Entered, according to an act of Congress, in the year 1854, BY DAVID T. VALENTINE, In behalf of the Common Council of the city of New York, in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of New York. Whereas, The present edition of the City Charter and Kent's Notes is nearly exhausted; and whereas, there is no complete edition of the charter of this city now in existence; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Clerk of the Common Council be, and he is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be printed and bound, fifteen hundred copies of the City Charter and Kent's Notes, at an expense not to exceed the amount heretofore paid therefor, the same to include all the amendments to the present date. Adopted by the Board of Assistants, December 12, 1853. Approved by the Mayor, December 16, 1853. D. T. VALENTINE, Clerk PREFACE. THIS edition of the charter of the city of New York with the notes thereon, and the subjoined treatise on the powers and duties of the mayor, aldermen and assistants, have been prepared, in pursuance of certain resolutions of the common council. The first of them was passed April 2d, 1835, and the editor was requested by it, to write notes. or a commentary on the charter of the city, showing in a condensed form, 1. The powers vested in the corporation by the charter: 2. Those granted by legislative acts. 3. Those that have been lost by non-usage, legislative enactments or otherwise. 4. And those that remain. The other resolution was passed November 2d, 1835, requesting the editor to prepare a treatise on the power, duties and authority of the mayor, aldermen and assistant aldermen. 127408 |