two days after the receipt thereof, in the bank designated in the last section, to the joint credit of himself and the Comptroller, except so much as may be necessary to pay the current expenses of any proceedings authorized by law, to be allowed by the Surrogate, and which shall not exceed twenty dollars in any one case. 455. He shall, whenever required, exhibit to the Comptroller the bank book showing such deposits, and all other vouchers and documents relating to his office. § 456. The money so deposited can be drawn out only on the joint check of the Public Administrator and the Comptroller, in the cases where by law, the Public Administrator is required to pay out moneys; and the Comptroller must preserve a register of all checks signed by him, as a part of the documents of his office. § 457. The Comptroller, before signing any check for money so deposited, shall examine the bank book showing the deposit, and the vouchers on which the check is required to be drawn, and shall satisfy himself fully as to the correctness thereof; and in case of doubt or difficulty, he shall report the case to the Common Council for their direction. § 458. The Comptroller may distribute and pay any unadministered balance of an intestate's estate, remaining in the city treasury, to the persons legally entitled thereto, whenever he and the Public Administrator shall be satisfied that the person claiming the same is legally entitled thereto; but if they be not satisfied thereof, they shall report the case to the Common Council for their direction. TITLE XI. OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. § 459. The Fire Department shall continue to be organized as it now exists, and to exercise the powers, perform the duties, and enjoy the privileges conferred and imposed upon it by the charter of the city, and the various acts amending the same, by the laws of this state, and by the ordinances and resolutions of the Common Council. § 460. The Chief Engineer may take any fire engine, hook and ladder, or hose truck, from any company to which it is assigned, and place the same in the public yard, or assign it to another company, and shall forthwith report the same to the Common Council for their action. § 461. All firemen attached to a company, whose engine, hook and ladder, or hose truck, shall have been ordered to the public yard by reason of an insufficient complement of men to manage the same, shall be attached by the Chief Engineer to any other company to be designated by such firemen, or if they refuse to designate another company, the Chief Engineer shall report such refusal to the Common Council for their action. § 462. If a fire company shall vote for the expulsion of a fireman belonging thereto, the same shall be forthwith reported by the Chief Engineer to the Common Council for their action. § 463. All complaints by the Chief Engineer or Assistant Engineers, against firemen for misconduct in the performance of their duties, shall be forthwith reported to the Common Council for their action. § 464. When a report shall be made to the Common Council, as provided in the last two sections, it shall not be finally acted upon by them, until it shall have been referred to a committee, to ascertain and report the facts, with a full opportunity to the party complained of, to be heard in his defence. PART III. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE CORPORATION AND THEIR OFFICERS. TITLE I.-OF THE APPOINTMENT OF THE OFFICERS THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE, AND THEIR II.-OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE OF- III.-OF CONTRACTS FOR SUPLIES AND WORK TITLE I. OF THE APPOINTMENT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENTS AND BUREAUX, THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE, AND THEIR REMOVAL. § 465. The Common Council shall, on or before the thirty-first day of May, 1849, appoint the chief officers of the several departments hereby organ |