shall elect three commissioners in the place of those whose terms shall expire on the fifteenth day of May in such year, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the election of said commissioners in eighteen hundred and seventy-two. The commissioners so to be elected after eighteen hundred and seventy-two shall hold office for six years, from the fifteenth day of May of the year in which they shall be elected.

47. The board of aldermen may, at any time, remove any or all of said commissioners by a vote of two-thirds of the whole number of aldermen in office at the time of such removal, for cause to be assigned in the resolution of removal; but no removal shall be made by virtue of this section unless the cause thereof be entered on the journal, nor unless the party complained of shall have been served with a copy of the charges against him, and shall have had an opportunity of being heard on the question of removal, and have ten days' time to answer said charges. The yeas and nays shall be entered on the journal.

§ 48. Vacancies occurring in the offices of commissioners by removal, resignation, death or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining commissioners by appointment. The persons so appointed shall hold office until the expiration of the terms of the persons in whose stead they were appointed respectively.

49. The department of public safety shall have and exercise all the powers now conferred upon and vested in the police department, the fire department, the health department, and the department of buildings of the city of New York, and such other powers as are conferred upon them by this act, and as may be from time to time conferred upon them by the board of aldermen of said city, not inconsistent with the laws of this State; provided, that said department of public safety shall not have power to incur indebtedness nor to raise nor expend money unless the same shall have been appropriated by the board of aldermen.

§ 50. There shall be five bureaux in this department, to wit:

1. A bureau of police, the chief officer of which shall be called "the superintendent of police.'

2. A fire bureau, the chief officer of which shall be called "the chief engineer of the fire bureau," who shall also be the inspector of fire appa

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3. A bureau of health, the chief officer of which shall be a practical physician, and shall be called "the sanitary superintendent."

4. A bureau of buildings, the chief officer of which shall be called "the superintendent of buildings."

5. A bureau of statistics, the chief officer of which shall be called "the register of records."

§ 51. Every person who shall be connected with the police department of the city of New York on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (except the police commissioners and the superintendent of police), shall continue in office and be transferred by operation of this act to the bureau of police of the department of public safety herein created, and the amount of salary or compensation now paid to such person shall be the salary and compensation fixed for his transferred office under this act, until altered as herein provided. Every such person shall be subject to removal as hereinbefore provided.

§ 52. Every person who shall be connected with the fire department of the city of New York on the fifteenth of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (except the fire commissioners of the city of New York, the chief engineer, and the inspector of fire apparatus), shall continue in

office and be transferred by operation of this act to the fire bureau of the department of public safety herein created, and the amount of salary or compensation now paid to such person shall be the salary and compensation fixed for his transferred office under this act until altered as herein provided. Every such person shall be subject to removal as hereinbefore provided.

§ 53. It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than sixty days, for a person not employed by the department of safety in the said fire bureau, to wear the whole or any part of the uniform or insignia prescribed to be worn by the persons employed in said fire bureau, by the rules and regulations of said department, or to do any act as fireman not duly authorized by the board hereby created, or to interfere with the property or apparatus of the fire bureau, in any manner, unless by authority of the department.

$54. It shall be the duty of said department to make suitable regulations, under which the officers and men of the fire bureau shall be required to wear any appropriate uniform and badge, by which, in case of fire and at other times, the authority and relations of such officers and men in said bureau may be known, as the exigencies of their duties may require. 855. Every person who shall be connected with the health department of the city of New York on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (except the officers constituting the head of the health department under section ninety of article eleven of the act entitled "An act to reorganize the local government of New York, passed April fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy," and except the heads of bureaux mentioned in section ninety-one of the said last mentioned act, and excepting also all the officers and employes of the bureau of street cleaning and excepting also all the officers and employes of the bureau, the chief officer of which is called the register of records), shall continue in office and be transferred by operation of this act to the bureau of health of the department of public safety herein created; and the amount of salary and compensation now paid to such person shall be the salary or compensation fixed for his transferred office under this act until altered as herein provided. Every such person shall be subject to removal as herein before provided.

§ 56. The health bureau of the department of public safety may, from time to time, make report to the department of public safety as to the necessity for cleaning the streets, and said department may thereupon transmit such reports to the board of aldermen, and may exercise such powers in relation thereto as shall be thereupon conferred upon them by the board of aldermen.

hundred and seventy-two (except the superintendent of public buildings), bail lings of the city of New York on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen $57. Every person who shall be connected with the department of shall continue in office, and be transferred by operation of law to the bureau of buildings of the department of public safety herein created; and the amount of salary or compensation now paid to such person compensation fixed for his transferred office under this

be the salary or

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act, until altered as herein provided. Every such person shall be sub

$58. Every person who shall be connected with that bureau of the present health department, the chief officer of which is called the register of records, on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventyTwo (except the register of records himself), shall continue in office and

be transferred by operation of law to the bureau of statistics of the department of public safety herein created, and the amount of salary or compensation now paid to such person shall be the salary or compensation fixed for his transferred office under this act, until altered as herein provided. Every such person shall be subject to removal, as hereinbe fore provided.

§ 59. The register of records, in addition to the duties now devolved upon him, shall, under the direction of the board of public safety, cause to be kept in each police precinct a full and complete record of the name and place of residence of each inhabitant of the precinct, and such other facts as the board of public safety may, from time to time, direct. He shall cause said records to be revised and corrected within two months after the first day of January in each year; and shall, under the direc tion of the board of public safety, take all proper and necessary means to obtain and secure, through the patrolmen of the precincts, and the residents themselves, early and full information of changes of residence and removals, so as to keep said records as full, complete and accurate as possible.

§ 60. No person holding office under this department shall be liable to military or jury duty while holding such office.

§ 61. The mayor shall be chairman of the board. The commissioners of public safety shall be entitled to seats in the board of aldermen, and shall have the right to participate in the discussions of said board affecting or relating to said department and its affairs, but shall not have the right to vote upon any resolution or ordinance.

ARTICLE VIII. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.

§ 62. The department of charities and correction shall be under the charge of five commissioners, who shall be a board to be called "the commissioners of public charities and correction." They shall be appointed and elected, respectively, in the maner herein before provided and prescribed for the appointment and election of commissioners of public works, and be subject to removal in like manner. All the provisions of sections thirty-one and thirty-two of this act, as to election, appointment and removal, shall be applicable to the commissioners of public charities and correction. Said board shall possess all the powers, and discharge all the duties now conferred upon the department of public charities and correction by special law, and by the provisions of chap ter five hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, and acts and part of acts amendatory thereto, except the power to incur indebtedness and to raise and expend money, and except as the same are modified or repealed by the provisions of this act, subject to the control of the board of aldermen.

§ 63. There shall be two bureaus in this department, a bureau of charities and a bureau of correction. The commissioners shall appoint a superintendent for each bureau. The bureau of charities shall have especial charge of all institutions, the inmates of which have not been committed for any offense against the laws. The bureau of correction shall have charge of all other institutions; and the two just designated classes of persons under the charge of the commissioners shall be, as far as practicable, separated. The commissioners shall invite all incorporated charitable or benevolent societies, not denominational or sectarian, including hospi tals, to file with the bureau of charities a statement of the objects for which said societies were established, the class of persons to whom they

extend relief, and the mode of relief adopted; also to report, from time to time, the means at their disposal and the sources whence derived, the names of persons relieved, and the amount of relief extended to them, and, in the case of hospitals or asylums, what number of additional inmates they can receive, and such other details as the commissioners may deem advisable. Such information, when received, shall be properly classified in books prepared for the purpose, with such alphabetical indexes as will enable the superintendent of such bureau at any time to refer to such institutions which take charge of any particular class of persons or patients, and to ascertain what relief any applicant to such bureau has heretofore received from any institution.

§ 64. All applications for money, property, or loan of the city's credit to any eleemosynary or charitable institution or purpose, shall be made to this department before the same can be acted upon by the board of aldermen. When such application shall have been filed in the office of the secretary of this department, the said commissioners shall have power to visit the said institution or charity, and examine and investigate its condition and purposes, and report thereon to the board of aldermen ; but if they determine adversely to such application, the power of said commissioners to visit and examine the same shall then cease and be determined. If, upon a report of this department, such aid in support of, or the maintenance of such eleemosynary institution or charity, shall be extended by the board of aldermen and accepted by such institution or charity, said commissioners shall thereupon be a board of visitors of said institution or charity, with power to send to such institution or charity for treatment or care, free of charge to the city, such cases as, in the discretion of the said commissioners, can be better treated therein than in the public charities of the city, not, however, involving any expenditure to the said institution beyond the amount of aid received by it from the city. If such aid shall consist of a periodical allowance of money or loan of credit, said powers of said commissioners shall continue during such period. If such aid shall consist of a donation of property of the city, then such powers of said commissioners shall be perpetual. Provided that no public money, property or credit shall be appropriated institution that is under the management or control of any sectarian or religious denomination.

to any

$65. The commissioner appointed by the mayor shall be chairman of the board. The commissioners of charities and correction shall be entitled to seats in the board of aldermen, and shall have a right to participate in the discussions of said board affecting or relating to said department and its affairs, but shall not have the right to vote upon any resolution or ordinance.

ARTICLE IX. THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

§ 66. The department of finance shall be under the charge and control of "the comptroller of the city and county of New York," and of four "commissioners of the treasury," who, together, shall constitute a board to be called "the department of finance."

$67. The comptroller shall be appointed by the mayor, and shall be removable at his pleasure. The comptroller may appoint, and at his pleasure remove, a deputy comptroller, who shall be appointed in the manner and be vested with the powers now described by law. The four commissioners of the treasury shall be elected by the board of aldermen [SENATE JOURNAL.]

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in the manner herein before provided and prescribed for the election of commissioners of public works, and shall be subject to removal in like manner. All the provisions of sections thirty-one and thirty-two of this act, as to appointments, elections, and removals, shall be applicable to the said five chief officers of this department respectively.

§68. The comptroller shall be the president and treasurer of the depart ment. He shall have the sole and exclusive power of appointing and removing all heads of bureaux, subordinate officers and clerks in the department, except as herein otherwise expressly provided.

§ 69. The department of finance shall have control of all the fiscal concerns of the corporation, and of the money appropriated for carrying on the business of the corporation. It shall prescribe the forms of keeping and rendering all city accounts, and the manner in which all salaries shall be drawn, and the mode by which all creditors, officers, and employes of the corporation shall be paid. All payments by or on behalf of the corporation shall be made through the proper disbursing officers of the department of finance.

$70. All accounts rendered to or kept in the other departments shall be subject to the inspection and revision of the officers of this department; and it shall settle and adjust all claims in favor of or against the corporation, and all accounts in which the corporation is concerned as debtor or creditor (provided, however, that such settlement and adjustment shall not have the effect of a judgment or decree).

§ 71. There shall be the following bureaux in this department:

1. An auditing bureau, for auditing, revising and settling all accounts. in which the city is concerned as debtor or creditor, and which shall keep an account of each claim for or against the corporation, and of the sums allowed upon each, and certify the same to the comptroller, with the reasons for the allowance; the chief officer of which shall be called "auditor of accounts."

2. A bureau for receiving all moneys paid into the treasury of the city, and for the payment of money on warrants drawn by the comptroller and countersigned by the mayor; the chief officer of which shall be called the "sub-treasurer.' The office of chamberlain is hereby abolished from and after the fifteenth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and all the duties and powers heretofore imposed upon and possessed by the chamberlain are hereby imposed and conferred upon the comptroller, to be discharged and exercised by him through the said sub-treasurer, or otherwise; and whenever the words "chamberlain of the city of New York occur in any existing law, ordinance, resolution, contract or document, they shall be deemed to mean "the comptroller of the city and county of New York ;" and whenever in any law, or in any ordinance or obligation of the corporation, the words "chamberlain of the city of New York" occur, they shall be deemed and construed to mean "the comptroller of the city and county of New York." The commission now allowed by law to the chamberlain for collecting and paying over to the State the proportion of State tax raised in this county shall be paid over by the comptroller to the county treasury.

3. Such other bureau or bureaux as the department of finance, by a vote of four of its members, of whom the comptroller must be one, may establish.

4. A bureau for the collection of the revenue accruing from rents and interest on bonds and mortgages, the revenue arising from the use or