and reports of Committees which shall recommend any specific improvement involving the appropriation of public monies, or taxing or assessing the citizens of said city, shall be published immediately after the adjournment of the board, under the authority of the Common Council, in all the newspapers employed by the Corporation: and whenever a vote is taken in relation thereto, the ayes and noes shall be called and published in the same manner.

8. Each board shall have the authority to compel the attendance of absent members; to punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and to expel a member, with the concurrence of two-thirds of the members elected to the board; and the members so expelled, shall, by such expulsion, forfeit all his right and powers as an Alderman or Assistant Alderman.

Power to

expel. &c.

al meeting

9. The stated and occasional meetings of each board of the Common Council, shall be regulated by its own Occasionordinances; and both boards may meet on the same or on different days as they may severally judge expedient.

Laws ordinances &

10. Any law, ordinance, or resolution of the Common Council may originate in either board, and when it shall have passed one board, may be rejected or resolutions amended by the other.

may originate in ei

members

office.

11. No member of either board shall, during the ther board. period for which he was elected, be appointed to, or be Prohibi competent to hold any office, of which the emoluments tion of are paid from the city treasury, or by fees, directed to to hold be paid by any ordinance or act of the Common Council,or be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, the expenses or consideration whereof are to be paid under any ordinance of the Common Council; but this section shall not be construed to deprive any Alderman or Assistant of any emoluments or fees which he is entitled to by virtue of his office.

veto inea

ou I 10reeding,

&c.

Mavur s 12. Every act, ordinance, or resolution, which shall have passed the two boards of the Common Council, before it shail take effect, shall be presented, duly certired, to the Mayor of the city, for his approbation. If he approve, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it with his objections to the board in which it originated, within ten days thereafter; or if such board be not then in session, at its next stated meeting. The board to which it shall be returned, shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and cause the same to be published in one or more of the public newspapers of the city.

Prohibiti

13. The board to which such act, ordinance, or resolution, have been so returned, shall after the expiration of not less than ten days thereafter, proceed to reconsider the same. If after such reconsideration, a majority of the members elected to the board shall agree to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other board, by which it shall be likewise re-considered; and if approved by a majority of all the members elected to such board, it shall take effect as an act or law of the Corporation. In all such cases the votes of both boards shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the passage of the measure re-considered, shall be entered on the journal of each board respectively.

14. If the Mayor shall not return any act, ordinance, or resolution so presented to him, within the time above limited for that purpose, it shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it.

15. Neither the Mayor nor Recorder, of the city of on of the New-York, shall be a member of the Common Council Mayor and Recorder. thereof, after the second Tuesday of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.

When the

16. Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the office President of Mayor, and whenever the Mayor shall be absent

of the

act as Ma

yor.

from the city, or be prevented by sickness, or any other board shall cause, from attending to the duties of his office, the President of the board of Aldermen shall act as Mayor and shall possess all the rights and powers of the Mayor, during the continuance of such vacancy, absence, or disability.

17. It shall be the duty of the Mayor, FIRST. To communicate to the Common Council, Dutyofthe Mayor. at least once a year, and oftener if he shall deem it expedient, a general statement of the situation and condition of the city, in relation to its government, finances, and improvements.

SECOND. To recommend to the adoption of the Common Council all such measures connected with the police, security, health, cleanliness, and ornament of the city, and the improvement of its government, and finances, as he shall deem expedient.

THIRD. To be vigilant and active in causing the laws and ordinances of the government of the city to be duly executed and enforced. FOURTH. To exercise a constant supervision and controul over the conduct and acts of all subordinate officers, and to receive and examine into all such complaints as may be preferred against any of them for violation or neglect of duty, and generally to perform all such duties as may be prescribed to him by the charter and city ordinances, and the Laws of this State and the United States.

Appropri

when

made.

18. Annual and occasional appropriations shall be made by proper ordinances of the Common Council ation, for every branch and object of city expenditure, nor shall any money be drawn from the city treasury except the same shall have been previously appropriated to the purpose for which it was drawn.

Borrowing money.

ed

ments of

tures.

19. The Common Council shall not have authority to borrow any sums of money whatever on the credit of the Corporation, except in anticipation of the revenue of the year in which such loan shall be made, unless authorized by a special act of the legislature. Publish- 20. It shall be the duty of the Common Council to ing detailstate- publish two months before the annual election of receipts & Charter Officers, in each year, for the general informaexpendi- tion of the citizens of New-York, a full and detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures of the Corporation, during the year, ending on the first day of the month in which such publication is made; and in every such statement the different sources of city revenue, and the amount received from each; the several appropriations made by the Common Council, the objects for which the same were made, and the amount of monies expended under each; the monies borrowed on the credit of the Corporation, the authority under which each loan was made, and the terms on which the same was obtained, shall be clearly and particularly specified.

Executive business.

21. The executive business of the Corporation of New-York, shall hereafter be performed by distinct departments, which it shall be the duty of the Common Council to organize and appoint for that purpose. 22. It shall be the duty of the Common Council to Accounta- provide for the accountability of all officers, and other bility of officers. persons to whom the receipt or expenditure of the funds of the city shall be entrusted, by requiring from them sufficient security for the performance of their duties or trust, which security shall be annually renewed; but the security first taken shall remain in force until new security shall be given.

Duties of 23. The Clerk of the board of Aldermen, shall, by the clerk

of the virtue of his office, be Clerk of the Common Council, board of and shall perform all the duties heretofore performed

Aldermen.

by the Clerk of the Common Council, except such as shall be assigned to the Clerk of the board of Assistant Aldermen; and it shall be his duty to keep open for inspection, at all reasonable times, the records and minutes of the proceedings of the Common Council, except such as shall be specially ordered otherwise.

24. The division of the Common Council into two Division boards, shall not take effect until the officers to be of the elected under this law enter on the duties of their Common Council office. Each board shall hold its first meeting, for the into purpose of organizing, on the second Tuesday of May their time

two

boards and

in each year, at which time the Mayor or Clerk of the of ing:

Common Council shall attend, by whom the oath of office shall be administered to the members elected. In the absence of the Mayor and Clerk, such oath may be administered by the Recorder or First Judge of the city, or by any of the Justices of the Superior Court.

meet

of this act

25. None of the provisions of this act, except the Provisions eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-second when to sections, shall be construed as applying to the Com- apply. mon Council as now constituted.

26. Such parts of the Charter of the city of New- What York, and of the several acts of the Legislature charter not parts of the amending the same as are not inconsistent with the repealed: provisions of this law, shall not be construed as repealed, modified, or in any manner affected thereby; but shall continue and remain in full force. G.G.G,

G.G. G. Note LIII.