THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, WITH NOTES THEREON. ALSO, A TREATISE ON THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE Mayor, Aldermen, and Assistant Aldermen, AND THE JOURNAL OF THE CITY CONVENTION. Prepared at the Request of the Common Council, AND PUBLISHED UNDER THEIR DIRECTION. NEW-YORK: PRINTED BY CHILDS AND DEVOE, 80 VESEY-STREET. JS1223 Entered according to act of Congress in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, by JACOB MORTON, in behalf of the Common Council of the city of New-York, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. 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 2nd, 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 which remain. The other Resolution was passed November 2nd, 1835, requesting the Editor to prepare a treatise on the power, duties and authority of the Mayor, Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. He was further requested to cause the same to be annexed to, and published with the Charter and Notes therein; and also to prepare the marginal references and a suitable Index to the whole work. These Resolutions sufficiently explain the object of the volume. |