Our CITY Ftmances.
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We hear great and just complaint that the An.
nual Report of the Comptroller, which is by law
directed to be made on or about the Goth of JAN
uary, has not yet March 5th) made its appear
snce, and that the Ledger in the Comptrolers
Office is only written up to the 18Th Of August
last. and the Journal Of the same office up to
October last. Meantime we have the Annual
Appropriation bill for 1874, asking an increase
ofsssoo 600 over that of last year, andit has gone
through the Board Of Assistants like a CHARM
This Appropriation bill is made up in new fash
ION in order to conceal the ruinous extravaganza
OF the City Administration; the compensation of
the persons employed in the Aims House not be-
.ne included in the Aims House expenditure as
heretofore, but put into the item Of Salaries; SO
Of the Superintendent and Worknien whose pay
shonld come under the head of Public Offices and
Repairs. 1t is an odd way to ask 80 much to re-
pair Public Buildings, and SO much more under
the head of Salaries to compensate the work
men who make the Repairs. But this hocus-pocus
,s carried all through, that the Waters IN the
CORPORATION Tea-Room and the woman who
washes the tabe-cloths are made salaried officers
of the City But all this does not avail to cover
nd the aggregate and enormous increase IN the
CITY Expenditures. Will the taxpayers look
ksenly into this business