jority of them, if the Commissioner who is not an Assessor be present, but not unless he be present. Said Commissioners shall possess and exercise the same powers to preserve order, while performing their duties as Commissioners, as is now possessed by Inspectors of Elections. And if said Commissioners, or any of them, shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this act, or be guilty of any fraud in the execution of the duties of their office, they shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the penitentiary of said city not less than six months nor more than two years.

14. Every Commissioner, before entering on the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed in the Constitution of this State, before the Clerk of the city and county of New-York, or any Judge of any Court of Record therein, which shall be filed in the office of such Clerk.

15. The Constables of each ward shall attend all meetings of the Commissioners in their ward, and execute the orders and process of said Commissioners for preserving order at said meetings, and shall also serve all notices directed to be given by said Commissioners, and shall make a return to said Commissioners, under oath, of the time and manner of serving the same; and the Constables of all the wards of said city, except the Twelfth Ward, who shall faithfully perform said duties, shall each receive the sum of ten dollars per annum; and the Constables of the Twelfth Ward shall receive the sum of twenty dollars per annum for said services.

16. The Common Council of the City of New-York shall cause to be printed and prepared, and presented to the Commissioners of each ward, suitable and uniform books for the registers of electors, and shall also cause to be printed all the printing necessary for said Commissioners; and the expense of providing said books, printing notices and copies of registers, and all other

expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act, shall be paid out of the treasury of the city and county of New-York, at the termination of every election.

§ 17. The Common Council of the City of New-York shall, during the month of July next, make such alterations in the boundaries of each election district in said city, as shall be necessary to make each election district to contain, as near as may be, seven hundred and fifty voters, and each district shall be entire in one ward; and the boundaries of each election district thus established shall remain unchanged for three years thereafter, unless a change is rendered necessary by the division of any ward; and a general revision of the election districts, by the said Common Council, shall take place in conformity with the provisions of this act, every third year thereafter. The said Common Council shall, in the month of July of each year, designate the place where the polls shall be held in each district, which shall be as near the centre of each district as may be; and no poll shall be held in any building or place in which intoxicating liquors are sold.

$18. This act shall take effect

and so much of all acts heretofore existing, relative to elections in the city of New-York, as conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.

DOCUMENT No. 39.

BOARD OF ALDERMEN,

DECEMBER 16, 1844.

Alderman Drake presented the following Ordinance, which was laid on the table, and directed to be printed for the use of the members.

CHARLES A. WHITNEY, Clerk.

AN ORDINANCE

Prescribing a system for repairing the pavement of the Carriage-ways of the Streets and Avenues in the City of New-York.

The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of NewYork, in Common Council convened, do ordain as follows:

TITLE I.

$1. That part of the City of New-York lying south of the centre of Fortieth-street, shall be divided into sixteen Contract