thereupon receive from the Chamberlain a voucher for the payment thereof, which he shall forthwith on the same day exhibit to the Comptroller, and shall, at the same time, leave with him a copy thereof.

CHAPTER IV.

THE MAYOR'S MESSENGER.

§ 61. There shall be an officer to be denominated the Mayor's Messenger, who shall be appointed by, and hold his office during the pleasure of the Mayor.

§ 62. The Mayor's messenger shall serve all notices and other official papers, which shall be delivered to him for that purpose by the Mayor, the Mayor's clerk or the first marshal, and perform such other duties as the Mayor may direct; and for the purpose of performing those duties he shall attend at the Mayor's office during the usual office hours.

ARTICLE II.

OF THE BUREAUX IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

CHAPTER I.-THE BUREAU OF THE CHIEF OF

POLICE.

II. THE BUREAU OF INSPECTION.

CHAPTER I.

THE BUREAU OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE.

§ 63. The department now known as the Police Department, shall be a bureau in the police department hereby organized, and shall be denominated the Bureau of the Chief of Police; and the head or chief officer thereof is denominated the Chief of Police.

§ 64. The officers of the existing police department, who are denominated captains and assistant captains of police, sergeants of police, policemen and doormen, shall be officers of the bureau of the Chief of Police.

65. The several officers mentioned in the last two sections, shall continue to possess the powers

and to perform the duties conferred and imposed upon them by the laws of this state.

§ 66. The rules and regulations for the government of the police department heretofore prescribed by the Mayor, shall continue to govern the officers of this bureau; but the Mayor may at any time abrogate or alter those regulations, or substitute others in their stead.

§ 67. The policemen for the various wards of the city of New York, including captains, assistant captains and sergeants, shall continue to be apportioned as follows:

§ 68. There shall be appointed two clerks, who shall be denominated Clerks to the Chief of Police, and who shall perform all such duties appertaining to his bureau as he may require.

§ 69. There shall be appointed for each ward, by the Alderman and Assistant Alderman thereof, two persons to be denominated door-keepers, who shall attend to the station houses of their respective wards, and shall keep the same in order, and act as door-keepers thereof, and perform such other duties as may be required of them by the captains of the wards respectively. .

§ 70. If a policeman shall necessarily incur an expense in conveying a person before a magis

trate, or to a police station house, or to the hospital, by the employment of a cart or other vehicle, the Chief of Police shall refund the expense so incurred, upon the certificate of the magistrate or captain before whom the person is brought, stating that he was necessarily brought by the policeman before the magistrate or captain, on a cart or other vehicle. The certificate shall be in the following form :

"No.

Police District, No.

This is to certify that policeman A. B., has necessarily brought to this office C. D., [or a person whose name is unknown] in [a cart.]

§ 71. The captains of police, or in their absence, the assistant captains may furnish food to persons in custody in their respective station houses, and who are in a suffering condition, the expense whereof shall be paid by the Chief of Police upon