mous consent was also read the second time, and referred to the committee on internal affairs.

"An act to release the interest of the people of the State of New York in certain real estate to Elizabeth Hanley," which was read the first time, and by unanimous consent was also read the second time and referred to the committee on the judiciary.

"An act to provide for fair grounds in the county of Chemung," which was read the first time, and by unanimous consent was also read the second time, and referred to the committee on agriculture.

"An act to enable the board of education of the city of Brooklyn to sell certain lands," which was read the first time, and by unanimous consent was also read the second time, and referred to the committee on the affairs of cities.

The Assembly returned the following entitled bills, with a message that they had concurred in the amendments of the Senate thereto :

"An act in relation to the Chemung Railroad Company."

"An act to incorporate the Importers' and Grocers' Board of Trade of the city of New York."

"An act to extend the time for the organizing of the Niagara Waterworks Company."

Ordered, That the Clerk return said bills to the Assembly.

The Assembly returned the following entitled bills, with a message that they had concurred in the passage of the same:

"An act authorizing the town of Little Valley, Cattaraugus county, to issue bonds to pay its indebtedness incurred in the building of the courthouse and jail in said town."

"An act to extend the time for the completion of the Erie and New York City railroad."

"An act for the protection of tax-payers against the frauds, embezzlements, and wrongful acts of public officers and agents."

Ordered, That the Clerk deliver said bills to the Governor.

The hour of half past eleven o'clock having arrived, the Senate then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being the Assembly bill entitled as follows:

"An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York." After some time spent therein the President resumed the chair, and Mr. D. P. Wood, from said committee, reported progress on said named bill, and asked and obtained leave to sit again.

Mr. Palmer moved that the bill be made the special order for this evening at half past seven o'clock.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative, two-thirds of all the Senators present voting in favor thereof.

On motion of Mr. Murphy, the Senate took a recess until half past seven o'clock, P. M.

SEVEN AND A HALF O'CLOCK, P. M.

Senate again met.

The Senate again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being the Assembly bill entitled as follows:

"An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York." After some time spent therein, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. D. P. Wood, from said committee, reported progress on said named bill, and asked and obtained leave to sit again.

Mr. Palmer moved that the bill be made the special order for to-morrow morning, immediately after reading of the journal.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative, two-thirds of all the Senators present voting in favor thereof.

On motion of Mr. Madden, the Senate adjourned.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872.

The Senate met pursuant to adjournment.

Prayer by Rev. Mr. Morrow.

The journal of yesterday was read and approved.

The Senate again resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and proceeded to the consideration of the special order, being the Assembly bill entitled as follows:

"An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York." After some time spent therein, the President resumed the chair, and Mr. D. P. Wood, from said committee, reported progress on said named bill, and asked leave to sit again.

Mr. Palmer moved that the committee be discharged from further consideration of said bill, and that the same be ordered to a third reading. The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative, as follows:

By unanimous consent, Mr. Palmer moved that said bill be read a third

time.

The President put the question whether the Senate would agree to said motion, and it was decided in the affirmative, two-thirds of all the Senators present voting in favor thereof.

Said bill having been announced for a third reading,

Mr. Winslow moved to recommit the bill to the committee on the affairs of cities, with instructions to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following:

ARTICLE I.-THE CORPORATE POWERS.

SECTION 1. The corporation now existing and known by the name of "The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York,"

shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the same name, and shall have perpetual succession with all the grants, powers and privileges heretofore held by the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York, and not modified or repealed by the provisions hereinafter made by this act.

ARTICLE II.-THE LEGISLATIVE POWERS.

§ 2. The legislative power of the said corporation shall be vested in a board of aldermen, which shall consist of not more than forty-five members, one-fifth to be elected, as hereinafter provided, in each senate district of the city, as now established by law.

§ 3. There shall be aldermen elected, who shall be residents of the city of New York, at an election to be held under this act, on the second Tuesday of April, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and on the second Tuesday of the month of April in every year thereafter, to hold office for the term commencing on the first Monday of May next after their election, and until the first Monday of May of the succeeding year.

§ 4. At such election each qualified voter in each senate district may give one written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, ballot, with the indorsement "Alderman," which shall contain a list of not more than nine names. The voter may repeat on such list the same name nine times, or may make such list to consist of nine different names, or may repeat any one or more name or names on said list as often as he may see fit. After the closing of the polls on the day of election, the canvass in each election district of the senate district shall be completed by ascertaining, assorting, and making returns to the county canvassers of the number of votes given for each candidate. Any ballot containing more than nine names shall be rejected. From the returns so made, the county canvassers shall determine the names of the nine persons having the largest number of votes in each senate district, and they shall be returned as elected. In the event of a vacancy or vacancies arising by reason of less than nine persons being voted for in any senate district, such vacancy or vacancies shall remain unfilled for the ensuing year. In the event of two or more of the persons voted for in any senate district having received an equal number of votes, under such circumstances that there shall be no full number of nine persons having received a higher number of votes than any others, the aldermen elected at such election shall, within five days after their organization, select and determine by lot from among the said persons so having received an equal number of votes, a number sufficient to make up the full delegation of nine members from such senate district, and the persons so selected shall be deemed elected. The persons elected shall have been residents of the senate districts from which they shall have been elected for the period of at least thirty days previous to the election.

§ 5. In case of vacancies by deaths or resignations, amounting in the whole to one-fourth of the entire board, occurring before the first day of February in any year, the said vacancies shall be filled by new elections to be held in the respective senate district or districts in which the vacan cies shall have occurred, at a time to be appointed by the board. Such elections shall be held in the manner and on the principles prescribed in section four of this act, so far as the same are applicable.

6. A majority of the board of aldermen shall be a quorum.

7. Said board shall

1. Choose a president from its own members by a majority of the members elected;

2. Appoint a clerk and other officers;

3. Determine the rules of its own proceedings;

4. Be the judge of the returns of election, and the right of election and qualifications of its own members;

5. Keep a journal of its proceedings;

6. Sit with open doors, and

7. Shall have authority to compel the attendance of absent members; to punish its members for disorderly behavior; and to expel a member with the concurrence of four-fifths of the members elected to the board. §8. The first meeting of the board shall be held on the first Monday of May after the election, at five o'clock in the afternoon, and at such meeting the board shall appoint and determine the days and hours for its stated meetings: Provided, that the hour for opening stated or adjourned meetings shall be fixed between the hours of five and eight in the evening.

9. Every legislative act of the board shall be by resolution or ordinance, and every ordinance or resolution, except as hereinafter provided, shall, before it takes effect, be presented duly engrossed and certified to the mayor for his approval: Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the acts of the board in appointing and electing commissioners or members of boards of departments.

10. The mayor shall sign each resolution or ordinance if he approve it, or return the same within ten days if he does not approve it, with the reason therefor; and if thereupon the board pass the same within five days of such veto by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected, such resolution or ordinance shall become as effective as though the mayor had signed the same. It shall equally become effective if he should neglect to return the same within such ten days.

$11. No resolution or ordinance for alienating or leasing any property of the city, or which involves the appropriation of public moneys or the taxing or assessing the citizens of said city, shall be passed or adopted until at least five days after the same shall have been introduced and entered upon the journal; nor shall any such ordinance or resolution be passed or adopted unless by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected. No additional allowance beyond the legal claim which shall exist under any contract with the corporation, or for any services on its account, shall be passed except by a unanimous vote of all the members present. § 12. No resolution or ordinance appropriating any money, or giving any property of the city, or loaning the credit of the city to any eleemosynary or charitable institution or purpose, shall be passed or adopted, unless such appropriation, gift or loan shall have been first reported upon by the hereinafter created department of charities and correction.

813. No resolution or ordinance appropriating any money or giving any property of the city, or loaning the credit of the city to any educational institution or purpose, shall be passed or adopted, unless such appropriation, gift or loan shall have been first reported upon by the hereinafter created department of public instruction.

§14. The clerk of the board of aldermen shall keep the seal of the city; and his signature shall be necessary to all leases, grants and other documents, as under existing laws. He may employ such number of assistant clerks, including a librarian (who shall prepare and publish a journal of the city government), as the board of aldermen may authorize:

Provided, that the whole amount appropriated for his pay and that of his assistants shall not in any year exceed the sum of thirty thousand dollars. He may assign any clerk to any duties other than those for which he was first employed.

§ 15. Immediately after adjournment, the clerk shall, omitting all formal and technical details, prepare a brief abstract of all resolutions and ordinances introduced, and all recommendations of committees which propose or contemplate any specific improvement involving the appropriation of public moneys, or the taxing or assessing the property of the citizens of the city. Such abstract shall be published daily in such form as the commissioners of the treasury hereinafter named shall deem most convenient, together with the abstracts of the reports of the departments hereinafter provided for, which publication shall be known as the journal of the city government, and a file of which shall be kept in every department of the city government. Such publication shall be a sufficient compliance with any law requiring a publication of any of the proceedings of the board of aldermen.

§ 16. The board shall have the exclusive power to appropriate money by proper ordinance for every branch and object of city expenditure; and no money shall be drawn from the city treasury unless the same shall have been previously appropriated by the board. They shall succeed to and be exclusively vested with all the powers and rights in relation to the incurring of indebtedness, and the raising and appropriating of public moneys now possessed by or vested in any department of the city government, excepting only the department of public instruction.

§ 17. The board shall have power to make, continue, modify, and repeal such ordinances, regulations, and resolutions as may be necessary to carry into effect any and all of the powers now vested in, or by this act conferred upon the corporation, and shall have power to enforce obedience to said ordinances, regulations and resolutions, and observances thereof, by ordaining penalties for each and every violation in such sums as may be deemed expedient, not exceeding one hundred dollars. They shall also have power to fix by resolution the salaries of the comptroller, corporation counsel, and all commissioners and heads of bureaus, but the board of aldermen shall not have authority to fix any rate of compensation or salary other than a sum certain per annum. The board shall not exercise any executive function, nor create new departments not herein provided for.

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§ 18. Except in anticipation of the revenues of the current year, mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of New York shall not have authority to borrow any moneys whatever on the credit of the corporation beyond the sums now authorized by law, unless such loan shall be authorized by a special act of the Legislature upon application therefor made by said corporation.

§ 19. Each alderman shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, subject to a deduction of ten dollars for each stated meeting of the board that he shall during the month, for any cause, have failed to attend.

§ 20. The executive power of the corporation shall be vested in the mayor and the departments herein created.

§ 21. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the corporation. He shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city at the said elec