Annual Report of the Board of City Magistrates of the City of New York for the Year Ending ..., Including Also the Statistics for the Calendar Year

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Page 9 - An act in relation to the inferior courts of criminal jurisdiction in the city of New York, defining their powers and jurisdiction and providing for their officers...
Page 38 - XI. Recognizances to keep the peace Recognizances to keep the peace must be filed with the clerk of the Court of Special Sessions on or before the fifth day of every month. Rule XII. Consents to discharge In all cases of the signing of a consent by a city magistrate to the discharge of a prisoner after conviction and final commitment, a record thereof shall be made in the record book. Rule XIII. Maintenance of order In order that the business of the several City Magistrates...
Page 39 - Secretary shall keep the minutes of all meetings and perform the usual duties of his office. RULE III. ACTING OFFICERS. In the event of the absence of the Chief City Magistrate from a meeting of the Board, the Secretary shall call the meeting to order, and ask for the election of a chairman pro tern. In the absence of the Secretary, the Board may appoint a Secretary pro tern. RULE IV. There shall be a regular meeting of the Board on the last day of each and every month, except in the months of July...
Page 65 - Apportionment of The City of New York, in pursuance of the provisions of Section...
Page 39 - The order of business at the meetings of the Board shall be as follows : 1. Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting.
Page 40 - Magistrate as the appointing power. 1. Committee on Assignments. 2. Committee on Forms and Procedure. 3. Committee on Rules. 4. Committee on Legislation. 5. Committee on Buildings and Repairs. RULE VIII. The office of the Chief City Magistrate and the Board of City Magistrates shall be open every day from 9 am to 4 :30 pm, excepting Sundays and legal holidays. On Saturdays the office may be closed at noon. RULE IX. Amendments to the Board Rules can only...
Page 33 - They are pre- / •"Many persons are arrested under suspicious circumstances, such as well-known criminals mysteriously loitering about the streets at night, or frequenting crowded places, or persons having property in their possession for which they can give no good account, nor of themselves. Frequently such an arrest is the first step in the detection of some crime in which (after investigation), if the proper complaint is found, a formal complaint is taken, and the prisoner is held for trial....
Page 40 - ... Board shall be made upon a like vote, recorded in like manner. The Chief City Magistrate is empowered to make appointments to positions in the competitive service when vacancies occur in the interim between meetings of the Board; all such appointments to be ratified at the next meeting of the Board. No employee shall be removed without a five days...
Page 37 - The clerks shall keep, or cause to be kept, in each court the following books : 1. The Court Record or Criminal Docket. 2. Examination Book. 3. Bond Book. 4. Book of Fines. 5. Warrant Book. 6. Summons Book. 7. Receipt Book. RULE III No person, other than an officer attached to this court, shall be allowed to go in or near the detention pens. No person, other than an officer or clerks attached to these courts, complainants or defendants, or counsel accompanying or sent for by complainants or defendants,...
Page 37 - Night Court for Males, Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx. ELEVENTH DISTRICT COURT. Location, 151 East Fifty-seventh Street. Domestic Relations Court, Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx. CHIEF CITY MAGISTRATE'S COURT. 300 Mulberry Street, Boroughs of Manhattan and The Bronx. COURT RULES. RULE I. The business of each Court shall be conducted in the following order : 1. Hearing of complaints not taken by the Clerk. 2. Disposition of precinct returns. 3. Hearing returns on Warrants and Summonse'd.

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