TITLE IV. OF THE STREET DEPARTMENT. ARTICLE I.-OF THE STREET DEPARTMENT AND II. OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER, HIS III.-OF THE BUREAUX IN THE STREET ARTICLE I. OF THE STREET DEPARTMENT AND ITS BUREAUX GENERALLY. § 154. The Street Department shall have cognizance of opening, regulating and paving streets; building and repairing wharves and piers; digging and building wells, and the construction of public roads, when done by assessment; improving public lands and places; the filling up of sunken lots, under ordinances of the Common Council from the City Inspector's department, and of collecting the assessments connected with such expenditures. § 155. There shall be five bureaux in the street department: 1. A bureau for the imposition and apportionment of assessments made under the ordinances of the Common Council, to be called the Bureau of Assessment. 2. A bureau for the collection of assessments, to be called the Bureau of the Collection of Assessments. 3. A bureau for the inspection and repairing of wharves and piers, to be called the Bureau of Wharves. 4. A bureau for the inspection and regulation of the public grounds and parks, to be called the Bureau of Lands and Places. 5. A bureau for the surveying of lands, to be called the Bureau of Surveying. ARTICLE II. OF THE STREET COMMISSIONER, HIS DEPUTY AND CLERKS. CHAPTER I.-THE STREET COMMISSIONER. II. THE DEPUTY STREET COMMISSIONER. III. CLERKS IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHAPTER I. THE STREET COMMISSIONER. § 156. The chief officer of the Street Department shall be denominated the Street Commissioner, who shall also, by virtue of his office, be one of the Surveyors of the city of New York. § 157. The Street Commissioner, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the Corporation, with at least two sureties, to be approved by the Mayor, and filed in the office of the Comptroller, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. § 158. All contracts for work of any kind relating to opening, regulating and paving streets, building and repairing wharves and piers, digging and building wells, and constructing public roads, when done by assessment, and improving the public lands or places, and filling up sunken lots, under ordinances of the Common Council from the City Inspector's department, shall be made by the Street Commissioner, and bonds for the faithful performance thereof shall be taken and approved by him. § 159. All moneys payable by the Corporation for the performance of the contracts mentioned in the last section, or for work done under any bureau in the street department, shall be paid by the warrant of the Comptroller, drawn upon the requisition of the Street Commissioner, against the appropriation applicable thereto; and all such contracts, and the accounts, vouchers and certificates relating thereto, shall be kept and filed in the office of the Street Commissioner. § 160. The Street Commissioner shall ascertain and report to the Common Council, from time to 1 time, what improvements or repairs are necessary to any of the streets or roads in the city of New York, and the best mode of making such improvements or repairs. § 161. He shall, when required by the Common Council, enquire into and report upon all applications to the Common Council in relation to opening, regulating and paving streets,-building and repairing wharves and piers,-digging and building wells,―constructing public roads and improving the public lands and places, and shall, when required by the Common Council, report a survey or plan of the work. § 162. He shall advertise for estimates, and contract for wells and pumps; for regulating, paving and repairing streets, for filling slips, the expenses of effecting which are by law directed to be assessed upon the property benefited; for building and repairing, wharves and piers, and in all other cases where expenditures connected with the street department are authorized by the Common Council, except for the repair of wharves and piers, requiring slight repairs, not exceeding |