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Town expenses : Brooklyn, $5,417.57 ; Flatbush, $343.40 ; Bushwick, $409.27; New Utrecht, $275.75 ; Gravesend, $136.49 ; Flatlands, $71.37.
At a meeting held December, 13th, the necessary steps were taken for erecting in the village of Brooklyn a building suitable for the accommodation of the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace, according to an Act of the Legislature passed April 13th, 1826, directing that there should be annually two additional terms of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace to be held in the Appren- tices' Library, Brooklyn.
At a meeting of the same board held on the 5th day of February, 1829, before the election of a new board, it was
Resolved, That the Courts of Common Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace shall be holden in every year as follows: At the court house in Flatbush, on the third Monday in August, and at the Apprentices' Library in Brooklyn on the third Monday of December, and there shall be holden in the same place three additional terms of the said Court of Com- mon Pleas on the third Monday of February, June and Octo- tober, for the test and return of processes and the rendering of judgments, and entering rules of cause.
Arrangements were made at this meeting for estab- lishing a county poor-house.
1829. SUPERVISORS: John C. Vanderveer, Flatbush; Jeremiah Johnson, Brooklyn ; John Terhune, Graves- end ; James Cropsey, New Utrecht ; Gerrit Kouwen- hoven, Flatlands ; Noah Waterbury, Bushwick ; Jere- miah Lott, Clerk ; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer.
It will be seen that there was a change this year in members of the Board of Supervisors, Noah Waterbury appearing for the town of Bushwick instead of William Conselyea, Jr., who had represented that town with marked ability since 1814. He died prior to the ad- journment of the last board.
At a meeting of the Board on August 4th, a commit- tee was appointed to ascertain a suitable site in the village of Brooklyn for the location of the new court- house. It was also ordered by the board that the sum of $17,000 be raised to meet the contingent expenses of the county for the ensuing year.
Brooklyn town expenses, $7,285.82. Among the items making up this amount were the following: To expenses of Bedford road, $500 ; to support of town rights $500; to maintenance of the poor, $5,000. Flat- lands town expenses, $62.82 ; Flatbush town expenses, $425.90; New Utrecht, $450.75; Gravesend, $161.49; Bushwick, $519.27.
The question of a new Court-house and Clerk's Office to be erected in Brooklyn, occupied the attention of the Supervisors this year. At their meeting of Sept. 1, 1829, a carefully worded preamble and resolution expressed the opinion of the board that as " the greater part of the expense to be incurred in erecting the same will necessarily be chargeable upon Brooklyn, it is in-
expedient to put the village of Brooklyn and the County to the expense of erecting a new Court-house," but if the future board "shall hereafter think otherwise, then we urge that the location be as near the business centre as may be practicable, and that it be so constructed as to accommodate all municipal concerns."
Jeremiah Johnson, John Terhune and Noah Water- bury were appointed on the part of the board with full power to confer with Fanning C. Tucker, Henry War- ring and Lossee Van Nostrand, the committee on the part of the Trustees of Brooklyn, having in charge the business of constructing a Court-house.
In joint committee the Brooklynites submitted three propositions, one of which was that the Supervisors should pay the Trustees of the village of Brooklyn $9,000, for accommodations for the Court of Common Pleas in the Apprentices' Library. This was a fire- brand which ended the conference summarily for the time.
On the 7th of April, 1830, before the official term of the Board expired, the Supervisors met again, pursuant to notice, with the Superintendents of the Poor.
This important office had existed several years pre- vious to this, but their acts and doings are only inci- dentally referred to in the records of the proceedings of the Supervisors, and their names are not mentioned. This year the Superintendents are named in proper order in the record as follows: "Samuel Smith, David Johnson, Michael Schumaker, Superintendents of the Poor of Kings County."
A committee appointed by the Supervisors to ex- amine the common jail of the county at Flatbush, re- ported that it was deficient in many respects, but no ac- tion was taken in regard to a new one, or to a new Court House.
1830. SUPERVISORS: John C. Vanderveer, Flatbush; Jeremiah Johnson, Brooklyn ; John Terhune, Graves- end ; James Cropsey, New Utrecht ; Gerrit Kouwen- hoven, Flatlands ; Noah Waterbury, Bushwick ; Jere- miah Lott, Clerk; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer; John Terhune and Jeremiah Lott, Loan Officers.
Ordered, That the sum of $8,000 be raised to meet the contingent expenses of the Poor-house establish- ment for the ensuing eighteen months. 1
Ordered, That $8,000 be raised to meet the contingent expenses of the County this year. This last amount was exhausted in the payment of sixty-three different bills against the County audited by the Board, among which is one for the "support of foreign poor by the town of Brooklyn, amount $1,500.80;" another, " for one-half year's rent of Alms-house and furniture, $1,062.81.
Town expenses : Brooklyn, $1,632.57; Flatlands, $74.12; Flatbush, $115.65; Bushwick, $124.52; Graves- end, $162.74; New Utrecht, $332,00.
The Superintendents of the Poor were ordered to procure estimates and plans for the erection of a poor-
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house and penitentiary, to be connected together. Jeremiah Johnson and David Johnson were appointed a committee to confer with the corporation of the City of New York, and ascertain if it would be willing, at a stipulated price, to receive the eriminals of Kings County, convicted of crimes in the several courts of this county, at the city Penitentiary on Blackwells Island. The sum of $9,000 was placed at the disposal of the Superintendents of the Poor, to enable them to erect a county poor-house and penitentiary on the county farm.
The number of paupers under the charge of the Superintendents of the Poor, on the 7th of April, 1830, was 122, of whom 63 were males and 59 females. Among these, 79 were foreigners, 62 of whom were from Ireland. A school was established in the Poor- house with a daily average attendance of 14 white and 8 colored children. The keeper, Mr. Thos. Baisely, with his wife, were faithful, competent, industrious and very kind. From the grounds attached to the Poor- house there were raised 750 bushels of potatoes, 170 bushels turnips, 13 bushels onions, 750 cabbages, 4 tons of hay, and 13 hogs, weighing 2,130 pounds. The aver- age number of paupers maintained during the year was 144, making the cost of each pauper 56 cents per week, or $29 per annum, or 8 cents per day.
The Board of Supervisors expressed themselves sat- isfied with the successful operation of the plan of sup- porting the poor as a county charge ; "that this plan has met their most sanguine expectations, and that these benefits are largely attributable to the diligent and persevering attention of the Superintendents of the Poor of the county."
The sum of $600 was allowed them for their services the past year, to be apportioned among them.
We have been somewhat particular in giving the foregoing, because it was the commencement of a new system in regard to the poor of the county.
1831. SUPERVISORS: John C. Vanderveer, Flatbush; Jeremiah Johnson, Brooklyn ; John Terhune, Graves- end ; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Con- selyea, Bushwiek ; Egbert Benson, Jr., New Utrecht ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer; Samuel Smith, David Johnson and Michael Sehoon- maker, Superintendents of the Poor.
John C. Vanderveer, Esq., the Supervisor for the town of Flatbush, was President of the Board. This is the first appointment of a President or Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of which there is any record. In the colonial days, and we believe for several years after, some one of the judges, or a justiec of the peaee, presided at the meeting of the Board. Afterwards a chairman was appointed for every day during meetings. In April, 1831, a law was cnaeted, providing for the appointment of a president of each and every Board of Supervisors in the state. This appointment was to be made from some member of the Board, at the annual meeting.
The Board, with the judges of the Court of Common Pleas, continued to appoint at its annual meetings proper persons to serve in the county as Commissioner of Deeds and Town Collectors. Justices of the Peace were now elected by the people.
The sum of $16,000 was allowed to be raised by tax for the contingent expenses of the county for the en- suing year.
Town expenses : Brooklyn, to Commissioners of Com- mon schools, $667.57; Bushwick, $230.27; Flatbush, 114.15; New Utrecht, $122.00; Flatlands, $64.12; Gravesend, $81.33.
An interesting matter came before the Board at its meeting, September 26th, 1831, in regard to an attempt of the Master of the Ship Galaxy, of Cronstadt, to de- posit its cargo at Fort La Fayette, within this county; the said ship hailing from a port infected with eholera. Stringent measures were taken to prevent such a dis- position of the eargo. The matter was presented to the Grand Jury, and a memorial sent to the United States Government in regard to the matter. The offi- eers of the ship and owners of the cargo were deter- mined to deposit it in the fort; but by the prompt action of the Board of Supervisors, were prevented from so doing.
Seventy-five cents per day was ordered to be paid to the grand and petit jurors, whose namcs were drawn from the county jury boxes, for every day's attendance at the courts of record to be held in the county.
The bill of Justices Murphy, Dean and Furman, of the Municipal Court of Brooklyn, was presented to the Board, and ordered to be laid over for future consider- ation.
The Board took into consideration the propriety of employing convicts capable of hard labor, and resolved to authorize the keeper of the jail to employ them upon the publie avenues, public highways, streets, &e.
1832. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, Brooklyn, President ; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Conselyea, Bushwick; John Wyckoff, Flatbush; Nich- olas R. Van Brunt, New Utrecht ; John Terhune, Gravesend; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer; Superintendents of the Poor, same as last year.
The sum of $30,000 was ordered to be raised for contingent expenses.
Town expenses : Brooklyn, to the Commissioners of Common Schools, $802.13 ; Bushwiek, $174.40; Flat- buslı, $408,30 ; New Utrecht, $167.15 ; Flatlands, $64.80; Gravesend, $291.00.
The board this year provided for the preservation of old books of record in the County Clerk's office.
The bill of Jolin Lawrence, Sheriff of the County of Kings, amounting to $249,50, was presented, but after a somewhat stormy debate, was rejected.
The Board of Supervisors met for the first time in Brooklyn, on Jan. 12, 1833, at the Apprentices' Library.
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A troublesome, but important matter came before the board this year, in regard to the allowance of eer- tain bills-those of constables and marshals, for serving criminal processes issued by the justices of the munici- pal courts of Brooklyn. By a resolution of the board this subject was submitted to H. W. Warner, Esq., a very able and learned counsellor-at-law, of Brooklyn, who decided that the justices of said courts had no criminal jurisdiction, and that warrants signed by them were absolutely void. The President and Trustees of the village, by its charter, had the power of committing for criminal offences, while to justiecs of the municipal court no such powers were given in it. The justices of the municipal courts, the constable and marshals of Brooklyn having presented their bills, the Supervisors expressing doubts as to their power, or right, to pay them, they were withdrawn. On motion, Mr. Warner was appointed counsel for the board.
The proposition to build a new road in the village of Brooklyn, commencing at the junction of Henry and District streets, and running thence in a south-westerly direction, in continuation of Henry street, to Red Hook lane, involved this and the preceding board in a serious and expensive litigation. A mandamus, in which Charles Hoyt and others were the relators, had been served on the board, requiring them to impose a tax on the town of Brooklyn, to pay the amount assessed by a jury, for drainage and for lands taken for said publie road.
The court-house at Flatbush having been destroyed by fire, it was proposed to divide the county into two shires, or jury districts, with a court-house at Brooklyn and one at Flatbush, the one recently destroyed to be immediately rebuilt. A resolution favorable to this was adopted by the board, but the measure was strong- ly opposed by Brooklyn, and one or two other towns in the county. At a subsequent meeting, John Law- rence, Joseph Moser and Gabriel Furman, of Brooklyn; General L. Martense, of Flatbush, and Samuel Richard- son of Williamsburgh, were appointed a building com- mittee, for the purpose of erecting a court-house and jail in the village of Brooklyn, on the site already designated.
1833. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, President, Brooklyn ; John Terhune, Gravesend; Gerrit Kouwen- hoven, Flatlands ; John Wyckoff, Flatbush ; Nicholas R. Van Brunt, New Utrecht ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer ; Elias H. Hubbard, Flatlands; Coe H. Downing, Brooklyn, and David John- son, of Flatbush, Superintendent of the Poor. At the annual meeting of the said board, held at the Appren- tices' Library, Brooklyn, August 6th, 1833, a list of persons in the county, liable to serve on juries, was made out. The amount allowed for contingent ex- penses this year was $10,546,06}. Town expenses were taken up and audited as follows : Brooklyn town ex- penses, Commissioners of Common Schools, $802,13 ;
Bushwick, $301,40 ; New Utrecht, $115.65 ; Flatbush, $108.80 ; Flatlands, $80.33 ; Gravesend, $103.19.
The appointments of commissioners of deeds and town collectors were then made.
One hundred dollars were paid into the County Treasury from lottery venders.
The sum of $1,605,07 was received to the credit of the county this year from excise and bastardy cases.
Among the bills presented and audited against the county this year were the following :
For cholera bills, $7,712,24; from this will be seen the great mortality of the cholera in the county during the year ending August 6th, 1833 .*
Money drawn this year by the Superintendents of the Poor, $2,300.00; for the support of prisoners in jail in New York, $185.30.
To Henry Warner, Esq., counsel fees, written opinion, etc., $75.
The Superintendents of the Poor presented their annual report, by which it appears that the number of persons in the poor-house, April 7, 1833, was 180, of whom 85 were females and 95 males. Of the number relieved and supported during the ycar, there were 168 foreigners, 7 lunatics. There occurred 482 cases of disease, and 24 deaths. The school in the alms-house was reported to be in an exceedingly prosperous condi- tion.
First Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County after the Incorporation of Brooklyn as a City.
1833. The Board of Supervisors for the year 1833-'4 met at the Apprentices' Library, in the city of Brooklyn, on Tues- day, the 27th day of May, 1834, pursuant to notice. Present: Jeremiah Johnson, Henry Waring, David Anderson, John Dimon, Obadiah Jackson, for the first seven wards of Brook- lyn ; Martenus Bergen, 8th and 9th wards ; John Terhune, Gravesend ; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Con- selyea, Bushwick; John Wyckoff, Flatbush; Nicholas R. Van Brunt, New Utrecht.
The Clerk, Treasurer, and Superintendents of the Poor were, as we have seen, appointed at the first annual meeting of the board, August 6th, 1833.
At this meeting, a select committee, appointed by the Common Council of the city of Brooklyn, for the purpose of taking measures for the ereetion of a city hall, to be used as a court-house, appeared before the board and asked its concurrence in the project. The matter was immediately referred to a committee appointed by the Supervisors.
The joint committee of the Board of Supervisors and of the Common Council of the city of Brooklyn recommended the land at the junction of Joralemon and Fulton streets, belonging to the estate of Henry Remsen, deceased, as a suitable situation for a city hall and court house, and the city property at the Wallabout as a proper situation for a jail.
The Supervisors having previously entered into a contract for purchasing a site for a jail and court-house in Washing- ton street, the joint committee recommended that the same be reseinded on the best possible terms.
* A full and interesting account of the ravages of this disease will be found in Dr. STILES' valuable History of Brooklyn, Vol. II.
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The proposition to build a new court-house at Flatbush was defeated, and the court-house lot and grounds at that place was leased to Simon Voorhies.
It is proper to add that the act for building a court-house and jail in Kings County was passed April 25, 1833.
1834. SUPERVISORS: Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman, Henry Waring, David Anderson, John Dimon, Obadiah Jackson, for the first seven wards of Brooklyn ; Martenns Bergen, 8th and 9th Wards ; John Terhune, Gravesend ; Gerrit Kouwen- hoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Conselyea, Bushwick ; John Wyc- koff, Flatbush ; Nicholas R. Van Brunt, New Utrecht ; Jere- miah Lott, Clerk ; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer.
The contingent expenses of the city of Brooklyn this year, as audited by the Board, were $22,352.13. Expenses to be levied on the whole city, $11,802.13 ; first five wards, $3,623 ; first seven wards, $6,927.
Town expenses : Bushwick, $480,40 ; Flatbush, $203 ; New Utrecht, $235.40 ; Flatlands, $98.96 ; Gravesend, $95.94.
The Board, at its meeting in Brooklyn, the 27th day of June, 1835, took measures for building a hospital on the county farm. Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman of the Board, reported that he had procured a Seal of the County of Kings, with a device thereon exhibiting the scales of justice, and upon which is inscribed the words, "Board of Supervisors of Kings County." This report was adopted, and, by another resolution, the Clerk of the Supervisors was made the custo- dian of said seal.
By another resolution, concurred in by the Judges of the county, the Common Council room, in the Exchange Build- ing. in the city of Brooklyn, was designated as the proper place for holding the courts of the county, and it was resolved to pay the city of Brooklyn $200 per annum for the use of said rooms, that being the sum required by the Common Council of the city.
1835. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman, Silas Butler, Peter Conover, John Dikeman, Jonathan Trotter, for the first seven wards of Brooklyn; Martenus Bergen, 8th and 9th Wards; John Terhune, Gravesend; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Conselyea, Bushwick ; John Wyckoff, Flatbush ; Nicholas R. Van Brunt, New Utrecht ; Jeremiah Lott, Esq., Clerk ; John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer.
The annual meeting of the Board took place at the time fixed by law, the first Tuesday in Angust. Since the first meeting of the Supervisors in the county of Kings, in August, 1714, down to the present time, and long after, as we shall see, the first Tuesday of that month was the time appointed for the annual meeting of the Board.
The Supervisors and Judges met as usual to appoint Com- missioners of Deeds and Collectors for the several towns in the county.
The contingent expenses for the city of Brooklyn, which were audited by the Board, were $30,000. A large part of this amount consisted of county expenses. In addition to this, the sum of $2,350 was raised in the city of Brooklyn for the support of common schools, under an act amending the charter of the city, passed in April of this year.
Town expenses : Flatlands, $64.80; New Utrecht, $155.40 ; Flatbush, $108.80 ; Gravesend, $72.94 ; Bushwick, $819.40.
At the adjourned meeting of the Board, on the 15th of September, 1835, John Dikeman, of Brooklyn, appeared in place of Peter Conover.
By a report made to the Board at this meeting, it appears that the estimated value of the real estate of the county was $28,020,644 ; that the value of the personal property was $3,920,288 ; that the proportion of county taxes was $28,280; that the proportion of town taxes was $39,090.93; that the rate of taxes upon $1 of valuation for the 1st, 3d and 6th Wards,
was 2} mills, and 2} mills for the 2d, 4th, 5th and 7th Wards.
The corporations existing in the county this year, accord- ing to the report of Jeremiah Lott, Clerk of the Board, pre- sented at this meeting, were the following ; Long Island Bank, capital, $300,000; Brooklyn Bank, $200,000; Long Island Insurance Co., $200,000 ; Brooklyn Fire Insurance Co., $102,000; Brooklyn White Lead Co., $40,000 ;* Brooklyn Crown Glass Co., $25,000 ;* Wallabout and Brooklyn Bridge Co., $12,000 ;* Newtown and Bushwick Bridge Co., $906 ; Newtown and Bushwick Turnpike Road Co., $8,256 ;* Graves- end and Coney Island Road and Bridge Co., $600.
According to a resolution of the Board, Jeremiah Lott was allowed 10 cents per folio for recording its proceedings, and John C. Vanderveer, Treasurer of the county, was allowed $2 per day for his attendance with the Board.
1836. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman ; Clar- ence D. Sackett, Peter Conover, John U. Masely, Joseph Her- bert, for the first seven wards of Brooklyn ; Martenus Ber- gen, 8th and 9th Wards ; John Terhune, Gravesend ; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands ; Joseph Conselyea, Bushwick ; John Wyckoff, Flatbush ; Tunis G. Bergen, New Utrecht ; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk ; John C. Vandervcer, Treasurer.
Among the matters of business transacted by the Board at the annual meeting was the following :
Joseph Conselyea, Clarence D. Sackett, and Peter Conover were appointed a committee of arrangements, for the cere- mony of laying the foundation stone of the new Jail and fire-proof Clerk's Office ; ordered that the sum of $32,000 be raised to meet the contingent expenses of the current year.
Town expenses: Bushwick, $690.90; Flatbush, $59.55; New Utrecht, $1,439.15 ; Flatlands, $160,50 ; Gravesend, $537.20.
The Apprentices' Library Association having wound up their affairs and disposed of their building to the Common Council of the city of Brooklyn, the rent for the same for a county clerk's office was required, and payment therefore was ordered. The payments into the treasury on account of ex- cise this year were $1,938.90.
Abraham Vanderveer, clerk of the county, at a meeting of the Board, held on the 20th December, 1836, reported that the fire-proof building erected by the Common Council of Brooklyn, for the safety of public records, books and papers, was now ready for occupation, with the exception of a few fixtures, which the Board ordered furnished.
1837. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman, Peter Conover, William M. Udall, William H. Hale, Henry Patchen, for the first seven wards of the city of Brooklyn, John Terhune, Gravesend ; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands: Teunis G. Bergen, New Utrecht : Isaac Cortelyou, Flatbush; Jeremiah Lott, Clerk.
At the annual meeting, the chairman laid before the Board the resignation of John C. Vanderveer, the treasurer of the county.
Mr. Vanderveer had served as treasurer of the county since August 5th, 1813, continuously, a period of twenty- four years, with more than ordinary ability and satisfaction to the people of the county. His resignation was, therefore, reluctantly accepted, and followed by a unanimous vote of thanks for his very able and faithful services.
The Board elected John A. Lott Treasurer, in place of Mr. Vanderveer.
The contingent expenses of the city of Brooklyn this year. as audited by the Board, amounted to $81,231.15.
Town expenses: New Utrecht. $115.13 ; Flatbush, $231.04 ; Gravesend, $105.42 ; Bushwick, $1,428.28. The Board or-
* Secured by real estate.
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dered the sum of $40,000, to be raised by tax, to meet the ordinary expenses of the whole county.
The Board made arrangements to raise a loan on the credit of the county, amounting to $25,000.
1838. SUPERVISORS : Jeremiah Johnson, Chairman, Cyrus P. Smith, John Dikeman, David Cooper, Samuel H. Mason, for the first seven wards of the city of Brooklyn ; Martenus Bergen, 8th and 9th Wards; Gerrit Kouwenhoven, Flatlands; Tunis G. Bergen, New Utrecht ; Isaac Cortelyou, Flatbush ; Nicholas Wyckoff, Bushwick ; Samuel G. Stryker, Graves- end ; John A. Lott, Treasurer, and Jeremiah Lott, Clerk.
It was resolved that the sum of $42,341.39 be raised by tax for the ensuing year to meet the current expenses of the city of Brooklyn, and also that the sum of $18,500 be raised by tax on the first seven wards of the city, to meet the ex- penses incident to the fire and watch districts.
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