AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF NEW YORK CITY. Chap. 713. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, relative to the department of docks and ferries. Accepted by the city. Became a law, May 10, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: amended Section 1. Section eight hundred and sixteen-a of chapter Charter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to unite into one municipality under the corporate name of the city of New York the various communities lying in and about New York harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof," as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one relative to the department of docks and ferries, is hereby amended to read as follows: contracts, § 816a. No contracts, agreements, deeds, conveyances, leases Approval of or other instruments shall be made or executed by the com- etc. missioner of docks, and no rules, regulations or ordinances shall be made by said commissioner, unless the same shall have been first approved by resolution in writing passed by the commissioners of the sinking fund. This provision shall not apply to contracts for repairs under the sum of one thousand dollars provided for in section eight hundred and twentyone of this act. § 2. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and two. Chap. 714. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, relative to the department of education. Accepted by the city. Became a law, May 10, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section eleven hundred and fifty-two of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to unite into one municipality under the corporate name of the city of New York, the various communities lying in and about New York harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn, and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond, and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof," relative to the department of education, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended to read as follows: Certain private schools authorized to participate in common school fund. § 1152. The school established and maintained by the Five Points House of Industry, in the city of New York, the school established and maintained by the Ladies' Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at the institution in Park street, near the place usually called the Five Points, in the said city, and the industrial schools established and maintained under the charge of the Children's Aid Society in the city of New York, shall participate through the board of education in the distribution of the common school fund in the same manner and degree as the common schools in the city of New York, and shall be subject to the same regulations and restrictions as are now by law imposed. on the common schools of New York. § 2. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and two. Chap. 715. AN ACT to amend the Greater New York charter, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, relative to the board of city record. Accepted by the city. Became a law, May 10, 1901, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section fifteen hundred and twenty-six of chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled "An act to unite into one municipality under the corporate name of the city of New York, the various communities lying in and about New York harbor, including the city and county of New York, the city of Brooklyn, and the county of Kings, the county of Richmond, and part of the county of Queens, and to provide for the government thereof ", as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, relative to the board of city record, is hereby amended to read as follows: City Record, board of; publication and contents; newspapers to be designated in which corporate notices to be advertised. § 1526. There shall be published daily, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, under a contract to be made as hereinafter provided, a paper to be known as the City Record. And said City Record, and the newspapers now by law designated as corporation newspapers in the present city of Brooklyn, shall be the only papers to be included within the term corporation newspapers as the same is used anywhere in this act; but no notice or advertisement shall be inserted in any of said newspapers now by law designated as corporation newspapers in said city of Brooklyn, except such as respect matters occurring within or relating to the borough of Brooklyn exclusively, and the aggregate amount to be paid to said newspapers now designated by law as corporation newspapers, in said city of Brooklyn, for the publication of all advertisements provided for by this act, shall never exceed in any year, the sum now agreed to be paid to said newspapers annually by said city of Brooklyn. The mayor, corporation counsel and comptroller shall constitute the board of city record. Said board, by a majority vote, shall appoint a proper person together with such assistants as may be required, to supervise the preparation and publication of the same, and they shall also fix the rates of compensation of said supervisor and his assistants. All the expenses connected with its publication and distribution, except the salary of the person appointed to supervise the same, and the salaries of his assistants, shall be covered by a contract for printing, to be made in the same manner as other contracts. The board of estimate and apportionment shall provide for all the necessary expenses of conducting the said City Record. There shall be inserted in said City Record nothing aside from such official matters as are expressly authorized. The contract for the publication of the City Record shall provide for furnishing, free of charge, to the city of New York, not more than two thousand copies thereof; also for a gratuitous distribution to every newspaper regularly printed in the city of New York, when it shall apply for the same, of two copies, and to every public library or public institution in said city which shall apply for the same, of one copy. Copies of the same shall be sold by the supervisor at a price to be fixed by the officers making the contract, and the proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the city. All advertising required to be done for the city, except as in this act otherwise specially provided, and all notices required by law or ordinances to be published in corporation papers, shall be inserted, at the public expense, only in the City Record, and a publication therein shall be a sufficient compliance with any law or ordinance requiring publication of such matters or notices; but there may be inserted in two morning and two evening, and two weekly or semi-weekly papers published in the English language, and in one paper published in the German language, all in said city to be designated at any time by said board of city record, brief advertisements, calling attention to any contracts intended to be awarded or bonds to be sold, and referring for full information to said City Record; said designation of such newspapers to continue in effect until another or different designation shall be made by said board. Where such notices and advertisements respect matters occurring within or relating to the borough of Brooklyn, they shall also be published in such newspapers as are now by law designated 4 as corporation newspapers in the city of Brooklyn, the rates of payments therefor, not to exceed the compensation now paid to said newspapers for like advertisements in the city of Brooklyn or county of Kings. In case, however, of the sale of bonds or stocks of said city or of any real estate belonging to the city, such advertisements may be also inserted in such other newspapers published in said city as said board may determine in the case of each sale. But nothing herein contained shall prevent the publication elsewhere of any advertisement required by law; provided, however, that no such publication shall be made unless the same is authorized by concurrent vote of the members of said board. No money shall be paid from the city treasury, and no action shall be maintained and no judgment obtained against the city of New York, as constituted by this act, for any advertising done after April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, except such as is therein authorized or such as at the time this act takes effect is a lawful charge against a municipal or public corporation or part thereof, hereby consolidated with. the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York. The copies of the City Record furnished to the city shall be distributed to the several departments and officers, and to such persons and in such manner as the board of city record shall direct. The comptroller shall cause a continuous series of the City Record to be bound as completed quarterly, and to be deposited with his certificate thereon, in the office of the register of deeds of the county of New York, in the county clerk's office of said county, and in the office of the city clerk, and copies of the contents of any part of the same, certified by such register, county clerk, or city clerk, shall be received in judicial proceedings as prima facie evidence of the truth of the contents thereof. § 2. This act shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and two. |