The New York City Charter Bill; Text of Difference Between Bill as Proposed by the Charter Revision Commission and Bill as Passed by Legislature 5th April, 1901 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: bers elected thereto, of a person who must be of the same political party as the member whose place has become vacant; and the person so elected to fill any such vacancy shall serve for the unexpired portion of the term. Section 19 in the bill defines seventy-three aldermanic districts, from each of which, under the provision of section 18, one alderman would be elected every two years. The bill does not provide for the making of any change in the aldermanic district from time to time. Section 19 in the Commission's bill defines a hundred and twenty-three aldermanic districts into which the city would be divided, and from each of which an alderman would be elected every two years. Upon each re-apportionment of assembly districts the board of aldermen "shall " increase or diminish the number of such districts, so that there shall " always be two aldermanic districts for every assembly district lying " wholly within the City of New York." Id., police, health, park, fire and building regulations. 43. The board of aldermen shall have power to make, establish, alter, modify, amend and repeal all ordinances, rules, and police, health park, fire and building regulations, not contrary to the laws of the state, or the United States, as they may deem necessary to carry into effect the powers conferred upon The City of New York by this act, or by any other law of the state, or by grant; and snch as they may deem necessary and proper for the good government, order and protection of persons and property, and for the preservation of the public health, peace and prosperity of said city and its inhabitants, except so far as power is conferred by this act upon presidents of boroughs, the police, health, park, and fire departments respectively to make rules for the government of the persons ...