thence by a line drawn through the middle of Broadway, from Houston street to Fourteenth street, down the middle of Fourteenth street to avenue A, and down the middle of avenue A to Houston street. The eleventh district shall be bounded southerly by the ninth district; thence by a line drawn through the middle of Sixth avenue, from Twentysixth street to Fortieth street, and through the centre of Fortieth street to Hudson river, and west by said river. The twelfth district shall be bounded southerly by the middle of Houston street; thence by a line drawn up the middle of avenue A, from Houston street to Fourteenth street, and down the middle of Fourteenth street to the East river, and east by said river. The thirteenth district shall be formed of the territory now known as the Twenty-second Ward. The fourteenth district shall be bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of Fourteenth street with the East river; thence through the centre of Fourteenth street to the Sixth avenue; thence through the centre of Sixth avenue to Twenty-sixth street; thence through the centre of Twenty-sixth street to the East river, and easterly by said river. The fifteenth district shall be bounded southerly by the Fourteenth district; thence through the centre of Sixth avenue, from Twenty-sixth street to Fortieth street; thence through the centre of Fortieth street to the East river, and easterly by said river. The sixteenth district shall comprehend the territory now known as the Nineteenth Ward. The seventeenth district shall comprehend the territory now known as the Twelfth Ward, being that portion of the city of New York north of the centre of Eighty-sixth street. § 51. The Mayor, Aldermen, and Councilmen, provided for in this act, shall be elected at the first election for charter officers, to be held after the passage hereof, which election shall take place on the first Tuesday of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven: all persons who shall have been elected under former laws, regulating or affecting the election of charter officers, and shall be in office at the time of the passage of this act, shall continue in office until the officers elected under this act shall take office, and no longer, except that the offices of Commissioner of Repairs and Supplies, and of Commissioner of Streets and Lamps, are hereby abolished, and except that the persons now filling the several offices of Comptroller, Counsel to the Corporation, Street Commissioner, and City Inspector, and the officers of the Croton Aqueduct Department, shall continue in office until the expiration of their several terms, and shall not be removed from office during such continuance, except for the cause and in the manner provided for in sections 20 and 49 of this act, and all other charter officers, and all school officers, and each Governor of the Almshouse, whose terms of office may expire with the present municipal year, shall be also elected on the day before provided for by this section. § 52. 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 his election as such member, or before, or after he shall have qualified and taken his seat, any moneys, goods, right in action, or other property, or anything of value, or any pecuniary advantage, present and prospective, with intent to influence his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, on any question, matter, cause, or proceeding, which may be then pending, or may, by law, be brought before him, in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in a penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, or shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Every officer in this section enumerated, who shall accept any such gift, or promise, or undertaking, to make the same, under any agreement or undertaking, that his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner, or upon any particular side of any question, matter, cause, or proceeding then pending, or which may by law be brought before him, in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, be disqualified from holding any public office, trust, or appointment, under the charter of the city of New York, and shall forfeit his office, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary, not exceeding two years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Every person offending against either of the provisions of this section shall be a competent witness against any other person offending in the same transaction, and may be compelled to appear and give evidence before any grand jury, or in any court, in the same manner as other persons; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying. § 53. The annual election for charter officers, school officers, and Governors of the Almshouse, after the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, shall be held on the first Tuesday in December, and the officers elected at the first election, as herein before provided, and in each year thereafter, shall take office on the first Monday of January next succeeding. All the provisions of law now in force in regard to the notification, duration, conduct of election, and canvassing of votes at general elections, shall apply to the first election provided for herein, and to each annual election of charter officers, except that the returns of all elections provided for by this act shall be filed by the district canvassers in the several districts, with the Clerk of the Common Council, within twenty-four hours after the polls are closed, and the said returns shall be canvassed by the Board of Aldermen, sitting as a Board of City Canvassers. The Clerk of the Common Council shall be Clerk to the said Board of City Canvassers, and the said Board shall meet on the Thursday succeeding such election, and shall, within ten days thereafter, wholly complete such canvass, and file, within the same time, duplicate statements of the result in the respective offices of the Clerk of the Common Council and County Clerk. The Clerk of the Common Council, within five days succeeding the filing of the said statement, shall give to each person declared elected a certificate thereof. § 54. The act to amend the charter of the city of New York, passed April seventh, eighteen hundred and thirty, and the act to amend the charter of the city of New York, passed April second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and the act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of New York, passed April second, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, passed July eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-one; and the act further to amend the charter of the city of New York, passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three; and the act supplementary to an act entitled an act further to amend the charter of the city of New York, passed April twelfth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, passed June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, are hereby repealed; and all laws inconsistent with this act are also hereby repealed; but the charters of the city of New York, known as the Dongan and Montgomerie charters, so far as the same, or either of them, are now in force, shall continue and remain in full force, and shall not be construed as repealed, modified, or in any manner affected thereby. This section shall not prejudice or affect any right accrued, or proceeding commenced, before this act takes effect. § 55. This act shall take effect on the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. STATE OF NEW YORK, I have compared the preceding with the original Secretary's Office. law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of the said original law. [L. S.] Given under my hand and seal of office, at the city of thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. N. P. STANTON, Dep. Sec. of State. CHAP. 68. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. PASSED APRIL 3, 1863, THREE-FIFTHS BEING PRESENT. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do ordain as follows: SEC. 1. The terms of office of the several heads of departments of the Corporation of the city of New York, holding office by appointment under the charter of the said city, shall hereafter be four years, and until their successors have been duly appointed and qualified. The several heads of departments of said Corporation, now in office by appointment under said charter, shall hold office for four years from the dates of their respective appointments, and until their successors have been duly appointed and qualified, except the present chief officers of the Croton Aqueduct Board, who shall continue to hold their offices for four years from the date of the appointment of the present Assistant Commissioner of said Board, and until their successors shall have been duly appointed and qualified. Such heads of departments shall hereafter be subject to the removal from office only for the causes and in the manner now provided by law for the removal of the Comptroller of said city. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXTRACT FROM CHAPTER FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE, SECTION SEVEN, OF THE LAWS OF THIS STATE. PASSED APRIL 25, 1864. SEC. 7. It shall not be lawful for the President of the Board of Aldermen, when acting as Mayor, as provided by the Charter of the city of New York, in case of the sickness or absence of the Mayor from the city, to sign or approve of any act, resolution, or ordinance which shall have been adopted by the Common Council, or either Board thereof, or to nominate or appoint any person to hold office as a Head of Department, or as City Chamberlain, unless the sickness, disability, or absence of the Mayor shall have continued at least three days, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays. AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. PASSED APRIL 15, 1837, THREE-FIFTHS BEING PRESENT. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. The Mayor and Recorder of the city of New York shall cease to be members of the Board of Supervisors of the county of New York. There shall be voted for, at each and every charter election hereafter to be held in the city of New York, twelve Supervisors, who shall, together, compose the Board of Supervisors of the county of New York, and hold office for one year, from the first of January in each and every year hereafter. They shall be voted for upon a separate and general ticket, but only six names for Supervisors shall be upon one ticket. The six persons receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected by the Board of City Canvassers, who shall canvass the votes in the same manner as they are required to canvass votes for charter officers; and all the provisions of law, relating to election of charter officers, are hereby applied to the election of Supervisors. On or before the twenty-fourth day of December, in each and every year succeeding the charter election, the Mayor of the city shall appoint, as Supervisors, the six persons receiving severally the highest number of votes next to the votes received by the six Supervisors having the return of the Board of City Can vassers. § 2. The vote of a majority of all the members elected to the Board of Supervisors shall be necessary to pass any act, ordinance, or resolution appropriating money; and every act, ordinance, or resolution, which shall have passed the Board of Supervisors, except such as levy any tax or taxes, before it shall take effect, shall be presented, duly certified, to the Mayor of the city of New York, for his approval. If he approve, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the Board, within ten days thereafter, or, if said Board be not in session, at its next meeting after that period. The Board shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and cause the same to be published in one or more of the daily newspapers of the city of New York. § 3. The Board shall, after the expiration of not less than ten days thereafter, proceed to reconsider the same; and such act, resolution, or ordinance, if approved by a majority of all the members elected to the Board, shall thereupon take effect. In all such cases, the votes of the Board shall be determined by the ayes and noes, and the names of the persons voting for and against its passage shall be entered on the journal of the Board. § 4. If the Mayor shall not return any act, resolution, or ordinance so |