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Ages and Sexes Amount demanded Appointed by Pleasure April arrears assessments Bergen street Board bonds Brooklyn Park buildings Bushwick avenue certificates cholera CITY COURT City of Brooklyn Civil Justice's Court Civil List Civil Service Clerk Commenced Commissioner COURT OF BROOKLYN Deaths debt December 31 Department of City District Police Court Duties Eighteenth Eighth Elective or Appointive Eleventh ending December 31 Engineer examination February Fifteenth Fifth Flatbush avenue Fourteenth Fourth Fund Gowanus Canal grade houses improvement Inspector James January John John Y July June Kings County Mayor Messrs Michael months Nineteenth Ninth November 30 October Park Patrick POLICE AND EXCISE Prospect Park repairs Salary Sept SETH Low Seventeenth Seventh sewer Sixteenth Sixth Southwest corner STATEMENT street supplies TABLE Tenth Term Thirteenth Thos Title of Office Twelfth Twentieth Twenty-fifth Twenty-first Twenty-fourth Twenty-second Twenty-third vaults Ward Ward Tower William
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Page 106 - Such examinations shall be practical in their character, and so far as may be shall relate to those matters which will fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of the persons examined to discharge the duties of the service into which they seek to be appointed.
Page 117 - Every false statement knowingly made by any person in his application for examination, and every connivance by him at any false statement made in any certificate which may accompany his application, shall be regarded as good cause for the removal or discharge of such person during his probation.
Page 401 - The matter of martyrdom in the good old days agone (and the best that can be said of them is that they are gone) was only a huge misunderstanding.
Page 353 - ... in another, by the mutual consent of the heads of such offices or departments; every such transfer must be reported to the commission for record, within five days from the date thereof.
Page 96 - ... furniture, and such other articles and necessaries of the bankrupt as the assignee shall designate and set apart, having reference in the amount to the family, condition, and circumstances of the bankrupt, but altogether not to exceed in value, in any case, the sum of five hundred dollars; also the wearing apparel of the bankrupt, and that of his wife and children...
Page 127 - ... by whom the appointment is made, and the term, if any, of the office. The civil list shall be filed in the office of the commission as one of its records.
Page 510 - Fourth. — That great care should be exercised to keep at all times clear and free from obstruction all sewers into which passes the refuse from dwellings, factories and other buildings, and that such examinations should be made as will detect imperfect plumbing in all buildings and the defects immediately corrected. In this connection special attention is directed to the necessity for the thorough ventilation of all soil and waste-pipes, and to the dangers connected with untrapped and unflushed...
Page 398 - That extraordinary care should be exercised in reference to all tenement houses, lodging houses, and in general, all places where large numbers of human beings congregate, that no accumulation of garbage or other filth be permitted in cellars or yards, and that frequent and thorough cleaning and whitewashing of such structures be required; and that householders should frequently...
Page 398 - That all authorities of States, cities or villages be urged to adopt measures which will result in the amelioration of all conditions such as have been referred to in the foregoing propositions, with the warning that in the opinion of this Conference such conditions, if permitted to continue, will greatly promote the spread of cholera when it comes, and with the assurance that if requisite measures are promptly taken to...