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OF THE

MAYOR, ALDERMEN AND COMMONALTY

OF THE

CITY OF NEW YORK.

REVISED A. D. 1859,

BY D. T. VALENTINE.

ADOPTED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL, AND PUBLISHED BY THEIR AUTHORITY,

NEW YORK:

CHAS. W. BAKER, PRINTER, 29 BEEKMAN STREET.

1859.

ENTERED according to act of Congress in the year 1859, in behalf of the Corporation of the city of New York

BY D. T. VALENTINE,

In the Clerk's office of the Southern District Court of the State of New York.

PREFACE.

THIS edition of the City Ordinances has been revised under circumstances which rendered necessary their adoption by the city government. Since the last revision (by DAVID GRAHAM, Esq., in the year 1845,) the Constitution of the State has been remodeled, and provisions have been introduced which annulled the operation of many of the ordinances of the city previously existing; several State laws have also been passed which affected the powers of the municipal government and established regulations to which it was necessary to make the ordinances conform. In addition to these circumstances, three amended charters were passed (those of 1849, 1853 and 1857,) to meet the requirements of which the ordinances were, in some degree, altered at those successive periods; but by their conflicting provisions, additional complications ensued in the body of the ordinances.

Appreciating the necessity of a careful performance of the duties intrusted to him, the undersigned did not rely entirely upon himself in the preparation of this revision, and to his attorney, JoHN PAULDING, Esq., he deems it due to acknowledge services entirely satisfactory. An analysis of the charters and all the recent State laws was made with a view to a more certain detection of conflicting provisions, and several of the departments were re-organized by the Common Council. When the ordinances were prepared, they were from time to time submitted to the Common

Council, by whom they were ordered to be printed in a documentary form, and were thus brought to the notice of the members of the city government and the officers of the departments. With some additional amendments to make them conform to the practical workings of the departments, they were finally submitted in a body to the Common Council, and having passed the Board of Aldermen on the 6th day of June, 1859, and the Board of Councilmen on the 13th day of June, 1859, they were approved by the Mayor on the 20th day of June, 1859. Such ordinances as passed between the last-mentioned date and the time of placing the work in the printer's hands, have been likewise incorporated in the work. The ordinances thus adopted are embraced between pages 37 and 478 (inclusive) of this volume.

DAVID T. VALENTINE,

Clerk of the Common Council.

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