Year: 1873

ment shall be recovered against tho city for printing
sationery furnished after the passage OF this
act unless done furnished under contract where
under provision of this aot contract Is necessary
or under valid contract contract now In force or
unless upon evidence OF contract made as provided In
this section. Separate contracts may Dc made 81 any
time for engraving, h0graphing, woodcuts, maps or
other pcture-work, the same may be requredi but
nothing heron contained shall be construed 70 REQUIRE
separate contract for each engra'ng, n.hosIupn or
woodcut map. unless the Officers Aforesaid Aforesaid
shall deem tho same aaViSnDo tsao Iooe "0 COPIES Of
any message of the Mayor or report OF any
head OF q department, and no more than O9 copies Oh
any report OF q committee Of the Board Of Aldermen or
Board OF Assistant Aldermen. shall DO printed


The CITY Record. Neither the work known rs tho s,


ua OF the Common Council" nor any similar WORK snan
be printed at the public expense put tnete s & 10
ary each year. list OF all subordinates employed 10
any department Except aborers with their salaries ana
subordinaes salaries shall be so published WITHIN one
week after they are made 1t shall be the uuty In "a a.
supervise the publication OF The Ohg Record every
thing required to be inserted therein Ine u ps,5on
shall have the power to make requisitioDs IN wrltns
upon the heads OF departments TO furnish mo lnIo


prescrbd by him. and approved by the Controller; and
such Information must be supplied Dy tue ueparnnps
within ten days after such requisftion He snail also
have power TO require such Information In the same
in the control OF said heads OF departments. neoes
sary to perform his duties under this section lie snal
include In his list the number OF laborers designtnb
department in which they employed, aud prao
tcable the numbers employed in the prosecution OF
specific work, and the amounts paid TO them re sla,
also be printed in each issue or said Cy heeo,'
a separate statement OF the hours during which al pup
lie offices in the city are open for business ana az Which,
court regularly opens and adjourns as well as OF
held. The detailed canvass OF votes at every eleC
ton shall be published the expense OF the city only IN
The Oy Record The Mayor order the insertion OF
official matter or report in The Csty Record po, =,


ll2 Tho Mayor Controller President 0fthe Boaru OF
Aldermen and the President Of the Department OF Taxes
aud Assessments, shall constitute Board Of Estimate
day of August and the st day OF November meet, and,
by the affirmative vote Of all the members, make pro
visOna estimate OF the amounts required 70 pay the eA
penses Of conducting public business OF the CITY and
County OF New-YOrk, in each department and DranGn
thereof. for the then next ensuing nnanclai year a
provisional estimate they shall include such sum as
DO necessary for the payment OF the interest," Oh
tho bonds OF the said City and County. which snail
| become due and payable within said year, ana
such shall be necessary to pay the prhclPaO
any bonds and stocks which may become due ana pay
able from taxes during said year, ana also so much as
be necessary to pay the proportion OF the 5ate tax
required to be paid by the Cy ana county OF NewlOl


in said year. Such provisional estimate shall be prepared
in such detail AS TO tue aggregate sum aowed ~ 70 taTn
department and bureau as the sald BOard oI
men shall deem advisable. For the purpose OF mahng
shall days before the said provisional estimate
Is required 10 mado herein PROVIDED send 70 the
caIieJ departmentaI estimate OF the amount of
pendture specifying in detail the ogect5 hereOI re-
quired In their respective departments including state


nen o each OF the salaries OF their officers clerks,
| pIoyes and subordnates The same statement as to
salaries and expenditure shall be made by all other OF


cer persons and boards having power to x or author
ize them duplicate OF these departmental estimates
fo anu the Roard of Aldermen The Board OF Ap.
portonmen shall consider such departmental estimates





herein provided and approving the salaries OF the o


GERS clerks and other persons before named After slch
provisional estimate is made by the Board OF Apporon


ent n shall be submitted by said Board, with their
sons Tor It ia detail within ten days, TO the Board OF
sLa be called to consider such estimate and the same
shall simultaneously be published in The Clty Record;
and 1t shall be their duty carefully TO consider and l


yesgate the said provisional estimate and the reasons
assigned therefor but such consideration and inyestga
tion shall not continue beyond fifteen days Any 0Dec
tons 10 or rectcatons OF said provisional estimate
| made by said Board OF Aldermen shall be made
| fffur nd frau
thereof the Board OF Apportionment, VINO sha pro-
cerd to the consideration OF such objections OF Sectca
tlons aud after such consideration shall make hna
estimate Should the said Board overdue the oDeeuon
or suggestions made by the Board OF Adermsn i, t9e
Record After the final estimate is made, IN aec9rdanco
herewith, it shall be signed by the Inenoes' @ & anu n
prOprated to the several purposes ana h
therein named The said estimate shall be nleG IN ne ne
Ciiy Record The aggregate amount 50 estimated shal
be certified @ c6gny g yIs of and it shall be-
duty said Supervisors and they are hereby empowered
and directed annually to cause 10 DO rlsed according 10


law and collected by upon the estates real and per
sonal subject taxation within the CITY ana county Oh
New.York the said amounts estimated and certified
"a Aforesaid The first meeting OF said Board in every
year shall called by notice from the Mayor personally
served upon the members Of said Board sdDsequent
meetings shall be called ss the said Board shall direct
AT such meetings the Mayor shall preside and one OF the
number shall act secretary In addition To the estl-
mate herein provided for the said Board may, at any
time occasion may require, by the hrmatEe VOte OF
three mambers, authorize the issue OF any STOCKS OF
bonds for the purpose OF Withdrawing or taking up at
maturity any stocks or bonds for the purpose
but the said bonds or their proceeds shall be ea
cusivey to the payment, purchase ana @ e1tineon ..
of the stock bonds OF said CITY outstanding s1a not
| be increased thereby FOR longer period tlan IS
| necessary efecting said change The SAID Board
OF AppOrtiOnment may from time ~ tme by the aiirm
aye OF three members authorize the issue OF the
now by law authorized TO be issued, upon compliance
with the provisions OF law authorizing them The said
Board Of ApportOnment may, from tine to time, on the
application Of the head OF department. authorize The
transfer from bureau or purpose TO another n the
same department, OF any sum heretofore appropriated
for the purpose OF such department or BUREAU but no
department officer shall incur any expense IN excess
may within daYs after the passage hereof revise and
reaust in with the provisions hereof tue
law creating board OF app0ronment ana AUDIT or
either aud providing for and requiring an AUDIT and al
lowance OF claims by SAID board are hereby repealed;
but such repeal shall not prior to the OF the
Board Of Apportonment by TINS act created anecI any
powers possessed by any such board not nconsst
ent with the provisions Of this act hereby continued
and vested In Board hereby created and authorized
and all actions proceedings IN which the Mayor Al
dere@ ano o. atan5an shall have preerence and
| may be moved out OF their order on the calendar


ing Of the office II Mayor or any seat In the Board of
Aldermen Office in any Department or the office OF
SHALL be made to any but the prevailing party Nor shall


y such appropriation DO made TO such prevailing party.
except upon written certificates the chief officer
OF the department and OF the C1ief Justice Of the
Court Of Common Pleas OF the City and County OF New
York as TO the value OF the services Rendered IN the
case In case officer clerk is ordered TO be


ned in pursuance Of tho royisiOns herelnbefore con
tanned the law department shall assign some one from
his department counsel ito the officer or clerk making
the appcaon and should said officer or clerk see III to
employ other counsel than that assigned by the law de-
parment, then, and in that event no appropriation or
payment shall DO made for his or their payment except
upon the certificate OF the justice Justices before whom
the proceedings have been had that there was probable
| cause for taking such proceedings.


Bee. ia Any person holding Office, whether by cleo
tiOn appointment who shall, during his term OF Office
accept. hold or retain any other clyI once Oh nonor


enolument under the Government OF the United
Except commissioners the
register Cour, the State Except the oince
nAftLr