Engineer. Bureau of Street Improvements. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ORGE A. JEREMIAH, Superintendent. Bureau of Repairs and Supplies. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS KEECH, Superintendent. Bureau of Water Purveyor. No. 31 Chambers street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL O'REILLY, Water Purveyor. Keeper of Buildings in City Hall Park. JOHN F. SLOPER, City Hall. ____________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. Comptroller's Office. Nos. 19 and 20 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller; RICHARD A. STORRS, Deputy Comptroller. Auditing Bureau. No. 19 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. DANIEL JACKSON, Auditor of Accounts. Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents. No. 5 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ARTEMAS CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. Bureau for the Collection of City Revenues and of Markets. No. 6 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS F. DEVOE, Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets. Bureau for the Collection of Taxes. First floor Brown-stone Building, City Hall Park. MARTIN T. McMAHON, Receiver of Taxes; ALFRED VREDENBURG, Deputy Receiver of Taxes. Bureau of the City Chamberlain. No. 18 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. NELSON TAPPAN, City Chamberlain. ____________ LAW DEPARTMENT Office of the Counsel to the Corporation. Staats Zeitung Building, third floor, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Saturday, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, Counsel to the Corporation. ANDREW T. CAMPBELL, Chief Clerk. Office of the Public Administrator. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. ALGERNON S. SULLIVAN, Public Administrator. Office of the Corporation Attorney. No. 49 Beekman street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM A. BOYD Corporation Attorney. _____________ POLICE DEPARTMENT Central Office No. 300 Mulberry street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. STEPHEN B. FRENCH, President; SETH C. HAWLEY Chief Clerk ___________ DEPARTMENT OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. Central Office. No. 66 Third avenue, corner Eleventh street, 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. JACOB HESS, President; GEORGE F. BRITTON, Secretary ____________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. Headquarters. Nos. 155 and 157 Mercer street. VINCENT C. KING, President ; CARL JUSSEN, Secretary. Bureau of Chief of Department. ELI BATES, Chief of Department. Bureau of Inspector of Combustibles. PETER SEERY, Inspector of Combustibles. (Column 2 of 4) Bureau of Fire Marshal. GEORGE H. SHELDON, Fire Marshal. Bureau of Inspection of Buildings. Wm. P. ESTERBROOK, Inspector of Buildings. Office hours, Headquarters and Bureaus, from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. (Saturdays to 3 P. M.) Fire Alarm Telegraph. J. ELLIOT SMITH, Superintendent of Telegraph. Repair Shops. Nos. 128 and 130 West Third street. JOHN McCABE, Captain-in-Charge, 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Hospital Stables. No. 199 Christie street. DEDERICK G. GALE, Superintendent of Horses. __________ HEALTH DEPARTMENT. No. 301 Mott street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President; EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. __________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS No. 36 Union square, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. EDWARD P. BARKER, Secretary. __________ Civil and Topographical Office. Arsenal, 64th street a d 5th avenue, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ___________ Office of Superintendent of 23d and 24th Wards. Fordham 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. ___________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. EUGENE T. LYNCH, Secretary. ____________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS Brown-stone Building, City Hal Park, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. THOMAS B. ASTEN, President ; ALBERT STORER, Secretary. __________ BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Office, City Hall, Room No. 11 1/2, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. JOHN R. LYDECKER, Chairman ; Wm. H. JASPER, Secretary. ________ BOARD OF EXCISE. Corner Mulberry and Houston streets, 9 A. m. to 4 P. M. WILLIAM P. MITCHELL, President ; J. B. ADAMSON, Chief Clerk. ________ SHERIFF'S OFFICE. Nos. 3 and 4 New County Court-house, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. PRTER BOWE, Sheriff ; JOEL O. STEVENS, Under Sheriff. __________ REGISTER'S OFFICE. East side City Hall Park, 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. AUGUSTUS T. DOCHARTY, Register ; J. FAIRFAX McLAUGHLIN, Deputy Register. _______________________ HEALTH DEPARTMENT. HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. } No. 301 MOTT STREET, } NEW YORK, February 12, 1881. | AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH of the Health Department of the Cit of New York, held at its office on the 8th day of February, 1881, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, That under the power conferred by law upon the Health Department, the following amendment of the Sanitary Code for the security of life an health be and the same is hereby adopted , and declared to form a portion of the Sanitary Code: Resolved, That section 85 of the Sanitary Code be and is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 85. That no petroleum oil., kerosene, oil (or other liquid having like composition or qualities as a burning fluid as said oil) shall be kept or exposed or offered for sale as a burning fluid for lamps or any receptacle for the purpose of illumination, nor shall such oil or fluid or any description thereof be sold or kept or exposed or offered for sale or given away for use, or be used as a burning fluid for any such lamp or receptacle, or by kept in such use, unless such oil or fluid shall be of such quality and ingredients that it shall stand and be equal to the following test and conditions, to wit: It shall not evolve in inflammable vapor at a temperature below one hundred (100) degrees of the Fahrenheit thermometer. [L. S.] CHARLES F. CHANDLER, President. EMMONS CLARK, Secretary. ____________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } No. 66 THIRD AVENUE. } TO CONTRACTORS. PROPOSALS FOR GROCERIES, TIN, AND MISCELLANEOUS MERCHANDISE. __________ SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING GROCERIES, ETC. 12,000 pounds Dairy Butter (sample on exhibition March 5,1881.) 20,000 fresh Eggs (all to be candled). 50 barrels Oatmeal. 10 prime quality City Cured Hams 100 " " Tongues. 20 barrels Pickles (40 gallon barrels, 2,000 to the barrel). 20 kits No. 1 Mackerel (20 pounds net each). 1,000 barrels good sound Irish Potatoes (to weigh 168 pounds net per barrel.) 250 bales best quality Timothy Hay. 100 barrels bet quality Carrots (145 pounds per barrel net). 100 barrels best quality Russia Turnips (145 pounds per barrel net). TIN 25 boxes 14x20 XX best Charcoal Tin. 1,000 pounds L. and F. Block Tin. 10 bundles 1-inch Hoop Iron. MISCELLANEOUS. 20 kegs rod. Cut Nails. 5 kegs Turned Roofing Nails. 5 barrels best quality Raw Linseed Oil 50 barrels Charcoal. 1000 U. S. Infantry Caps. 35 barrels Rockland Lime, for new pavilion, Hart's Island. 1 coil best quality 6-inch Manila Rope. 1 " 3-inch " 1 " 2-inch “ —or any part thereof, will be received at the office of the Department of Public Charities and Correction in the City of New York, until 9 1/2 o 'clock A. M. of Monday the 7th day of March, 1881. The person or persons making any bid or estimate shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope, indorsed "Bid or Estimate for Groceries, Tin, and Miscellaneous Merchandise," and with his or their (Column 3 of 4) name or names, and the date of presentation, to the head of said Department, at the said office, on or before the day and hour above named, at which time and place the bid or estimates received will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest, and to accept any bid or estimate as a whole, or any one of or more articles included therein. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or a contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The award of the contract will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Delivery will be required to be made from time to time, at such times and in such quantities as may be directed by the said Department; but the entire quantity will be required to be delivered on or before thirty (30) days after the date of the contract. Any bidder for this contract must be known to be engaged in and well prepared for the business, and must have satisfactory testimonials to that effect; and the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded will be required to give security for the performance of the contract by his or their bond, with two sufficient sureties, in the penal amount of fifty (50) per cent. of the estimated amount of the contract. Each bid or estimate shall contain and state the name and place of residence of each of the persons making the same; the names of all persons interested with him or them therein; and if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact; that it is is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud; and that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party or parties making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect, that if the contract be awarded to the person making the estimate, they will, on its being so awarded, become bound as his sureties for its faithful performance ; and that if he shall omit or refuse to execute the same, they shall pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which he would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting; the amount in each chase to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested. The consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of this contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities, as bail, surety or otherwise; and that he has offered himself as a surety in good faith and with the intention to execute the bond required by section 27 of chapter 8 of the Revised Ordinances of the City of New York, if the contract shall be awarded to the person or persons for whom he consents to become surety. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York. Should the person or persons to whom the contract may be awarded neglect or refuse to accept to contract within forty-eight (48) hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or proposal, or if he or they accept but do not execute the contract and give the proper security, or he or they shall be considered as having abandoned it and as in default to the Corporation, and the contract will be readvertised, and reset as provided by law. The quality of the articles, supplies, goods, wares, and merchandise must conform in every respect to the samples of the same respectively at the office of the said Department. Bidders are cautioned to examine the specifications for particulars of the articles, etc., required, before making their estimates. Bidders will state the price for each article, by which the bids will be tested. Bidders will write out the amount of their estimate in addition to inserting the same in figures. Payment will be made by a requisition on the Comptroller, issued on the completion of the contract, or from time to time as the Commissioners may determine. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instruction of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Corrections. The Department of Public Charities and Correction reserves the right to decline any and all bids or estimates if deemed to be for the public interest, and to accept any bid or estimate as a whole, or for any one or more articles included therein. No bid or estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment, can be obtained at the office of the Department. Dated New York, February 19, 1881. JACOB HESS, TOWNSEND COX, THOMAS S. BRENNAN. Commissioners of the Department of Public Charities and Correction. ____________ DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, } No. 66 THIRD AVENUE, } NEW YORK, February 10, 1881. } IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN ORDINANCE OF the Common Council. "In relation to the burial of strangers or unknown persons who may die in any of the public institutions of the City of New York," the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction report as follows : At Charity Hospital, Blackwell's Island - Ann McKelligott; aged 40 years ; 5 feet 2 inches high ; black hair and eyes. Had on when admitted brown calico wrapper, broche shawl, black straw hat. At Workhouse, Blackwell's Island - John Kelly ; aged 40 years. Committed November 17, 1881. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. At Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island - Mary Ann Brown ; aged 60 years ; 5 feet 2 inches high ; gray hair ; brown eyes. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. Maria Fleming ; aged 35 years ; 5 feet 5 inches high ; brown hair ; gray eyes. Nothing known of her friends or relatives. At Homœopathic Hospital, Ward's Island - William Shea ; aged 33 years ; 5 feet 8 inches high ; blue eyes ; brown hair. Had on when admitted blue overalls, dark woolen shirt, black felt hat. Nothing known of this friends or relatives. John Trainor ; aged 26 years ; 5 feet 6 inches high ; gray eyes ; black hair. Had on when admitted black coat and pants, blue vest. Nothing known of his friends or relatives. By Order, G. F. BRITTON, Secretary. _______________ CORPORATION NOTICE. PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lets, improved or unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following assessments have been completed and are lodged in the Office of the Board of Assessors for examination by all persons interested, viz: No. 1. Regulating, grading, curb, gutter, and flagging Thirteenth avenue, from Eleventh to Sixteenth street. (Column 4) No. 2. Paving Thirteenth avenue, from Eleventh to Sixteenth street, with granite-block pavement. No. 3. Sewer in Twelfth avenue, between One Hundred and Thirty-first and One Hundred and Thirty-third streets. No. 4. Sewer in Seventy-third street, between Eighth and Tenth avenues. No. 5. Sewer in One Hundred and Third street, between Third and Lexington avenues. No. 6. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Seventh avenue and summit east of Seventh avenue. No. 7. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth avenue and summit west of Sixth avenue. No. 8. Sewer in Avenue A, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 9. Sewer in Jackson street, between Grand and Madison streets. No. 10. Sewer in Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets. No. 11. Sewer in Macdougal street, between West Fourth street and West Washington place, from end of present sewer in West Washington place. No. 12. Sewer in Avenue B, between Seventy-ninth and Eighty-second streets. The limits embraced by such assessments include all the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lots, pieces and parcels of land, situated on - No. 1. Both side of Thirteenth avenue, between Eleventh and Sixteenth streets, and to the extent of half the block at the intersection streets. No. 2. Both sides of Thirteenth avenue, between Eleventh and Sixteenth streets, and to the extent of half the block at the intersecting streets. No. 3. Both sides of Twelfth avenue, between One Hundred and Thirtieth and One hundred and Thirty- third streets; also both sides of One Hundred and Thirty- first and One Hundred and Thirty-second streets, between Boulevard and Twelfth avenue, and south side of One Hundred and Thirty-third street, between Boulevard and Twelfth avenues. No. 4. Both sides of Seventy-third street, between the Eighth and Tenth avenues, also west side of Eighth avenue, both sides of Ninth avenue, and east side of Tenth avenue, between Seventy-second and Seventy- fourth streets. No. 5. Both sides of One Hundred and Third street, between Third and Lexington avenues, and east side of Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Second and One Hundred and Third streets. No. 6. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 7. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-second street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 8. Both sides of Avenue A, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 9. Both sides of Jackson street, between Grand and Madison streets. No. 10. Both sides of Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Tenth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets. No. 11. Both sides of Macdougal street, between West Fourth street and West Washington Place. No. 12. Both sides of Avenue B. between Seventy-ninth and Eighty-second streets. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, or either of them, are requested to present their objections in writing to the Board of Assessors, at their office, No. 11 1/2 City Hall, within thirty days from the date of this notice. The above described lists will be transmitted as provided by law to the Board of Revision and Correction of Assessments for confirmations, on the 25th day of March, ensuing. JOHN R. LYDECKER, EDWARD NORTH, DANIEL STANBURY, SAMUEL CONOVER. Board of Assessors. OFFICE BOARD OF ASSESSORS, } No. 11 1/2 CITY HALL, } NEW YORK, February 24, 1881. } ___________ PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE owner or owners, occupant or occupants of all houses and lots, improved and unimproved lands affected thereby, that the following assessments have been completed and are lodged in the Office of the Board of Assessors for examination by all persons interested, viz: No. 1. Regulating, grading, setting curb and gutter stones, and flagging in One Hundred and Fifty-second street, from the Boulevard to the Hudson river. No. 2. Regulating, grading, setting curb stones and flagging full width, and paving Broadway from Manhattan street to One Hundred and Thirty-third street, with granite- block pavement. No. 3. Paving intersection of Fourth avenue with Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty- sixth streets, with Belgian pavement. No. 4. Paving One Hundred and Fourth street, between Second and Third avenues, with Belgian or trap-block pavement. No. 5. Sewer in One Hundred and Fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 6. Fencing vacant lots on the southeast and southwest corners of Madison avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street. No. 7. Constructing sewer in One Hundred and Twenty- ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 8. Constructing sewer in One Hundred and Fourth street, from 650 feet east of Tenth avenue to 75 feet west of Ninth avenue. No. 9. Sewer in Sixty-eighth street, between Fourth and Madison avenues, from end of present sewer to near Fourth avenue. No. 10. Sewer in Seventy-second street, between First and Second avenues, from end of present sewer to near Second avenue. No. 11. Sewer in Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Third and One Hundred and Fourth streets. No. 12. Sewer in Laight street, between Washington and West streets. No. 13. Fencing vacant lots on block bounded by Eightieth and Eight-first streets, Madison and Fifth avenues. No. 14. Sewer in Second avenue, between Seventy- fifth and Seventy-sixth streets. No. 15. Receiving-basin on northwest corner of Sixtieth street and Fifth avenue. No. 16. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Sixth avenue and summit wet of Sixth avenue. No. 17. Regulating, grading, setting curb and gutter stones and flagging in Ninety-third street, from Second avenue to the East river. No. 18. Receiving-basin on the southwest corner of Eleventh and Dry Dock streets. No. 19. Fencing vacant lots on the south side of Seventy- ninth street, between Fourth and Lexington avenues. No. 20. Sewer in Eleventh avenue, west side, between Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth streets. No. 21. Sewer in One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 22. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Madison and Fifth avenues, and in Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fifteenth streets. No. 23. Receiving-basin on west side of Fifth avenue, between Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets. No. 24. Sewer in One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Tenth avenue and summit east of Tenth avenue. No. 25. Regulating, grading, curb, gutter, and flagging Eleventh avenue, from Fifty-ninth to Seventy-second street. The limits embraced by such assessments include a the several houses and lots of ground, vacant lots, piece and parcels of land, situated on - No. 1. Both sides One Hundred and Fifty-second street, between Boulevard and Hudson river. No. 2. Both sides of Broadway, from Manhattan to One Hundred and Thirty-third street, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersecting streets. No. 3. Both sides of Fourth avenue, between Eighty- second and Eighty-seventh streets, and to the extent of 330 THE CITY RECORD. February 24, 1881. (column 1 of 4) half of the block at the intersections of Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth streets. No. 4. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between Second and Third avenues, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersections of Second and Third avenues. No. 5. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between /ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 6. Both sides of Madison avenue, between One Hundred and Twenty-sixth and One Hundred and Twenty-seventh streets, and south side of One Hundred and Twenty-seventh street, extending 110 feet east of Madison avenue and 85 feet west of Madison avenue. No. 7. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street, between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 8. Both sides of One Hundred and Fourth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 9. Both sides of Sixty-eighth street, extending 100 feet west of Fourth avenue. No. 10. Both sides of Seventy-second street, extending 100 feet east of Second avenue. No. 11. Both sides of Lexington avenue, between One Hundred and Third and One Hundred and Fourth streets. No. 12. Both side of Laight street, between Washington and West streets. No. 13. Block bound by Eightieth and Eighty-first streets, Madison and Fifth avenues. No. 14. Both sides of Second avenue, between Seventy- fifth and Seventy-sixth streets. No. 15. East side of Fifth avenue, between Sixtieth and Sixty-first streets. No. 16. Both sides of One Hundred and Thirtieth street, between Sixth and Seventh avenues. No. 17. Both sides of Ninety-third street, between Second avenue and East river. No. 18. West side of Dry Dock street, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. No. 19. South side of Seventy-ninth street, between Lexington and Fourth avenues. No. 20. West side of Eleventh avenue, between Fifty- ninth and Sixtieth streets. No. 21. Both sides of One Hundred and Twenty- seventh street between Seventh and Eighth avenues. No. 22. Both sides one One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Madison and Fifth avenue, and both sides of Madison avenue, between One hundred and Thirteenth and One hundred and Fifteenth streets. No. 23. Central Park. No. 24. Both sides of One Hundred and Thirteenth street, between Ninth and Tenth avenues. No. 25. Both sides of Eleventh avenue, between Fifty- ninth and Seventy-second streets, and to the extent of half of the block at the intersecting streets. All persons whose interests are affected by the above- named assessments, and who are opposed to the same, or either of them, are requested to present their objections in writing to the Board of Assessors, at their office, No. 11 1/2 City Hall, within thirty days from the date of this notice. The above described lists will be transmitted as provided by law to the Board of Revision and Correction of Assessments for confirmation, on the 14th day of March ensuing. JOHN R. LYDECKER, EDWARD NORTH, DANIEL STANBURY, SAMUEL CONOVER, Board of Assessors. OFFICE BOARD OF ASSESSORS, } NO. 11 1/2 CITY HALL, } NEW YORK, February 12, 1881. } __________ POLICE DEPARTMENT. POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, } PROPERTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ROOM NO. 39, NO. 300 MULBERRY STREET, } NEW YORK, February 5, 1881. } OWNERS WANTED BY THE PROPERTY Clerk of the Police Department of the City of New York, Room No. 39, 300 Mulberry street, for the following property now in his custody without claimants : Boats, rope, harness, trunks and contents, bags, straw hats, coffee, blankets, boots, shoes, tea, revolvers, gold and silver watches, accordeons, etc. ; also small amount of money found and taken from prisoners by Patrolmen of this Department. C. A. ST. JOHN, Property Clerk. ____________ ASSESSMENT COMMISSION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A MEETING of the Commissioners under the Act, chapter 550 of the Laws of 1880, entitled "An Act relating to certain assessments for local improvements int he City of New York," passed June 9, 1880, will be held at their office, No. 27 Chambers street, on Wednesday, February 23, 1881, at 2 o'clock P. M. EDWARD COOPER, JOHN KELLY, ALLAN CAMPBELL, GEORGE H. ANDREWS, DANIEL LORD, Jr., Commissioners under the Act. JAMES J. MARTIN, Clerk. _________ THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY CHAPTER 550 of the Laws of 1880, to revise, modify, or vacate assessments for local improvements in the City of New York, give notice to all persons affected thereby that the notices required by said act must be filed with the Comptroller of said city and a duplicate thereof with the Counsel to the Corporation, as follows: First. As to all assessments confirmed prior to June 9, 1880, on or before November 1, 1880. Second. As to all assessments confirmed subsequent to June 9, 1880, for local improvements theretofore completed, and as to any assessment for local improvements known as Morningside avenues, within two months after the dates upon which such assessments may be respectively confirmed. The notice must specify the particular assessment complained of, the date of confirmation of the same, the property affected thereby, and in a brief and concise manner the objections thereto, showing that the assessment was unfair or unjust in respect to said real estate. Dated NEW YORK, July 13, 1880. EDWARD COOPER, JOHN KELLY, ALLAN CAMPBELL, GEORGE H. ANDREWS, DANIEL LORD, Jr., Commissioners under the Act. _________ DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. DEPARTMENT OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS, } No. 12 CHAMBERS STREET, } NEW YORK, January 10, 1881. } NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BOOKS of Annual Record of the assessed valuation of Real and Personal Estate of the City and County of New York for the year 1881, will be opened for inspection and revision, on and after Monday, January 10, 1881, and will remain open until the 30th day of April, 1881, inclusive, for the correction of errors and the equalization of the assessments of the aforesaid real and person estate. All persons believing themselves aggrieved must make application to the Commissioners during the period above mentioned, in order to obtain the relief provided by aw. By order of the Board, ALBERT STORER, Secretary. (Column 2 of 4) SUPREME COURT. In the matter of the application of the Department of Public Parks, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of a certain road, etc., known as Spuyten Duyvil Parkway, and streets connecting the same with Broadway, from the Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris Railroad to Broadway, in the City of New York. _________ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BILL of costs, charges, and expenses incurred by reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter will be presented for taxation to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the Chambers of said Court, in the New Court-house at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 5th day of March, 1881, at 10 1/2 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. The said bill of costs has been filed in the Department of Public Works as required by law. CHESTER A. ARTHUR, SAMUEL A. LEWIS, NATHANIEL JARVIS, Sr., Commissioners. Dated New York, February 19, 1881. _____ I the matter of the application of the Department of Public Works, for and on behalf of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York, relative to the opening of One Hundred and Eighth street, from Fifth avenue to the bulkhead line, Harlem river, in the City of New York. ______ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE BILL of the costs, charges, and expenses incurred by reason of the proceedings in the above-entitled matter, will be presented for taxation to one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, at the Chambers of said Court, in the New Court-house, at the City Hall, in the City of New York, on the 5th day of March, 1881, at 10 1/2 o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard thereon. The said bill of costs has been filed in the Department of Public Works, as required by law. RUFUS F. ANDREWS, CHARLES H. HASWELL, ALLEN J. CUMING, Commissioners. Dated New York, February 12, 1881. _________________ THE CITY RECORD. OFFICE OF THE CITY RECORD, } No. 2 CITY HALL. } PUBLIC NOTICE. UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE BUSINESS OF the CITY RECORD office will be transacted as Room No. 4, City Hall, northeast corner. THOMAS COSTIGAN. Supervisor. _________ DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS. DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS, } 117 and 119 DUANE STREET, } NEW YORK, February 16, 1881. } TO CONTRACTORS. (No. 128.) PROPOSALS FOR ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING ABOUT 4,000 BARRELS of "PORTLAND" CEMENT. ESTIMATES FOR FURNISHING THIS MATERIAL will be received by the Board of Commissioners at the head of the Department Docks, at the office of said Department, Nos. 117 and 119 Duane street, in the City of New York, until 12 o'clock M. of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1881. at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened by the head of said Department and read. The award of the contract, if awarded, will be made as soon as practicable after the opening of the bids. Any person making an estimate for the work shall furnish the same in a sealed envelope to said Board, at said office, on or before the day and hour above named, which envelope shall be indorsed with the name or names of the person or persons presenting the same, the date of its presentation, and a statement of the work to which it relates. The bidder to whom the award is made shall give security for the faithful performance of the contract, in the manner prescribed and required by ordinance, in the sum of Twenty-five Hundred Dollars. The cement required under the contract must be "Portland" cement, fully up to the standard of the best brands imported, and average at least 400 pounds gross weight to the barrel. The quantity to be delivered under the contract is 4,000 barrels, and the delivery is to be made in such a manner as shall be necessary to furnish at least 500 barrels on or before the 10th day of April, 1881, and at least 500 barrels within every ten days thereafter, until the whole quantity shall have been delivered. The contract is to be fully completed and to terminate on the 1st day of July, 1881. The damages to be paid by the Contract for each day that the contract, or any part thereof, may be unfulfilled, after the respective times specified for the fulfillment thereof may have expired, Sundays and holidays not to be excepted, are, but a clause in the contract, fixed and liquidated at Fifty Dollars per day. The empty barrels will be relinquished to the Contractor, as provided for in the specifications, and bidders must estimate the value of the empty barrels, when considering the price for which they will furnish the Cement under the contract. Bidders will state in their estimates the price for each barrel of Cement to be furnished in conformity with the annexed specifications. By this price the bids will be tested. This price is to cover all expenses of every kind involved in or incidental to the delivery, including any claim that may arise through delay, from any cause, in the receiving of the material by the Department. Bidders will distinctly write out, both in figures and in words, the amount of their estimates for furnishing this material. Should the lowest bidder or bidders neglect or refuse to accept to contract within forty-eight (48) hours after written notice that the same has been awarded to his or their bid or estimate, or if, after acceptance, he or they should refuse or neglect to execute the contract and give the proper security for forty-eight (48) hours after notice that the contract is ready for execution, he or they will be considered as having abandoned it, and as in default to the Corporation; and the contract will be re-advertised and re-let, and so on until it be accepted and executed. Bidders are required to state in their estimates their names and places of residence; the names of all persons interested with them therein; and if no other person be so interested, the estimate shall distinctly state that fact; also that the estimate is made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and that it is in all respects fair, and without collusion or fraud; and also that no member of the Common Council, Head of a Department, Chief of a Bureau, Deputy thereof, or Clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, is directly or indirectly interested therein, or in the supplies or work to which it relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof; which estimate must be verified by the oath, in writing, of the party making the estimate, that the several matters stated therein are in all respects true. Where more than one person is interested, it is requisite that the verification be made and subscribed by all the parties interested. Each estimate shall be accompanied by the consent, in writing, of two householders or freeholders in the City of (Column 3 of 4) New York, with their respective places of business or residence, to the effect that if the contract be awarded to the person or persons making the estimate, they will, upon its being so awarded, become bound as his or their sureties for its faithful performance; and that if said person or persons shall omit or refuse to execute the contract, they will pay to the Corporation any difference between the sum to which said person or persons would be entitled on its completion, and that which the Corporation may be obliged to pay to the person to whom the contract may be awarded at any subsequent letting ; the amount in each case to be calculated upon the estimated amount of the work by which the bids are tested ; the consent above mentioned shall be accompanied by the oath or affirmation, in writing, of each of the persons signing the same, that he is a householder or freeholder in the City of New York, and is worth the amount of the security required for the completion of the contract, over and above all his debts of every nature, and over and above his liabilities as bail, surety, and otherwise ; and that he has offered himself as surety in good faith, and with the intention to execute the bond required by law. The adequacy and sufficiency of the security offered is to be approved by the Comptroller of the City of New York, after the award is made and prior to the signing of the contract. Bidders are informed that no deviation from the specifications will be allowed, unless under the written instructions of the Engineer-in-Chief. No estimate will be accepted from, or contract awarded to, any person who is in arrears to the Corporation, upon debt or contract, or who is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to the Corporation. The right to decline all the estimates is reserved, if deemed for the interest of the Corporation. The form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the material, is annexed. Bidders are required, in making their bids or estimates, to use the blank prepared for that purpose by the Department, a copy of which, together with the form of the agreement, including specifications, and showing the manner of payment for the material, can be obtained upon application therefor at the office of the Department. HENRY F. DIMOCK, JACOB VANDERPOEL, WILLIAM LAIMBEER, Commissioners of the Department of Docks. _________ FIRE DEPARTMENT. HEADQUARTERS } FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK, } 155 & 157 MERCER STREET, } NEW YORK, February 19, 1881. } SEALED PROPOSALS FOR DOING THE WORK and furnishing the materials required in the proposed alteration, rebuilding and repairing of the house No. 99 Wooster street, used as quarters of Engine Co. No. 13 —will be received as above, until 10 o'clock A. M. on Saturday, March 5, 1881, when they will be publicly opened and read. No proposal will be received or considered after the hour named. Plans and specifications and the form of contract to be entered into by the successful bidder may be seen, and blank proposals will be furnished on application at these Headquarters. The work must correspond in all respects to the requirements of the specifications, and bidders are particularly cautioned to closely examine the same. Two responsible sureties will be required with each proposal, who must each justify thereon, prior to its presentation, in not less than one-half the amount thereof. Proposals must be addressed on the envelope, "To the Board of Commissioners," with the indorsement "Proposal for alterations, etc., to quarters of Engine Company No. 13," and the name of the bidder. The Commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all of the proposals submitted, if deemed to be for the interests of the city. VINCENT C. KING, JOHN J. GORMAN, CORNELIUS VAN COTT, Commissioners. ________ HEADQUARTERS } FIRE DEPARTMENT, CITY OF NEW YORK, } 155 and 157 MERCER STREET, } NEW YORK, November 7, 1878. } NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Commissioners of this Department will meet daily at 10 o'clock A. M., for the transaction of business. By order of the Board, VINCENT C. KING, President JOHN J. GORMAN, Treasurer, CORNELIUS VAN COTT, Commissioners CARL JUSSEN, Secretary ____________ FINANCE DEPARTMENT. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, } BUREAU FOR COLLECTION OF ASSESSMENTS, } AND OF ARREARS OF TAXES AND ASSESS- } MENT, AND OF WATER RENTS, } NEW COUNTY COURT-HOUSE, CITY HALL PARK, } NEW YORK, February, 1, 1881. } NOTICE TO PROPERTY-HOLDERS. PROPERTY-HOLDERS ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the following assessment list was received by the Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears, January 29, 1881, for collection: CONFIRMED JANUARY 25, 1881, AND ENTERED JANUARY 29, 1881, NAMELY: 153d street, opening, from the easterly line of the New Avenue lying between 8th and 9th avenues, to the Harlem river. All payments made on the above assessment on or before March 30, 1881, will be exempt (according to law) from interest. After that date interest will be charged at the rate of seven (7) per cent. from the date of entry. The above assessments are payable at the "Bureau for the Collection of Assessments, and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments, and of Water Rents," from 9 A. M. until 2 P. M. A. S. CADY, Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears. __________ DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, } BUREAU FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES, } No. 32 CHAMBERS STREET, } NEW YORK, November 1, 1880. } NOTICE TO TAX-PAYERS. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PERSONS who have omitted to pay their taxes for the year 1880, to the Receiver of Taxes, that unless the same shall be paid to him at his office before the first day of December next, one per cent. will be collected on all taxes remaining unpaid on that day, and one per cent. in addition thereto on all taxes remaining unpaid on the 15th day of December next. No money will be received after 2 o'clock P. M. Office hours from 8 A. M. to 2 P. M. MARTIN T. McMAHON, Receiver of Taxes. (Column 4) ARREARS OF TAXES. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW York hereby gives notice to owners of Real Estate in said city, that, as provided by chapter 123 of the Laws of 1880, they may now pay any arrears of taxes for the years 1877, 1878, and 1879, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, until the firs today of April, 1881, and if not paid before that date, interest will be payable at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum. The Act, chapter 123, Laws of 1880, containing this provision of law, is published below. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. CITY OF NEW YORK - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, } COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, January 26, 1881. } CHAPTER 123. AN ACT in relation to arrears of taxes in the City of New York, and to provide for the reissuing of revenue bonds in anticipation of such taxes. Passed April 15, 1880 ; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section 1. At any time after the passage of this act, and before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and eighty, any person may pay to the Comptroller of the City of New York the amount of any tax upon real property belonging to such person, heretofore laid or imposed and now remaining unpaid, together with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, to be calculated from the time that such tax was imposed to the time of such payment, provided, also, that the time when such payment may be made on the amount of any such tax laid or imposed in the years eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and eighteen hundred and seventy-nine shall extend to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and eighty-one. The comptroller shall make and deliver to the person making any such payment a receipt therefor, and shall forthwith cancel the record of any such tax on the books of the finance department; and upon such payment being made such tax shall cease to be a lien upon the property and shall be deemed fully paid, satisfied and discharged, and there shall be no right to any further interest or penalty by reason of such tax not having been paid within the time heretofore, required by law, or by reason of any statute passed requiring the payment heretofore of any penalty or interest over seven per centum per annum upon any unpaid tax. Sec. 2. Any revenue bond heretofore issued in anticipation of the taxes in the first section specified which may fall due and become payable before said taxes are collected, may be reissued by the comptroller of said city, in whole or in part, for such period as he may determine, not exceeding one year. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. _______ ORDER OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, CONSOLIDATING CERTAIN BUREAUX IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. SECTION 3 OF CHAPTER 521 OF THE LAWS of 1880, required that heads of departments shall reduce the aggregate expenses of their respective departments by a reduction of salaries, and confers upon them authority to consolidate bureaux and offices for that purpose, as follows, to wit: "In making the reduction therein required, every head “of department may abolish and consolidate offices and “bureaux, and discharge subordinates in the same “department.” The Comptroller of the City of New York, in pursuance of the duty imposed and the authority thus conferred upon him, hereby orders and directs that the following Bureaux in the Finance Department shall be consolidated, the consolidation thereof to take effect on the first day of January, 1881, viz: First - "The Bureau or the Collection of Assessments," and "The Bureau for the Collection of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," shall be consolidated as one bureau, and on and after January 1, 1881, shall be known as "The Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and of Arrears of Taxes and Assessments and of Water Rents," and possess all the power conferred and perform all the duties imposed by law and ordinance upon both of said bureaux, and the officers thereof, the chief officer of which consolidated bureau shall be called "Collector of Assessments and Clerk of Arrears.” Second- The Bureau for the Collection of the Revenue accruing from rents, and interest on bonds and mortgages, revenue arising from the use or sale of property belonging to or managed by the city," and "the Bureau of Markets," shall be consolidated as one Bureau, and on and after January 1, 1881, shall be known as "the Bureau for the Collection of City Revenue and of Markets," and possess all the powers conferred and perform all the duties imposed by law and ordinance upon both of said Bureaux, and the officers thereof ; the chief officer of which said consolidated Bureau shall be called "Collector of City Revenue and Superintendent of Markets." CITY OF NEW YORK, FINANCE DEPARTMENT, } COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Dec. 31, 1880. } ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. _____ FINANCE DEPARTMENT - COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, } NEW YORK, January 22, 1880. } NOTICE TO OWNERS OF REAL ESTATE IN THE TWENTY-THIRD AND TWENTY-FOURTH WARDS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CITY OF NEW York hereby gives notice to owners of real estate in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, that pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the State of New York, entitled "An act to provide for the adjustment and payment of unpaid taxes due the county of Westchester by the towns of West Farms, Morrisania, and Kingbridge, lately annexed to the city and county of New York," passed May 22, 1878, the unpaid taxes of said town have been adjusted and the amount determined as provided in said act, and that the accounts, including sales for taxes levied prior to the year 1874, by the Treasurer of the County of Westchester, and bid in on account of said towns, and also the unpaid taxes of the year 1873, known as Rejected Taxes, have been filed for collection in the Bureau of Arrears in the Finance Department of the City of New York. Payments for the redemption of lands so sold for taxes by the Treasurer of the County of Westchester, and bid in on account of said towns, and payments also of said Rejected Taxes of the year 1873, must be made hereafter to the Clerk of Arrears of the City of New York. N. B. - Interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum is due and payable on the amount of said sales for taxes and said rejected taxes. ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller ___________ REAL ESTATE RECORDS. THE ATTENTION OF LAWYERS, REAL Estate Owners, Monetary Institutions engaged in making loans upon real estate, and all who are interested in providing themselves with facilities for reducing the cost of examinations and searches, is invited to these Official Indices of Records, containing all recorded transfers of real estate in the City of New York from 1653 to 1857, prepared under the direction of the Commissioners of Records. Grantors, grantees, suits in equity, insolvents' and Sheriffs' sales, in 61 volumes, full bound, price . $100 00 The same, in 25 volumes, half bound . . . . . . . . . 50 00 Complete sets, folded, ready for binding . . . . . . 15 00 Records of Judgments, 25 volumes, bound . . . . 10 00 Orders should be addressed to "Mr. Stephen Angell, Comptroller's Office New County Court-house." ALLAN CAMPBELL, Comptroller. No 195.- 1. Louisville, Stark Co., Ohio. December 27th, 1865.- In accordance to suppliment received of "The Soldier's Friend" Dec. 23d, 1865, soliciting penmanship of "Left-armed soldiers"; I have the honor to submit the following as a specimen of left-hand writing to the Honorable Committee of award.- I shall not attempt an "essay" but merely state in a brief manner my military experience in the late rebellion.- In April, 1861, when every true American heart was aroused by the call of our late lamented President Lincoln to resent the insult inflicted on our noble flag, I responded to the call of our country, then in need, volunteered in U. S. service as private in Company "I", 19th Regiment, Ohio, Vols. Infantry, commanded by Colonel S. Beaty, which was organized at Alliance, Stark County, Ohio. - The Regiment left Ohio in October 1861, for Louisville, Kentucky, where it remained about six weeks, was then ordered to Columbia, Ky, distant 60 miles, remained there several months and was assigned to General Boyle's Brigade. In January we marched and encamped on the banks of the Cumberland; with the 9th Ky. Infantry, and 6th Ohio Battery to blockade the river. In February, 1862, we marched to Bowlen No 195.- 2. Green, where a battle was expected, but on our arrival, the rebels had evacuated. We then followed the rebels to Nashville, Tennessee, where we encamped in sight of the city; all the bridges destroyed. Shortly after we moved our camp on the other side of the river and remained several weeks. In the latter part of March General Buel's Corps was ordered to reinforce General Grant, then at Pittsburg Landing; we arrived at Savannah, Tennessee, on the 6th of April, eight miles from the Landing, embarked the same evening on a boat and early in the morning landed. We were placed into position on the right of the line and were immediately engaged with the enemy. The battle lasted until 4 P. M. when the rebs withdrew their forces and fell back to Corinth, Miss. - Our Army then comprising General Grant and Genl Buel's Corps advanced gradually towards Corinth, where the enemy had fortified themselves. After the victory of Shiloh, I was taken sick with camp fever and by that means obtained a leave of absence for twenty days and left the department. Same day General Halleck allowed General Beauregard to escape from Corinth. Whilst at home a second call was made for 300.000 men. I obtained a first Lieutenants Commission for a new regiment and enlisted forty No 195.- 3. men, joined the 107th Regt. Ohio, Vols. Infantry, commanded by Colonel S. Meyer. When said regiment was organized I was appointed Captain of Company "H" and mustered in the service as such on the 9th day of September, 1862, by Captain Praxton, 15th U. S. A. - In September we were ordered to Cincinnati, Ohio, to defend the city against the expected attack of Morgan. In November we were ordered to Washington City, D.C. where we remained but a few weeks, when we marched to Fairfax Court House, Va., and from there to Brooks Station, five miles from Aquia Creek, where we remained all winter. My regiment was assigned to second Brigade, first Division, Eleventh Army Corps, commanded by Major Gen. F. Siegel.- Major Genl. J. Hooker, Commanding army of the Potomac. In April, 1863, General O. O. Howard relieved Maj. Genl. F. Siegel, and in the latter part of April the whole army moved forward, destination, Richmond, Virginia; crossed the Rapidan and Rap- pahannock and arrived at Wilderness on the 2d of May 1863. We were placed in a position on the right, in advance of the army. About 4 P. M. the rebels made the attack and compelled us to fall back. I lost nineteen men in that engagement, we recrossed the river and returned to our old winter quarters. No 195.- 4. On the 13th of June the army was ordered to march so as to intercept General Lee's raid, passing through Maryland and arrived at Gettysburg on the 1st day of July; the 1st Corps was engaged with the enemy, we were ordered on the right of the line, about 2 miles from the city, and also took part in the engagement. At that time I was shot by a shell in my right arm which took it partly off.- I fell into the hands of the enemy, remained three days a prisoner without any medical attendance; on the 3d day of July my arm was amputated above the elbow by our surgeons. I remained three weeks at the 11th Corps Hospital, two miles from the City, where Sanitary supplies reached us. Great credit is due to the King and noble persons who conducted and attended to the wants of disabled soldiers, especially the kind ladies, who cared for us so well; their kind services shall never be forgotten. On the 21st of July I returned home to Louisville, Stark County, Ohio, where I now reside, on a leave of absence for 60 days. In October I reported in Washington City, and started for my Regiment which was then transferred to the department of the South, stationed on Folly Island, South Carolina. I joined my Regiment on the 21st of October and assumed No 195. 5 command of my Company. In December I was promoted to Major. Shortly afterwards the Colonel and Lieut. Colonel resigned their positions, thus having me in command of the regiment from the 6th of Feb. 1864. In February the Division to which my regiment belonged, was ordered on a raid in rear of Charleston, S. C. and was engaged with the enemy. We were then ordered to Jacksonville to reinforce Genl. Seymour, remained at said place about 8 months. I was frequently ordered out on raids with my regiment, and [engaged] engaged in several skirmishes up to September 30th, 1864, when I resigned and was honorably discharged, when I returned home, making thee years service; having fought at the battles of Shiloh, Tenn:, Chancellorsville, Va; and Gettysburg, Pa. - I am now residing at Louisville, Stark Co, Ohio. My Postoffice address is the same. Respectfully submitted Augustus Vignos. - Series 1 196 No 1 Dec .. the 26 .. 1865 Elmira ny Dear Sir in 1861 I Enlisted in to the service of my Country and dident enlist for bounty as the most of hour men did but I went because I thought it my Duty to go and I served three years for my country and willing to sacrifise my life for such a great cause as we were engaged in and I was through with McClellan to richmond, and, Back, to antititam and on to fredericksburg and, I have been luckey untill I took sick and send to the hospital and, I was disabled and firmly belonging to The 4 Pa Cavalry and from the 4 Pa cavalry I was transfered to the 16. Reg. V. K. C. Co. A. and stationed at Elmira ny Doing patrole duty on the 25 day of January in 1865 I was No 2. Wounded in my rite arm caused by a riot at Elmira ny it was something of a riot that was in new york city and we were on patrole duty and we were cauled out to quell the riot and it ended in a quite a battle and killing several men the rioters were the first mishigan cavalry and I stood up for my rights untill I lost my rite arm and had to drop my gun for the last time that hour my arm was no more. and I haven't had a very good chance to make an Entry riter I have been acustom to use my rite arm in all my doings I coudent make a strate mark when I first lost my rite arm, and I will endeavor to do what I can and hoping it may bee benefiting my left arm and with these few specimen I will give you diferent hand ritings an hoping it will bee No 3. Satisfactory to the President and all the rest of the members I find it difficult to get along in some ways But I am thankful to our great maker that he has spared the rest of my life after being through all this war and to day I feel it is my duty to praise the Lord for bringing me safe through all the hardships since I left my quiet home and to day I feel proud that my great creator has given me or spared my left arm to pen a line to my fellow country men who are willing to help The one armed soldier who fought for the Stars &. Stripes and if needed I have a good &. Strong left Union arm which can do some good for the country if needed G W Dale No 4 Dec the 26. 1865 Elmira, ny Mr. Editor of the Soldiers friend I Have read your paper & I find it the Best Paper that I have ever read it Is a comfort to read it and also gives all particulars of soldiers pay pension Bounty & also good interesting Noose. to all Union Soldiers I will Get fore subscribers for the Editor of the Soldiers friend and Bee glad of the chance & also will Accept Agency for such a good Paper as this and I will give this as a sample as running hand Riting I have ritten a sample but I don't think it will bee axcepted. Remain yours G. W. Dale No. 5 Amsterdam Amongst Amen Bell Blooming Bemming Come Came Cames Command Cames Office Official Oppinion Off Quack Quincy Quarrelling Quack Washington D.. C New York City Many Many Many Dentist Damsel Dainty G. W. Dale No 6. Dec. [*the*] 26.. 1865 Elmira ny Specimen of Penmanship By a left handed Soldier.. Last January [*the*] 25. 1863. Specimen Ritten On [*the*] 26.. Off December 1865 At Elmira ny By G. W. Daly. Esq Mr Editor of the soldiers friend I have Ritten some in several styles and the best that I can do at the present time and if It dont soot let me know and I will try and do better the next time if possible I will close with these few remarks. and I will wate Patiently for an answer from you soon Please excuse delay in not riting these are a fare sample of my ritings. so far as I can go and I will try and do better the next time ans soon Direct G. W. Dale Elmira Ny No 7. Dec the 27 1865 Elmira ny Mr. Bourne, Editor. Off. the soldiers friend I have ritten several Articles and not having time to improve the time As I should I will do the Best I can for the present time you will excuse me for sending you so many samples as I didint just get the time to do justice at the present time please excuse all these scriblings Remain your Friend G. W. Dale P. 9. U. S. Officers Gen U. S. Grant Gen. Mead Gen. Sheridan Gen. Sherman Mr. Abraham Lincoln The Father of hour Country Gen George Washington Washington D. C The Capitol of the United States left Hand G. W. Dale P 8 Jameston Johnstowns Jamestons Jennisee Command Commume Command Cames Dentist Damsell Dentist Dammiston Penmanship Pembrook Pembrook Penmanship Pencill Ramparts Runninghand Rames Roundings Quinces Quarrellings Quack Quack Qualled Command Comune Command Come Humington Humingbird Hames Washington D.C No 196 - Dec 30 65 Series 1 197 No. 1 (Dec 30, 1865) I entered the service on the 27th 1863 as private of Company C 76th Regiment N.Y. Vols sharing its various fortunes privations and hardships until the battle of the Wilderness May 5th and 6th 1864 where I lost my right arm - Mine cheined to be one of those careers to be remembered more for long and forced marches, tedious and protracted picket duty, than for numerous but the hair-breadth escape, brilliant bayonet charges & so extremely interesting to every one - consequently a narative of my experience in “Dien” is of small account in comparison But it matters little so long as my statements are true - My first experience was in Meades masterly retreat from the Rapidan to Centreville Oct. 10th to 15th 1863 - Lee was appearantly gaining our rear with the object of making still another Bull Run, but he lacked his Stonewall Jackson - It was a race between the two forces terminating with the defeat of their advance at Bristoe Station on the 15th - It is worse than useless to attempt a description of the untold and untellable suffering occasioned by such a march - neither language nor imagination Francis M. Norton No 2 has but small effect in depicting its realities A few marches counter-marches and skirmishes of small account left us about the middle of Nov. at Rappahannock Station The close of a vigorous march of two days brought us on the 28th in close proximity to the rebel stronghold at Mine Run in the vicinity of the memorable battle fields of Chancellorsville and the Wilderness - Nothing it seemed short of Providence could prevent a collission of the two armies - The 30th came and we were in nearly the same position we were two days without food with the exception of a few ears of corn which we roasted - On the morning of Dec. 1st three companies (including my own) of my regiment were detached for pickets. Nothing of importance occurred during the day, but at night we were informed that the army was retreating and the pickets were to remain til morning and then escape as best they might. Though in numbers the pickets were an army of themselves they were nothing compared with the opposing hosts, who could swallow us at a gulp should Francis M. Norton No. 3 they detect our condition _____ For twelve mortal hours were we thus left in jeopardy to insure the army a safe retreat. thoughts of being gobbled up and of horrible lives in rebel dungeons, were duly weighed. and many were the solemn resolve to die there rather than submit to capture and imprisonment worse than death _____ Just before daylight on the morning of the 2nd we were ordered to silently "fall in" and soon its smothered command "forward" and such marching _____ such strides for fife over that broken road of fifteen miles x x Fortunately for reasons best-know to the enemy, we were not overtaken until we had readied the main army already beyond the Rapidan x x It was about New Years before we were permanently located in our winter quarters near Culpeper _____ Our picket and other duties were very severe all the long cold winter and only over during this time was the monotony of the camp broken, and that by a reconnoisance in force to the Rapidan Feb. 6th 1864 Here the health and capacity of the men were tried to the very utmost, rain, creeks, mud double Francis M. Norton No. 4 quick" seemed the most prominent features of the march __ We returned to camp after an absence of two days x x x x x x x At dark on the night of May 3d 1864 we were ordered to draw six days rations "pack up" and be ready to march at 12 o'clock __ From our previous knowledge of Gen. Grant an under-current of this order seemed to say, Go find the enemy annihilate him nor stop stop so long as he or his shall be found __ and history shall say how nearly this version was verified. True as the clock, when the hour of twelve came we were shouldering our heavy burdens preparatory to leaving our old camp grounds and __ alas many of us to filling a soldiers grave. We crossed the Rapidan about two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th at Germaines Ford __ Night found us encamped near where we next day met the enemy __ Morning came and we were again in motion __The occasional crack of a rifle followed by whole volleys told plainly what was in preparation for us __ We were "deployed as skirmishers" and ahead we went through as dense a thicket of young pines and cedars, as it were Francis M. Norton No. 5 ever my fortune to behold __ Suddenly like the bursting forth of a pent-up volcano, we were facing one of the most galling musketry fires known in war-fare __ This was sustained until by overpowering numbers we were forced to to leave the field. At this critical moment my right arm was crushed by a minie __ all who were unwounded survived to fly and in an instant though striving with all the speed at my command, I was alone and in imminent danger of capture __ Ambulances and stretchers were alike nowhere to be found __ and the Doctors __ O where were they __ alas they too were gone __ I arrived at the Division Hospital at last, where my arm was amputated. The attack proved to be Lee's desperate attempt to break our Centre __ I must close. I will not ask you to follow me through the ups and downs of a hospital life. But I must add that many sketches of the good care the wounded receive are very much overdrawn ___ Respy Yours Francis M. Norton Pine Grove, Schuyler Co. N. York No 197 - Dec 30 1865 1865, Dec 28 Series 1 198 Joseph Stage I returned to my regiment and done all I could to assist the Wounded. My Brother of the Same Company and Regiment Recieved four Very bad wounds, and at one time we thought he could not recover, but he said whare there is life there is hope and I trust in the Lord, Well after a while he began to grow better and we both came home with an honorable discharge and I was not long idle as soon as the draft was Ordered I was Employed in Captain Maneers office and from thair to the Sanitary Fair and from the fair to the Post office Whare i am still and try to do justice to All Remaining yours Truly Joseph F. Stage Born in the City of New York on the 8th of October 1839. Address Station C New York P. O. No 198 Dec 30 1865 New York December 28th /65 Wm O. Bourne Dear Sir. I take great pleasure in Writing you a few lines hopeing they Will find you in good health as they now leave me at the presant, I had the pleasure of meeting you the Other day in 8th Avenue, While in the discharge of My duties, And You the Kindness to present me with two Copies of that Valuable Paper Called the Soldiers Friend, Well I have read it from the first page to the last and i Must Say i find no paper So interesting as it Especialy to the Soldiers, I have Shown it to a Number of My Friends and they Say they Will do all in thir power to assist it. And while reading it I Seen an Article interesting to those Who have lost a right arm in the late War, which I happen to be One, and I will loose my Other befor I See my Country go to distruction or be distroyed by armed Rebels. At the breaking Out of this unholy rebellion my Country Called for its defenders and i knowed it was my duty to go. Which I did with good Will, So I Enlisted in Company A ninth Regiment New York Volunteers better Known as the Hawkins Zouaves, and we was engaged in the Battle of Big Bethel Va. the first Battle of the War, and Hatteras inlet Roanoke island Elizebeth City and Camden north Carolina, the latter place loosing my right arm above the elbow on the 19th of April 1862, in a short time I received a furlough and returning to my home and seeing the Way things was going on I did not like it. As the City was full of Copperheads so #199 How I felt under Cloriform. Dec 2nd. '65. I was laid on the table about 5 1/2 pm Past on 6 Septr 62 Armoury Hospital 7th Street Washington D.C. Proffessor Bliss M. D. I thought Sargt. Gunn. of 5th Michagon shook hands with me of whom I was acquanted I then set sail as. a vessel sailing through the air I had a narrow River to cross which semmed very Deep. I got to the top of the embankment. and who Jumps up before me but general Mansfield. I shouted out the gen's name I felt no pain During the cutting of my arm. It seemed plesant while in the stupor. John Bryce 1st N. Y. Vols Co. H. wounded Co. H. 40th Mozarts N. Y. Vols. Direct to me at Davids island Hospital ward 3. 12th povilion or Proffesor Darry 374 Pearl St. N. Y. No. 199 - Dec 30 / 65 Davids island Hospital ward 3 Pavilinn 12. a few years ago I was sitting with a Brother sailor in a public House East River. When Capt. Chricton of the three Bells of Glascow. Saved a few Soldiers Sailors and Passangers the americans Raised by subscription a Pile of Bills like a Bale of goods Before my own eyes I asked what this was for my Brothe Sailor told me it was for Capt Chrichton and he told me he Deserved all he got for i have sailed with him and if any harm was to Befall [than] him then was not a man on Board but would lose their lives to save Him on Sabbath Days wind and weather Permitting he kept Religious worship on Board called all hands that could be spared to the calm for the Praises of of he who all commands. I may mention here that the owners of the three Bells was three Brothers. Butchers and was very kind to the poor in giving the Beef Bones to them to make soup for them the almighty is kind to the poor. remember the parable of lazarus and Dives. I. Bryce 1st N.Y. Vols Co H Davids island Hospital Ward 3 Pavilion 12 12 m 5th Day Mr Editor. Some years since gone by Lady Franklin wrote a note Requesting the people of this country to send vessels in search of her long lost Husband she offering 2000 Pounds and the government of England 2000 sterling. the reply Madam Their is no vessel at the presant. Strong enough to penetrate into the far Regons of the north but I will appeal to my people, Milard Filmore, President United States of America John Bryce Co H. 1st and 40th N.Y. Vols Poetry composed while watching sick soldiers __ While hear on sentry I do stand my thoughts Delight to Roam by Building Castles in air I think i am 2nite at home. Enjoying health and happiness (my Doubting heart) alas why think so for happiness in heavens found seldom on this teresteral earth below. (my 2 hours sentry so being up this was wrote below mine) __ If happiness no one on earth can find I fear that I shall be behind for I say Brother soldier can you me tell where will the use find happiness that goes to HI... J. Bryce and Wm. Ragg REMARKS Davids 12th mo. 4th Day. Hospital Ward 3 Pavilion 12 Mr Editor I wish you would insert through the Colums of your Newspaper a note of thanks to the chaplin of the 28th Mass. Vols. For endangering his life to save the Poor soldiers that was wounded and Dying he walked from Chantellia to Fort lyons and saw gen'l Rena at 2 oclock Army Genl Rena told him he could send 28 abalances with spirits preserves and food for the Hungry and to have no Respect Between Carnes men and his own on his way to Fort lyons a confederate Sentenal cocked his musket at him the clergyman told him he was on the perogative of mercy the sentinal told him he would call the officer of the guard the officer told him to proceed he would not be Be molested the whole way. I wish you also to insert. A. Dr. Ofarral Beloning to Carneys Division for his kindness in Binding up our wounds while the other medical genl was Busy amputating legs and arms. It is to Dr. Ofarral I owe my Life But the almighty made Him the Humble instrement. John Bryce 1st N.Y V. Co. H. This is with my left hand 1865, Dec 28 Series 1 200 J. D. Turrell Treasury Department, Second Comptroler's Office, December 28th, 1865 Wm Oland Bourne Esq 12 Centre Street N. Y. Dr Sir Today I mail you a specimen of my penmanship for the purpose of competing for the prize offered for which you are the agent. Not that I expect to be successful but said it to make the scene lively by the number of manuscripts presented. I think it shows all that is necessary in regard my military experience which is very limited My address in full is Jared D. Turrell Treasury Dept 2nd Comptrollers Office Washington D. C. My name is Jared D. Turrell. I was born in the town of Plymouth Wayne Co Michigan which I now claim as my residence. I am now twenty four years, and eight months of age. During my childhood after I arrived at the age of six years I was kept in attendance at school where I spent the greater part of my minority being engaged at farming during vacations. My opportunity for education were about the same usually afforded farmers sons, embracing nearly all the common english branches. While yet in my 21st year I responded to the call of the President for men to subdue the then existing rebellion. On the 13th of August 1861 I enlisted in Capt Howrigan's Co "H" 1st Mich Cav then being organized at Detroit by Col Brodhead. Removed to Washington Oct 1st and was placed under the command of Maj. Gen N. P. Banks then stationed on the upper Potomac. Crossed into Va early in 1862 and was scouting and skirmishing through that part of Va then the seat of war. Was wounded on the 29th Aug at the 2nd battle of Bull Run by a gun shot in my right elbow. Was removed to Finley Hospital Washington and suffered amputation of my right arm on the 1st Oct. Was discharged at request Dec 5th thus ending my military career. Jared D. Turrell December 28th 1865. Washington D. C. No 200 Dec 30 1865 Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.