. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . t was declared that the existingFire Department Fund was transferred to the corporation thus created, andthe surplus revenue derived from investments and from other sources, or somuch thereof as should be required, should be appropriated by the trustees toafford aid and relief to such persons and their families as should have beenlawfully discharged from the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of NewYork, who were in indigent circumstances, and to the families of members oftha
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . t was declared that the existingFire Department Fund was transferred to the corporation thus created, andthe surplus revenue derived from investments and from other sources, or somuch thereof as should be required, should be appropriated by the trustees toafford aid and relief to such persons and their families as should have beenlawfully discharged from the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of NewYork, who were in indigent circumstances, and to the families of members ofthat department who had been maimed or killed in the discharge of theirduties as Volunteer Firemen. And by the seventh section it was declaredthat this corporation was entitled to receive, and that there should be paid,a percentage or tax on the receipts of foreign fire insurance companies doingbusiness m the City of NeAv York for five years from the passage of the act. One of the principal sources of revenue received by the trustees of thtBenevolent Fund was the proceeds of the Fire Department balls, under th<. HOPE OX, HOPE EVER. I > U R K 1 R E M BN. TOO management of a voluntary organization known as tin- Knvrnens Ball Commit-tee, which was organized in 1829. The amount of money paid into the Benev-olent Fund by that organization up to Is;:; exceeded the sum of one hundredand twenty-live thousand dollars. A nut her source of income, and the principal one, was the revenue derivedfrom t lie I wo pee cent tax on lire insurance companies not. chartered hy thelaws of this State or of the United States. The income from this sourceexceeded the sum of eight hundred, and fifty thousand dollars since the year1849, when the lax was authorizes by the Legislature. This tax is still inexistence, notwithstanding the Volunteer Department was disbanded twentyyears since, and the whole system of state and city taxation upon other Stateand foreign insurance companies remodeled and placed u
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