said municipal and public corporations and counties as 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, Queens 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 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 same. 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.

Expenses of the city for the [year] years 1898 and 1902.

§ 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 ninety-eight, 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. Between January first and May first in the year nineteen hundred and two the board of estimate and apportionment shall have power from time to time to alter, modify and amend the budget for the year nineteen hundred and two; to change the titles, terms and conditions of appropriations contained therein; to add new appropriations and abolish any that may be found unnecessary; and in furtherance of these purposes shall have the power, if additional funds be required, to direct the comptroller to issue special revenue bonds redeemable from the tax levy of the year nineteen hundred and three.

CHAPTER II.

LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT.

Legislative power; where vested.

817. The legislative power of The City of New York shall be vested in one house to be known and styled as "The Board of Aldermen of The City of New York" [two houses to be known, respectively, as the Council and the Board of Aldermen to be together styled "The Municipal Assembly of The City of New York "].

[Council; number of;] Board of aldermen; president; quorum; salaries; vacancies, how filled.

18. The board of aldermen shall consist of members elected one from each of the aldermanic districts hereinafter provided for and of the president of the board of aldermen and of the presidents of the several boroughs. The president of the board of aldermen shall be chosen on a general ticket by the qualified voters of the city at the same time and for the same term as herein prescribed for the mayor. He shall be known as the president of the board of aldermen, and shall, except as herein provided, possess all the rights, privileges and powers, and perform the duties which on December thirty-first eighteen hundred and ninety-seven were conferred or imposed by law upon the president of the board of aldermen of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York. The aldermen shall be elected at the general election in the year nineteen hundred and one, and every two years thereafter. The term of office of each member of the board of aldermen shall commence on the first day of January after his election, and shall continue

for two years thereafter. The phrase, all the members of the board of aldermen, wherever used in this act, shall be taken and held to mean all the members of said board, including the president of the board of aldermen and the presidents of the several boroughs. The phrase, members elected to the board of aldermen, wherever used in this act, shall be taken and held to mean all the members of said board, except the president of the board of aldermen and the presidents of the several boroughs. Any vacancy which may occur among the members elected to the board of aldermen shall be filled by election by a majority of all the members elected thereto, and the person so elected to fill any such vacancy shall serve for the unexpired portion of the term. A majority of all the members of the board of aldermen shall constitute a quorum. The salary of the president of the board shall be five thousand dollars a year, and the salaries of the aldermen shall be one thousand dollars a year.

[The council shall consist of twenty-nine members, one of whom shall be its president. The president shall be chosen on a general ticket by the qualified voters of the city, at the same time and for the same term as herein prescribed for the mayor. He shall be known as the president of the council, and shall, except as herein provided, possess all the rights, privileges and powers, and perform the duties now conferred or imposed by law upon the president of the board of aldermen of the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the city of New York. A majority of all the members elected to the council shall constitute a quorum. The salary of the president of the council shall be five thousand dollars a year. The salary of the other members of the council shall be one thousand five hundred dollars a year.]

[Council, how chosen; council] Aldermanic districts.

19. The municipal assembly of The City of New York shall, within sixty days after the passage of this act, divide The City of New York into one hundred and twenty-three aldermanic districts in the following manner: The first, second, fourth, eighth, twelfth, thirteenth, sixteenth, seven

teenth and twenty-sixth assembly districts of the county of New York and the third, eighth, ninth and fifteenth assembly districts of the county of Kings shall each constitute a separate aldermanic district. The third, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, tenth, eleventh, fourteenth, fifteenth, eighteenth, twentieth, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twentyseventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-second and thirty-third assembly districts of the county of New York and the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth assembly districts of the county of Kings, shall each be divided into two parts, each of which parts shall constitute one aldermanic district. The nineteenth, twenty-third and thirty-first assembly districts of the county of New York, the seventh, eighteenth, twentieth and twentyfirst assembly districts of the county of Kings, the first assembly district of the county of Queens, the territory comprising the second assembly district of said county, together with so much of the third assembly district of said county as lies within The City of New York considered

as one

parcel, and the county of Richmond shall each be divided into three parts, each of which parts shall constitute one aldermanic district. The twenty-first and thirty-fourth assembly districts of the county of New York shall each be divided into four parts, each of which parts shall constitute one aldermanic district. The thirty-fifth assembly district of of New York and those portions of the territory

the

county

of the first and second assembly districts of the county of Westchester that lie within The City of New York considered as one parcel shall be divided into six parts, each of

which

parts shall constitute one aldermanic district. The

several aldermanic districts into which any assembly district is divided shall be as compact in form as practicable, and each shall contain approximately the same number of inhabitants, excluding aliens. No election district of an assembly district shall be subdivided in forming said aldermanic districts.

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