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.

Prepared at the request of the Common Council,

BY CHANCELLOR KENT,

AND PUBLISHED UNDER THEIR DIRECTION.

NEW YORK:

MCSPEDON & BAKER, PRINTERS TO THE COMMON COUNCIL,
1851.

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Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851, 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.

Resolved, That the Clerk to the Common Council be directed to cause to be published five hundred copies of Kent's Charter, with Notes as published, and the Amended Charter of 1849; and that the sum of one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to defray the expense thereof.

Adopted by the Board of Aldermen, Sept. 5, 1850.
Adopted by the Board of Assistants, Sept. 6, 1850.
Approved by the Mayor, Sept. 7, 1850.

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.

He was further requested to cause the same to be annexed to, and published with the charter and notes therein;