building, ash-hole, ash-house, wooden shed, wooden building, or frame building. It shall also be the duty of the said Fire Wardens respectively, to report to the said Chief Engineer the location of and particular circumstances attending any building constructed, or in the course of construction, deemed unsafe; and also to report, as aforesaid, all cases where goods shall be improperly stored in any building, so as to hazard the lives of firemen, or where such goods shall be too heavily laden in a building, or where any building shall from any cause have become unsafe. It shall also be the duty of said Fire Wardens, respectively, to attend all fires in the fire districts respectively to which they may be allotted, and to report themselves to the engineer in command, and to wear at such fires the usual fire-cap, with the words "Fire Warden," and the number of such district, conspicuously painted thereon, in white, on a black ground. to the Com &c., annual, That the said Fire Wardens shall report all their pro- To report ceedings, and such facts and information as they, shall ac- mon Councilquire in respect to the subject-matter of their duties, to 1y. the Common Council of the City of New York, and to the said representatives, annually, on or before the second Tuesday of April, and oftener, if required so to do. daily. That the said Fire Wardens shall be provided by the mice open Common Council of said city with an office, and with necessary fuel and stationery for the same, which office shall be kept open daily (Sundays and holidays excepted) from 8 o'clock, A.M., until five o'clock, P.M. That said Common Council shall, upon the nomination of a majority of said Fire Wardens, appoint a suitable person as clerk to Clerk for Fire Ward ens. Removal. Fire Wardens' by-laws. Compensa tion of Fire Wardels. Assistant Engineers to said Fire Wardens, at a salary not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum, subject to removal at any time by the Common Council, upon the request of a majority of the Fire Wardens, for incapacity or neglect of duty prescribed to him by said Fire Wardens; and upon any such removal, another clerk shall, upon like nomination, be appointed as aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the said clerk to attend at such office during said office hours. The Common Council, at the request of a majority of the whole number of the representatives of said Fire Department, may remove any of said Fire Wardens from office, for incapacity or neglect of duty. § 3. Section thirty-two of said act, hereby amended, is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: The said Fire Wardens shall have power to make such by-laws for their own government as shall not be contrary to law, or to the ordinances of the Corporation of the said city, and as shall be approved of by said representatives. § 4. The thirty-third section of said act, hereby amended, is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: The compensation of said Fire Wardens shall be fixed by the Common Council of said city of New York, at the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum to each Fire Warden; and shall, as well as the salary of said clerk, and the rent of said office, and the expense of fuel and stationery, be paid by the Comptroller of said city, by warrants, quarterly; and the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of New York shall have power to raise, by tax, a sum necessary to defray the same. The powers and duties of Assistant Engineers, as properform duty vided for in the said act hereby amended, shall continue, Fire Wardens are any thing herein contained to the contrary, until the first until appointment of twelve Fire Wardens shall be made, as appointed. herein before provided, and no longer, and the salaries of such engineers shall be paid up to that time. ens. Notices Ward § 5. The notice mentioned in the twenty-fourth section signed by of the said act hereby amended, may be signed by any of Fire the said Wardens, with the same force, validity, and effect, as if the same were signed by any of the trustees of the said Fire Department, as provided for in said last-mentioned section. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to repeal the act passed March 25, 1850, entitled "An act to authorize Alexander T. Stewart to continue and complete his present store in Broadway, in the city of New York." 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Act of April 16, 1831, amend 74th SESSION. CHAP. 62. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to extend the charter of the firemen of the city of New York," passed April 16, 1831. PASSED March 25, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. Section two of an act entitled "An act to extend ed. the charter of the city of New York," passed April 16, 1831, is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: Powers of ment. Fire Depart- The said corporation shall have power to purchase, hold, and convey any estate, real and personal, for the use and objects for which the said corporation was instituted; but Estate not such real or personal estate shall not exceed the sum of $100,000. one hundred thousand dollars. to exceed 74th SESSION. CHAP. 66. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled, "An act to amend an 'act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed April 4, 1849; and to amend an act entitled "An act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed March 7, 1849. PASSED March 28, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The act entitled "An act to amend an act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed April 4, 1849, is hereby repealed. 2. Section four of "An act for the more effectual prevention of fires in the city of New York, and to amend the acts heretofore passed for that purpose," passed March 7, 1849, is hereby amended, and shall read as follows: Every such store, or store-house, being more than thirty feet in width, shall be erected and built in such manner that all the floors thereof, throughout their whole extent, shall be supported by, and rest upon one more additional partition wall or walls, built of brick or stone, not less Mode of erecting stores. |