Signals.

intersecting with Wall street, at the junction of Nassau, Wall and Broad streets, and continued through the Battery to the North river.

§ 72. In case of fire in the first fire district, the signal shall be one stroke from the alarm bells.

In the Second District, two strokes.

§ 73. All fire companies shall do duty in any two fire districts the Chief Engineer may designate, and no company shall be allowed to take their apparatus in any other district, except by his permission or direction, or in case of a general alarm.

§ 74. No fire company shall remove their apparatus out of the district designated by the Chief Engineer, (except as hereinbefore provided) in case of fire or alarm of fire, under penalty of being subject to expulsion or suspension from the Fire Department, unless they shall be permitted by the Chief Engineer, who may, as may also any Assistant Engineer, give the necessary signal, which is hereby declared to be the constant ringing of the alarm bell in the district in which the fire is raging, when the whole department shall proceed to the scene of conflagration.

§ 75. The signal for assistance shall be the continual ringing of all the district bells, except on the Halls of Justice, which will always ring the district in which the fire is raging.

ARTICLE VI.

SPECIAL PROVISIONS.

of

City Officials

§ 76. The Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Councilmen Insignia shall severally bear, when attending at fires, a wand with atáron. a gilded frame at the top.

cers to be

tion-houses.

877. The names and places of abode of the members of List of offthe Common Council, Engineers, Fire Wardens and Fore- placed in Stamen of the respective companies, and Bell-ringers, shall annually in the month of June, be printed and set up in the several station-houses by the City Inspector; and whenever any fire shall happen in the night, the policemen shall give notice to each of the members of the Common Council, Engineers, Fire Wardens, foremen and bell-ringers, within their respective precincts; and it is moreover required of every policeman on duty, upon the breaking out of any fire, to alarm the citizens by crying fire, and mentioning the street where it may be, so that the firemen and citizens may thereby be directed where to repair; and if ties of Poany policeman shall neglect so to do, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar; and if it shall happen that a chimney only shall be on fire, either by day or by night, the fire bells and the bells of the several churches in the city shall not be rung, but only on occasions where a building shall be proclaimed to be on fire; and it is enjoined on the occupants of dwellings to place a lighted candle at the windows of their respective buildings, when fire may happen at night, in order that the citizens may pass along the streets with the greater safety.

lico.

missioners.

§ 78. The salary of the Clerk to the Commissioners of Clerk of Corathe New York Fire Department, shall be eight hundred dollars per annum.

Messenger of 879. The Commissioners of the New York Fire De

Commission

erg.

Duties of
Messenger."

Salary of
Messenger.

partment shall nominate, and the Common Council shall appoint a suitable person to be a Messenger.

§ 80. The said Messenger shall have charge of the meeting room of the said Commissioners, and keep the same in order; he shall have charge of the door at all meetings, and shall deliver all notices and documents as may be required by said Commissioners, and perform such other duties as they may deem necessary. Said Messenger may be removed at any time, by a majority of said Commissioners, for non-performance or neglect of any of his duties.

§ 81. The said Messenger shall receive an annual salary of six hundred dollars.

CHAPTER XI.

OF THE PREVENTION OF FIRES.

stove-pipes &

§ 1. If any chimney, stove pipe, or flue within this city Chimneys, shall take fire, the occupant of the house to which such chim- us. ney, stove pipe, or flue appertains, shall forfeit and pay five dollars.

§ 2. All carpenters, or others, making or using shavings, Shavings. shall, respectively, at the close of each day, cause the same to be securely stowed in some safe place, remote from danger by means of fire, under the penalty of five dollars for each omission so to do.

in streets.

§3. No person shall kindle any fire, nor furnish the Kindling fires materials for any fire, nor in any way authorize or allow any fire to be made in any street, road or lane, or on any pier or bulkhead in this city, except for the purpose of boiling tar, which fire shall not be more than six feet from the bulkhead, or the end of the pier, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense.

hemp, flax,

rushes.

§ 4. No person shall have, put, or keep, any hay or straw Hay & straw, uncovered in any stack or pile, or in any other way ex- shavings and posed within one hundred yards of any building to the southward of Fourteenth street, or shall have put, or keep to the southward of said line, any hay, straw, hemp, flax, shavings, or rushes, in any building not built of stone or brick and covered with tile or slate or other fire-proof materials, which is, or shall be, within ten feet of any dwelling-house or chimney whatsoever, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such offense, and the further penalty of ten dollars for every twenty-four hours the same shall so remain after a printed or written notice

Stables.

Fines, to

whom appro

has been given to the owner or person having charge thereof, by any Fire Warden, to remove the same.

§ 5. No owner or occupant of any stable within this city, or any person in the employment of such owner or occupant, shall use therein any lighted candle or lamp, except the same shall be securely kept within the lantern, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense.

§ 6. All the fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed on priated. the members of the Fire Department, for not attending to fires, shall, when received, be paid to the treasurers of the respective companies aforesaid, in which the delinquencies may happen, for the use and benefit of said companies, and all the other fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by the ordinance relating to the Fire Department and by this chapter,shall, when recovered, be paid to the Treasurer of the "Fire Department of the city of New York," for the use and benefit of the said Fire Department. The Chief Engineer shall, annually, on the second Monday of December in each year, report to the Common Council the amount of the sums which may be received by the Fire Department of the city of New York, and the application thereof.

Sits for penalties.

§ 7. It shall be lawful for the Fire Department of the city of New York, and for the respective companies thereof, or persons duly authorized by them to receive, sue for, and recover, in the name of the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York, all the fines, penalties and forfeitures hereby imposed and appropriated for the respective uses as aforesaid.