the affidavit of the captain or either of the assistant captains.

§ 72. If a policeman shall necessarily incur an expense in conveying stolen or other property to the office of the Chief of Police, or to a police court or police station house, the expense so incurred shall be refunded to him by the Chief of Police, on the certificate of the magistrate or captain to whom the property was delivered.

§ 73. For the purpose of defraying any expense which may be incurred in pursuance of the last three sections, the Chief of Police may, by a requisition in writing, to be countersigned by the Mayor, draw upon the Comptroller for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. He may in like manner renew the draft as often as may be necessary; but no such renewal shall be made until the money paid upon the previous draft shall be accounted for to the Comptroller, by satisfactory vouchers for the expenditure of the money paid thereon.

74. When a draft shall be made upon the

Comptroller in conformity with the last section, he shall draw his warrant in favor of the Chief of Police for the amount thereof.

§ 75. The officers of this bureau are required, to the utmost of their ability, to act in the enforcement of the Corporation ordinances now in force in relation to carts and cartmen, cabs and cabmen, hackney coaches and hackney coachmen, stages and accommodation coaches and their drivers, omnibuses and omnibus drivers, and public porters and of hand-cartmen, and all ordinances of the Corporation to prevent evil practices, and relating to the police of the city.

§ 76. The police station houses in the different districts shall be deemed a portion of the city prison and bridewell, for the purpose of keeping and detaining persons committed for examination, and for no other purpose whatever; and the captains and assistant captains of each district, shall be the keepers thereof respectively, and shall for that purpose be deemed deputy keepers of the city prison and bridewell.

CHAPTER II.

OF THE BUREAU OF INSPECTION.

§ 77. There shall be a bureau in the Police Department, to be denominated the Bureau of Inspection.

§ 78. The officers of this bureau shall be the inspectors of weights and measures,-the city sealers of weights and measures, the weighmasters, measurers and gaugers,-the ballast masters, -the weighers of anthracite or hard coal,-the inspectors of firewood,—the weighers of hay,—the inspectors of dressed hay,-the inspectors of lime, and the master of the public pound.

§ 79. The officers mentioned in the last section shall possess the powers, and perform the duties conferred and imposed upon them, respectively, 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, except where those ordinances or resolutions are inconsistent with this ordinance.

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TITLE III.

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.

ARTICLE I. OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE,

AND ITS BUREAUX, GENERALLY.

II. OF THE COMPTROLLER, HIS DEPUTY,
AND CLERKS.

III.—OF THE BUREAUX IN THE DEPART-
MENT OF FINANCE.

ARTICLE I.

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, AND ITS BUREAUX

GENERALLY.

§ 80. The Department of Finance shall have control of all the fiscal concerns of the Corporation, and shall prescribe the forms of keeping and rendering all city accounts whatever; and all accounts rendered to or kept in the several departments of the city government, shall be subject to the inspection and revision of the officers of this department.

81. It shall also settle and adjust all claims whatsoever, by the Corporation or against them, and all accounts whatsoever, in which the Corporais concerned, either as debtor or creditor.

§ 82. There shall be three bureaux in the department of finance:

1. A bureau for the collection of the revenue accruing from taxes, to be called the Bureau of Taxes;

2. A bureau for the collection of the revenue accruing from rents, and interests on bonds and mortgages, to be called the Bureau of the City Revenue ;

3. A bureau for the reception of all moneys paid into the treasury of the city, and for the payment of moneys therefrom, to be called the Bureau of Deposit and Disbursement.