Laws Respecting the Central Park, and Other Works Under the Control of the Department of Public Parks

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New York Print. Company, 1870 - Central Park (New York, N.Y.) - 231 pages

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Page 226 - An act to amend chapter 755 of the laws of 1873, entitled "An act supplemental to the act entitled 'An act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York...
Page 126 - ... shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding...
Page 221 - Every person who shall promise, offer, or give, or cause, or aid, or abet, in causing to be promised, offered, or given, or furnish or agree to furnish, in whole or in part, to be promised, offered, or given to any member of the Common Council, or any officer of the Corporation, after...
Page 36 - ... notice to the corporation, for the appointment of three persons to appraise the value of such stock, and the court shall appoint three such appraisers, and designate the time and place...
Page 173 - The disbursing officer shall give bond in the sum of twenty thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary...
Page 156 - Any willful and corrupt false swearing by any witness or person, to any material fact, in any necessary proceeding under the said orders, rules, and regulations, or under this act, shall be deemed perjury, and punished in the manner now prescribed by law for such offense. The provisions...
Page 125 - Eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of employees in this State, except those engaged in farm and domestic service, unless otherwise provided by law.
Page 43 - An act relative to improvements touching the laying out of streets and roads in the city of New- York, and for other purposes," passed April 3, 1807; and the map or plan of said city is hereby altered accordingly.
Page 26 - Society shall possess the general powers and privileges, and be subject to the general liabilities contained in the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, so far as the same may be applicable...
Page 222 - Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense ; and no member of the Common Council, head of department, chief of bureau, deputy thereof, or clerk therein, or other officer of the Corporation, shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work or business, or (he sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paid from the city treasury...

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