The vote came at the end of a town board meeting when the board members reconvened briefly as town trustees and the majority rushed through the appropriation.

"From what we know, there are city employees involved," Mr. Giuliani said last night, at the end of a town hall meeting in Bay Terrace, Queens.

Gunman Richard Durn, 33 years old, opened fire at the end of a town council meeting, resulting in the deaths of eight councilors, and the injury of 19 others.

These archaic forms of football, typically classified as mob football, would be played between neighboring towns and villages, involving an unlimited number of players on opposing teams, who would clash in a heaving mass of people struggling to drag an inflated pig's bladder by any means possible to markers at each end of a town.