require to be emptied, when the public health will not be endangered thereby.

§404. He may, with the written consent of the Mayor, grant a permit for the removal of the remains of any person interred within the city to a place without the same, on the application of a relative or friend of such person, when there shall appear no just objection thereto.

§ 405. There shall be a clerk in the City Inspector's Department, who shall be denominated the Clerk to the City Inspector, and who shall prepare all reports, documents and papers appertaining to the department, and perform such other duties connected therewith as may be directed by the City Inspector.

ARTICLE III.

OF THE DEPUTY CITY INSPECTOR.

406. There shall be an officer in the City Inspector's Department, to be denominated the Deputy City Inspector.

§ 407. The Deputy City Inspector, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the Corporation, with one or more sureties, to be approved by the Comptroller, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office.

§ 408. He shall assist the City Inspector in the performance of the duties imposed upon that officer by the last chapter, and shall for that purpose possess all the powers therein conferred upon the

City Inspector.

§ 409. He shall, from time to time, report to the City Inspector, all facts within his knowledge relating to or affecting the public health, and shall perform such other duties appertaining to this department as may be directed by the City Inspector.

TITLE IX.

OF THE ALMS HOUSE DEPARTMENT.

§ 410. The Alms House Department shall have cognizance of all matters relating to the Alms House and Prisons of the city of New York.

§ 411. The chief officers of the Alms House Department are denominated the Governors of the Alms House, and consist of the number, derive and hold their offices, and are charged with the duties, powers and responsibilities prescribed by the act to provide for the Alms House and Penitentiary in the city and county of New York, passed April 6, 1849.

TITLE X.

OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT.

ARTICLE I.-OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND ITS
BUREAUX, GENERALLY.

II. OF THE COUNSEL TO THE CORPORA-
TION AND HIS CLERKS.

III.-OF THE BUREAUX IN THE LAW DE

PARTMENT.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE LAW DEPARTMENT AND ITS BUREAUX,

GENERALLY.

§ 412. 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 Depart

ment.

§ 413. 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 Coun

cil, 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, 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.

§ 414. The chief officer of the Law Department shall be denominated the Counsel to the Corpora

tion.