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§ 4. In all cases where any person or persons shall perform any of the work mentioned in the preceding sections, either under contracts with the Corporation, or by virtue of permission obtained from the Mayor and Common Council, or either of the departments, such persons shall be answerable for any and every damage which may be occasioned to persons, animals or property, by reason of carelessness in any manner connected with the said work.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the chiefs of the bureaux reaux in this having charge of the particular class of improvement, to see that the requirements contained in this chapter, in regard to the erection of fencing, and placing lights, in all cases, be complied with, severally, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each and every neglect.

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§ 6. It shall also be the duty of the said chiefs of bureaux, when any of the work referred to in any of the preceding sections shall be performed, whether for digging down streets or roads, paving streets, building sewers and building wells, or digging trenches for water pipes, by persons under contract with the Corporation, or for building vaults, or placing building materials in the streets, or constructing drains, or any other work for forming an obstruction to the said street, by virtue of permission duly obtained, to see that the requirements of this chapter in regard to erecting the necessary fences, and placing the necessary lights, be complied with, and to make the necessary complaint to the Corporation Attorney, for any omission on the part of the person referred to, under the penalty of fifty dollars for every neglect.

§ 7. In all contracts for paving streets, constructing to sewers, and building wells and pumps, or for doing any other work, whereby accidents or injuries may happen, in

consequence of any neglect or carelessness during the performance thereof, it shall be the duty of the departments by whom such contracts are made, to insert a covenant, requiring the contractor or contractors to place proper guards for the prevention of accidents, and to put up and keep suitable and sufficient lights burning at night, during the performance of the work; and that they will keep the Corporation harmless and indemnified against all loss and damage which may be occasioned by reason of any unskillfulness or carelessness, in any manner connected with the execution and completion of the work.

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§. In all contracts for digging down any road or street, where such digging, if left exposed, would be dangerous to ant passengers, the head of the proper department shall insert a covenant, whereby the contractors shall be bound, at their own expense, to erect a fence or railing along or across the street, in such a manner as to prevent danger to passengers, and so to continue and uphold the said fence or railing, until the street is completed.

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§ 9. A like fence or railing shall be put up and upheld, Streets dng in all cases in which a road or street is dug out at the cost of the Common Council.

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CHAPTER XXI.

OF PRESERVING THE MONUMENTS DESIGNATING THE STREETS

AND AVENUES.

§ 1. No person or persons shall cover up or remove any moving mon- of the monument stones for designating the avenues and streets in the city of New York, without first giving the Street Commissioner three days' notice thereof, in writing, under the penalty of fifty dollars.

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§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner, on receiving such notice, forthwith to cause one of the City Surveyors to take the necessary measures to raise or lower such monument to the proper grade of the city, and to cause such alteration to be noticed on maps, to be kept in the office of the Street Commissioner for that purpose.

Covenant in § 3. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner, in all contracts hereafter made by him, for regulating any of the streets or avenues in which monuments are placed, to insert therein a covenant on the part of the contractors, to give the notice above required, and to replace such stones, under the direction of the said Commissioner.

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§ 4. Whenever the Street Commissioner shall ascertain that any monument stone has been removed, he shall forthwith cause the same to be placed in its proper position, and shall note the same on the map, in the manner before stated.

§ 5. The expenses attending the same shall be paid by the Comptroller, on the certificate of the Street Commissioner.

CHAPTER XXII.

OF NUMBERING THE STREETS.

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§ 1. In all cases where the number or numbers of streets have been directed to be changed, or shall hereafter be so petion. directed, either by resolution or ordinance of the Common Council, the said number or numbers shall be so changed within twenty days after a copy of the said ordinance or resolution shall have been served, personally, upon the occupant, owner or lessee, tenant or sub-tenant of the premises.

§ 2. For every neglect to comply with the forego- Penalties. ing section, the owner, occupant, lessee, tenant or subtenant, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars, and the further penalty of ten dollars for each day, or part of a day such number or numbers shall remain unchanged, to be recovered from the owner, occupant, lessee, tenant or sub-tenant, severally and respectively.

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§ 3. In the event of non-compliance with the first section Change of of this chapter, it shall be the duty of the Inspector of Sidewalks to cause the number or numbers to be forthwith changed; and the expense thereof to be collected from the parties aforesaid, as an additional penalty.

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§ 4. In all cases of renumbering the streets it shall be Record of old the duty of the Inspector of Sidewalks to furnish to the bers. Croton Aqueduct Department a transcript of all changes made, showing in parallel columns, the old and new street numbers.

Method of numbering north of 13th

§ 5. Whenever any street north of Thirteenth street, inclusive, shall be directed to be numbered, the Inspector street.

Method of of Sidewalks shall cause the numbers to commence at the numbering

north of 18th Fifth avenue, beginning with number one, and numbering

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continually to either river; and that said streets shall hereafter be called and known as East Thirteenth street and West Thirteenth street, and so on, the dividing line to be the Fifth avenue.

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