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Surveyors.

§ 155. The amount paid for any of the services mentioned Fees of City in the last section, whenever the same shall have been rendered in relation to any improvement, or work, for which an assessment may afterwards be made, shall be included in such assessment.

§ 156. A surveyor shall be entitled to receive ten dol- Ibid. lars for every certificate to a contractor, which shall be paid by the Street Commissioner: the amount so paid for such certificate shall be deducted from the payment to be made to the contractor, on account of the work certified to be done.

General cognizance of the Law Department.

Bureaux.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

ARTICLE I.-OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND ITS BUREAUX

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OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND ITS BUREAUX GENERALLY.

§1. The Law Department shall have the charge of, and conduct all the law business of the Corporation, and of the departments thereof, and all other law business in which the city shall be interested, when so ordered by the Corporation; and shall have the charge of, and conduct the legal proceedings necessary in opening, widening or altering streets; and draw the leases, deeds and other papers, connected with the Finance Department.

§ 2. There shall be two bureaux in the Law Department. 1. A bureau for the prosecution of all actions for violations of the ordinances of the Common Council, or arising under the charter of the city, or under the laws of this State, where a penalty is given to the Cor. poration, or to the Overseers of the Poor, or to the Alms-house Department, and for the conducting of all proceedings before justices, or upon appeal, in relation to bastardy cases and prosecutions upon bastardy and abandonment bonds; to be called the Bureau of the Corporation Attorney.

2. A bureau for the administration of the estates of persons dying intestate, where no other administrator is appointed, to be called the Bureau of the Public Administrator.

ARTICLE II.

OF THE COUNSEL TO THE CORPORATION AND HIS CLERKS.

§3. The chief officer of the Law Department shall be de- Counsel. nominated the Counsel to the Corporation.

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§ 4. The Counsel to the Corporation shall, before enter- Bond of Couning upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the Corporation, with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the Mayor, and filed in the office of the Comptroller, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

Counsel.

§ 5. He shall, from time to time, when required, advise Duties of the the Common Council, the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Health, and their committees and officers respectively, and the head of any department or bureau of the Corporation, upon all matters which may be submitted to him for his opinion.

§6. He shall draw such ordinances as may be required Ibid. of him by either Board of the Common Council, or by any committee thereof.

§ 7. He shall, when required by the Common Council, Ibid. prepare the draft of any bill to be presented by the Corporation of the city to the Legislature, for passage, with a proper memorial for the passage thereof.

§ 8. He shall draw the leases, deeds and other papers ibid. connected with the Finance Department, and all contracts for any of the other departments of the Corporation, when so required by the head of the department.

Duties of the
Counsel.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

$9. He shall prosecute and defend, as the Attorney and Counsel to the Corporation, all actions which may be brought by or against them, or any of the heads of department, or bureaux, or any officer thereof, for or by reason of any matter or duty connected with or growing out of their respective offices, or in which the Corporation are interested, in any court in this state, except actions by or against the Public Administrator, as provided in section 40, and actions for violations of the ordinances of the Common Council or arising under the charter of the city, or under the laws of this state, where a penalty is given to the Corporation, or to the Overseers of the Poor, of to the Alms-house Department, and except proceedings before Justices, or upon appeal, in relation to bastardy cases and prosecutions upon bastardy and abandonment bonds.

§ 10. When he shall recover a debt due to the Corporation, which may have been placed in his hands for collection, he shall forthwith render an account thereof, under oath, to the Comptroller, stating the nature of the debt, the person against whom it was recovered, and the amount and time of the recovery, and shall immediately thereupon pay over the amount so received to the Chamberlain. shall also thereupon receive from the Chamberlain a voucher for the payment thereof, which he shall forthwith, on the same day, exhibit to the Comptroller, and shall, at the same time, leave with him a copy thereof.

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§ 11. He shall, on the twentieth day of December, in each year, report to the Common Council the titles of all actions in his hands, prosecuted or defended by him, as provided in section 9 of this chapter, and then pending and undetermined, with such other information in respect thereto as he may deem necessary or proper.

§ 12. He shall keep, in proper books, to be provided for

that purpose, a register of all actions prosecuted or defended by him, as provided in section 9 of this chapter, and all proceedings had therein.

§ 13. He shall, on the first Monday of January, April, July and October, in each year, furnish to the Comptroller an account, under oath, of all disbursements which he may have made in conducting the actions prosecuted or defended by him, as provided in section 9 of this chapter; and upon being satisfied of the correctness thereof, the Comptroller shall draw his warrant in favor of the Counsel for the amqunt so disbursed.

Duties of the

Counsel.

tion of the Counsel.

§14. The compensation to be paid to the Counsel to the CompensaCorporation, for all the services he may be required to render, shall be as fixed by law. He shall, nevertheless, be entitled to receive, in addition, from parties other than the Corporation, his proper fees and necessary disbursements, and the taxable costs in all actions and proceedings which may be conducted, prosecuted or defended by him as such counsel, as provided in section 9 of this chapter.

Counsel.

$15. Upon the expiration of his term of office, or his Duties of the resignation thereof, or removal therefrom, the Counsel to the Corporation shall forthwith, on demand, deliver to his successor in office all deeds, leases, contracts and other papers in his hands, belonging to the Corporation, or delivered to him by the Corporation, or any of its officers, and all papers in actions prosecuted or defended by him, as provided in section 9 of this chapter, then pending and undetermined, together with his register thereof, and of the proceedings therein, and a writteu consent of substi tution of his successor, in all such actions then pending and undetermined.

§16. He shall, from time to time, report to the Com- bid. on Council the condition of the Law Department, and

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