and consolidated as aforesaid, or for the payment of such debts, or respecting the same, as well as every such law respecting the debts of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of The City of New York, shall remain in full force and effect, except that the same shall be carried out by the corporation hereby constituted, to wit: The City of New York, and under such name and in such form and manner as may be suitable to the administration of said corporation; and all the pledges, taxes, assessments, sinking funds, and other revenues and securities provided by law for the payment of the debts of the municipal and public corporations aforesaid, shall be in good faith enforced, maintained and carried out by the corpo ration of The City of New York. All the valid debts of the municipal and public corporations mentioned in the first section. of this act, including the county of Kings and the county of Richmond and the proportion of the debt of the county of Queens and of the town of Hempstead aforesaid, and the valid debts of the towns, incorporated villages, and school districts herein united and consolidated with the corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York into The City of New York, as well as the debts of the latter corporation, shall be the common debt of The City of New York, as hereby constituted. So far as resort to taxation is authorized or necessary to pay such debts, such taxation shall extend equally throughout the territory of the corporation herein. constituted, except that all assessments for benefits, heretofore laid or provided to be laid for the payment of any portion of such debts, or to reimburse any of the said municipal and public Corporations which created such debt, in respect thereof, shall be preserved and enforced, it being the intent hereof that the obligations and liability of The City of New York, as the successor of municipalities and public corporations consolidated into it, shall be the same as, and not otherwise or greater than, the respective obligations and liabilities of the several constituent Corporations, and that The City of New York shall succeed to all of their rights as well as to their obligations and liabilities in respect thereof, except as herein otherwise especially provided. Effect where only a part of a corporation is annexed. $6. Where part only of the territory of a municipal or public Corporation is embraced by this act within the limits of The City of New York, as herein constituted, the respective rights, duties and liabilities of the said city and of the municipal or public corporations part of whose territory is so annexed to the said city, shall be as in this act provided. If any case shall arise for which this act does not make provision, or full and adequate provision arising out of such annexation, or out of the consolidation herein provided for, the municipal assembly may by ordinance make provision for such case, or for its equitable determination, so far as concerns The City of New York. Same subject; creation of debt. $7. No municipal or public corporation, part of whose territory is annexed to The City of New York, shall hereafter create any debt which shall bind property within The City of New York, nor shall such municipal or public corporation levy any tax or assessment upon property within The City of New York as herein constituted. Transfer of property; counties not to become indebted. § 8. In consideration of the foregoing provisions whereby The City of New York, as hereby constituted, assumes as aforesaid the valid debts, obligations and liabilities of the municipal and public corporations including the counties, towns, incorporated villages and school districts as aforesaid, and to carry out the scheme and purpose of this act, all of the public buildings, institutions, public parks, water-works and property of every character and description, whether of a public or private nature, heretofore owned and controlled by any of the said municipal and public corporations or parts thereof, hereby consolidated into The City of New York, including any and all such property owned by the county of New York, the county of Kings, and the county of Richmond, wherever situated, and by the county of Queens situated in that portion thereof, which is included within the limits of The City of New York, as constituted by this act, and all the right, title and interest of the said municipal and public corporations and counties aforesaid, or any of them, in and to such property, are hereby vested in The City of New York and divested out of the said corporations and counties, and the power of said municipal and public corporations and of the said counties of New York, Kings and Richmond to become indebted, shall cease upon the consummation and taking effect of the consolidation herein provided for. There is excepted from the provisions of this section the court house and county buildings in the county of Queens situated within the limits of The City of New York, as hereby constituted. Former funds; payable to the city of New York. $9. All funds and moneys which, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall be held by or be payable to the receiver of taxes or to the county treasurer of the county of Richmond, or to any officer of any of the municipal and public corporations, or parts of municipal and public corporations, hereby consolidated with the corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of The City of New York, as well as all funds and moneys then held by or payable to any officer of said last-named corporation, shall be deemed to be held by and be payable to the corporation of The City of New York, constituted by this act, solely as the funds and moneys of said corporation, and upon the day aforesaid shall be delivered to the officer of said corporation entitled by this act to hold and control the All taxes levied against the town of Hempstead in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven shall be collectible and payable according to the provisions of the existing laws. same. See L. 1874, ch. 304, § 4; L. 1882, ch. 410, § 28. Expenses of the city for the year 1898. 10. In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven it shall be the duty of the proper authorities of the various municipal and public corporations consolidated by this act into The City of New York, to prepare a budget for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as required by existing law, and to levy taxes for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as required by existing law, as though such municipal and public corporations were not to be consolidated into The City of New York; and in so far as such taxes shall remain uncollected on the first day of January, eighteen. hundred and ninety-eight, they shall become valid liens due to the corporation by this act constituted, and shall be collected by it through the appropriate officers of The City of New York, as hereby constituted, pursuant in all respects to the laws under which said taxes were levied and were to be collected. On and after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the funds received by the chamberlain of The City of New York, under this act, and the proceeds of revenue bonds issued in anticipation of the taxes for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight in The City of New York, as constituted prior to the passage of this act, and the proceeds of the tax levy therein of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, may be used for the expenses of The City of New York, as constituted by this act, in such manner as the board of estimate and apportionment for that year may determine; and it shall be the duty of the board of estimate and apportionment to apportion the said funds to the various city. departments as created by this act, so that such funds shall be used as nearly as may be, for the objects for which they were raised. The board of estimate and apportionment, during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, shall have power to direct the issue of revenue bonds of The City of New York, to be redeemed out of the tax to be paid in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for such purposes and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide for the efficient conduct of the city in all its departments, during the year eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, provided that the sums so raised in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall be subject to be raised by taxation upon the various boroughs on the basis elsewhere provided in this act. Expense of public schools for the year 1898. 11. The board of estimate and apportionment shall, out of the residue of the various funds raised for the support of the public schools of the different parts of the city during the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, constitute from and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the special school fund and the general school fund for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, so that the schools of the city may begin in the autumn of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight to be conducted upon the basis of this division of funds, and in general, upon the system hereinafter prescribed in this act. Up to July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, the school money shall be spent as raised, for all school purposes, by the various school boards respectively. It shall be the duty of the board of education as constituted under this act, to make all appointments therein provided for, and to adopt the necessary by-laws at such time and in such manner, that the new system for the administration of the public schools of the city as provided by this act, shall go into full effect on July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. CHAPTER II. LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. SEC. 17. Legislative power; where vested. 18. Council; number of; president; quorum; salaries. 20. Term of office of members of the council. 21. Mayor, an ex-officio member of the council. 23. When president of council to act as mayor; powers; temporary 24. Board of aldermen, how constituted; term of office; vacancies, how filled: salary. 25. Id.; quorum. 26. Id.; how president elected and removed. 27. Council and board of aldermen; sergeant-at-arms; rules; journal; sittings; expulsion of members. 28. City clerk, appointment, term, duties; papers certified by him to be evidence. 29. Id.; proceedings of municipal assembly. 30. Certain ordinances and resolutions, how passed, and approved; ayes and noes published. 31. Records open for inspection; other duties of clerk; sickness. 32. Id.; records and papers delivered to and kept by the clerk; clerks in boroughs. 33. Id.; salary and deputies. 34. Licenses to auctioneers. 35. Municipal assembly; journal; ayes and noes. 36. Id.; no member eligible to any city office. 37. Id.; meetings. 38. Id.; style of ordinances. 39. Id.; vote required to pass ordinances and resolutions. 40. Mayor's veto. 41. Ordinances to remain in force. 42. Power to acquire additional water-works. 43. Id.; to restrict height of buildings. 44. Power to appoint special committees. 45. Franchises for street railways; ferries. 46. Municipal assembly; powers and duties of former boards. 47. Id.; police, health, park, fire and building regulations. 48. Id.; further powers; bonds for specified public improvements. 49. 1d.; ordinances and regulations for certain purposes. 50. Id.; foregoing enumeration of powers not restrictive; general power. 51. Id.; licenses to second-hand dealers; penalty for violating ordinance. 52. Id.; designating common jails. 53. Id.; assignment of places for holding courts of general and special sessions and magistrates' or police courts. |