Captain assigned to the precinct in which said premises are situated, upon application, shall grant permission to lay tanbark in the carriageway in front of any premises occupied by any sick or convalescent person or persons, to the extent of 500 feet in any direction from said premises, providing all expenses of placing and removing the bark be paid for by the person making such application. The bark so placed in any street shall be removed upon the order of the Commissioner of Street Cleaning within five days after the recovery or death of such sick or convalescent person, and upon failure or neglect to comply with such order, then it shall be removed by the said Commissioner of Street Cleaning, who shall, if necessary, sue for and recover the cost of such removal in the manner now provided for the collection of fines for violation of the ordinances of the city. (Id., sec. 218.) Article XI.- Surveyors. § 274. There shall be so many Surveyors appointed for this city as the Board of Aldermen shall from time to time think proper. (R. O. 1897, sec. 259, in part.) § 275. The City Surveyors so to be appointed, before they respectively enter upon the execution of said office, shall take an oath well and truly to execute the same. (Id., sec. 260.) § 276. Whenever in the proper administration of the duties of his office, the President of any borough in this city may require the services of a City Surveyor in laying out and regulating streets and roads in said city, making maps and surveys for street opening proceedings, laying out and surveying grounds for the purpose of building thereupon, and to advise and direct concerning the same, he shall have the authority to employ such one of the City Surveyors as he may designate for that purpose. (Id., sec. 266, with verbal changes.) § 277. The City Surveyors employed by any Borough President shall receive compensation therefor as follows, nor shall any Surveyor's bill be paid unless the same be first certified by the Borough President so employing him: For a preliminary survey in regulating a street or avenue or for making a country road, for the first line of levels, three cents per linear foot measuring through the centre of the street, avenue or road, and for each additional line of levels, one cent per linear foot, to be measured in the same manner. For a preliminary survey in filling sunken lots, $1.50 per lot of 2,500 square feet. For grading, when done alone, five cents per linear foot, measuring through the centre of the street or avenue. For grading and setting curb and gutter, when done under the same contract, eight cents per linear foot, measuring through the centre of the street or avenue. For grading and setting curb and gutter and flagging or paving, when done under the same contract, eleven cents per linear foot, measuring through the centre of the street or avenue. For setting curb and gutter alone, three cents per linear foot along the line of the work done. For setting curb and gutter and flagging or paving, when done under the same contract, but not in connection with the grading, nine cents per linear foot, measuring through the centre of the street or avenue. For flagging, when done alone, three cents per linear foot along the line of the work done. For setting stakes, making final survey, etc., in the filling of sunken lots, $1.50 per lot of 2,500 square feet. For fencing, including preliminary survey, three cents per linear foot. For making a country road, ten cents per linear foot, measuring through the centre of the road. For establishing a new grade line, one cent per linear foot, measuring along the line. For making the necessary surveys and furnishing all necessary copies of damage maps in street opening proceedings, three cents per foot, measuring along the exterior line of the street or avenue and along all boundary lines of each parcel included within said street or avenue lines, and for assessment lists and maps for street opening or other improvements, three cents per linear foot of map front, it being understood that the Surveyor shall, in every case, furnish quadruple lists and maps without additional charge. A Surveyor employed by either of the said Borough Presidents to make a survey, the compensation for which is not otherwise provided, shall receive such compensation as shall be certified by the Borough President so employing him. (Id., sec. 267, with verbal changes.) § 278. In all cases of street improvements, when the same is required, a projection or profile and such drawing and calculations shall be furnished to the said Borough President as may be required by him, without extra compensation. A Surveyor shall be entitled to receive payment for a preliminary survey, on the completion of the same to the satisfaction of the Borough President employing him. He shall receive payment for all services on the completion of the work and its acceptance by the Borough President. (Id., sec. 268, with verbal changes.) § 279. The amount paid for any of the services mentioned above, whenever the same shall have been rendered in relation to any improvement or work for which an assessment may afterward be made, shall be included in such assessment. (Id., sec. 269.) § 280. A Surveyor shall be entitled to receive ten dollars for every certificate for payment to a contractor on any work done by contract made upon public advertisement and letting, which shall be paid by the Borough President making the contract, and except as herein otherwise provided, no Surveyor shall be entitled to any payment for a certificate to a contractor. The amount so paid for a certificate shall be deducted from the payment to be made to the contractor on account of the work certified to be done. (Id., sec. 270, with verbal changes.) CHAPTER 6.- THE DEPARTMENT OF WATER SUPPLY, GAS AND ELECTRICITY. Article I.- The Water Register. § 281. The Water Register shall on each day, except Sunday of each week, render to the Comptroller an account, under oath, item by item, of all moneys received by him, containing the names of the persons from whom they were received, the amounts received and on what account, and when paid, and shall thereupon pay over the amount so received to the Chamberlain. (R. O. 1897, sec. 152, with verbal changes.) Article II.- Water Rents. § 282. The minimum annual rents and the special charges to be collected by the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity shall be as follows, to wit: The apportionment of the regular frontage rates upon dwelling houses is on the basis that but one family is to occupy the same, and for each additional family one dollar per year shall be charged. Building Purposes Ten cents per 1,000 brick. All masonry at the same rate, 500 brick being equal to one cubic yard. Plastering-Forty cents per 100 square yards, openings not included. Baths - All baths, three dollars per annum. Water closets and urinals of every description, two dollars per annum, REL One water closet and one bath in each house supplied free of charge. Steam lighters and tugboats, H. P., per year. All others, per month.. Water boats supplying shipping, per month. $90 00 45 00 5 00 5 00 5 00 25 00 Meter Rates. Water meters shall be placed, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, for all stores, workshops, hotels, manufactories, office buildings, public edifices, on wharves, ferry houses, and in all places where water is furnished for business consumption, except private dwellings; the charge for water measured by meter to be ten cents per 100 cubic feet. All charges not herein mentioned or fixed are reserved for special contract by and with the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. (Ord. app. April 10, 1900.) § 283. All rents for the use of the water shall be paid in advance at the time of applying for the water and before any permit is issued; to be calculated up to the first day of May succeeding; and all rents shall continue to be collected in advance on the first day of May annually, so long as the contract exists; and no contract for the supply of water shall be binding for a longer period than until the second succeeding first day of May after such contract is entered into. (R. O. 1897, sec. 153.) § 284. The supply of water shall be cut off in all cases where the rent is behind and unpaid ten days. (Id., sec. 154.) Article III.- The Croton Aqueduct. § 285. No new works connected with the Croton aqueduct shall be constructed, nor shall any mains or pipes be constructed or laid down, except with the authority of the Board of Aldermen; and except, also that in case of any unexpected casualty or damage to the pipes, reservoirs or other structures connected with the aqueduct, the Chief Engineer of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, under the direction of the Commissioner, shall take immediate measures for the preservation and repair of the same, the expense of which shall be paid on his requisition by the warrant of the Comptroller. (R. O. 1897, sec. 157, wnth verbal changes.) § 286. If any person shall bathe in, or go into the Croton water at either of the reservoirs, or any part of the Croton aqueduct, or shall throw any stones, chips or dirt, or any other material, substance or thing whatever, into the reservoirs or into the water or gate-houses, or into the ventilą tors, or aqueduct or fountain basins, or shall in any manner injure or disfigure any part of the Croton aqueduct works, he shall be subject to a fine not to exceed fifty dollars, to be imposed by any city magistrate, either on his view or in a summary manner; and in default of payment of any fine so imposed such city magistrate shall commit such offender to the city prison for a period not to exceed thirty days, unless such fine is sooner paid. (Id., sec. 159.) § 287. In case any person shall trespass on any part of the embankment of the Croton aqueduct reservoirs, or go or remain on the same without permission of the proper persons having charge of the same; or in case any person does not comply with the regulations of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, as to the times they shall leave the embankment of said reservoirs, or the grounds or buildings attached to said reservoirs, such person shall be subject to a fine of twenty-five dollars, to be levied and collected in the manner prescribed in the last section; and, in default of payment, imprisonment, as in like manner, not to exceed twenty days, in the city prison. (Id., sec. 160, with verbal changes.) § 288. No person or persons, except the Mayor and Aldermen of the respective districts and the Engineers or Foremen of the Fire Department shall, without previous permission, in writing from the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, unscrew or open any hydrant belonging or attached to the Croton aqueduct works, erected for the extinguishment of fires; nor shall leave said fire hydrant open for a longer time than shall be limited in said permission; nor shall use the water for other purposes than may be mentioned in said permission, under the penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom the complaint shall be made. (Id., sec. 161, with verbal changes.) Article IV.- Use of Water. § 289. All persons contracting for a supply of water shall pay the cost of the materials and labor used and expended on the streets necessary to make the connection with the conduit pipes, or pay such annual interest thereon as required by the rules and regulations of the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. No street shall be opened, or pipes bored, or connections made, unless under the direction of the said Commissioner, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 158.) § 290. No person or persons, except such as may be licensed by the Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity to sell water to shipping, shall take the water from any hydrant or water connection erected or to be erected in The City of New York, and attached to the water pipes, for the purpose of using the same on any boat, vessel, |