The City for the People!: Campaign Book of the Citizens' Union ... September-October 1897Committee on Press and Literature of the Citizens' Union, 1897 - 159 Seiten |
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Seite 95 - An act to unite into one municipality under the corporate name of The City of New York, the various communities lying in and about New York harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof.
Seite 40 - No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation, as it appeared by the assessment rolls of said county or city on the last assessment for state or county taxes prior to the incurring of such indebtedness...
Seite 40 - After any bill for a special city law relating to a city has been passed by both branches of the Legislature, the house in which it originated shall immediately transmit a certified copy thereof to the mayor of such city, and within fifteen days thereafter the mayor shall return such bill to the house from which it was sent, or if the session of the Legislature at which such bill, was passed has terminated, to the Governor, with the mayor's certificate thereon, stating whether the city has or has...
Seite 41 - Kings, and in all counties whose boundaries are the same as those of a city, except to fill vacancies, shall be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November in an odd-numbered year, and the term of every such officer shall expire at the end of an odd-numbered year.
Seite 41 - Whenever, during the session at which it was passed, any such bill is returned without the acceptance of the city or cities to which it relates, or within such fifteen days is not returned, it may nevertheless again be passed by both branches of the Legislature, and it shall then be subject as arc other bills, to the action of the Governor. In every special city law which has been accepted by the city or cities...
Seite 99 - ... conducted in violation of the laws regulating the traffic in liquor, gambling houses or any other places or congregations violative of good order or of the laws of this state, or other matters or things concerning the peace, comfort, order and good government respecting any neighborhood within the district, or concerning the condition of the poor within the district, and to pass such resolutions concerning the same as may not be inconsistent with the powers of the...
Seite 97 - Certain ordinances and resolutions, how passed and approved; ayes and noes published. § 30. No ordinance or resolution providing for or contemplating the alienation or disposition of any property of the city, the granting of a franchise, terminating the lease of any property or franchise belonging to the city, or the making of any specific improvement, or the appropriation or expenditure of public moneys, or authorizing the incurring of any expense, or the taxing or assessing of property in the...
Seite 127 - City had given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Seite 40 - Laws relating to the property, affairs or government of cities, and the several departments thereof, are divided into general and special city laws ; general city laws are those which relate to all the cities of one or more classes ; special city laws are those which relate to a single city, or to less than all the cities of a class.
Seite 101 - The heads of all departments, including those retained as above, and all other persons whose appointment is in this section provided for, may be removed by the mayor for cause, and after opportunity to be heard, subject, however, before such removal shall take effect, to the approval of the governor, expressed in writing.